• 26May

    When Captcha code was first invented, it meant to protect guestbooks, blogs, forums, social platforms, commercial web and so on from bot spam.

    During the years it has become almost an integral part of our digital lives (most of us get really pissed off when we have to copy those weary letters before login a web).
    Nevertheless, the bright side of Captcha is revealed, strange enough, in art.

    The name is Aram Barholl.
    Aram Barholl is an artist that deals with the intersection between real life and digital world and now he decided to use the Captcha concept as part of streets graffiti.

    His art can be seen on the following video

    Sweet, right?
    Or as Gizmodo says it:
    “I like to imagine him announcing that you may not continue walking down a sidewalk before reading an alphanumeric sequence out loud”.
    LOL  :)

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  • 24May

    What is brand advertising?

    Brand is a promise, an idea according to which no benefit could be gained by consumer from other products except for the brand he loves. A consumer falls in love with a certain brand, he trusts it and develops a long term loyalty.

    Brand advertising is nothing but building trust! It is not the logo of your firm, it is not a slogan or special design of your product but a collection of associations the consumer feels for your brand. In other words, brand advertising builds an emotional connection between the brand and the consumers which later leads to loyalty.

    How do you build brand loyalty?
    After all, no matter how good your company is, there’s a competition in almost any field. So how could you make your brand to float above this competition, to make your brand the most visible one?

    In one sentence – in order to gain brand prominence, you must differentiate your brand from others and this can be done quite easily through advertising .Advertising delivers your message to a wide range of potential customers the fastest way you ever know.

    Successful advertisement means repetition and frequency, otherwise, you are quickly forgotten. Therefore, advertising is an investment in growth of your firm, growth of potential customers, growth of familiarity of your firm – until it turns into a brand!…

    What are your brand advertising options?
    A comprehensive branding campaign must be based upon a combination of several media channels such as print, television, adverts on subways and buses, radio, as well as online brand advertising such as banners, textual ads, blogs and videos – anything that has a great impact on consumers.

    Last but not least is something quite new.
    What I talk about is some sort of hidden brand advertising. The name is “Captcha advertising” and it is definitely the next big thing in the area of brand advertising…

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  • 14May

    Confident Technologies is a new company created by Curtis Staker and William Goldback that deals with web security and the authentication of site’s users.

    In the next couple of weeks, Staker and Goldback will release a new Captcha called ConfidentCaptcha which is an image based captcha .

    The ConfidentCaptcha was born due to the fact that on each day of the week, 200 million Captchas are presented all over the online sphere and yet it seems like they don’t do their job properly – not only that bots find ways to bypass the captcha test, 20% of websites are abandoned simply because “people can’t read those squiggly characters”!!!

    The ConfidentCaptcha should make it easier for internet users to decipher the captcha image while preventing bots to do so and by that to increase the online security of all kinds of websites.  The ConfidentCaptcha presents an image grid not of letters and numbers but of objects such as  refrigerators, houses or people.
    So simple and yet brilliant. Don’t you think?

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  • 03May

    Pramana company is offering a bot-spotter service that suppose to be some kind of Captcha alternative.
    When it comes to your website security, the bot spotter keeps two eyes open in aim to detect bots that are remotely controlled by spammers.

    There are 2 services of bot detecting by Pramana:
    1. BotAlert – A free service that can report suspected bot traffic on a site.
    2. BotBlock – A paid service  that identify bots and block their actions.
    The cost of using the Bot Block service ranges from $19.99 to $299 per month.

    The full article can be read here, on tech world news.
    Too bad that Pramana CEO didn’t say anything about how they’re going to deal with decent bots like those of search engines…

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  • 03May

    Audio captcha is supposed to be a solution for those who can’t see properly or have problems with figuring out the written texts on the captcha image, but it looks like the audio version is not better.
    Is it really that bad?
    The following captcha videos say it is…

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