Archive | March, 2009
Google Does Evil? Nah – Tell Me It Isn’t So!!!

Google Does Evil? Nah – Tell Me It Isn’t So!!!

by Scott Kane on March 28, 2009 in Google, Micro ISV

But things seem to be going fast from the sublime to the downright crappy across at Google-Land…

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When Is A Conspiracy A Conspiracy?

When Is A Conspiracy A Conspiracy?

by Scott Kane on March 25, 2009 in Micro ISV

When Is A Conspiracy A Conspiracy? Australian Government Net Censhorship

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How Many Bots Did The Bot Blocker Block?

How Many Bots Did The Bot Blocker Block?

by Scott Kane on March 20, 2009 in Micro ISV

Above are the Askimet stat’s for this blog since it began last year. In fact this month is the first anniversary of the blog. You’ll see from the table above that Askimet has been pretty busy here. But even with Askimet, an excellent tool, I found I was still processing a large amount of Spam and Ham daily by hand.

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Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

Having A Laugh At The Jolly Roger’s Tonight – Ouch! – Is That The Pirate Bay?

by Scott Kane on March 18, 2009 in Anti-Piracy, Starting an mISV

Here you go, mISV’s and ISV”s eat your heart out. This is what many Firefox users are seeing this week when trying to access the website run by those anarchistic assholes in Stockholm this week. While the “team” there are attempting to “solve” the problem I’m cheerfully sitting back and having a bloody good laugh at their expense. :-)

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How Many Bots Can A Bot Blocker Block?

How Many Bots Can A Bot Blocker Block?

by Scott Kane on March 13, 2009 in Download Sites Are Spam, Featured Articles, ISV Marketing, Micro ISV, Starting an mISV

If you run a blog or any site that gives the general public the ability to post a response, message etc then you’ll know only too well how much of a nuisance automatic posting bots are. One of the most chronic offenders is a bot sold out of Germany, I frequently see it here in the logs. That Plimus act as a payment processor for them…

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