Morning Reboot: Monday November 6

Good Morning internets! Here’s your Monday rebbot: Wikipedia as a virus platform — German hackers exploited the anyone-can-edit feature of Wikipedia to spread the blaster worm. The hackers added a note to the existing German Wikipedia page on the Blaster Worm with a link to a “fix” which actually downloaded the worm. Wikipedia quickly changed […]

Any_key_3Good Morning internets! Here's your Monday rebbot:

  • Wikipedia as a virus platform — German hackers exploited the anyone-can-edit feature of Wikipedia to spread the blaster worm. The hackers added a note to the existing German Wikipedia page on the Blaster Worm with a link to a “fix” which actually downloaded the worm. Wikipedia quickly changed the page. [via Tech2]
  • Meebo, the web-based IM client, has announced its 1.0 release. New features include custom skins, drag-and-drop groups, and “pop-out,” a feature that opens your chat session in a new window. [via Mashable]
  • WhoToTalkTo is a new job search tool built around the idea of referrals. It's a simple but potentially helpful concept, post about places you know that are hiring and see posts by others. [via Lifehacker]
  • Fox Interactive announced a new desktop/browser widget platform this morning. The service, going under the name SpringWidgets, offers customized news feeds, weather and more. The desktop version is currently limited to Windows. [via TechCrunch]
  • Technorati has released a new “State of the Blogosphere” report
    which claims, among other things, to now be tracking 57 million blogs.