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Did you know that there are talks to creat a Top Level domain called .berlin? The reason is .de domains are getting scarce.
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Will Arrest Stem Tide of Spam?
Legitimate email marketers, anti-spam groups and beleaguered recipients got a bit of good news with the arrest last week of a man described as one of the world?s most prolific spammers.
Robert Alan Soloway, 27, dubbed ?the Seattle Spammer? by federal officials, was indicted on 35 charges related to fraudulent Internet activities. Soloway pleaded not guilty to all charges at his May 30 arraignment. You can read more here.
Although it?s always great when a notorious spammer gets put out of business, such actions probably won (more…)
Google Acquires Feedburner
Feedburner, one of the earliest players in the RSS world and one of the most well known, was recently purchased by Google.
You can read the first-hand account in the official Feedburner blog.
This is a huge endorsement for RSS.
Between Microsoft’s strong support for RSS in Outlook and Vista, coupled with Google’s endorsement of RSS via FeedBurner, this exciting new medium is going to see a surge of attention and usage in the coming year.
People Are Getting Used to Spam
Good news from the latest Pew Internet & American Life Project. You may recall that these folks perform an annual survey on how people use the Internet. It has become the benchmark for trends in behavior over the last several years.
The latest results are encouraging for email. To paraphrase the words of Mark Twain, the rumors of email?s death may have been greatly exaggerated.
Despite previous speculation that email was doomed because of spam, only 18 percent of email users in Pew?s latest study consider spam ?a big probl (more…)