- 24
- Nov
The Truth
One of the most powerful politic advertisements that I have ever seen.
Archive for November, 2006
- 20
- Nov
Userstyles for Google and Youtube
To use these custom userstyles, download and install the Stylish Firefox extension, and paste them into a newly created blank style. Alternatively, you can paste them into your userChrome.css file located in your Firefox profile folder.
- Source:
- http://www.valacar.com/userstyles/
- 17
- Nov
5 Quick and Easy Ways To Stop Blog Spam Before It Hits Your Blog
5) Deny Access to No Referrer Requests
When humans comment on your blog they have read the post and leave a comment. This of course leaves the referal from your blog. One easy way to block spammers is to check for the referal. Simply paste the lines below into your .htaccess file in the root of your webserver.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L]
What you need to edit:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post\.php* – If you are not running a wordpress blog then you will want to change that to the file that gets the post for comments.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*shoemoney.com.* [OR] – obviously you want this to be your domain.
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://whereyouwanttosendthem.com/$ [R=301,L] – this is where you are redirecting them too. This probably does not matter since the automated spambots will not follow redirects.
Done!
4) Kill tor anonymous proxies
Thats cool people want to surf anonymously and all that but being that about 75% of my comments come from tor proxies its much easier just to block them.
simply go here and copy this to your .htaccess to block all the tor servers
3) Stop Comments On Older Posts
Spammers target older posts for 2 reasons.
A) they show up in search engines and thus they know:
- search engines value the page pr wise
- it could be relavent to the keyword they are trying to spam
B) You wont see it. – since the post is old its unlikely that you would ever notice thus greater chance of sneaking it by you.
You have a few options to fix this-
You can manually disallow comments for posts after x amount of days (ick)
If you have wordpress you can download this plugin
which will automatically close off comments and trackbacks after 21 days.
If you have some h4×0r skills you can setup a cron job (thats a automated task to us ninjas) that will edit your database directly checking for past posts and setting the comments and
2) Blacklist Repeat Offenders:
When some spammers do get in you can blacklist there ips so they wont ever be able to again… this process does suck a bit but its a option.
Again edit your .htaccess file:
order allow,deny
deny from 192.168.1.1
deny from 192.168.1.*
allow from all
Remember * represent wildcards
1) Rename your comment file
The default for wordpress is wp-comments-post.php by simply renaming this file to say… wpc.php then changing your theme to reflect the different location for the comment file you will ward off a TON of spammers. This will kill 100% of the automated spam bots.
Source:
http://www.shoemoney.com/
- 15
- Nov
Stumbleupon for sale?
According to Techcrunch Stumbleupon is for sale for $50 million
Two sources have confirmed that the rapidly growing StumbleUpon recently approached at least one large Internet company to be acquired. The asking price was $50 million.
The deal doesn’t appear to have been widely shopped – one potential acquiror said that they met with the company recently, but only to explore possible business development deals, and that an acquisition was not discussed. I spoke briefly with StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp this afternoon but he refused to comment, saying “we do not comment on rumors.†Fair enough.
The real story may be a disconnect between the company’s executives and investors. StumbleUpon has only raised a single seed round of financing – $1.5 million – and angel investors often informally shop a company, with or without the company’s permission, in the hope of an early cash out.
Whatever is going on, StumbleUpon certainly isn’t stumbling in its growth. It is now a significant source of traffic for many startups (an entrepreneur recently told me that 15% of his traffic last week came from StumbleUpon). Garret told me today that the company has 1.5 million registered users and an average of 3.5 million page views per day. They expect to be cash flow positive within the next few months.
- 06
- Nov
3 new themes for Wordpress
Check out the themes page to see the other Wordpress themes.
Name: GreenGrass
Description: A free theme for Wordpress (version 2 and higher)
Greenish
Description: A free theme for Wordpress (version 2 and higher)
Greenish
Demo: Here
