Emergent Noise

Update 00:30 Oct 29 2009 : I reported the website to Phishtank and the website should now be blocked on all modern browsers. Tested on Safari 4 and Firefox 3.5. Move along now, nothing to see.

This is just a quick post to warn people that Twitter messages are being used for phishing people's Twitter passwords.

I recieved a "Direct Message" on Twitter from @AccessDNA that went as follows : 

"hi. this you on here? http://blogger.djhxkcs.com " (Warning! Do not enter details on the linked page)


Of course, out of curiosity I visited the link , and waiting for me was a page that looked exactly like Twitter's Sign in page – except that it was posting the information to a different address , and would thus send any details I entered to some database. In time, I would expect my Twitter account to be usurped.

Watch out for suspicious messages and pay attention to the address, secure-connection icons and such, people.

I just had to put up the high-resoultion picture in monochrome of this beautiful scene of Wallberg, Lat:  47°39'45.06"N , Long: 11°46'34.38"E .

Locale : Muehlbachweg 13, Rottach-Egern, Germany

To everyone who is expecting a Google Wave Invite, this is a copy of the Invitiation Wave from my account.

As it clearly states, invites WILL NOT be sent immediately.

Sorry , folks who are waiting!

Oct 18

Invite others to Google Wave

Google Wave is more fun when you have others to wave with, so please nominate people you would like to add. Keep in mind that this is a preview so it could be a bit rocky at times.

Invitations will not be sent immediately. We have a lot of stamps to lick.

Happy waving!

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People you've nominated:

• devavr…com
• tommyleeh….com
• amarghai….com
• kaumud….com

I woke up today to Wavemania hitting the tubes. Google apparently decided to send out 100,000 invites to their chosen lot. Obviously , I am not one of their chosen lot – since a quick check of my inbox revealed no invitation.

Twitter however was buzzing, and Google was bombarded with searches for “Google Wave invites”, as evidenced by the spike in the graph below.

Search for “google wave invites“

I tried foraging for some invites, but I quickly gave up. Mainly because, with only a hundred thousand invites, some chaps even thought of selling them on eBay, fetching as much as $70.  Obviously, anyone who now had an invite was not going to let it go to the masses just like that.

So, much as I would like to try Wave to explore its uses in scientific communication, I think I will sit this one out – when Google decides to make it public.