Comments on: MyBlogLog Got Spammed (and so did we)

By: MyBlogLog Mass Messaging - Swallow SPAM or DIE | AVINASH 2.0 - Design, Web 2.0 & Web Standards

Sun, 01 Jul 2007 07:35:48 +0000

[...] If you have been a MyBlogLog member since its early days, you know how nicely spammers abused it and how MyBlogLog folks tried to hide their sin by banning some people. Later, Shoemoney got [...]

By: RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets » Blog Archive » MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch

Tue, 22 May 2007 08:50:26 +0000

[...] re-embedded MyBlogLog onto TechCrunch – we removed it a few months ago due to spam and reliability concerns. After repeated promises by founder Eric Marcoullier and Yahoo (which [...]

By: MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch : Forecast-Blog

MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch : Forecast-Blog — Tue, 22 May 2007 02:07:34 +0000

[...] re-embedded MyBlogLog onto TechCrunch – we removed it a few months ago due to spam and reliability concerns. After repeated promises by founder Eric Marcoullier and Yahoo (which [...]

By: MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch

MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:50:49 +0000

[...] re-embedded MyBlogLog onto TechCrunch – we removed it a few months ago due to spam and reliability concerns. After repeated promises by founder Eric Marcoullier and Yahoo (which [...]

By: MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch

MyBlogLog Back On TechCrunch — Tue, 22 May 2007 01:50:49 +0000

[...] re-embedded MyBlogLog onto TechCrunch – we removed it a few months ago due to spam and reliability concerns. After repeated promises by founder Eric Marcoullier and Yahoo (which [...]

By: Yahoo To Finally Upgrade MyBlogLog

Yahoo To Finally Upgrade MyBlogLog — Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:14 +0000

[...] Like many blogs, we had the MyBlogLog widget on TechCrunch for months. We eventually removed it due to performance issues (it slowed down the site on a couple of occasions) and this incredible amount of spam that started to appear. [...]

By: DaveBarousse.com » MyBlogLog Spam Readers: Don’t Vote4Cleo

DaveBarousse.com » MyBlogLog Spam Readers: Don’t Vote4Cleo — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:22:31 +0000

[...] MyBlogLog has had their share of problems recently, I’m not convinced that this case is a flaw in their system. But isn’t it [...]

By: Gani

Gani — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 17:19:07 +0000

i dont know hot to spam my site… i want tools for spamming my site

By: RazorSharp iPods & Raw Gadgets » Archive » MyBlogLog Bans Blogger; Backlash Begins

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:03:15 +0000

[...] is making news again — and not for another security exploit (that was last weekend) or spammer gaming. Well, it is related to those two topics — Shoemoney, a notable blogger in the affiliate [...]

By: laling

laling — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 16:28:53 +0000

Hi Michael ,I don’t agree about this.My opinion is mybloglog is great tool and every blogger should used it.The rest I think as below:-
1.spam actually have at every where even in email,others social networking and in comment section as well
2.As human we are better than machine so we know how to determine which fake user and control it manually.
3.cheating 1-2 attempt can work but at the end it’s will be ignored by others.
4.personally when i seen my picture on recent reader at blog were embed the code I’m fell the author appreciate me as visitor.I love this one!!.
5.We have option to accept the contact.(That power we have) first I’m accept them were add me,if their have another agenda simply punish them.
6.Finally only visit and read who’s are real contact that all Michael .
7.This is not spam and am here around 30 minute..:D

By: My Top Visual WordPress Plugins » Tek-Works

My Top Visual WordPress Plugins » Tek-Works — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:34:42 +0000

[...] MyBlogLog – Not only is MyBlogLog a great way to “see” who’s coming to your site but it’s a great linking tool. Anyone with MBL on their site that see’s a new face, will instantly click it to learn more about that person. The profile page on MBL then will point you to their site. Beyond creating traffic, what blogger doesn’t enjoy seeing the face of who is visiting. There has been a lot of talk of spamming MBL and while this can be done (revisiting over and over) I haven’t heard of it hurting any website .. yet. [...]

By: Friday Tea Time » TheMadHat

Friday Tea Time » TheMadHat — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:00:02 +0000

[...] * Let the MyBlogLog spamming begin. Big surprise there. [...]

By: Mark Marucot

Mark Marucot — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:18:07 +0000

In Philippine Wire, I used half size picture with no username. With the size of the picture, any text will is not readeable.

