Tuesday, June 22, 2004

Popularity Index

I like the top statistics of Technorati, Daypop, Bloglines, Radio Userland, Blogdex, Popdex and others, so I counted links in around 35,000 current posts of 5,000 RSS feeds*. Here are the top 20 pages and domains, measured by their blogosphere popularity.

*I have a bigger data pool available which I might use in the future, but the bottleneck is pulling the feeds.

Top Pages

1. Scripting News
   www.scripting.com/ (13 links)

2. Silicon Valley - Dan Gillmor’s eJournal
   weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/ (5 links)

3. Mozilla Firefox
   www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ (4 links)

4. Doc Searls Weblog
   doc.weblogs.com/ (4 links)

5. John Robb’s Weblog
   jrobb.mindplex.org/ (4 links)

6. Joel on Software
   www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html (4 links)

7. Quotes of the Day
   www.quotationspage.com/qotd.html (4 links)

8. Boing Boing
   www.boingboing.net/ (3 links)

9. Radio Userland
   radio.userland.com/ (3 links)

10. Joho the Blog
    www.hyperorg.com/blogger/ (3 links)

11. Wired
    www.wired.com/ (3 links)

12. Slashdot
    slashdot.org/ (3 links)

13. Google
    www.google.com (3 links)

14. John Robb’s Weblog
    jrobb.userland.com/ (3 links)

15. CNET
    news.com.com/ (3 links)

16. Electronic Frontier Foundation
    www.eff.org (2 links)

17. Kottke.org
    kottke.org (2 links)

18. Forever Geek Store
    forevergeek.com/store/ (2 links)

19. Six Apart Licensing Changes to Movable Type www.sixapart.com/log/2004/06/announcing_pric.shtml (2 links)

20. Slate: Unfairenheit 9/11
    slate.msn.com/id/2102723/ (2 links)

Top Domains

1. radio.weblogs.com (35 links)
2. www.amazon.com (26 links)
3. sourceforge.net (25 links)
4. news.bbc.co.uk (23 links)
5. www.nytimes.com (23 links)
6. www.livejournal.com (22 links)
7. www.apple.com (20 links)
8. www.google.com (19 links)
9. www.scripting.com (16 links)
10. news.com.com (16 links)
11. www.microsoft.com (14 links)
12. www.cnn.com (14 links)
13. www.mozilla.org (13 links)
14. www.wired.com (13 links)
15. radio.userland.com (12 links)
16. story.news.yahoo.com (11 links)
17. blogs.law.harvard.edu (10 links)
18. www.joelonsoftware.com (10 links)
19. slate.msn.com (9 links)
20. archive.scripting.com (9 links)

Popularity Index by Philipp Lenssen

Gtray

Yet another Gmail helper application: Gtray sits in your Windows tray and alerts you when new emails arrive.

Gtray by Philipp Lenssen

Open Source Google?

“Search engine giant Google is preparing to publicly release some of its underlying software code only months before it undertakes a multibillion-dollar stock-exchange float.

The revelation comes as Google considers Melbourne for the home of a regional research and development centre in an effort to triple its global workforce over the next 12 months.”
– Adam Turner, Google reveals its caring, sharing side (The Age), June 22, 2004

Open Source Google? by Philipp Lenssen

G-Mailto

G-Mailto has been released. After installing the executable on Windows–XP, you can click on normal email links (like blog@outer-court.com) and your Internet Explorer automatically opens up a “Compose Mail” window for Gmail. This is a nice tool for loyal Gmailers, and I found it to work flawlessly on my machine.

G-Mailto by Philipp Lenssen

Froogle Merchants Center

Google opened their Froogle Merchants Center. This one is for Web shop owners only.

Froogle Merchants Center by Philipp Lenssen

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