Social new in a nutshell March 25 2008

Published: March 25, 2008, 6:21 am

Tags: social, web 2 0, social media, blogging, orkut, facebook, social aggregation, twitter, technology, social networking

This week is a busy one. However, I am experimenting with a different approach to the weekly social news in a nutshell posts and I think you will enjoy it a bit more than simple headline lists. There is quite a stir regarding Twitter this week from Twitter spamming to FriendFeed allowing comments to be sent to Twitter. Spam problems will eventually become a problem for any service whether it is social or not. Robert Scoble has a great post on the secret to Twitter that is well worth the read. Spamming on social networks is not new. Orkut has had a spam problem in the discussion area for quite some time. Even on Facebook discussions, the spam problem rears its ugly head occasionally. Over the last week, I have been fighting zombie pingback spamming on several blogs. It appears that spammers are using proxy servers to inject pingback spam into blogs. I ended up turning off the automated pingback and track back on several blogs I host for clients. Spammers if given the chance will

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