Spam 30th Anniversary
Happy 30th anniversary, spam. From unsolicited bulk emails to site hack epidemics, you’ll be with us in some form or another as long as lazy cheapskate marketers add valueless noise to the global conversation.
(Via Darren Rowse.)
Filipina to Become Senior Manager at Google?
I just got an email from Mobile Arts‘ Elmar Gomez stating that a Filipina friend of his, Jocelyn Ding, is the current Executive Vice President for Worldwide Operations of enterprise email management company Postini. Google bought Postini for $625M last week, the third-largest acquisition in its history.
There are already about fifty Filipinos on the Google campus, plus one Filipina Googler in the Philippines. Does the Postini purchase mean a Filipina will take a senior management position at Google?
The First Spam: May 1, 1978
Happy(?) birthday, spam. No, not the canned meat by-products.
The first piece of unsolicited bulk e-mail (what will come to be known as spam) is written. When it’s sent two days later, more than 400 people with an Arpanet address receive a promotional message sent by Gary Thuerk, a marketer for Digital Equipment Corporation. It’s been pretty much downhill from there.
Unsurprisingly, this early feat of cluelessness foreshadowed the fall of DEC. Interesting that, on May 1, 2007, people spammed Digg to defend the First Amendment.
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About the Author
Mike Abundo serves as Vice-President for Online Services of the Philippine Internet Commerce Society. He also writes for Inside Online Video and Tech Side Up. Email him at mike@mikeabundo.com.
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