Archive for October, 2007

Having a Hackable Online Poll vs. Ensuring Every Single Last (fraudulent or not) Vote is Counted

My last post caused a bit of a stir. Camps seem to come down on two sides:
A) It’s okay if your poll is hackable. You just need to ensure every single last vote can be counted (even multiples from the same IP, which might be different people, or the same person masquerading as […]

Poll Code Writers Are Lazy and Stupid

update: the title was just in jest so please don’t get too offended anyone =) upon thinking about this problem a little more, the solutions are all rather similar to the solutions for blog comment / social media spam. if you want to be 100% sure a human is voting, then you have […]

Facebook Apps Making More than $5,000 Per Day

Several Facebook apps, those run by Social Media have combined revenues of more than $5,000 per day.
Some of the popular Facebook apps by Social Media include (fluff)Friends, Compare People and Hatching Eggs.
I do not have the exact breakdown on the apps / stats, but it appears from this screenshot of Social Media’s reporting system, that […]

Blog Income Earnings Reports for September ‘07

John Chow comes in at $20,512.17
Al Carlton makes $500 a day, or ~ $15,000 per month via AdSense from coolest-gadgets.com and several other sites.*
Yaro Starak earns an impressive $10,899.83 from his Entrepreneur’s Journey blog
Connected Internet comes in at #3 with $13,253
A relative newcomer 5xmom comes in at $5,010.49
Robert MacEwan with $2,500 form PayPerPost alone in […]