The other day, I posted about my weird experience of legitimate mail being flagged as spam by Google in Gmail Spam Algorithm Change. After some interaction on Twitter and elsewhere, I found a small …
Compuware/Gomez: Bot Attacks Aren’t Us
Although there has been speculation that the wave of bot traffic afflicting some sites originated in the Compuware's Gomez Peer Zone (see Is Gomez Behind Massive Traffic Spikes?, a representative of …
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Is Gomez Behind Massive Traffic Spikes?
A few weeks ago, a site I work with began seeing a big rise in traffic - from a baseline of 10K visits per day to spikes of as much as 40K. The odd thing was that the traffic looked kind of human, …
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Contrary Thinking: Web Apps Suck
Conventional wisdom is that web-based applications are the Next Big Thing. Current apps like Salesforce.com's CRM show that critical business data and processes can be outsourced to third parties and …
Microsoft’s Ms. Dewey
An interesting new experiment by Microsoft, Ms. Dewey, offers a truly original search interface. Using heavy Flash design, a fully animated, photo-realistic librarian responds to your typed search …
Web-based Productivity Apps Not Quite Ready
I've been travelling for a few weeks, and have been catching up on stuff I missed while I was gone. One interesting article from last week was a detailed experiment by Infoworld writer Oliver Rist, …
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Immersive Communities: the New Social Environment
Last week, we wrote about Google's use of a simple game to encourage users to participate in a social tagging experiment, and even offered our suggestion for a new Google Game. The high level of …
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Google’s Brin Worries About China Compromise
Google cofounder Sergey Brin is having second thoughts about the firm's China deal, in which Google agreed to censor sites listed by the Chinese government. Many of these banned sites are political …
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