TheStatBot has recently published an awesome statistical analysis of TechCrunch.com Some immediate findings based on the number crunching produced by the bot:
Total of 7007 posts….
…spread over 1079 days, or just under 3 years…
…with a total of 1,977,710 words…
…at an average of 6.5 posts a day…
…with 282.2 words a post…
…receiving 228,449 comments…
…from 56,292 unique commentators…
…with [...]
According to a story published out of Berlin, Germany via Reuters, police apprehended a 23 year old woman after she tried to sell her 8 month old son on Ebay. The mother told police it was a joke, but I don’t think the police thought it was funny. By the way, the Ebay auction read [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 2 comments | Continued
There are literally tons of people using Twitter these days. However, keeping track of the buzz is difficult unless you use a website such as PicoBuzz.com. PicoBuzz.com is setup in a similar fashion as music billboards. The chart showcases the buzzword, current spot, last spot, and at least five people who mentioned that buzzword on [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Jeffro | 3 comments | Continued
Having a look at the official Twitter blog, Twitter has announced that they have detected errant API usage through their Jabber resources.
We found an errant API project eating way too much of our Jabber (a flavor of instant messenger) resources. This activity (which we’ve corrected) had an affect of overloading our main database, resulting [...]
MyBlogLog recently announced that they have improved the way in which users manage their contacts. When you click on the add/manage link that appears below your contacts, you’ll see the new screens. One thing I noticed immediately when checking out my own MyBlogLog profile is the large number of pending contacts. I had no idea [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Jeffro | 0 comments | Continued
If you have visited this blog anytime after May 2nd, 2008 you may have noticed a pop up appear on your screen similar to the one shown on the right. Now, you might think this is a popup, an advertisement, perhaps even a malicious piece of code being executed on your system. The good news [...]
May 13th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
I just got word that the latest release of Fantastico De Luxe has been released which puts it at version 2.10.4 r16. This release contains the following script updates:
- Drupal: 6.1 -> 6.2
- phpBB: 3.0.0 -> 3.0.1
- WordPress: 2.5 -> 2.5.1
If you used Fantastico to install WordPress, be sure to keep an eye out in [...]
May 6th, 2008 | Jeffro | 1 comment | Continued
If there is one service on the net right now that is being hammered by user’s wanting access, it has to be Woopra, the analytics software which reminds me of Google Analytics on steroids.
John Podazides wrote a post today on the front page of the Woopra blog which explains some of [...]
Back at the beginning of April, I asked the following question as part of the Poll, What Do You Think Of WP 2.5?
Out of a total of 57 votes, the results speak for themselves:
I’m happy to see that the majority of folks responded with WordPress 2.5 being awesome, but coming up in second place was [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Jeffro | 7 comments | Continued
While I was browsing around the blog today, I noticed that my contact form was not loading. I reviewed the Kontactr service back in July of 2007 and gave the service some high marks for their easy to use embeddable contact forms. As it turns out, Kontactr.com fails to load for me and has continued [...]
April 29th, 2008 | Jeffro | 5 comments | Continued
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