Tumblr, the microblogging service which allows users to share images at the click of a button, has big plans to begin creating original content. This follows a year in which they gained more than 20 million new users. But what will they do about those pesky service outages and spam problems?READ»
Hundreds of nearly identical laptops, MP3 players, smartphones, and TVs--many from the same manufacturers--clutter the shelves of our stores and our lives. Enough already.READ»
Out of the 1-2 billion links shared each day on Facebook, plenty are bound to be spam. The social network just hired Websense to help with that. Here's what they're up to...READ»
The faster tech businesses boom, the faster scam artists see opportunities to exploit them. Two hacks targeting Facebook and credit card service Square offer further lessons in failure at the speed of light. READ»
Over the past few weeks, Facebook users saw a spectacular deal advertised by gadget site Dealzon.com: an iPad 2, for only $11.37. It's completely fake. A company called GrabSwag.com stole Dealzon's identity, and now Facebook is facing a bigger problem.READ»
Lady Gaga Comes Out! Gwyneth Goes Topless! (Fwd: Photos.) Why do we fall for these and other trick headlines and email subjects over and over again? Click and read through this story for the answers you've been looking for! READ»
Earlier this year, Google made a few changes to its search system to try to fight the tendency of content from spam sites and content farms to rise to the top of results. Now it’s saying that those changes have impacted 12% of all ...READ»
To join an email list before 1986, users had to wait for someone to painstakingly adjust the code to include them. For Eric Thomas, that was too uncomputerized for a computerized system.READ»
Google is at war with content farms, websites with "shallow or low-quality content" that clutter Google search results and make it difficult for users to find what they're looking for. READ»
The content farm went public in January and netted itself a higher valuation than the New York Times. But as search engines gear up to fight spam results, could Demand's days be numbered?READ»
Facebook announced this week that they cut down the number of annoying messages you receive from the likes of FarmVille and Mafia Wars by 95% last year. Here's how they did it.READ»
Google introduced its Priority Inbox system late 2010 to help users tackle the increasing burden of email influx. It's now just published research into how well PI works, and the results are impressive: 6% less time reading email, 13% less time reading crap.READ»
Amazon's Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can't compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive amounts of spam? New research suggests yes.READ»
"Crime expands to fill the space available" should be a well-known epithet: Evidence it's true is revealed in news that social networking phenomenas Facebook and Twitter were used in a classic stock fraud trick.READ»
Twitter's fallen prey to hackers seduced by its growing popularity: It has a wicked security loophole for visitors to its newly refreshed website--all it requires you to do is drift your mouse pointer over a malicious link. It's being widely abused.READ»
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