Gizmodo
A recently disbanded click fraud ring in China racked up $3 million worth of clicks in two weeks. $3 million that we're aware of. Just how detectable is this whole business of racking up fraudulent ad revenue clicks? That intricate mess of lines above represents a portion of DormRing1, the click fraud bunch that was caught (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs
The Internet can be your best friend or your worst enemy when you're trying to find a resource for something. At times it's quite frustrating and often I end up asking a colleague, friend or ecademy member for suggestions on who they would recommend. So I now make a point of book marking resources when I find a company, an (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx
from blog:
Scamsters, victimize businesses, private individuals, government agencies with their small to very large scale schemes. They run the loan scams, fraudulent investment schemes, the pyramids and ponzi schemes, the telemarketing frauds and fraudulent insurance schemes causing billions in damages every year. Contrary to "tradit (Read More)
Lifehacker
If you saw blind results for your search terms from Google, Bing, and pre-Bing-partnership Yahoo, would you always choose Google? The Blind Search site lets you take a blind taste test of all three search engines and pick your winner. That's all the site does—remove all the branding and layout and provide straight-up search (Read More)
louisgray-com
You can hardly walk through a few pages on the Web these days without bumping into some variety of URL shortener, sharing bookmarklet, or aggregation site that tries to show the most popular data. Bit.ly has become the shortener of choice for Twitter, with StumbleUpon and Digg having their own offerings in sharebar land. A (Read More)
Submitted by David Mercury
from Google Reader:
Lottery scams are, perhaps, the most common type of fraud to be found across the internet.Why though are such crimes committed?The answer to that is obvious – the fraudsters behind lottery scams want money – your money.These fraudsters send out thousands of emails on a daily basis to unsuspecting victims, hoping to get at l (Read More)
Mashable!
Yahoo is launching a tool today that tells you what kind of Twitter user you are based on analysis of your Tweets. From “Tweethead” to “Headliner”, Yahoo uses a secret algorithm to come to conclusions about your tweeting behavior.The site, called Know Your Mojo, is a promotion for the new Yahoo homepage: once you’ve receiv (Read More)
mashable
Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter.Celebrities like Martha Stewart and Bill Gates might find Facebook high maintenance, but the world’s largest social networking site can be invaluable to journalists. Facebook gives reporters a means to con (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx
from blog:
More recently I have opened up a new home for the Renaissance Man and other blogs at http://johndierckx.wordpress.com.For the terapad fans amongst you, this choice has none to do with not being content with terapad, which I still see as one of my favorite content management packages and have been using it with great pleasu (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx
from blog:
We all get sick and tired of it: spam, cluttering out mailboxes with useless and more than once even dangerous emails. Worldwide, legislative initiatives are being taken to combat this abuse of internet facilities, which includes fines or even jail terms. ANP newsservice in the Netherlands reported that a man had been fin (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx
from blog:
Karin Sitalsing of "De Volkskrant" a Dutch newspaper, reported how the Dutch Police was able to arrest to men in relation to a street robbery.The two men, 24 year old twin brothers without a permanent residential address were recognized on a picture in Google Streetview. The Police admitted it was one very lucky shot. A 14 (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx:
An e-mail referencing a vaccine for swine flu is circulating that includes a link to a malicious file on a Mexican Web site that is designed to steal bank log-in information, security firm SonicWall said on Friday.The e-mail, which is in Spanish, has a link to the Qhost.NJI Trojan on a Web site that appears to be legitimate (Read More)
Submitted by John Dierckx
from blog:
The Investigate Magazine (s) (http://www.investigatemagazine.com) of the past months have highlighted what every parent should be concerned about: how the state education systems of Western societies are failing miserably and contributing to the intellectual decline of Western nations. In his Eve’s Bite, Ian Wishart compell (Read More)