Some obvious observations
If you checked out the Top Vote putter’s page at PutVote.com now, you will notice something. The second most active user, as per number of articles voted on, is the anonymous catch-all – the Guest. In fact, guests and non-registered voters have contributed more articles, have voted on more articles than most others, and in short, have kept the site running well. Which means, that the community has taken over the site, rather than the two people who started it. Which, to me, is proof that PutVote is cool.
Flickr is now kinda overrun by the “Meaning searchers” – people who look for good in everything they do. They create groups and stuff that will help aid a high cause, they have contests in which what I create is not as important as adhearing to the theme, they force me to change my identity, my uniqueness, in order to present a “unified, single face” to the outside world. And it’s all getting to me. Flickr is, was cool because it gave me the easiest way to host photos online. And later on, it was cool because I could learn stuff, like photography (at which I sucked majorly) from people I knew, albeit online. But now, it has kinda become a big community of whiners bleeding hearts.
Orkut has this little thing called Karma – wherein, I rate my friends. Very cool idea – but somebody please tell me what the fuck is the point in assigning a degree to trustworthiness? The way I see it, you trust somebody either fully (100%) or not at all (0%). 70% or 80% or 50% trustworthiness defeats the fucking purpose. Ah, but if that was the idea…
Sticking with Orkut, where do all those people who view my profile (people I haven’t heard of, I don’t know of, and don’t want to know of {especially the girls}) come from?
The point of this post? Ha!
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August 24th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
What would your estimate on the number of daily visitors at PutVote be? I have a vested interest, since we are running a competitor at NewsCola
At Alexa, PutVote does not seem to be on the map. While NewsCola does appear to reach some numbers, I think Alexa overrepresents them (I know that the number of unique IPs visiting is about 120 a day). Would love to get the real number for PutVote.
August 24th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Hey Himanshu, I’d be glad to share the stats, except that I don’t have dependable ones. Since we’re hosted with Crispynews, and they’re being pounded by spambots, they are reworking their stats engine. Which means I don’t really have a good handle on uniques.
That said, triangulating with some other metrics I am sure of (# of votes, for instance), I’d say we receive an average of 150 uniques – not that far off.
August 25th, 2006 at 6:29 am
Ada paavingala, in that case ennoda kuppai blogukku kooda putvote-a vida atleast treble the amount of visitors vandhaangalaa? Kingsley, in that case the best way for you to increase the traffic is either be nice to LG and ask him or pick a fight with LG annathe and hope that he will link putvote in his blog. Adhukku appuram the traffic figures will go through the roof
August 25th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
“I don’t know of, and don’t want to know of {especially the girls}”
Appadiyaa? Nambara maadhiri illeye
P.S. Idhu kooda paravalle, I once had a guy, who belonged to some “Al Qaeda” community check my profile. Naalu naalaikku thookame varale