As of last week, Akismet had blocked 100,000 spam comments from this blog. Yes, you read right, a cool hundred thousand. In respect for that milestone, would like to go on record as a paid subscriber of Akismet as of next month. Weblogtoolscollection.com has seen its share of spam and was mentioned in one of the blog updates of Akismet with numbers hovering in the 99.51% comment spam range. Akismet has served me well barring a few offbeat social spam comments and I feel that the developers deserve to be rewarded for their efforts and their service (though I wish I would make anywhere near the money that paid subscribers are supposed to be making from their blogs). I was in the spam mitigation business with CSPAM and Three Strikes and though the service could only handle a few thousand blogs on my old server, it was quite a trip. […]

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That’s right folks. Top100bloggers.com has been part of the blogging community now for nearly 6 months and it’s finally time for a small gift. We were back in the studios for weeks with this design and finally finished it up just in time for VDay. Feel free to come take a look at the new design and even register your blog to be ranked on our site! Thanks to everyone who has supported us so far and who have continued to support us, we greatly appreciate it.

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Cell Phone Tools Collection Yes, the name has been used before, but what can I say, it fits. 🙂 Check out some of the new features including [EDIT] a new text message sender in addition to a bunch of bugfixes. A lot more is coming in the very near future.