Archive for June, 2007
A look inside Boing Boing’s stats
Boing Boing is a very popular blog with a very big following, which makes sense because they’re also very good at what they do (which like most “authority” blogs is reword someone else’s story and publish it with your ads around it), but they do it well indeed.
BoingBoing keep their traffic stats publicly accessible at http://www.boingboing.net/stats/ which makes for an interesting read.
A few generally interesting details
- They get around 2.5 million visitors a month
- Their RSS feeds account for over half of their traffic
- Nearly 80% of their visitors stick around for less than 30 seconds.
- Around 20% of their traffic comes from Digg
- Yahoo’s search engine spider has already hit their site nearly 400,000 times this month, approximately 4x more than Google.
Fun times with Fetishes
The real fun comes when you look at how people are finding Boing Boing. Some of the search phrases are …. interesting. Here’s a selection of some of the weirder fetishes search engines think Boing Boing will satisfy:
- goatse
- horse fucking
- sex
- porn
- lesbian kissing
- celebrity sex
- free porn
- indian teen sex
- disney porn
- warcraft porn
- space porn
- world of warcraft nude
- nerd porn
- lego sex
- tentacle porn
- superhero porn
- eat shit
- incest
- monster dildo
- persian porn
- and more….
Interesting stuff. Well slightly interesting. It’s Sunday night.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )iPhones and Wii’s – Firefox’s Real Competitor
The Firefox community widely regards Internet Explorer as ‘the competition’. This is kind of innacurate – Internet Explorer’s marketshare is more like ‘the goal’. Calling it ‘the competition’ is like me calling Ashton Kutcher ‘the competition’ for Demi Moore’s affections. He’s already won, leaving me and every other straight guy with a taste for milfs to fight over the sloppy seconds.
The real competitors for the sloppy seconds of the market is a fight between Firefox, Opera and Safari.
Safari’s marketshare doesn’t move much – it’s specific to Apple computers and there’s alternate browsers that are reportedly, depending on which report you read, better.
But Apple’s got 3 million new Safari-only devices hitting the market on June 29, and they expect to have 10 million iPhones out in the wild some time in 2008.
According to May’s browser stats at TheCounter Firefox was detected on nearly 9.3 million computers, while Safari was found on only 2.3 million.
Factor in the 3 million iPhones Apple is almost certain to sell due to an endless viral campaign that’s hyped up every tiny feature, and those numbers inch closer together.
Opera meanwhile have got themselves embedded on every Nintendo Wii and DS’s, which is craploads of units, and they’re finding themselves selected to be embedded on loads of other devices. It helps a lot that their browser is cross-platform and light on resources, and it makes them the obvious choice when it comes to a resource-limited environment.
So we’ve essentially got:
- Safari being pimped on every iPhone, with 3 million ready to sell and 10 million expected in 2008
- Opera being pimped on Nintendo’s Wii and DS units, which are capturing (or in the DS’s case captured) the console / portable game markets
- Spread Firefox, the communal ad agency of Firefox, with no new angles and no new stories.
By the end of this year the numbers for Firefox, Opera and Safari are going to look pretty similar. It’s feasible for either Safari or Opera to overtake Firefox due to the excellent marketing and strategic placement they’ve fostered.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )HP Voodoo thingies
HP have left “trace” on on some of their asp.net pages. This outputs a nice big table of data, some of which shouldn’t be publicly available.
Like the sql queries they’re outputting, which reveals parts of their table structure to anyone with bad intentions.
What’s most amazing is they reveal how many active sessions are on the site. Apparently over 100 people are browsing their retardedly-expensive notebooks. Fucks me why a Voodoo with a paint job makes the machine worth $3000 more than the HP-branded notebooks. No wonder ACER is creeping their way up the ranks.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Come on Dell, Show us the Numbers
It’s been nearly 2 weeks since Dell bowed to the perception of demand for a major computer retailer to provide Linux on computers.
Craploads of people expressed their support for the idea, and Dell figured it might be a good idea to follow through since there was so much demand for the machines. They expressed their support for a few other open-source, fuck Microsoft oriented ideas, essentially hijacking the site and turning into a very boring place to submit and vote on ideas that could never become popular when competing with an ideology that has a following with nothing to do between school and sleep.
So anyway, Dell setup a new section of their website where you could buy a couple of flavours of Linux on known-to-be-compatible hardware and all that.
So where’s the results? You’d think, given the huge number of people demanding it, there’d be a huge number of sales bearing at least some relation to the demand.
After nearly two weeks there’s been no follow up on the Direct2Dell blog and that strikes me as funny. These 11 days have been an ideal time to keep the buzz and the hype burning, to congratulate the open source community for their insight and all that self-validating stuff the younger open source people live for.
But there’s been nothing. No mention, no congratulations, no acknowledgement, not even a hint about whether it’s a success.
This isn’t just an important moment for Dell, this is an important moment for the open source community.
So what’s the story Dell? How many of these machines are you actually selling?
My favourite theory is a bunch of kids hijacked IdeaStorm, created a false demand for products they didn’t want to or couldn’t buy, and in doing so discredited the open source community and the IdeaStorm website. No news means the sales were crap and there’s nothing positive to say about it. I wonder how this’ll affect the rest of the tards’ ideas on IdeaStorm – notably to get rid of Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer and to preload a sizable volume of open source junk onto computers instead?
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Cynically Speaking 