Abstract: A method for purchase of goods and/or services comprising the steps of, (a) a user placing a personal advertisement through a service provider or vendor with a image or picture which is blurred on partially blurred as to body portions or plurality of body portions, or to which contains text which is strategically blurred, and (b) the service provider or vendor alerting the user to one or more responses to the advertisement or other message, optional with blurred and/or partially obscured images on pictures of a respondent or text by way of e-mail, television, written or printed material, SMS, EMS and/or MMS messaging.

Abstract: An advertising technique includes communicating messages to a mobile device that are rendered on the mobile device for the purpose of advertisement. The advertisement is rendered based on the occurrence of an advertisement event, such as an inbound telephone call, the elapse of time, entering a pre-defined geographic area, or the like.

Abstract: A system for compensating the provider of authentication services wherein users, in addition to merchants, may be the party who compensates the authentication service provider.

Abstract: Published themes are combined with user provided content to create instantiations of software applications which include a graphical user interface. Modification of a published theme results in modification of previous instantiations.

Abstract: An advertising technique includes communicating messages to a mobile device that are rendered on the mobile device for the purpose of advertisement. The advertisement is rendered based on the occurrence of an advertisement event, such as an inbound telephone call, the elapse of time, entering a pre-defined geographic area, or the like.

Abstract: A method and system for authorizing communications sent from a sender to a recipient. The authorization system receives a communication sent from a sender to a recipient. The authorization system determines whether that sender is authorized to send communications to that recipient. If the authorization system determines that the sender is not authorized, then the authorization system sends an authorization communication to the sender. The authorization communication requests authorization information from the sender. When the authorization system receives the authorization information, it determines whether the information is correct. If correct, then the authorization system indicates that the sender is authorized and forwards the communication to the recipient. When a subsequent communication sent from the sender to the recipient is received, the authorization system may automatically determine that the sender is authorized and forward the communication to the recipient without re-contacting the sender.