Posted by Brendon on December 28th, 2011 | 0 comments
Pipvertise is currently up for sale on Flippa. I have unfortunately become unable to dedicate any further time towards Pipvertise, and have so taken the decision to sell it on.
Pipvertise is an advertising network which aims to make it easier for advertisers to run campaigns across our publishers’ websites. We invite you to sign up to see first-hand how easy-to-use the service is.
If you are looking to build or launch an ad network, Pipvertise presents a great opportunity for you.
Please watch our sale video for more information or visit https://flippa.com/2678992-pipvertise-unique-contextual-advertising-network:
Posted by Brendon on August 10th, 2011 | 0 comments
You have probably noticed the likes of Google, Craigslist and Amazon employing telephone verification in a bid to reduce fraud. Phone verification is an effective way to reduce fraud. Surprisingly, it is also fairly cheap.
Well, now you can implement Phone Verification on your website. WebPhoneCheck.com is a new mini webservice from Pipvertise. They’ve made their own solution to the phone verification problem publicly available via WebPhoneCheck. Calls via the service are just 3 cents to the U.S. — 85% cheaper than MaxMind; to the U.K. calls are just 4 cents, almost 90% cheaper.
WebPhoneCheck.com provides a simple RESTful API so you can implement a fully whitelabel solution. Simply ask the user to click ‘Call me now’, send a HTTP request to WebPhoneCheck and a verification call is made instantly. The service also provides a very simple PHP class so it is even easier.
So if you’re considering phone verification or two-factor authentication, check out WebPhoneCheck.
Thank Me Later 2.1 has been released. The update fixes issues related to e-mails not sending. It is recommend that all users upgrade to the latest version of Thank Me Later as soon as possible.
The update also has an improved user interface and removes a lot of junk present in previous versions.
Thank Me Later is a plug-in which will automatically send a thank you email to readers after they post a comment. It can be set to send the message a time after the comment was posted (an hour, day, week, month, etc). It is effective as it will remind readers of their comments and gets them engaged with future discussion and your blog. It is useful to attract “one-time” readers who will post one comment, and then forget about your blog.
It was IPv6 day yesterday. Google, Facebook, Yahoo! and other big names switched to IPv6 for an entire 24 hours. As you know, we are going to run out of IPv4 addresses sometime in the next year, so it’s important that we are all ready to switch to IPv6 when the time comes. READ MORE
We have been running WebInfoDB.net successfully for over 2 years. In that time, we have seen our extremely niche user-base grow to over 200 with many users making use of the paid API. We have worked hard with customers to make our technology faster, more reliable and future-proof. READ MORE
Posted by Brendon on September 14th, 2010 | 0 comments
CollegeACB UK is an Anonymous Confession Board (ACB): a place where university and college students can chat without having to publically identify themselves. I have just placed the website for sale at Flippa. Start bidding from $1.
Alexa Rank values are useful in determining ‘how much’ traffic a website receives compared to competitors. It is determined by number of views from users who have the Alexa Toolbar installed. There is no direct, accurate way to determine number of page-views from Alexa rank (or vica-versa), but a rough ball-park figure can be guesstimated.
In some quick tests, this result can be up to 400% out. The closest I got was 50% error. So expect this to give you a very, very rough figure. Many factors skew Alexa rank including niche sites (with different user bases), and number of views. The data I have used could possibly be out-of-date. Please let me know if you find or determine a better formula…
This morning I got an e-mail … the typical “[Person] suggested you like [Something]” from Facebook. Typically, this kind of stuff is SPAM; but I checked it out anyways. However, when I got to the page, I didn’t observe just spam; in fact, I observed a cunning exploitation which allows the page to run whatever Javascript code it wishes. It uses a combination of social engineering to prompt the user to perform actions to get a ‘reward’. In the process, the user inadvertently executes Javascript code in their browser.
Watch this video I recorded to see it live in action:
