Did Someone You Know Get Facebook for Christmas?

By Jake • Published on January 5th, 2009 • View Comments

Or maybe you did?
I polled Twitter to see if anyone else noticed an influx of activity and friend requests from Facebook over the holidays, loosely interpreted as the end of December. Meg agreed, and everyone else wisely continued enjoying their seasonal free time.
According to Hitwise, Facebook saw its highest ever daily traffic number on December [...]

Does Spam Still Work?

By Jake • Published on March 9th, 2008 • View Comments

I got a 419 email today in my work inbox. This is pretty rare, since I guess Global IT does a great job catching spam, especially compared to my webmail accounts.
Normally, in my webmail, I’d just delete an move on, but since this is so rare in my work inbox, I read the mail, titled [...]