Flickr stats messed up today?
Logged into my Flickr stats today and noticed a HUGE spike in traffic. Weird thing is that no one photo was driving that spike. There is one photo that dominated the stats spike. It seems like a ton of photos just got 1-2 views each. Anyone else have this happen to them yesterday?
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Amazed how fast Google and Yahoo index Flickr
It took just a few hours and my misspelled title on a Flickr photo made it to the top spot on Google and Yahoo. With thousands of photos being uploaded every minute it amazes me how efficient search engines are. Often I use google to search for the correct spelling of words. Mainly because I [...]
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Popular sites and their lack of validation
Launching a new site got me exploring some new code bases and I became disappointed with the disregard large social sites have for html validation of snippets they disburse to their user community. Since I wanted my site plain and simple to start instead of writing a bunch of code to use common API’s I [...]
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