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By: Technology and Gadgets Review » Blog Archive » Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool

Mon, 12 May 2008 15:23:13 +0000

[...] introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring [...]

By: Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool

Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:27 +0000

[...] introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring [...]

By: Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool

Spotplex Suffers Identity Crisis, Stumbles Into DeadPool — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:15:27 +0000

[...] introduced Spotplex in February 2007 as a potential Digg killer that served up popular stories by monitoring [...]

By: Travailleurs Du Web » Blog Archive » Les liens de la semaine…

Travailleurs Du Web » Blog Archive » Les liens de la semaine… — Sun, 04 May 2008 07:29:12 +0000

[...] un moteur de blog, sans payer la license, ouhlala, ça c’est pas bien!) - via TorrentFreak - Spotplex, un digg like qui se base sur l’audience (et non sur le buzz généré ou avéré) - via [...]

By: Spotplex, sistema automático de promo??o de not?cias » Gattune!

Spotplex, sistema automático de promo??o de not?cias » Gattune! — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:08:17 +0000

[...] carregamento, algo já verificado como problema no sistema do MyBlogLog. O Spotplex garantiu ao Michael Arrington, em resposta a algumas dessas dúvidas, que farão contentamente reformulações no código do site [...]

By: Making the Digg Front Page and My 15 Minutes of Web Fame | krynsky.com

Making the Digg Front Page and My 15 Minutes of Web Fame | krynsky.com — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:34:31 +0000

[...] goal of a true democratic system which so many people feel is a huge flaw in Digg’s system. TechCrunch and several other sites have provided their views. I became a member and have enjoyed using their [...]

By: markus941

markus941 — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:41:24 +0000

Had it installed for about 3 weeks. Took it off today. Completely useless imho.
0 visitors from Spotplex in that entire time. Looked at the Alexa stats for Spotplex today - this article is the only thing they had going for them. I don’t see this service going anywhere.

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:56:35 +0000

I love this forum because people so often ask the questions that I would. With this post, however, I actually agree that I’m not as worried about the revenue. So many companies these days play what I call the “YouTube Lottery.” Everyone knows about the crazy money YouTube got, but not much is written (even on TechCrunch) about the 100s of companies that made it nowhere, They didn’t win the lottery the way that YouTube did.http://www.vdownload.org

By: Terry Ng

Terry Ng — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:42:34 +0000

DK - Thanks for fixing the code.

I’m curious as to the type of traffic everyone is getting from Spotplex? I’ve made it to the front page a few times, but barely any traffic has come from Spotplex.

By: more most

more most — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:30:32 +0000

the site does not work, everthing is loading and loading… for example I can not see the “Spot Tags of the Day”

By: Young

Young — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:52:26 +0000

I have an interesting analogy. Spotplex is to Nielsen Ratings as Digg is to the Emmy Awards. For the first, we watch TV everyday, while, for the latter, a pool of voters cast their votes once a year.

Which one is better? Well. Let’s just say we don’t compare Nielsen and the Emmy.

By: College Marketing 4.0

College Marketing 4.0 — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 02:03:55 +0000

A Rising Tide Floats All Web 2.0 Boats…

If you’re reading this you probably live in the online techy world. Your subscribe to blogs via feedburner at netvibes or bloglines, you check digg for news, you’re linked in, techcrunch is a staple, you put photos on flickr and…

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:41:30 +0000

Check out the politics section. Every article is from “Gay News Daily”.

By: Terry Ng

Terry Ng — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:09:57 +0000

DK - I’ve been running the Spotplex img code for 24hrs on my blog now, and not a single article is showing up on Spotplex. Can you please take a look?

By: Joe Mordetsky

Joe Mordetsky — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:19:54 +0000

If you splice the genetics of Digg (votes) copulated with Spotplex(impressions) and toss in some Google News (clustering and link weight) you would end up with the ultimate news/blog site. I would call it DooglePlex.

By: DK

DK — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 18:57:28 +0000

We had some database related problem this morning. The problem itself was caused by a minor error in our code, but we left it unattended too long since it happened early in the morning for us. I sincerely apologize to the people who have visited our web site for the inconvenience we have caused. Our site is performing well now.

Doyon Kim
Spotplex

By: FreeJose

FreeJose — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:55:53 +0000

That didn’t take long. Real time = heavy load.

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘SQLException’ with message ‘Table ‘./Spotplex/urlpool’ is marked as crashed and should be repaired’ in /opt/lampp/htdocs/inc/inc.safe_mysqli.php:92 Stack trace: #0 /opt/lampp/htdocs/inc/inc.dbstub.php(242): safe_mysqli->call(’call sp_blog_ge…’) #1 /opt/lampp/htdocs/all/index/findcode_infor.php(6): SpotplexDb->sp_blog_get_info(’901747′) #2 /opt/lampp/htdocs/all/index/index_config.php(47): include_once(’/opt/lampp/htdo…’) #3 /opt/lampp/htdocs/web_allsystem_load.php(49): include_once(’/opt/lampp/htdo…’) #4 /opt/lampp/htdocs/code.php(4): include_once(’/opt/lampp/htdo…’) #5 {main} thrown in /opt/lampp/htdocs/inc/inc.safe_mysqli.php on line 92

By: VCMike

VCMike — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:39:53 +0000

I am giving this a try. i assume it counts RSS feeds as well as page views?

By: dan1el

dan1el — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:11:23 +0000

I wanted to check this out but it was taking for ever to come up, so I left it loading and forgot about it. Came back the next morning and it was still loading. I’ll check it out when those servers cool down. It does sound interesting though.

By: permanent hater

permanent hater — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:52:36 +0000

Actually I just realized another flaw in the design of Spotplex:

Many bloggers publish full RSS, so the reader never visits the permalink. Same goes for those who visit the blog main page and read an article that is either short enough or where the publisher doesn’t ask to click on the permalink to read the rest.

Hmm…

By: permanent hater

permanent hater — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:50:28 +0000

Hmm…

Spotplex doesn’t show too many hits for TechCrunch articles.. Only 12K for the top one? Aren’t there supposed to be thousands and thousands of TC readers out there? I think TC has been losing readers lately… but that’s just me.

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The Puget News: Test3 — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:25:39 +0000

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By: Devicepedia.com

Devicepedia.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:24:05 +0000

Forgot to say, that from my point of view it IS a better idea than Digg.

It just need tweaks to prevent those that I’ve said before

By: Deep Jive Interests » Spotplex, “The Better Digg”, Falls to Crunch Effect

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:23:13 +0000

[...] 28th, 2007 at 10:48 pm by Tony So I read with great interest a new news aggregating service called Spotplex, featured on TechCrunch. Mike Arrington wonders if its “better” than Digg as it is fundamentally different, [...]

By: Devicepedia.com

Devicepedia.com — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:22:21 +0000

Not sure if everyone ever thought of that, but you should know that I for example can buy traffic for a specific article on my site using Paid-to-Read incentive visitors. So why would that be different than paying diggers ?

I could get at least 50 000 visitors / day with less than $100 maybe.

It’s not fraud-proof yet !