Vexed Musings
A regular mix of insight, comment and conjecture from the extended Vexed family.
The odds of a piece of spam being clicked on is now 12.5 million. Unfortunately this is still a viable business model.
Posted 11/11/07
A great comparative report from Universal McCann about penetration of social media worldwide that provides some telling research into adoption across nationalities and across tools.
Posted 18/08/08
Digg.com is to launch its new recommendation engine later this week. It has a number of features that will help promote relevancy and diversity of stories to users.
Posted 2/07/08
We often get asked about security and web 2.0 environments. Typically, web 2.0 development involves giving an application running in the user's browser more direct access to data stored on the server through a predefined set of methods. When doing this, it must be remembered that even though the service may be intended for use by pages from the site only, the service will be visible to anyone who cares to look.
Posted 2/07/08 at 4:00pm