Archive for December, 2006

Modern Captcha - protect online forms from spam.

Inspired by Seth Godin and developed further by Nicolas, the ModernCaptcha offers a more accessible Captcha solution for people who want to protect online forms from spam bots.

It’s not without it’s problems as obviated by some of the comments on his blog, but this is the start of a better Captcha solution and Nicolas has done a great job. Some of those CAPTCHAs are not even readable by humans!

By the way - you probably encounter CAPTCHAs all the time and just didn’t know what they were called. Visit Wikipedia for more.

Christmas eCard for Financial Recruitment Firm

Here’s an animated eCard by EdenWeb that is currently being used by Dublin Financial Recruitment Firm, CFW.

Click the envelope below to lauch the Flash version of the eCard.

CFW eCard

The original artwork was created in Adobe FireWorks and then animated in Flash to create the final piece. Most of the work was put into the intro animation with Mr.Claus gliding across the skies over to the big smoke.

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Deepmetrix and Microsoft

Deepmetrix have always had great customer support. Having been bought by Microsoft, the good work looks set to continue. It’s inevitable that there should be some downtime while they integrate the two systems (Live Stats and Microsoft PPC AdCenter). What wasn’t expected were some of the great emails we’ve had lately keeping us informed and rewarding us for staying on board during the tranistion. Cheers for the Microsoft AdCenter credit. I’m looking forward to trying it out.

Dear Peter Knight,

As you know, Microsoft acquired DeepMetrix earlier this year. We’re excited to let you know that you will no longer be charged for current services and support as we work on the next generation of service-based analytics. Your last invoice is for the September billing period and you will continue to have access to current services and technical support at no charge.

Thank you for your patience through this transition. Watch for updates with more information and opportunities for you to provide feedback and be part of the new services we are building.

If you have any questions, or feedback, please contact our support team at: acahelp@microsoft.comSincerely,
Kevin Vaudry, Program Manager
Microsoft

DeepMetrix LiveStats Customers

Please accept our sincere apologies for the lengthy downtime of the LiveStats services. The outage lasted much longer than anticipated and we at Microsoft regret the error.

To thank you for your patience and understanding, next week we will send you an adCenter credit for $50 (USD) worth of search advertising and some more information about our continued dedication to you and all our DeepMetrix customers.

Again, please accept our apologies for the downtime of the LiveStats services. We will make every effort to prevent such an event from occurring again and we look forward to working with you.
Best regards,The Microsoft adCenter Team