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Hacker-Targeted Spam?

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Natan Yellin in Uncategorized

Edit: Now that I think of it, the spam most likely isn’t targeted at hackers. My email address was probably found on Ohloh and the spam bot may just be programmed to automatically include a link to the site which it found the email on.

Ugh. More spam has been getting through Gmail’s filters lately. Here’s the latest email to land in my inbox:

Hi dear,
how are you today? My name is kate, I just went Through your profile on this website (www.ohloh.net) I have no options than letting you Know that I am interested in having you as a friend, Pls write me back, I believe we can move on from here i still have more to let you know about me but that will be after i have know who you are thanks for ur understanding. I am waiting for your reply have a nice day.
From kate stay Bless.

Has anyone else had Gmail’s filters fail lately?

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Feedgeist

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Natan Yellin in Uncategorized

Quick introduction for new Planet GNOME readers: I’m a high school student in Ra’anana, Israel and have been involved in GNOME ever since GHOP 2007. After attending the GNOME UI hackfest this past October, I cofounded Zeitgeist and have been working on various new user interfaces since then. Those of you who attended the GNOME Boston Summit may also remember me from my lightning talk on problems with developer documentation.

A few weeks ago I blogged about the following mockup:

Edit: Added link to full size mockup.

Zeitgeist Mockup

I’m delighted to announce that it’s no longer just an idea! I’ve already started coding an early prototype called “Feedgeist” and the code will be on launchpad by the end of the week.

We’re planning on building sharing and collaboration features into Feedgeist. I’ll post a few more mockups on that soon.

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GNOME Journal Article

Posted on June 16, 2009 by Natan Yellin in Uncategorized

The first draft of my GNOME Journal article on Zeitgeist is below. Criticism and comments are welcome.

… Continue Reading

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Zeitgeist and Fulltext Searches

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Natan Yellin in Gnome, Zeitgeist

I’ve been thinking about the proper way to handle fulltext searches in Zeitgeist. (E.g. searching through a file’s content instead of just searching for files by name.)

I think the best solution is to fall back to Tracker and other search engines for all text searches. This is especially important if we index things like GMail emails where we can’t possibly handle all searches ourselves without downloading and indexing all emails. (Instead, we would just index each email’s title and sender. If the user performs a search, we would use GMail’s API to find results on the fly.)

On that note, I’m planning on adding Google Documents and Flickr support. This probably wont happen until later this week or the beginning of next week

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Zeitgeist Mockup

Posted on June 14, 2009 by Natan Yellin in Gnome

I came up with a quick mockup for Zeitgeist last night. (Yes, it’s bare, hand drawn, and full of squiggly lines that are supposed to be straight.)

Comments are welcome. If enough people find it interesting, I might write some code for it this week.

Zeitgeist Mockup

Zeitgeist Mockup

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