I‘m tired of all the spam, so-called notifications, I’m receiving to my inbox day by day. I signed into LinkedIn after not using it for a couple of weeks and was overwhelmed with messages from IT recruiters, outsourcing companies, and, let’s not forget, SEO specialists wanting to do business with me. The only positive exception being a… Continue reading Cut The Crap Out Of Business Networks
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Interruption Marketing aka Twitter Spam
I keep on receiving more and more unsolicited replies from people I don’t even know, and, this happens every day. Next to the popular and over-used tumblr spam this is another big thing: twitter spam. Apparently it also goes by the inflated name Interruption Marketing. Is this the modern “Xanax Spam 2.0”!? I think twitter should create some… Continue reading Interruption Marketing aka Twitter Spam
Spamalytics: The Business Model Behind Spam
A team of US computer scientists have investigated how the business model spam works, ie. how profitable it is to send out spam or “illegal messages”. In order to conduct the study, seven scientists became spammers themselves.