Klogged » 2007 » October http://kurtmargenau.com/blog Kurt Margenau has a blog. Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:52:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 en Mashups of the Day http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/mashups-of-the-day/ http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/mashups-of-the-day/#comments Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:35:14 +0000 Kurt http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/2007/10/05/mashups-of-the-day/ Apparently out there on the internet, unbeknownst to me, there are entire sites dedicated to mashups. “Mashup” of course is one of those words people love to hate, but for better or worse it is attached to anything on the internet that uses an api and is remotely cool. I guess DiggKiller qualifies. In the past few days, I’ve been selected as a “Mashup of the Day” on two different sites. The first is programmableweb.com. I found out about this by checking the referrer traffic for my site and noticing the domain, and checking it out. The site must not have that much traffic, because I never heard of it before and they only forwarded me about 60 hits. Also, there are currently no “comments” on the page, a good indicator of anemic traffic.

The second site looked a little more credible. It’s mashupawards.com and I was notified of my award through an email (which means they actually had to visit the site, read my little blurb at the bottom and find my email address). They even urged me to choose a cool badge to display on my site, like this one:

Mashup of the day

At first I thought this was a lame excuse to get more traffic to a second-rate site, by picking a cool thing everyday and then linking back to their site with these awards. It’s a classic technique to increase traffic and google ranking. But then I noticed that the site actually looks pretty badass, and they don’t have a single advertisement on it. How to they make money? Who knows.

I guess the thing that’s truly amazing is that in the land of web 2.0, sites exist that give out awards every day that are HAND PICKED by the site’s creators, instead of being automagically chosen by user voting and complex promotion algorithms. It’s refreshing to see some people kickin’ it old school, and to me, kind of gives these awards more value. I just remembered fuzzwich does that too. Maybe it’s a new wave of retro-humanized editorial voting systems?  Maybe I just spend too much time on digg.

]]> http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/mashups-of-the-day/feed/ I was wondering why the number of plays tripled overnight… http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/i-was-wondering-why-the-number-of-plays-tripled-overnight/ http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/i-was-wondering-why-the-number-of-plays-tripled-overnight/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:16:33 +0000 Kurt http://kurtmargenau.com/blog/2007/10/03/i-was-wondering-why-the-number-of-plays-tripled-overnight/ This is kinda cool. My game DiggKiller is now considered a “hot new game” on Kongregate, and thusly appears on their front page. See if you can find it:

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Good shit, if you haven’t played it yet do it!

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