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Submission + - Dozens Of Tech Bigwigs Friend Facebook Spambot (blogads.com) 1

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jfruhlinger

on Friday June 10, 2011 @08:52AM

jfruhlinger writes: "If you've Facebook or Twitter, you're almost certainly familiar with "bimbots" — accounts that have profile pics of attractive women, but seem to exist only send send spam links with varying degrees of subtlety. Henry Copland, the founder of BlogAds, tracks the social network of one such Facebook bot, and finds that she's friends with a long list of influential tech and media folks. Copland also tracks down the origin of the photo that accompanies the account."

Comment Re:Subscriptions are still available... (Score 1) 59

by wisti on Wednesday January 03, 2001 @12:40PM (#535763) Attached to: The Status of The Perl Journal

An update:

I talked with the manager of the subscription department. She said that everyone who has outstanding issues with Earthweb for would get a refund of un-mailed issues and that the online subscription was to be turned off yesterday. (It was still online about an hour ago, as far as I could tell). If you paid by check in the last week or so, she said those checks were NOT processed.

She also pointed out that there still is no obituary yet.... and if TPJ pulls through, subscriptions would be transferred to the new publisher.... It seemed like she had been talking to quite a few of us who are going to miss TPJ if it can't be saved.

As with most of this thread, "This is all word of mouth, and I take no responsibility for anything taken out of context or just plain wrong".

Let's keep hope that TPJ is strong enough to pull through!!

Is there anyone out there in the periodical field that could save a GREAT magazine???

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