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Diffmon

February 19, 2010

Diffmon is a website uptime monitoring service. It checks that a site is available, responsive, and serving the expected content. With e-mail, SMS and RSS alerts, site owners know instantly if any of their sites is down, hacked, or serving an error page.

w3roi

May 22, 2009

w3roi provides conversion tracking for ecommerce sites and affiliate marketers. It allows you to easily compare your advertising campaigns in terms of clicks and sales generated, profit, conversion rate, and overall ROI.

WP Review Site

October 9, 2008

WP Review Site allows site visitors to leave reviews on a WordPress-powered site while rating items on a scale of 1 to 5 stars across several dimensions. It work with any WordPress theme and provides the ability to display average ratings, sorts posts by rating, adds sidebar widgets and provides tools for affiliate marketing.

W3Counter

October 7, 2008

W3Counter provides hosted real-time web stats for websites and blogs. Spun off from Website Goodies in 2004, W3Counter now tracks millions of visitors per day across over 30,000 user websites, reporting on their activity in real-time and in aggregate, with free and paid subscriptions available.

Follow Ham

July 24, 2008

Follow Ham is a recommendation service for Twitter users. It scans their followers and employs machine learning techniques to classify those other accounts as “spam” or “ham” in order to recommend which to follow back.

PicVault

July 23, 2008

A free image hosting service launched in 2004, PicVault provides automatic thumbnailing and several types of galleries. The site has served nearly a billion images.

Website Goodies

July 22, 2008

A website I first published in 1997, Website Goodies continues to provide articles and free tools for tens of thousands of beginning website authors.

The Web Site Revenue Maximizer

July 20, 2008

I was the expert editor for the Web Site Revenue Maximizer, released by technical book publisher SitePoint in June 2008.