I really like
mint. Not the web stats app, the new personal finance app. It's extremely simple to use, automatically pulling in information from your bank and credit card accounts, updating itself when you're not even using it.
It's completely free and smartly monetized through mutually beneficial offers from the site's partners — telling you, based on your actual spending, how you can save money. For example, it'll tell you what banks offer higher interest rates for your spending. It'll tell you what credit cards have better rewards or lower interest than yours.
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A few months of testing and the verdict is in:
MaxMind minFraud flags more transactions made with stolen credit cards as high risk than my own fraud scoring code. minFraud does a lot I can't: Checking the bank BIN location against the billing address, the location of the customer's phone number against the billing address or if the IP address is a known proxy; if the username or e-mail address are in its database of high risk accounts; if the e-mail has been reported by other users as high risk.
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Last night, I moved
TargetedVisitors.info and
VisitorBoost.com to one of the new servers. They were some of the last sites to be moved — they're so critical to me that I'll let the other sites test out the new servers first. One of the scripts that runs on crontab every 10 minutes didn't take the move seamlessly — it needed an absolute path updated — leaving accounts with recent orders showing some campaigns as "expired" instead of "active" since the database wasn't being updated by this script. That lead to some very nasty voice mails on my phone.
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A lot of people in technology fields consider themselves or strive to be entrepreneurs — to work for themselves, seeking out opportunities to create new value and profit. They're self-motivated hard workers trying to grow businesses and offer new products and services. There are thousands of web designers and developers out there, many still in high school or recently graduated, that consider themselves just that.
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