On Message with Ben Gross

Jordan Schwartz is a senior program manager at Microsoft working on digital photography incubation projects such as Pixie Hunt a cameraphone scavenger hunt. The video of his talk on “Building an SMS Service” from December’s Ignite Seattle is online. Jordan discusses the ins and outs of prototyping and building SMS based services.
Jordan gave a extended [...]

Over at CSOonline.com Scott Berinato has two accessible articles on image spam. The first “The Scourge of Image Spam,” is a brief introduction with a series of examples showing how text can be manipulated to fool antispam filters. The manipulations may include the use of symbols, changing the letter ordering, or the addition of HTML.
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In their latest report, “A Typology of Information and Communication Technology Users“, the Pew Internet & American Life Project classified American’s by their information and communication technology use. The data are based on roughly 4000 phone surveys that included roughly 2800 internet users. Pew makes its reports and questionnaires available as well as data extracts [...]

Jaiku is a platform for managing distributed presence, location, and status information. The service was publicly launched at the O’Reilly Emerging Telephony conference in February. The service has since released public APIs and a few dozen applications have now integrated Jaiku via its APIs. Mashable has an article listing 19 tools for Jaiku and the [...]

In what will certainly be a growing trend, the email marketing firm Listrak has integrated with Google Analytics to track email campaigns. Providing better integration of email analytics with web analytics will hopefully allow more granular reporting as well as better conversion rate tracking for email marketers. Google Analytics, formerly known as Urchin, is a [...]

The Email Britain project aims to archive a “snapshot” of British life as recorded in email. The project is a collaboration of the British Library and Microsoft and will run during May 2007. Request for donations include all kinds of email ranging from everyday emails, to blunders, to love and romance, and even spam. The [...]