Tag Archives for social engineering

Destroying Online Reputations With Noise

Someone’s applied my idea for gaming online reputations and built it upon a LinkedIn interface. The result is Unvarnished. Not nearly as holistic as expected, but it’s a good step forward. -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.

31. March 2010 by Shlok Vaidya
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Preserving Online Reputations

Contrast the Wall Street Journal’s thinking on how to preserve your reputation (so basic that most elementary school children are experts) with this targeted effort to override that signal. Which seems easier and more rewarding? 😉 -Shlok Sign up for … Continue reading →

01. December 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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Idea: Gaming Online Reputations

Here’s something I pitched to my friend Keith Hanson (of TweetingTooHard fame) a while ago. Now’s a good time to post it, given that Seth Godin’s essentially doing the same thing for corporations (and charging insane prices for it, without … Continue reading →

24. September 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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TweetBombs as Social Engineering

SingularityHub describes the potential of Twitter to direct the actions of millions (or even billions) of voluntary zombies (a la a flashmob). The idea is interesting, and one I’ve written about before, but Keith Kleiner gets lost in issues of … Continue reading →

23. April 2009 by Shlok Vaidya
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