Exploring the Dark Side of Crowdsourcing
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Assignment Zero interviews Ragnar Danneskjold of Subvert and Profit. The 19-year-old American, whose business is gaming Digg.com for paying advertisers, takes his pseudonym from the rebellious pirate in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Many would like to know his real name.
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Try not to smile: A top spammer may be sentenced to hard time.
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Assignment Zero looks at "crowdsourced" media sites, which love to equate social editing with democracy. It's as raucous, messy and enthralling as the electoral process, and for proof look no further than the much-debated DVD hack posted at Digg.com.
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Spock, a new people-search tool, lets users add tags and photos to other individuals' profiles -- content which may surprise or even shock the people it purportedly describes.
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A UC Santa Cruz prof designs a tool to give Wikipedia users a better idea of how trustworthy entries are. The software flags questionable lines by turning the text orange -- the more it's been tinkered with, the deeper the orange. This, on the heels of the Wikipedia tracker that reveals who has edited the entries.
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Well, maybe not yet. But what does the future hold for those who consider their source code an important proprietary asset? Halloween this year featured more scary stuff than just ghosts and ghouls.
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The FTC weighs the advantages of rewarding people for identifying spammers. It&#39;s a more complex calculation than you might think.
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How bad is the Monster.com data breach? Bad enough. Did the crooks get their hooks in deep? Remarkably deep. Gregg Keizer has the details on what has gone wrong so far in the Infostealer.Monstres attack.
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Tycho:  After seeing Chore Wars mentioned yesterday, the opportunities for manipulating people seemed...  rich.  The possibilities for mashups based on this data are also rich - I wonder if it could be exposed, somehow.  When my charge is old enough to manipulate in this way, my crib is going to fucking sparkle.
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In an interesting experiment, Marcus Baker is trying something that might just make a lot of people out there anxious (especially if it works) - he wants to see if URLs are dying.
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An airfare predictor and subway guide, restaurant reviews and car sharing
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People search that connects users to chat to find answers.
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Web 2.0 applications such as wikis, blogs and online document editing offer nice functionality for users, but the bad guys are paying close attention as well -- and some of their tricks may be all but undetectable.
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The e-tailer, seeking users' input, invests in online collaboration.
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Human-powered search site morphs into search for mobile users.
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Can digital musicians, artists and other media creators free themselves from the tyranny of popular software design? Commentary by Momus.
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A great customer turns bad survey questions into valuable feedback. Blog [David Norfolk says: I don't like most surveys I see â they're normally from the armed and dangerous wing of the PR industry â but they can be useful, when done properly. So I was interested when Richard Collins (he wrote a piece for Reg Dev on test-driven development here earlier this year) pointed me at this piece from one of his staff â and I thought it was worth sharing with our readers â , Editor]â¦