Mikhail Panchenko

Mikhail Panchenko
Infrastructure Engineer, Urban Airship

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Mike joined Flickr in July as a backend engineer. Before that, he worked on internal tools at Yahoo! Before that, he attended Washington University in St. Louis and played around with THE INTERNETS a lot. Before that… well… he sort of crawled around, drooled a lot, and was generally incoherent. Because he was a baby.

Sessions

11:00am Thursday, 05/06/2010
Fighting Spam at Flickr
Development
 Location: 2006
Mikhail Panchenko (Urban Airship), Simon Batistoni (Yahoo! Inc (Flickr))
Average rating: ***..
(3.83, 12 ratings)
Spam is the unpleasant, grimy underbelly of the social web. Social sites cannot afford to ignore spam; it damages their credibility and ruins the user experience. This talk will detail the lessons of Flickr's past false starts in fighting spam, as well as what we are doing to be more efficient at curtailing it. We will cover both technical and human sides of the problem and some solutions. Read more.
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  • Microsoft Corporation
  • .CO
  • Adobe Systems, Inc.
  • Ericsson
  • Germany Trade & Invest
  • IBM
  • Berlin Partner
  • blueKiwi
  • EffectiveUI
  • HP
  • Neustar, Inc.
  • OpenSRS
  • OpenText
  • PayPal
  • Pearltrees
  • The Planet
  • SOASTA

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