I read a Norwegian news article earlier today regarding that spammers had overcome the current version of CAPTCHA that Microsoft uses at their services. And I can’t but help thinking that why are we fooling ourself? If it can be programmed then it can be reversed – end of discussion. Does it help? Not really, it only slow down the spammers, and make life miserable for the end-user of your webpage. Soon you need a doctor degree...

So I stumbled upon a article in TechCrunch covering imo.im, not that interresting to me, but what I did take notice of, was NimBuzz. I got interrested as it could combine my contacts from MSN, Skype, Facebook and others, and then you could quickly and easily reach them through your cellphone. As I have a cellphone with WLAN abilities, that would mean you more or less have free calls at your hand. The installation took just a few minutes, so...

While researching a bit about Pipl.com I stumbled upon a service, not publically available – but available upon signup and payment. This service combines an even more in-depth search covering a lot of social networks. Not only does it then search for given people, but it also then build a personal profile of you, what you do, friends, photos and similar. Sure – it might be nice to have it all at one place, but I am starting to...