dan tynan on Jan 30 2010 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, Spamarama
I don’t know about you, but beautiful Russian girls are just dying to meet me. They’re all 26 yo, most of them are named Olga, and from their descriptions they sound totally hot. But first I have to buy a fantastic luxury timepiece, change my Facebook log in, get a bucketful of knock-off prescriptions, [...]
dan tynan on Aug 17 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet, Web 2.0
To hear some people tell it, social sites like Facebook and Twitter are on the wane. Cringely thinks they’re only just getting started.
dan tynan on Feb 25 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Facebook, Web 2.0
Social media is on the rise, and so are the privacy and security risks. Is it time to dial back on the whole Web 2.0 ‘friend’ thing?
dan tynan on Feb 06 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Spamarama
Last week I wrote about Linkstar, a UK-based company that offers to place text ads for its clients on small, low-traffic Web sites. (See"The curious case of Linkstar Media.") Though Linkstar is extremely close-lipped about who it is and what it does, I couldn’t see anything wrong with the ads they were placing (unless [...]
dan tynan on Jan 05 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Computerworld, Culture Crash, Da Web, Web 2.0
No matter how nice your Net neighborhood is, eventually the scum of the earth will move in next door. And so it goes with Twitter.
The Twitteratti are all atwitter about a phishing scam that hit over the weekend. The phishing tweets came in the form of direct messages – essentially private texts only Twitter friends [...]
dan tynan on Dec 23 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, PC World
The sex industry is behind many innovations that today’s Netizens cannot live without, as well as some nasty bits we wish never existed.
For an industry that many won’t admit they’ve ever patronized, pornography has had an amazing impact on virtually every new medium, from cave painting to photography. Dirty pictures have been [...]
dan tynan on Oct 23 2008 | Filed under: PC World, Spamarama
This post originally appeared on PCworld.com.
As more and more spammers are arrested, prosecuted, and sued under state and federal antispam statutes, there’s one thing you can count on: Someone somewhere will invariably call the targeted spammer a “spam king.”
It seems the bulk e-mail industry has more kings than a pinochle deck. But who is really [...]
dan tynan on Sep 02 2008 | Filed under: Spamarama
OK, like every human with an email account I get countless amounts of spam. Fortunately most of it is caught by the three four five spam filters that clean my inbox (my ISP has one, my web host, my email program’s, etc.). But occasonally one or two slip through. This morning’s beauty? An email titled
“Bill [...]
dan tynan on Aug 27 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Spamarama
You’d think that by now major political parties, national newspapers, and food franchises would have a handle on email. Of course, you’d be wrong. Cringely details how the Democratic Party, the Wall Street Journal, and Pizza Hut are pulling stupid email tricks out of their, umm, hats.
dan tynan on Aug 24 2008 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Da Web, Web 2.0
So I got the usual "some total stranger is now following you on Twitter" message yesterday. When I clicked the link inside the email I got the following screen, which I’d never seen before:
"Shelly" says she is from Canada and "enjoys showing people how to market online." She’s following 1922 people but only 30 [...]
dan tynan on Jun 15 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, Video, youtube
Over the last 24 hours this blog has been hit with hundreds of comment spams, all trying to drive people to the same site. (Thank god for Akismet, which trapped all but one of them.) I had over 100 in less than a day.
The spam tries to drive you to a porn version of [...]
