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Hi.
I'm 24 and live in NYC. I recently quit my full-time to seed my own ideas for a few months.
I started off in one direction, coasted around, then started island hopping. I've finally arrived on an island resembling paradise, nearby Mozilla's Ubiquity. I'm building the swiss army knife of browsing, and in the process, another dimension to the internet you know and love. Not quite web 3.0, more like web 2.1, I'm aiming supplement already existing web services to benefit the end user.
It will be my pleasure to launch at the end of this month.
My e-mail: sam.from.hackernews at gmail.com
I would imagine I could create a new filter, send training data to a filter, and send data to a filter and have it return the likelihood of it being spam.
Anybody have first hand experience using a web service like this? If so, has it met your expectations?
It's something I've been working on recently. You give it a URL, and it gives you the most similar websites. You can then filter the results based on tag, and sort between popularity and similarity.
I personally think it blows the competition out of the water... but I'm not so sure how big of a market there is for this type of thing. Business model ideas, anybody?
Thanks for checking it out... and please, provide feedback.
MySpace filed a lawsuit against the virus creator, Samy Kamkar. He entered a plea agreement, on January 31, 2007, to a felony charge.[2] The action resulted in Kamkar being sentenced to three years probation, 90 days community service and an undisclosed amount of restitution.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(XSS)
I'm not sure what is going to happen to the kid that did the Twitter worm.
On what grounds is what these people did considered harmful? It doesn't harm any end-users... at worst it only modifies their profile page. It's a bug (or feature) in the web application, not exactly a virus that affects other peoples computers. I guess my point is, it's all encapsulated to the website.
Furthermore, it just seems like they're taking advantage of the features the developers created. If you can execute javascript, why not force people to friend you? If the developers included a big button that said: "Delete a random user's profile" and you pushed it... would that be illegal? What if instead of a button, there was a hidden URL that did this? What if you needed to provide a 1 digit password?
I just don't get how fooling around with a website can be considered illegal, and what defines the line between legal and not.