by alec on December 20, 2006
Craigsnumber is a new service for people who need to give out temporary phone numbers. Their promise is pretty simple: “Listing online? Protect your privacy.” Nice marketing guys!
It’s pretty simple. When you need a temporary number for a day, a week, or a month, visit their site. They’ll issue you a number, plus extension (it’s clearly built around a PBX), ask you for a redirect number, and how long you need it. Boom! You’re done. Go ahead and put that number in your…. craigslist advertisement, for instance… and when the number expires, you won’t get any more calls there.
Talk about meeting a customer need with a simple, simple concept. Available now in San Francisco, Washington DC and Dallas.
by alec on December 20, 2006
I’ve crossed a milestone of sorts. Yesterday afternoon, I noticed that Akismet was reporting 99,500 (approximately) spam comments trapped since I installed it on May 18th of this year. And this morning that number stands at 100,508. Sometime during the night we crossed the 100K threshhold. That’s an average of 465 spam comments per day, since installing Akismet, and it’s an increasing number. In the last day, alone, there have been over 1,000 attempts by spammers.
By comparison, since inception — August 5, 2002 – I’ve written 2,746 posts, and received 2,775 comments. That’s an average of 1.7 posts and/or comments per day.
465 spam comments per day versus 1.7 posts. That’s an astounding 275 comment spam attempts for every posting.
Thank you to the Akismet team.Â
