Link roundup for 5/31/08

By Ben Gross
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Coding Horror: Designing For Evil: Jeff Atwood discusses some of the problems Craigslist has with spammers, some of the automated tools people can buy to spam Craiglist and some of the protections Craiglist has put in place to defended its community from spammers. Many of the problems and solutions apply to other community messaging systems.

Email Is Not Dead, But Preferences Need to Evolve: Morgan Stewart writes about recent market research on consumer messaging preferences for Email Insider. The article describes many of the new issues that direct marketers direct marketers face with the fragmentation of messaging channels and communication preferences that differ across demographics.

Virtualization smackdown: Sun xVM VirtualBox 1.6 vs. VMWare Server 2.0 Beta 2: Over at ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog, Jason Perlow has a nice writeup comparing an up and coming virtualization solution with an established virtualization solution. Both products are free. VirtualBox (sponsored by Sun) is also open source, although it is a less mature product.

Published June 1, 2008