links for 2008-07-28

• thesixtyone – massively multiplayer music discovery
  Earn experience points and unlock achievements by predicting what’s good in new music
  (tags: music mp3 community social web2.0 discovery)
• Slideoo.com – The horizontal Flickr slideshow
  The horizontal photo slideshow for Flickr
  (tags: flickr slideshow tools photography photos flash)
• yourminis :: web widgets, blog widgets, desktop widgets, widgetize your content!
  widgets for your blog, website, startpage, and desktop!
  (tags: widgets web2.0 tools blog design web portal)
• Wikiversity:Main Page – Wikiversity
  Wikiversity is a Wikimedia Foundation project devoted to learning resources and learning projects for all levels, types, and styles of education from pre-school to university, including professional training and informal learning.
  (tags: education wiki learning wikiversity elearning reference teaching)

A Sign of the Times

But undoubtedly only a drop in the bucket.

http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=49299

The “Spam King” is sentenced to four years in prison for activities involving spam or, politely, unsolicited email.  As you read through the article, you’ll see that there was more than just the sending of email involved.

Will this serve as a message to others who do the same thing?

You’d like to think so but it’s big business.  As you read the story, I’m sure that you’ll be surprised at just how much money was made from spamming activities.  That represents considerable incentive to try to evade detection.  Then, this story hits:  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9110487

in addition to giving us more things to worry about in daily email, spam and the spreading of virus/spyware has spawned huge industries in companies that sell protection for your home PC and also for the corporate enterprise.

Even bloggers and Twitterers get spammed.  Thank goodness for the spam protection that WordPress provides.  (Akismet)

If nothing else, this should serve as a reminder to ensure that your antivirus and antispyware is up to date and functional.

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