Dries Buytaert

Mollom for Laconica

Laconica, billed as an open-source microblogging tool similar to Twitter or Jaiku, now has its own Mollom plugin to reduce comment and posting spam. Laconica is designed to allow people in a community, company or group to exchange short messages of 140 characters or less, over the web. The Mollom plugin for Laconica is available at http://gitorious.org/laconica-mollom-plugin/mainline/trees/master, and is written in PHP.

IIS module for Mollom

Zion Security, a Belgium-based company specializing in the security analysis of web sites and systems, has used Mollom's open API to develop a Microsoft IIS module utilizing Mollom to detect and prevent comment and posting spam.

This module is unique in that it is a HTTP module coded for Microsoft IIS, comparable to an Apache module, and allows Mollom to potentially expand to a number of ASP/IIS based systems.

The Mollom IIS module is available as a zipped file for download here and is listed on our downloads page. It checks any submitted form for spam using Mollom's spam detection analysis, and like other Mollom plugins, requires you to obtain a set of registration keys from mollom.com before it can be actively used to protect your ASP-based forms.

Because it is written as a module at the webserver layer, it may be possible to use Mollom's spam-detection and CAPTCHA challenge ability with existing web applications running on IIS (think SharePoint or DotNetNuke). It's an interesting approach and one we haven't really considered ourselves. It will be interesting to see how this develops, and if it sticks.

Mollom for Perl

Michael Peters has just released version 0.03 of his Mollom plugin for Perl. The software is available at CPAN or through your CPAN installer via "install Net::Mollom". I haven't reviewed the code yet, but if you try it and have comments, be sure to post them here. Woop, woop!

Mollom and Moovum

Benjamin and I are excited to announce Mollom's first formal software partnership with Moovum, a new company founded by a number of past and present Joomla! core developers.

In collaboration with Mollom, Moovum has developed a world-class Mollom plugin for Joomla! that they've christened Moovur. Through Moovur, Mollom is able to fight more spam, and we hope to welcome many Joomla! users to the Mollom service. Thanks to Mollom's ability to learn to combat new spam techniques based on user feedback, our existing users on other platforms also benefit as we expand our user base.

This extension replaces the previous Mollom extension for Joomla (called Jollom) which was not being maintained properly. As an official Mollom Software Partner, Moovum is committed to help maintain, update and improve Moovur to give Joomla! users the best tools to fight spam and to help moderate their site's content. Mollom and Moovum will continue to work together to test and deploy new versions of the extension and to make sure that our users get the best possible service.

Both Moovum and Moovur are described in Moovum's press release and is available in release candidate from the Moovur download page. Moovur can be downloaded for free and comes with extensive end-user documentation as well as with development documentation that enables 3rd party developers to implement Moovur and Mollom into their solution with only a few lines of code. In the upcoming weeks the Moovum team will focus on the introduction of Moovur and work with 3rd party Joomla! developers to implement Moovur into their plugins.

Other companies or CMS vendors interested in offering Mollom to their users, please contact us about Mollom's new Software Partner Program.

Mollom for Midgard

Henri Bergius has integrated Mollom into the Midgard open source content management framework. From Henri's release announcement: "When enabled, all posts sent to Midgard either on-site or using the email import tools will be passed to Mollom for assessment. If Mollom finds them spam or ham, they will be moderated accordingly. This should save a lot of time policing the site."

Midgard provides an object-oriented platform for building data-intensive applications, and ships with its own content management system built on the Midgard framework. Its CMS solution features an interface for installing components that provide additional functionality, like Mollom's spam-filtering web service. The Mollom component will be available in the soon-to-be-released Midgard 8.09.3 version. Thanks Henri!

Mollom for Zend Framework

Ruben Vermeersch has released a Zend Framework library for Mollom. From Ruben's release announcement, "Mollom checks your comments and provide CAPTCHAs if it's not 100% sure (about 2% of all comments). This takes the hard work of removing spam out of your hands, with the reassurance that no good content will be blocked.".

The Zend Framework is an extensible set of components for building web applications and web services, with more than 7 million downloads and 500 different contributors. Ruben's contribution of the Mollom component allows Zend Framework users to take advantage of Mollom's unique approach to blocking comment and post spam. Thanks Ruben!

ColdFusion library for Mollom

Ed Tabara from 1SmartSolution wrote an Adobe ColdFusion library for Mollom. Read more about it on Ed's blog post or download the library from the Mollom download page. Thanks Ed!