Let a thousand spam messages blossom

Written on August 21, 2008 – 8:31 pm
Robin Wauters, Next web enthusiast & Plugg organizer

My buddies over at Belgian web agency Netlash have updated one of the coolest looking tools they’ve ever built imho, so I couldn’t resist letting you in on it. I’m referring to Spamgarden, a Wordpress plugin that will wipe out every problem you’ve ever experienced with life online.

Actually, it won’t, it doesn’t even serve any other purpose than making spam look pretty (example).

The way they figured, spam isn’t good for anything (which would be true enough if it weren’t for the fact that so many people actually respond to it), so they decided that they could take something bad and make it into something good. That constructive way of thinking led to Spamgarden, which takes all the spam coming into your Wordpress installation and uses it as fertilizer for a virtual tree made out of random keywords from the junk.

Enjoy!

I hope you like that post!

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About the author: Robin Wauters is a Belgium-based social media consultant, startup advisor, blogger, entrepreneur, Twitter fanatic, conference organizer and allround web addict. Between trying out just about every new web application that gets in his sight, he advises local startups like ContactOffice, Oxynade and Yuntaa. And when he's not busy trying to keep tabs with what's going on in the virtualization & cloud computing industry as managing editor of Virtualization.com, he's probably working on the organization of Plugg, an annual celebration of European web entrepreneurship.

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One comment to “Let a thousand spam messages blossom”

By Edial Dekker on Aug 21, 2008

This is awesome. Making arty stuff with spam is like Warhol was doing with popular culture and consumerism, loving this. Now everyone can grow ENLARGE PENIS trees - pure win.

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