News Infographic: 40% of Online IDs are Fakes Anyone who runs an online site knows that comment spam is a continuing battle. And as the accompanying infographic shows, prepared by social spam fighter Impermium, it is a big problem. They took samples of the social Web this summer, looking at more than 100 million different pieces of user-generated content around the world from various Web sites… Enterprise David Strom View comments
Reviews Norton's Pricey New Online Help Desk Many small businesses don't have much depth when it comes to IT support, and Symantec's Norton division is here to help with its first 24/7 online help desk. What can you call them about? A lot of different problems: virus infections, of course, but also solving network connection issues, general PC tuneups, hooking up a printer or a scanner… Reviews David Strom View comments
Data Services New York Times Longitude: Linked Data + Location Earlier this month the New York Times launched a beta testing playground called Beta620. It's a site for the news organization to try out new web experiments, some of which may graduate to become full-fledged New York Times products. An interesting Semantic Web experiment went live this week, called Longitude. As the name suggests, it presents… Richard MacManus View comments
Design Transitflow: An Urban App in The Making Adam Greenfield was the author of what is still my favorite book about the Internet of Things, Everyware (first published in 2006). Greenfield is now walking the talk with a IoT business called Urbanscale. I've been following its progress, via Greenfield's weekly newsletter on the Urbanscale blog. One of Urbanscale's projects is developing an… Mobile Richard MacManus View comments
Apple iTunes Match vs. the Competition iTunes Match, the cloud music syncing feature that will be launched with iOS 5 this Fall, is now available to developers. Earlier reports that it would enable streaming of songs turned out to be false, but Match is a significant update to the way iTunes works nonetheless. Beginning this Fall, users will be able to sync their iTunes-purchased… Play John Paul Titlow View comments