| Hot Sauces - View All | |
 | Baboon Ass Brand Hot Sauce (16) |
| Baron West Indian Hot Sauce (4) |
| No Joke Hot Sauce (3) |
| Dat'l Do-It Hot Sauce (2) |
| Blair's Mega Death Sauce (2) |
| Backdraft Fire Sauce (1) |
| Busha Browne's Pukka Hot Pepper Sauce (1) |
| Crazy Jerry's Orange Rush (1) |
| Iguana Mean Green Jalapeno Pepper Sauce (1) |
| Jump Up and Kiss Me Hot Sauce - Original (1) |
| Toad Sweat Chocolate Orange Dessert Hot Sauce (1) |
| Bada Bing Bada Boom Mal Occhio (1) |
| Blairs After Death Hot Sauce (1) |
| Da Bomb Ground Zero (1) |
| Dancing Fire Chipotle Hot Sauce (1) |
| DEFCON Sauces (1) |
| Jim Beam Hot Sauce (1) |
| Lava Gourmet Hot Sauce (1) |
| Montgomery's Fire Lizard (1) |
| Monty's Around The World (1) |
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8/7/06
Hot Sauces
Kamylienne's list of best hot sauces is at 387, and growing. I have to think this is the most thorough compilation on this subject on the Web.
8/4/06
Outrageous Moments in Sports
PlanetaryGear has created an outstanding Weblist that lists out the Top 50 Outrageous Sports Moments as originally presented by Fox Sports.
What makes this list is the descriptions - PG puts in a short blurb for each listing that makes it easy to recall the event.
What makes this list is the descriptions - PG puts in a short blurb for each listing that makes it easy to recall the event.
| Outrageous Moments in Sports - View All | |
| Tyson bites Holyfield's ear (1) |
 | Fan Man (2) |
 | Canseco uses his head (1) |
| Randy Johnson's Perfect Strike (1) |
 | Tommy Lasorda falls down (1) |
 | Allen Iverson's "practice" rant (0) |
| Bears Fan jumps to catch ball (0) |
| Bobby V. Goes Incognito (0) |
| Bowe-Golota Brawl (0) |
| Boxing Mom (0) |
| Bruins go into stands (0) |
| Cal-Stanford Band play (0) |
| Carl Lewis sings national anthem (0) |
| Chambliss's Journey Home (0) |
| Chan Ho Park kick (0) |
| Chris Bingham/JC Francis Fight (0) |
| Del Harris Gets In the Action (0) |
| Disco Demolition Night (0) |
| Fan steals ball from Favre (0) |
| Gramatica's Excessive Celebration (0) |
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Don't Click Your Own Ads
Those of you who are participating in the RateItAll Economy Program know that you make money when people click on the Google Adsense Ads that rotate in on your pages (profile, weblists, new listings, etc).
Some might be tempted to click their own ads in an attempt to increase their earnings.
Here's why you shouldn't do it:
1) By signing up for a Google Adsense account, you agreed to the Google Adsense Terms of Service
2) It's stealing. The official term for this is Click Fraud. If you make fraudulent clicks, you are stealing from the ad budgets of the advertisers which keep sites like RateItAll afloat. It's unethical, and it's the classic case of "biting the hand that feeds you."
3) Google will catch you, and boot you out of the program. Google has incredibly sophisticated tools for tracking suspicious behavior, and if you try and cheat, they will catch you. My personal opinion is that we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of folks being able to make money online. I think that in the not so distant future, you will be able to attach a Google Adsense ID to just about every contribution you make online - chat rooms, social networks, forums, etc. As Google Adsense is the king of the sorts of programs that will enable this, getting booted now could mean missing out on tons of opportunities in the future to make money.
Don't mess up your relationship with Google for a few measly clicks today.
Some might be tempted to click their own ads in an attempt to increase their earnings.
Here's why you shouldn't do it:
1) By signing up for a Google Adsense account, you agreed to the Google Adsense Terms of Service
2) It's stealing. The official term for this is Click Fraud. If you make fraudulent clicks, you are stealing from the ad budgets of the advertisers which keep sites like RateItAll afloat. It's unethical, and it's the classic case of "biting the hand that feeds you."
3) Google will catch you, and boot you out of the program. Google has incredibly sophisticated tools for tracking suspicious behavior, and if you try and cheat, they will catch you. My personal opinion is that we are just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of folks being able to make money online. I think that in the not so distant future, you will be able to attach a Google Adsense ID to just about every contribution you make online - chat rooms, social networks, forums, etc. As Google Adsense is the king of the sorts of programs that will enable this, getting booted now could mean missing out on tons of opportunities in the future to make money.
Don't mess up your relationship with Google for a few measly clicks today.
8/3/06
Duplicate Weblists
So one of the issues that we've been sort of putting off for a while is how to handle duplicate Weblists. Technically, they are against the Weblist guidelines, but we have been extremely lenient recently about enforcing this particular rule.
