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Mister Wong cooks up some social bookmarks

Mister Wong social bookmarkingCould Mister Wong hold the fortune cookie you've been waiting for in social bookmarking? European users think so.

Mister Wong is a social bookmarking site from Germany that's up against the strong del.icio.us, Furl, Sphere and Ma.gnolia. They have a lot of traffic hitting their European specific sites, but what could their recently launched English specific site offer that differentiates them from others currently on the market? Mister Wong has all of the things you would expect from an online bookmarking tool including a Firefox toolbar where bookmarks can be checked and submitted. They also have some interesting features like the ability to make bookmarks private, groups, buddymatching bookmarks, and private messaging. Mister Wong is also accessible on mobile devices.

Mister Wong was hitting more than 2 million visitors in Europe alone, that tops what Furl and Blinklist currently have so it's growing, just not into del.ici.ous territory as of yet. That could change as Wong users can choose to import their bookmarks from del.icio.us. Mister Wong's English site is currently in closed beta, you can sign up on their site to be notified when it's open.

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Europeans battle against spam

european spamWe all get those annoying unwanted offers in our inboxes, well, the Europeans are starting the battle to bring their extremely high number down. If there are no improvement in the rates of spam coming in to inboxes, the European Commission will consider new legislative measures that will fight the up to 85% of emails that are unsolicited. Member states have been asked to increase their efforts to cut out spam and tame spyware and malware distribution. The European Commission is looking towards Holland's efforts at kicking the influx of unwanted email. Holland has a full-time staff of five and almost $800,000 worth of equipment that it has used to decrease spam and malware by 85% since the start of their program.

The Commission is teaming up with the US, where 22% of all spam to the E.U. comes from. So, when do you think the spam rate will be down to 1%? My bet is on when we no longer communicate with email. Then spammers will move on to spamming our next form of communication.

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