Michael Gracie 

Most email clients, including Blackberry devices, offer you the ability to turn off delivery confirmations and read receipts.  This is supposed to be a good thing – spammers often send emails to arbitrary addresses with receipt requests, hoping to find valid, active addresses they can pummel with Viagra offers. Unfortunately, Blackberry Internet Service (BIS) also [...]

The company says they have the problem under control, but it’s probably just the first inning for Facebook spam. Bound to happen sooner or later.

Where does all that malicious Internet content come from? Here. Ahh. Feels like the good old days.

Chris Anderson of Wired Magazine fame has blocked all harassment-level PR agents from his email inbox – and he’s published a list of their return email addresses for the world to see as well. Funny, as professional harvesters will now be attacking them in droves. Many of the addresses on the list look like ‘no-reply’ [...]

Having 2,000 feed items stuffed in one’s reader when returning from even the shortest vacation has me thinking about how to put said reader on vacation as well. MySpace and Facebook apps suck. That’s not what they really said, but The Silicon Alley Insider did point out how little they might really be worth. I’ve [...]

It’s just harder for Google to find. Squidoo took a tongue (and Google) lashing for getting overrun with spammy pages/accounts. They’re open to the viewing public and efficient at generating attention from the rest of the internet – it was to be expected. Facebook is growing like wildfire, and it seems a lot of folks [...]

There has been a lot of chatter about Squidoo as of late, and most of it isn’t very good. Squidoo, a company that…nevermind…the official description is here…has supposedly become a bit of a haven for internet marketers, and that is rarely a good sign. My take is this (including some background): I put up a [...]

Google bought another: first FeedBurner, and now Postini. I say another because these are both Mobius/Foundry Group/Brad Feld/Ryan McIntyre related companies – and congratulations are surely well deserved. I won’t comment on what Google should do with Postini – Fred Wilson has already done that, and I’m not particularly “spam inclined”. But I will say [...]

Experts are predicting a spam flood for Christmas, and I think “experts” are just experiencing the holiday blues and looking for some attention. After the fall flood, most would agree than things have slowed considerably. I for one haven’t received any spam in days, and the rate has been nominal since the middle of November. [...]

How about being pretty certain that each day you will receive several email messages containing malware? If you live and work in India, that’s exactly what you face. Someone really hard pressed to put the breaks on the tech outsourcing craze or what?