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Hi, I'm current busy reading papers related spams identification and stuff related in social networks.

I've found several papers which interest me which discussed about ways to detect spam posts and possibly assign the degree of severity of the spams. Spam blogs are way much different than spam mails, which is easier to detect, because of its unsolicited nature and the prime motivation of the spammers to push their products to unsuspecting email users.

Spam blogs on the other hand is a completely different beast, and they are very different from each other too. They are the straight forward email spam style blogs which makes no attempt at pushing their 'generic' product to users.

There are another type of blog which its sole point is to aggregate posts from another blog and republish it (mainly because they join contextual advertising network).

And of course the 3rd group (which is quite controversial) is the CnP or one-liner blogger, which often copy and paste most of posts content (with or without citations, linkback) and publish them as if they wrote it themselves.

No matter which group it belongs, it will be interesting to see whether this pattern of spams will continue to evolve.

Labels: spambots, splogs

fakapster has incorporated anti-splog measure in its operation. Begining this month (Feb 2007), all splog posts will not appear on fakapster anymore.

Honest and hardworking bloggers aren't affected by this recent upgrades, but if you're concerned, you can check your blog status at SplogSpot and AntiSplog. But I bet that your blog won't be listed there :)

What's splogs? Please refer to Splog wikipedia entry for more information.

Labels: announcement, splogs

Sorry for the service interruptions on the main page of fakapster, this due to the problem I had with my previous webserver. Rest assured that I've moved the fakapster server on a different server now and fakapster has been hosted on 3 different server to provide greater reliability.

The ping database is hosted on a different server too. Next, we will add Tag cloud to fakapster to reflect the most popular tags/category talked about in our little blogosphere.

Labels: announcement, service

w00t, the long awaited fakapster blog has been launched! This is where new announcements about fakapster xml-rpc service will be made available.

So please watch this blog if you're one of fakapster users, because the best is yet to come! We love you all!

Labels: blog, blogger, fakapster, xml-rpc