LocWeb 2008 Call for Papers

LocWeb 2008: First International Workshop on Location and the Web has issued a call for papers for their conference April 22, 2008 in Beijing, China. From their post: This workshop brings together researchers from academia and industry labs to discuss and present the latest results and trends in all facets of the relationships between physical …

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More Mapspam

I have done some reporting on a new, more sophisticated occurrence of MapSpam on Google and Yahoo in an article at SearchEngineLand: MapSpammers Getting More Sophisticated. The story was based on techniques originally described in a post at oooff.com. This newest approach integrates all of the previous ideas of listing a business at a central …

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