U.K. Politician’s Twitter Hijacked by Porn Bots

By Dave Moyer, posted Feb 26 2010 at 12:06 pm | No Comments »

The Twitter API makes it incredibly easy for web applications to take all sorts of actions on your account. Following users, unfollowing others, posting tweets and sending direct messages, these apps can be quite useful and innovative, but also quite malicious. Just ask Ed Miliband, the U.K. secretary of state for energy.

WordCast 9: Kym flies solo

By Dave Moyer, posted Apr 22 2008 at 4:57 pm | No Comments »

Kym hosts the show this week… alone? He couldn’t resist, and WordCast nine is now online.
Topics and links from this week’s show:

Dave Moyer’s blog has a new design
Andy Staines’ Website
WordCamp UK
Lorelle’s WordCamp Gallery
Matt Mullenweg’s redesign
Baltic Amber Admin Themes for WordPress 2.5
WP 2.5 tooltips
Plugin of the Week: Plugin Central by Vladimir Prelovac – Install plugins incredibly [...]

WordCast 5: WordPress Coma

By Dave Moyer, posted Mar 25 2008 at 6:35 pm | No Comments »

It’s convention Tuesday, and Dave and Beth are alone! Kym has disappeared for some strange, unknown reason. Only time will tell, unless Dave ends up in a coma.
Topics and links from this week’s show:

Plugin of the Week: cforms II – Awesome contact forms
WordCamp Dallas 2008
WordCamp coming to the UK?
WPDesigner sold for $65,000
The Dalai Lama on [...]