Year: 2007

It’s a slow holiday so I’ll throw out a few echo chamber questions that we can think about in terms of how we interact with each other online in the business sense.

First let’s think about the all important instant messaging/VOIP/communications clients out there…

Do you and the majority of your contacts prefer Skype, AIM, Yahoo Chat, MSN Chat, Jabber or another platform for instant communication and VOIP? Have services such as GAIM or Meebo solved any headaches for you?

[Side note: Starting today (Jan 1), I’ll no longer be available on Skype. You can reach me through Ekiga instead. And I’ll be slowly phasing out my AIM and Y! accounts (sbharrelson22) in favor of my Jabber account (samharrelson).]

Paperghost has posted up an interesting video on the workings of a spambot…

http://www.vitalsecurity.org/2007/01/ever-wondered-how-spambot-works.html

To quote Han Solo:  “And I thought they smelled bad…on…the outside!”

Online marketers beware!  Learn how the scum side of the internet works because education is the best prevention.