We have some great high quality enamel lapel KopTalk badges, hand polished, available for purchase. They are a limited edition, new design for the 2011-12 season and they’ve been selling fast!

Postage is included in the price. If you wish to pay extra for recorded delivery, please email charlie @ koptalk.com and she will sort you out. We will obtain a certificate of postage from the post office for every item sent out.

Please select your location from below, then click on Buy Now.

Price includes postage

UK & Ireland £2.99 Europe £3.99 Rest Of World £4.99

 

There were 2 options as to how I made the app available. Free with advertising or free of advertising and chargeable. Because ‘KopTalk is for grown ups’, I opted for the no ads option with a small annual subscription of £2.99 to cover the loss of advertising revenue, the hosting of the project (we’ll be launching a new site for it) and the ongoing development costs as I hope to add more features such as a chat room.

Once launched we will be working on a version for the Android, then the iPad. We will then review other platforms such as Blackberry.

The app is not on auto-pilot. Every item is added manually, every article and video hand-picked. Those in the industry thought I was nuts because it could run automatically but I prefer the personal touch and believe that people deserve better.

Both non-members and members can use the app. It does not give access to any exclusive content from the members website and you can not access our member forums or free forums via the app.

I will keep you updated as to whether the app is approved or rejected. Some times Apple ask for minor changes.

Ads are usually served automatically by Google. They scan the words on every page and serve ads based on the content. If there is a page with the word ‘Arsenal’ in it for example, then Google will most likely serve ads associated to Arsenal. The word ‘hotel’ will see hotel ads displayed and so on. Advertisers can also target websites e.g. a company that sells football shirts may target football websites regardless of the specific content on it providing the website is football related.

Google do not approach content providers (websites such as ours) to discuss campaigns, they just add them and it is up to us to block advertisers we don’t like.

I hadn’t seen the ads as I’m not in the UK, which is where the complaints were coming from. However, I did connect to the internet using a UK VPN and saw the ads straight away. Now that I have located the destination URL (the website that the ads are promoting), I have now disabled them. It is possible to do that once you locate the offending ads. The only other obvious filter we have in place is for the website of The Sun newspaper. However, if The Sun were to launch a new campaign on another website for a side product, say Sun Cars or Sun Bingo or similar, then such ads could appear without our knowledge. If such was to happen, all you need do is contact us and we would immediately block the offending domains. We have always done this.

KopTalk wasn’t the only Liverpool FC website hit today by the Scum ads as some of our members reported that others had received criticism for running the ads (as people tend to speak out without knowing the facts first). We can’t speak for anyone else and it’s not up for us to tell them what to do but we have blocked the offending ads now that we have been made aware of them.

In future, if you see any ads that offend you, please bring them to our attention because an ad served (displayed) to you may not have been displayed to us. We won’t disable simple text ads relating to other clubs as this would be almost impossible to do but we will obviously block banners that show the scummy emblem of clubs like United.

Please note that once a particular ad/campaign is blocked, it can take Google “a few hours” to block them from appearing.

A version for the Android will follow in due course. We will consider Blackberry and others once the iPhone/iPod and Android versions are out.

The app will be available for a small fee as we are offering it free of annoying advertising.

EXCLUSIVE: Liverpool to offer £15million for midfielder

‘KOPTALK sources claim that Liverpool are to offer Sunderland £15million and the possibility of a player, for midfielder Jordan Henderson.

‘The 20-year-old attacking midfielder is attracting interest from numerous Premier League clubs and Sunderland are willing to sell (although publicly they may deny this), but they have mooted a figure of around £20million.

‘Liverpool scouts have watched him twice this season. Rafa also had him watched when he was loaned out to Coventry in 2009…’ - MEMBERS WEBSITE, 2ND NOV, 2010

JUNE 1ST 2011: 7 months later, The Independent, The Mirror, The Guardian, The Express, Daily Mail, Others, all report Liverpool are interested in signing Henderson.

Get KopTalk Membership…

We have placed an order for 1000 high quality enamel lapel KopTalk badges, hand polished, as shown above. They were previously very popular and we expect they will be again. If you would like to grab yourself one (although there’s no limit on the amount you wish to order), simple continue reading.

Postage is included in the price. If you wish to pay extra for recorded delivery, please email charlie @ koptalk.com and she will sort you out. We will obtain a certificate of postage from the post office for every item sent out and we will announce here on the KopTalk Blog when orders start to be dispatched.

IMPORTANT: We expect to take delivery in 4 to 6 weeks from today’s date. They will then be posted from the UK to you.

Price includes postage

UK & Ireland £2.99 Europe £3.99 Rest Of World £4.99

Thanks heaps for all your help mate.

If only every organisation on the planet ran like yours and had the customer service you guys do. Your staff are a credit to you and Koptalk.

Thanks so much for your assistance.  Thanks Duncan.

Kind Regards

Michael (VIP Member)

It would be impossible to post all the positive feedback we receive but we try to add something every now and then. Thanks for the kind comments Michael.

Today we received the latest build of the KopTalk Liverpool FC iPhone application. In this video I will show you how it’s coming along. Hopefully the next video will be the completed app. We’re certainly closer than we ever have been.

To help with the app and to be included in the ‘Hall of Fame’ which will be seen by everyone who downloads the app worldwide, please follow this link.

Some of our fans and members have contributed to the development costs and thanks to them we reached our initial target. However, since then we have had to go back to the drawing board several times which means more costs. We only asked for help after it was suggested by those who wanted to help. We put pride to one side and admitted that we had to accept their offers to get the app out quicker.

In return for making a contribution, we are creating a ‘Hall of Fame’ within the app on the ‘INFO’ page. This basically means that anyone who helps will be listed in that ‘Hall of Fame’ in every app that is downloaded around the world. If for example you make a donation, you could have any of the following included: your real name, your forum username, your member name, a partner’s name, your children’s name(s), another alias or even a business name.

If you would like to help support us, please use the link below. Charlie – one of my assistants – will then contact you to see what name you would like listing in the app’s ‘Hall Of Fame’. She will ensure you are looked after.

During the last couple of years, many of our members have fallen on hard times. Those who have can verify that we have helped them through a rough time until they get back on their feet again. Sadly our suppliers don’t think the same way towards us and as a one-man band, I’m not ashamed to admit that I also need help from time to time with the site. But when people do help, I never forget and I certainly always ensure that they get something back so rather than just taking support from people who stepped forward to help without having been asked, I opted to create the ‘Hall Of Fame as my way of saying thanks and when the app is launched, I expect I will find other ways to show my appreciation.

Do not feel obliged to help. If you’re a member or supporter of KopTalk, that in itself, gives me the strength and motivation to succeed.

Earlier today I was provided with the latest build of the app. Take a look at it here.

In the image below, you will see what the video section looks like. The data within it is from a previous version so it’s obviously old, but it gives you an idea of the layout. You can also see the options across the top and bottom of the app. Although KopTalk opinion videos will be added to this video section, once it goes live, it will actually be packed with footage of the Reds in action. Any goals, interviews and the like will be added here during the day, every day of the year, so you will be pleased to know that you won’t see much of my mug.

The ‘Posted on’ text is to be removed. The date will remain.

I am currently editing a video to show you the current status of the app. I will post it here later today.

UPDATED: See the video here.