Well, after losing a lot of sleep this week, I finally finished the project I have been working on. It’s a Google Map hack – Spam Map. It maps the worst spammers that send mail to Mailinator. I think it’s freakin’ cool (of course, I’m biased). Poking around seeing who is sending what spam from where is addictive somehow.
UPDATE: slashdotted! Cool! my first slashdotting! Server is down now (of course).
UPDATE2: server is up and running smoothly again – the intial “just got into work, must check slashdot” wave took it out, but it’s good now.
If you like it, Digg it.
After playing with it for the past week or so, I have learned that the majority of spam to Mailinator comes from the NorthEast US and not overseas as I would have assumed. I wonder if that’s true for spam in general?
So…you saw it here first – an email/spam Google Map Hack. Mark my words, in 3 months from now, everyone will have a Spam/Email map. :) Let’s see how long it takes for one of the Mailinator clones to make their own spam map.
I’ll do a post about my thoughts on the Google map API soon…