Link roundup for 11/16/07

ICANN probing “insider trading” allegations with domain name registrations
: the topic of insiders who allegedly cherry pick domain names by watching WHOIS query logs has long been debated. ICANN is now formally investigating this practice.

Pinger Brings Voice to Mobile Text Messaging: Socialmediatoday reviews the Pinger service which piggy backs a form of voice messaging using SMS for notification. The service is free and supports both one-to-one and one-to-many messaging.

Can a Bayesian spam filter play chess?: Laird A. Breyer wrote his Bayesian text classifie, dabcl, as an anti-spam tool. In a fun and interesting experiment, he tries to teach dbacl to play chess.