Dries Buytaert

Mollom

Mollom was a web service that analyzed the quality of content posted to websites. It was primarily used for filtering spam in comment systems and online contact forms. I founded the company in 2008 and sold it to Acquia in 2012.

2018

• Mollom: The story of my first SaaS startup Featured

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  April 30th

2013

• Managing comments on multiple WordPress sites

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  July 26th
• New Mollom content moderation platform launched

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  March 20th

2012

• How does it feel to sell your company? Featured

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  September 20th
• Mollom acquired by Acquia Featured

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  August 14th
• Mollom.com website redesign (Woot!)

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  January 30th
• Mollom 2011 retrospective

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  January 6th

2011

• Half a billion spam attempts blocked

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  August 8th
• New features for the Mollom module for Drupal

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  August 1st
• Hosted moderation interface: call for testers

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  March 9th
• Mollom's highly-scalable backend infrastructure reviewed

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  February 10th
• Mollom 2010 retrospective

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  January 4th

2010

• Mollom gets a new backend

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  December 14th
• Drupal benefits from venture capital Featured

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  December 13th
• Three new features for the Mollom module

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  November 4th
• Mysterious spike in comment spam spotted

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  October 17th
• Ten ugly comment spam techniques Featured

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  September 20th
• Code freeze, module maintainers and veggies

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  September 9th
• What I want for my website

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  July 6th
• Two hundred fifty million spam attempts blocked

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  July 5th
• Mollom protecting Drupal Gardens against spam

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  June 17th
• Christina Aguilera using Drupal

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  May 25th
• Latest Mollom module ships with Webform support

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  April 5th
• Mollom CAPTCHAs are "intelligent"

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  March 3rd
• Spammers set up shop at IBM.com

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  February 17th
• New features for Drupal's Mollom module

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  February 16th
• Mollom blacklisting and language detection APIs

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  February 7th
• NVidia using Drupal

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  January 26th
• Mollom 2009 retrospective

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  January 6th

2009

• Linux Journal using Drupal and Mollom

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  November 23rd
• The Industry Standard using Drupal and Mollom

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  November 3rd
• Mollom status update and planned improvements

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  August 21st
• Mollom for Laconica

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  August 3rd
• IIS module for Mollom

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  August 3rd
• Hundred million spam attempts blocked

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  July 9th
• NowPublic using Mollom

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  June 19th
• Jacksonville using Drupal

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  June 3rd
• Harvard using Drupal

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  May 25th
• Mollom filtering millions of messages for Netlog

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  May 20th
• Gamezebo using Drupal

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  April 27th
• Happy belated first birthday, WP-Mollom

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  April 22nd
• Fifty million spam attempts blocked

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  April 7th
• SilverStripe to add native Mollom support

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  March 13th
• Michael Jackson using Drupal

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  March 6th
• Mollom software partner program

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  February 20th
• Mollom and Moovum

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  February 18th
• World Food Programme using Drupal

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  January 28th
• More milestones for Mollom

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  January 27th
• O'Reilly Drupal book in the mail

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  January 21st
• Mollom now has "CAPTCHA only" mode

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  January 12th
• My predictions for 2009

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  January 1st

2008

• Mollom for Midgard

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  December 29th
• Oxfam using Drupal

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  December 22nd
• Mollom in Datanews

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  December 12th
• Mollom for Zend Framework

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  December 10th
• Manual spam services

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  December 5th
• ColdFusion library for Mollom

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  December 2nd
• Mollom at TechCrunch Belgium Meeting

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  November 21st
• 99.9% availability for paying Mollom users

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  November 18th
• Mozilla Thunderbird using Drupal

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  November 14th
• The freemium business model: giving away pays Featured

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  November 13th
• Spamalytics: how spammers make money

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  November 10th
• Mollom's world map of spam

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  October 20th
• Lullabot podcast #65

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  October 17th
• Mollom for SilverStripe

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  October 13th
• ICANN using Drupal

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  October 13th
• Ten million spam attempts blocked

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  October 6th
• Mollom launch coverage

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  September 27th
• Mollom for Radiant

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  September 25th
• Mollom out of beta

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  September 22nd
• Hagen's Drupal 6 book in the mail

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  September 9th
• Mollom for DaliCMS

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  September 1st
• Mollom t-shirts

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  August 8th
• Mollom status update

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  August 4th
• Mollom for Joomla

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  July 14th
• Mollom volume segmentation

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  July 13th
• Mollom for WordPress

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  July 3rd
• Jabber using Drupal

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  June 30th
• Mollom in Jobat

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  June 25th
• Website spam protection in the enterprise?

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  June 24th
• Mollom for Joomla

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  June 9th
• R.E.M. using Drupal

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  May 26th
• Mollom as a reputation service

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  May 23rd
• .NET library for Mollom

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  May 19th
• Python wrapper for Mollom

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  May 9th
• Ruby Gem for Mollom

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  May 7th
• PHP5 class for Mollom

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  May 5th
• Mollom API now available

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  May 1st
• One million spam attempts blocked

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  April 21st
• Website spam and moderation queues

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  April 18th
• Spam, OpenID and Mollom

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  April 3rd
• Mollom, my content monitoring startup Featured

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  March 31st