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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/02/13/whosonmypage/

  • marcos · 2 years ago
    does that only track people who are actually registered to that page? I wanna register but I don't wanna be spammed.. :/
  • Steve Poland · 2 years ago
    Toolbars are big revenue if you can get users to actually install them (and use their search capabilities).
  • Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago
    marcos,

    Not sure what you mean. It works like MyBlogLog: if you sign up, you get informed of other WOMP users on your page, and they get informed of you.

    Steve,

    Yup.
  • Rosario Doriott · 2 years ago
    Why hasn't Myspace offered its own "tracker"? Haha, maybe even a "premium" service?
  • Layton · 2 years ago
    marcos: This is Layton from WhosOnMyPage. As for your spam concerns like most sites we have an opt-in email notification system but we do not sell email addresses nor collect username/passwords in order to verify your profile.
  • Steve Williams · 2 years ago
    ** THIS SITE SPAMS your email AND STEALS YOUR MYSPACE LOGIN**

    Layton,

    Ever since I joined YOUR site, I've been having SPAM sent FROM me to my myspace friends as comments AND bulletins.


    Also, you send me spam emails about your service when I asked many of times to cancel it.

    Warning for other readers. Beware. Pete have you joined? **Joiner Beware**
  • Layton · 2 years ago
    Steve,

    I am sorry about your situtation but I must correct you: Our service does not send out any sort of comment or bulletin spam.

    The timing of those messages are conincidental and I would advise you to change your MySpace (or whatever site this is happening on) password so that they are no longer being sent.

    As for email spam: we have sent out only one email to our users since our launch in March 2006 (announcing our relaunch) and we have only delieved that message to users that have not opted out receieving service update notifications.

    It is very easy to cancel your account or opt out of any email notications (both are in Account Settings) but you can also email info@whosonmypage.com if you would like us to do it for you. Just please email us from the account that you signed up with.
  • Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago
    Ken,

    Uh...how do you propose they find the name of anonymous web users? It's technically impossible without some serious invasions of privacy. No service can tell you the name of a visitor unless it already knows their IP address or has some other way to identify them uniquely.
  • Adam Kalsey · 2 years ago
    Steve,

    I know the founders of Who's On My Page, and although I'm not familiar with the technical details of the service, I'd be shocked if the guys behind this were spamming. They simply aren't those sort of people.

    Not being a heavy MySpace user, I'm not sure why your account would be sending spam, but I can say that it's very easy for a JavaScript widget to read your login details from your cookie.

    If the MySpace login cookie is readable from your friend's profile pages, then JavaScript widgets have access to it as well. It would not be difficult for a widget to log in as you and spam away.

    Any widget installed on a profile you view could conceivably steal your cookie. That's one reason that MySpace has been heavily limiting what widgets can do and why eBay, LiveJournal, and other services don't allow script in their content.
  • Stefan · 2 years ago
    This is definitely spam. How much did you get to post this Pete?
  • Ken · 2 years ago
    Pete...I don't propose, which is why I wouldn't build this service. The point is that they aren't delivering.
  • Mac · 2 years ago
    I'm kind of confused like the first guy, marcos. whats the point in showing Anonymous visits? all its good for is show how many people look at your profile on a certain day. Myspace for example has a counter that show how many times your profile has been looked at (although not down to the day)

    If I really wanted to see who's on my page I'd have to get them to download the tool bar. Chances are that the people looking at my profile are already my friends. So the concept of seeing who's visiting your page almost seem null and void.

    The idea is cool but hard to pull of with not invading peoples privacy. Tagworld has a build in feature like this and its pretty cool - easy way to meet people, which I think is the idea.
  • Lary · 2 years ago
    Hey I found a tracker site that tracks myspace users even if they aren't part of the service, this is a real tracker site, I just haven't gotten my tracker yet but I did the demo. www.stalkertrack.com
  • Venus · 2 years ago
    Registration is impossible. It would not accept 2 of my most used email addy's, G and Yahoo. Claimed they were both invalid. Ridiculous!
  • pookie · 2 years ago
    thanks alot
  • pookie · 2 years ago
    thanks alot raelly
  • kasra · 2 years ago
    WhosOnMyPage - MySpace Tracker that Works?
  • ~GINA~ · 2 years ago
    i want to check your page out
  • ~GINA~ · 2 years ago
    nice page
  • Wondering · 2 years ago
    Does this still work?
  • Honeymarley · 2 years ago
    i need help i installed the toolbar and verified but its still no tracking for me..please help...
  • huh · 2 years ago
    whats the point in not allowing trackers?
    when anybody can access their myspace profile , onless they have set it so you have to ask for permission.
    their is nothing private about having a myspace profile.
  • jessica sutton · 2 years ago
    ur being tracked
  • d-money · 1 year ago
    cashmoney
  • computergirl · 1 year ago
    SCAM..SCAM..SCAM!!!! This is a scam site...phishing...they ask you for your real my space password and no one should EVER ASK FOR YOUR PASSWORD !!!! SCAMMMM!!!
  • computergirl · 1 year ago
    www.stalkertrack.com is a phishing site....a tracker that you sign up for with your my space username and password....scam....one that you can't get yet.....smells like scam....stay away....scam....someone is getting paid to turn you on to this site....spam spam spam......
  • Ashley · 1 year ago
    Yes, it says right in the terms of use that they want your myspace name and password so they can post bulletins, blogs and comments on your friends page as a payment for the service that they are offering. It's not really "phishing" but it's pretty tricky the way they do that.
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