8/12/06

A bunch of nice, new Weblists

Folks have been busy on the Weblist front. First and foremost is Ridge's celebratory one year RIA anniversary (congrats Ridge!) list on favorite vacations.

For you HBO fans, HKK has set up a lists about characters from the tv show Rome and Carnivale. Jamie McBain has compiled a list of Devo songs. Coizinha has continued her exploration of bachelor and bachelorette parties. DawnsDinos has put together a nice collection of Web sites about television.

Resident military history expert Sarkia has listed some of the more memorable military retreats in history.

And for the political junkies, Indierocker gives you the opportunity to define yourself politically.

Here's a snapshop of Ridge's list:

What’s Your Pleasure? - View All
A resort as a destination
(2)
Camping
(2)
Adventure or theme Vacations (skiing, hiking, climbing, biking, aquatics, jumping, boating, etc)
(1)
Camera safari
(1)
Visit a foreign country (Culture, architecture, natural wonders, History, etc)
(1)
Visit National Parks
(1)
Road trip with no destination and just go!
(3)
A particular sporting event
(2)
7-10 with time off for good behavior
(1)
Nature Expeditions
(1)
Working and volunteer vacations (includes Expos and trade shows)
(1)
20-minute vacations
(0)
A cruise (or a theme cruise)
(0)
Be a game show contestant
(0)
Cooperative Exchange and Travel Clubs
(0)
Destination spas
(0)
Factory tours
(0)
Film festivals
(0)
Gambling weekend
(0)
Go to Las Vegas (but not to gamble, heheheh)
(0)
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8/9/06

RateItAll Economy Bug

Guys, we've just fixed a bug with the RateItAll Economy program. If you haven't been seeing any results in your Google Adsense account, it's possible that it's because your account was not configured properly on your RateItAll profile page.

We've gone through and fixed all of the accounts in our database. Results should start showing up properly today.

Thanks to Louiethe20th for helping us to identify this problem.

Please help me spread the word about this fix!

8/8/06

In the News

Some people and stuff in the news: Floyd Landis, Lebanon, Israel, Hezbollah, Google, MySpace, Jimmie Johnson, Tiger Woods, Mel Gibson, Joe Lieberman, Talladega Nights...

Tagging Trends

Even though only about 50% of RateItAll's ratings lists have been tagged, some interesting trends are emerging.

The most popular list tags on RateItAll:

Travel

Tourism

History

Politics

Destinations

Movies

USA

Music

America

Sports

The most popular people tags on RateItAll:

Music

Travel

Movies

Photography

Computers

Politics

Reading

Baseball

Basketball

Football

There seems to be plenty of correlation between the ways that folks identify themselves, and the sorts of lists that folks are creating. But there also seems to be gaps / opportunities - for example, where are the photography lists? It's one of the most popular people tags, yet there only a few lists tagged with that word.

As we continue to get caught up on tagging, it will be interesting to see what trends emerge.

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.

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.

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