By: SoloSEO Blog » Fools Gold - The Risk of Buying Links

SoloSEO Blog » Fools Gold - The Risk of Buying Links — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 03:33:50 +0000

[...] Case in point… Wouldn’t it be nice to have a link from Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com? TechCrunch is ranked as the 481st most popular website on the web, with some 139,000 subscribers. In fact Rand Fiskin himself ranked Arrington number 2 on his list of the top 10 most influential search marketing experts this week. So in the field of search marketing, TechCrunch would be an excellent link to pick up. Well, my esteemed partner, Michael Jensen, put a little experiment together earlier this week, using MyBlogLog, Opera, and TechCrunch.com he was able to exploit a potential spamming problem within the MyBlogLog system. He ran the test using TechCrunch.com and about 20 other sites, then revealed the experiment results in a post here. The result? Michael Arrington himself wrote about the experiment in his post entitled MyBlogLog Got Spammed (and so did we). Michael Jensen is a person with a real passion for learning, discovering, and sharing things, he values MyBlogLog, and he saw something that caught his eye, so he ran a few tests and logged his findings. His post turned out to be pretty interesting to many, and the traffic, and natural links, have followed throughout the week. [...]

By: Joe Loew

Joe Loew — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:13:13 +0000

No one has mentioned the obvious here – while this may be an insecurity of sorts, this type of “spam attack” wouldn’t very effective in the traditional sense. Sure, I can get the widget to point back to my MyBlogLog profile, but that doesn’t directly help *my* site; it helps the MyBlogLog site.

Understand, by using the term “help”, I’m referring to the main reasons automated blog spam exists:

1. To siphon off of a popular site’s PageRank
2. To drive spam emails via automated comment notification systems
3. To display a *direct*, clickable link to another site

We’d *all* like the positive benefits these three mechanisms provide, but the main difference between spam and normal commenting is that the spam comments are entirely irrelevant and unwanted by anybody but the spammer.

If there’s a genuine interest in clicking through to my site from the MBL dashboard, I think it’s probably legitimate (i.e. the reader actually had some interest in the content).

By: Search Marketing Gurus | Search Marketing Tips, Advice, Strategies

Search Marketing Gurus | Search Marketing Tips, Advice, Strategies — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:51:31 +0000

iPhones and Bubble Baths and Burning Man – Oh My!…

A lot of news happened this week, especially in light of the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas and MacWorld in San Francisco. In light of my past few days of watching both a nearly four year old (as my nephew likes to say) and a 8 month old …

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 23:12:55 +0000

The entire MyBlogLog community is *not* secure…it is open to all kinds of scripted attacks…you can even steal someone’s identity quite easily!

http://www.cooq...ation-security/

By: Tony Cai

Tony Cai — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:06:32 +0000

Spamming TechCrunch works!:
http://www.tony...nch-experiment/

By: walkable

walkable — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:34:25 +0000

I must say that my evil mind thought about doing this myself before this article was even posted. I noticed that when I was logged into mybloglog, my little avatar for it was appearing on the front page of TechCrunch. Then, I noticed I had some people adding me as contacts on mybloglog. I put two and two together and realized that they must have been coming from that. Then I thought about the auto refresh, and so on.

I wouldn’t do it, because I think it’s the wrong way to go about things, but I do hope you keep the mybloglog script up on the front page because it’s pretty nifty. I promise not to abuse it

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:18:06 +0000

Sure that will be exploited more soon. Wonder how MyBlogLog will handle this? How can one tell if a user is genuinely visiting pages or having a bot visit them?

By: Sprague Dawley

Sprague Dawley — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:56:13 +0000

This is the first web 2.0 whatever site I’ve felt compelled to join and it seems like a decent experiment (if a bit overweighted with early adopter SEO types…). It has potential to take bloggers past the Technorati “how are my stats” stage to actually building communities of like mind. IF it doesn’t get hammered by the bots…

By: Dan Green

Dan Green — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:14:30 +0000

I just want to confirm that I actually visited the site…

By: Jean Sini

Jean Sini — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:27:35 +0000

I only just noticed that my picture shows up at the bottom of the screenshot! Horror, now hnsbro and me look like spammers too. For the record, Mike, I did *not* land on that screenshot using the technique described by Michael Jensen I guess I must have been reading too much Techcrunch lately.

By: Doug K

Doug K — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:28:33 +0000

One site is showing it works. 20 is spamming. He was spamming.

By: Gareth_Davies

Gareth_Davies — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:28:18 +0000

There also seems to be a small bug with the myblog avatar creator. It is sometimes possible to sneak animated gifs through – you can see my test showing on my account if you go Gareth_Davies.

I am not out to Spam – it was just a test and I will remove shortly. Even though it doesn’t always work every time, it is prob wise for them to look into stopping animated gifs running don’t you think?