Linky Goodness, July 24
Thursday, July 24th, 2008;
-- Jordan McCollum |
A Googly-Facebooky linky goodness today—yum!
- Gee, after a day of wide launch, only 33% of knols rank on the first page of Google. But they’re not given extra weight. No.
- Why doesn’t Google host long-form video? Because it didn’t work out for Google Video, apparently.
- Oh, the irony. Google’s own Blogspot.com is the No. 1 host for malware according to a study by Sophos.
- Unsurprisingly, Facebook is still growing faster than MySpace. Do we need a review of what a percentage means? It means that, because Facebook is smaller, it takes fewer new users to grow faster than the still-larger MySpace.
- Oh, the other shoe fell. Hasbro is usinc DMCA to kill Scrabulous, my favorite Facebook app. Sigh. Not that I ever used it anyway.
- Facebook is looking to reward the designers of apps that are truly useful through their “Great Apps” program. No zombies need apply.
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July 25th, 2008 at 1:04 am
That’s pretty impressive. 1 day of being live and they already are listed in the top search results. The Google Domain obviously plays no part in it… yea… right.
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July 25th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Facebook may still not be as big as Myspace. But yeah its going all its way to get to the top.
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July 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Sophos actually says”Blogger, owned by Google, is particularly problematic, says Sophos, with the blog site alone accounting for nearly 2 percent of all malware hosts.” This does not make it the number one 1 host of malware. You can’t be with just 2%!
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July 25th, 2008 at 11:05 am
Uh, yeah it apparently does. According to the article, they identify 16,000 sites hosting malware a day. 320 of them are hosted on blogspot.com. That’s 320 different blogs that on blogspot A DAY with malware. According to the headline of that selfsame article, that’s the most found on any host.
This just means that there are thousands of other malware-hosting sites.
It’s their stat and their study. I assume they can draw their own conclusions with more than the two stats they provided in the article.
And they did: here’s the page and quote from Sophos directly: “Sophos has identified that the number one host for malware on the web is Blogger (Blogspot.com), which allows computer users to make their own websites easily at no charge. Hackers both set up malicious blogs on the service, and inject dangerous web links and content into innocent blogs in the form of comments. Blogspot.com accounts for 2 percent of all of the world’s malware hosted on the web.”
http://www.sophos.com/pressoffice/news/articles/2008/07/security-repor t.html
July 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I think within a short period of time Facebook will be on the top
July 29th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Really blogspot.com is a very helpful in getting your site in top ten ranking of the search engine’s result pages. With the help of blogspot.com, you can modify your blogs can make required changes. It’s very effective thing to make you do all changes your self without having any technical knowledge.