Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Thursday, April 24th, 2008

WOT, Web of Trust, is using the power of crowds to build a reputation system for websites to warns the user about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware, or indulge in spamming activities. WOT provides a browser plugin for both FireFox and Internet Explorer using which the WOT community members provide ratings [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Technology
Monday, April 21st, 2008

Askimet, the blog spam prevention tool from Automattic, will soon find strong competition from a Belgium based company named Mollom, reports TechCrunch. The service currently does not support WordPress but is planning to provide it soon. Mollom fights spam coming from comments form, contact form and fake user accounts using CAPTCHA and content analysis. First [...]
Posted by Vikrant
Asides
Friday, April 4th, 2008

We hate spam and hate those spammers too. But how do we get spam? We get most of the spam from the spammers who buy our email address from the websites where we register and give out the email address. It is absolutely impossible for us to find out who sold our email address to [...]