Since it started just a bit over 2 months ago, Akismet has now blocked over one million spams! If each spam took people a second to deal with, then we have saved Akismet users 11 and a half days or about 277 hours of time collectively. I never would have expected it to grow this [...]
As we just announced over on the WordPress blog, you can now do a “one-click” install of WordPress on Yahoo web hosting and they will even keep it upgraded as new releases come out. What’s very cool about this deal from an anti-spam point of view is that Yahoo is auto-enabling Akismet for all their [...]
Andy C. claim’s to have found the best comment spam in the world (caught by Akismet of course) but we’re not so sure of that. Lately I’ve been seeing more pointing back to Dave Winer or Marc Canter’s blog, as well as some clever second-order spammers that use XSS on a third-party site like Sony.com [...]
A blog called data mining has been mining the Akismet zeitgeist to find out what we all knew deep down inside: comment spam is wormy. When the dots get far apart that’s when a comment spam attack is happening. As the numbers keep rapidly rising (almost 700k spams blocked at the time of this blog [...]
We’ve opened up an Akismet Development page which should be a good place to get started on your holiday hacking adventures, if you are so inclined. The documentation is still a work in progress, so if you have any ideas or suggestions for it please share! The development page also lists some of the awesome [...]
The software behind Akismet underwent an upgrade tonight, which you should only notice if spam was getting through the filter before. As always, vote with your submit buttons. If you notice any mistakes mark the comment as spam or ham (not spam) and it will be submitted back to Akismet, which will learn and adapt. [...]
David Lynch has written a cool library for using the Akismet API in Python. I expect over the holidays a few more implementations will come out as people have a little more time for hacking on fun projects. We’ve had a few more development rumblings on the spam-stopper mailing list, so if you have something [...]
