Confident Technologies, Inc. today announced that its image-based verification solution, Confident CAPTCHA is now available as a Wordpress plugin, a Joomla extension and a Drupal module.

Confident CAPTCHA™ is a unique, image-based CAPTCHA solution that stops spam and bots in a way that is easy and intuitive for your website visitors. Rather than forcing people to decipher warped and distorted characters or words, Confident CAPTCHA presents the visitor with a grid of randomly-generated pictures and simply asks them to click on specific pictures to verify that they are human and not a bot.

Text-based CAPTCHAs have become so difficult to read that visitors become frustrated and abandon the action or the website completely. Confident CAPTCHA is easy on people while being tough on bots. It improves the user experience, helping increase conversion rates and user interactions on your site.

Use Confident CAPTCHA to stop spam and bots on Web forms, comment posts, new account registrations, polls and surveys, and many other areas of your website.

Confident CAPTCHA is very configurable. You can choose:

• The number of images to display
• The number of images that the visitor must click
• Order of category selection
• Background color
• Optional audio verification for the visually impaired

For more information, please visit www.ConfidentTechnologies.com.

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After two years of spam protection by Mollom people are beginning to proudly show off their ham/spam stats. Davy Van Den Bremt over at Drupal coder writes:

If you’re happy about Mollom, just shout it out on Twitter, Facebook, your blog, … by putting up a screenshot of your stats and saying how many spam has been caught by Mollom. You can find the stats of your site on your Mollom account. If you’re using Drupal, you can find them under Administer > Reports > Mollom Statistics.

If you’re using Twitter, use the hashtag #mollomstats. I’m looking forward see how much crap content Mollom has spared us from.

As you can see from the statistics below, CMSReport.com has kept Mollom pretty busy with over 99,500 pieces of spam blocked since we started using the service. One statistic I’d like to see collected is how much content Mollom detects as “Ham” but is later identified by the site administrators as actually “Spam”. In other words, I’d be curious to see the statistics for Mollom’s “false negatives”.

Of course, Mollom isn’t the only spam service that provides fun statistics to look at for your site. There was a time I used Akismet to protect my sites from spam. Some of the stats I pulled from Akismet proved to me without a shadow of a doubt that spammers are an evil bunch. Thank goodness for services like Mollom and Akismet helping us protect our sites or this blogging stuff just wouldn’t be a fun thing to do.