The primary argument for NOT allowing duplicate Weblists is to avoid diluting the ratings / reviews on lists. Reviews are more helpful when you don't have to go searching around the site for all the different variations of a particular listing.
The primary argument for allowing duplicate Weblists is to allow folks the opportunity to build a better list than what exists. For example, here is a list of Dinosaurs. It's not a terrible list, but there are only seven types listed, and there are no descriptions or pictures.
Should this really be the definitive RateItAll list of dinosaurs? If an expert came along and really wanted to do this list right, shouldn't that be allowed?
Especially as $ are introduced into the equation, I'd hate to encourage cyber squatting where folks "claimed" the interest topics, but didn't take the time to create a superior list.
Ideally, I would permit duplicates (in cases where the newer list was clearly adding additional value), and let the community rating feature determine which of the duplicate lists should get the most airplay.
I'd love to hear feedback on this.
The primary argument for NOT allowing duplicate Weblists is to avoid diluting the ratings / reviews on lists. Reviews are more helpful when you don't have to go searching around the site for all the different variations of a particular listing.
The primary argument for allowing duplicate Weblists is to allow folks the opportunity to build a better list than what exists. For example, here is a list of Dinosaurs. It's not a terrible list, but there are only seven types listed, and there are no descriptions or pictures.
Should this really be the definitive RateItAll list of dinosaurs? If an expert came along and really wanted to do this list right, shouldn't that be allowed?
Especially as $ are introduced into the equation, I'd hate to encourage cyber squatting where folks "claimed" the interest topics, but didn't take the time to create a superior list.
Ideally, I would permit duplicates (in cases where the newer list was clearly adding additional value), and let the community rating feature determine which of the duplicate lists should get the most airplay.
I'd love to hear feedback on this.
8/2/06
Testing a Chat Service
Hi All, I'm testing a chat service (check out the right margin).
It's a "widget" called MeeboMe that was developed by the Web based IM service Meebo.
What I like about it:
- It's free, private, one on one chat.
- No downloads required (it's web based)
- You can put it anywhere that accepts html code - blogs, profile pages, etc.
- No logins required for folks who want to chat with the host.
One thing that's sort of a hassle is that in order for the host (in this case me) to receive the chat messages, they have to have a browser window with Meebo open.
Overall, however, I think this could be really powerful.
I'm sort of thinking that this would be something that some folks might want to add to their RIA profile pages. They wouldn't have to add it, but if they wanted to add it, they could.
Feel free to send me a chat message (edit your "guest" nick so I know who i'm talking to).
It's a "widget" called MeeboMe that was developed by the Web based IM service Meebo.
What I like about it:
- It's free, private, one on one chat.
- No downloads required (it's web based)
- You can put it anywhere that accepts html code - blogs, profile pages, etc.
- No logins required for folks who want to chat with the host.
One thing that's sort of a hassle is that in order for the host (in this case me) to receive the chat messages, they have to have a browser window with Meebo open.
Overall, however, I think this could be really powerful.
I'm sort of thinking that this would be something that some folks might want to add to their RIA profile pages. They wouldn't have to add it, but if they wanted to add it, they could.
Feel free to send me a chat message (edit your "guest" nick so I know who i'm talking to).
8/1/06
Calling All Taggers
Has anybody been using the Weblist tags to find related lists? I have. I also use the Weblist tag cloud quite a bit.
If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to go back and tag your Weblists. Tagging your Weblists is a great way to get them more exposure, as they become more easily findable. It also does other cool things like help target the Google Ads on your lists, resulting in better conversion for those participating in the RateItAll Economy program.
Thanks to some help from Sperryc, aka my little bro, we just about have all of the main RIA lists tagged. We'll be moving onto the Weblists next. The goal is to get each of the more than 25K ratings lists on RIA tagged, and therefore, linked together by theme.
If you haven't done so already, now would be a good time to go back and tag your Weblists. Tagging your Weblists is a great way to get them more exposure, as they become more easily findable. It also does other cool things like help target the Google Ads on your lists, resulting in better conversion for those participating in the RateItAll Economy program.
Thanks to some help from Sperryc, aka my little bro, we just about have all of the main RIA lists tagged. We'll be moving onto the Weblists next. The goal is to get each of the more than 25K ratings lists on RIA tagged, and therefore, linked together by theme.
Prolific
What do you do when you've left 8500 reviews and you're seemingly running out of things to rate? If you are GTH, you combine your knowledge of history with some unique Weblists to start wrting about significant historical events.
I'm really enjoying GTH's, "on this day in history" posts. Who knew that RIA could be so educational.
I'm really enjoying GTH's, "on this day in history" posts. Who knew that RIA could be so educational.
The Wish List
Hi All, a few more items have been added to the RateItAll new feature wishlist. Feel free to sound off or add more.
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