Software by tag 'tracking'

SpyPig – Get a notification when people read your email

Posted by Lim on Jan 31st, 08 | Filed under Internet, Tips | 5 Comments

SpyPig is a free email tracking system which can send you a notification when your friends read your email. This special tracking system works with any web-based email program.

SpyPigIf you are using email client such as Microsoft Outlook with Microsoft Exchange Server, You can easily get notfied when your recipients read your email, but it is impossible for web-based email application such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, or Live Mail to implement this feature.

SpyPig provide users a special image which include a tracking code. Users can then insert this tracking image in their email message, and they will get notified when others read the email.

To use SpyPig, simply provide them your email address, then type your message title (this is for better tracking so that you can know which email has been read). You can then choose your SpyPig image (if you don’t want your recipients know you are tracking the email, choose a blank image). After that, you can paste the tracking image on your email message and then send out the email. Currently, they limit the number of notification emails to 5 for each tracking code, which means you will only get 5 notifications even there are 10 people read your email.

SpyPig works fine with all email applications, both desktop clients and web-based email. But, you need to change some settings on your Microsoft Outlook in order for SpyPig to work. You can check it out here.

Note: Both you and your recipients must use HTML-format email so that they will download the tracking image when they open the email.

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YooRL – Start tracking your link now

Posted by Lim on Nov 17th, 07 | Filed under Internet | 4 Comments

YooRL is an online tracking service which let you to track an URL, to monitor the spread of the links to others in real time.

YooRLDo you share your bookmarks with your friends frequently? Do you share new website or interesting website with your friends? If so, how to know who visit the link or where the visitors come from? Now, YooRL provide these service for you, and it is free!

YooRL can monitor the spread of the links to web resources and their popularity in real time. This can be view via the “Dashboard” of the link. Users can also know where the visitors come from. YooRL will record the IP address of each visitor and then determine where they come from.

Once you share the link, YooRL users can start to watch what is happening to that link. From the dashboard, you will a map with a few red dots. The red dots show the visitors’ location and you can know how many visitors had view this website.

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