Better thumbs

Posted on January 28, 2008
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When we started, we were using thumbshots.org, which seemed to be the best solution for our thumbs (and not to mention it was free). After a few months we realized that this has some limitations:

We wanted to have something that shows users a recent quick look of how the blogs look rather than an archaic one. Also we wanted to make it easy for our members to easily refresh their own thumbs at anytime.

We found the perfect solution for our needs in Bluga.net WebThumb, a service that had all the requirements we needed and much more. This is not a free service, but we believe it is worth the money. As of today we have launched all the thumbs with the new format. Each blog has saved several sizes of its thumb and they can be seen on different parts of our site already (medium - blog rankings, large - sitedetails, etc.). We will add shortly the ability for members to refresh their own thumbs.

I hope you like this new feature as much as we do. We are looking forward to additional features very soon.

Graphical Statistics

Posted on January 16, 2008
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We have just launched a new feature: a nice flash traffic graph, which is on the sitedetail pages. For now this shows the traffic details for the past 30 days, but in the future this will be extended to other types of stats too. I hope you will like this new addition.

Stay tuned for more updates…

After 2 months: 1,000 blogs and 12 Million pageviews tracked

Posted on December 20, 2007
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This has been a very, very busy period, and 2 months after our soft launch we already count 1,090 registered blogs. This is very impressive and to be honest I did not expect to see these kinds of numbers after only 3-4 months. Thank you to every user that  submitted their blog in TopOfBlogs and we want to assure you that we are working every day to improve our service. The work we are doing may not always be visible as it may be to the backend or performance but you can be sure that we are working to make our system the best top of blogs available.

The number of tracked pageviews has also gone over 12 Million and this has happened without a single downtime or service interruption during this period. We are looking forward to the exciting months to come as we prepare to exit the ‘beta’ stage and have our ‘real’ launch in early 2008.

As always your feedback is welcomed, so feel free to send us your suggestions, ideas, bug reports, etc. at anytime.

Thanking early members of TopOfBlogs!

Posted on October 28, 2007
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We value and thank all the sites that have joined TopOfBlogs during these early days of the service.
I would like to say a special thank you in particular to the top sites (the ones that generate above 10,000 pageviews per day):

We really appreciate that you accepted our invitation to join TopOfBlog. Your early membership has been very valuable for our optimization team allowing them to see tha impact of real traffic coming immediately into the system. This was different compared to in-house benchmarks and helped us make adjustments early into the system.

Thanks again! Keep up the good work and the traffic growing :-).

TopOfBlogs tags

Posted on October 22, 2007
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We just realized that having a top generated for a tag that has only one occurrence (only one blog registered with that tag) is not useful at all. This is a waste of resources (generating a worthless page, making the tag cloud harder to read, etc.) so we decided that we will create the top only for tags that have at least 2 different blogs registered with that tag. We are still listing the single occurrence tag but as text instead of a link to the top for that tag. The moment when another blog uses the same tag it will become active and appear on the tag cloud and the top for it being generated.

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