Digg: 9 New Stories, 8 Duplicates.
The success of an online community is, in many ways, based on the willingness of its members to abide by some level of accepted rules. In the world of social media, this normally means no duplicate submissions. This, apparently, is not happening over at Digg. Just a recent snapshot of the top 9 stories in the Political News section, 8 of which are story duplicates. The highlighting points out which of the stories are duplicates and to what extent. (Lighter = less duplicate, darker = more duplicate). To be more precise… 8 of 9 are about the same story. 6 of 9 say the same thing about that story. 3 of 9 are identical to at least 1 of the other stories. This is definitely improvable: Solving the Duplicate Submission...
Rails Programmer Throws Down the Gauntlet: PWND by PHP!
If you did not know already, I have a particular distaste for Ruby on Rails. Honestly, I really just have a distaste for the grotesque amount of buzz it has received relative to its ability to impact the web. Nevertheless, I did find a recent exchange on the web 2.0 site Dzone very humorous. An Rails nut writes Here’s something that really shows how Rails can shine. Don’t want to start a war, but show me that in Java or PHP! about a 1-line world time server clock using Ruby on Rails. He fails to mention that… It really takes 3 lines It requires installing an additional library In beautiful irony, another user posts this response. The same thing, in PHP, that really only takes 1 line of code, and requires no additional libraries. Sweet Sweet PHP...
Google’s “New” AdWords Algorithm
*** Updated*** Here is a look at the Quality Score indicators now showing in the AdWords panel. Looks like a “Poor” Quality Score can really put a hurting to you. Honestly I am not too sure how helpful these are going to be in the big picture but it is interesting to see how Google feels about your ads. Some testing is in order… Oh yea, and you can now pause keywords, sites, and ad creatives! This I like! **End Updated** Well it looks like Google is taking a cue from Yahoo! for once – or should I say once again. Google AdWords will be shortly releasing some more features for advertisers using their product, a column for “ad quality” determination. In an effort to create transparency there will be a new Quality Score column...
Asked and Answered: A Digg Widget for Blogs
** Thanks for the Bugg Fixes Everyone! WordPress Mangled the Code, But Everything Works Now! Just Copy-and-Paste ** A recent story on Digg requested that a digg widget be created for bloggers to add to their sites. Digg already provides a javascript list of stories dugg, but it does not offer things such as how many diggs it has received, nor does it offer links to the actual stories themselves (just to the page on digg). So, without further adieu, a Digg Widget for everyone else. <script> // YOUR USERNAME var username = “your user name”; // NUMBER OF STORIES TO SHOW, MAX 11 var stories_to_show = 5; // DATA TYPE: dugg, submitted, or commented var data_type = “dugg”; document.write(‘<scri’,’pt...
Congratulations, Rand…
So, if you were like my wife and I, you anxiously awaited the “Superbowl Proposal Commercial” which an unnamed individual was raising money for over the last few weeks. Well, the cat is out of the bag and it is one of our own! Rand Fishkin of SEOMoz, one of the most talented, vocal, and well respected SEO’s in the industry, has proposed to “Mystery Guest”. (She said yes) A big congratulations from the Virante team, Rand.
Ways Registerfly Could Make Their Service Worse.
Skip Directly to List Some of you may be familiar with my recent debacle regarding Registerfly. Quick recap: they won’t either register my domains or refund my money. Suffice to say, I was pretty angry about the whole series of events and requested a full refund several weeks ago. In my initial post, I ranted about how they refused to respond to the refund support ticket and would be unwilling to refund it because the first time they screwed up, I let them give me a credit rather than directly refund my credit card. (I am disputing it now through my CC, by the way) Lo and behold, when I thought that customer service could not get any worse, Registerfly did the unbelievable. Instead of just ignoring my support ticket, they deleted it. Now, that might seem a...
Google changes html output again
Replaced <a class=l href= with <a href=… class=l> for all you scrapers out there.
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