So, you think you found a way to game a social news site such as Digg or Netscape? You think you are so smart because you are emailing links to your friends and asking them to digg your story? Guess again chump! You are about to run into the cold hard door of failure.The problem…
Tag: Social Media
Dealing with too much traffic
I recently moved hmtk.com and a few other websites to their own dedicated server. There are currently ten sites running on the same server as hmtk.com. A few days ago one of those sites got dugg.While that one site was on digg’s homepage the server load was in the 10 to 60 range. A server…
Technorati can’t count?
It has recently come to my attention that the blog tracking site Technorati is suffering with a math problem. Yes, the site that tracks millions of blogs (and rates them by popularity) does not understand that their Top 100 list should be just that, a top 100 list. Instead their Top 100 list appears to…