Comments on: POPrl Mixes Reddit With TinyURL, Gets Strange Result

By: Lucky760

Lucky760 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:51:03 +0000

Sounds like a little fun project I put together called http://yuarel.com, minus the whole digg/reddit community aspect.

From what I’ve experienced on my little site, most people will create URLs not related to the content their linking to. (In most cases with Yuarel, it’s a RickRoll, not spam.)

They’re using the trust system to prevent spammers? It’s sort of a ridiculous notion to assume clickers will stop trusting a spammer’s links since they will sprinkle their links with different identities all over the web (and possibly spam email?). Perhaps they’ll have other mechanisms in place to prevent such things. They’d better.

Lucky760
http://www.videosift.com

By: design

design — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:58:47 +0000

where did you find this

By: dadexter

dadexter — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:32:37 +0000

Hey there,

I am building a mixed music blogs aggregator to post updates of mixtapes, mixes, shows, dj mixes, live concerts, podcasts ect….

I just post your latest update`s on my blog spot?
If you mind, let me know.
In the future you can post your update`s yourself and i will post them on my blog.
I only post the links to your site, NO deeplinking.
You can post your updates
Here

Go to the blog and hit the “add your blog” button.
To add your blog in the Lists
Thx and keep up the good work.

DaDexter - The Mixdiggerz
http://mixdiggerz.blogspot.com/

By: KillerStartups.com - POPrl.com - Bringing You the Most Viral Links

KillerStartups.com - POPrl.com - Bringing You the Most Viral Links — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:22:18 +0000

POPrl.com - Bringing You the Most Viral Links…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog :)…

By: CVOS the man

CVOS the man — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:20:18 +0000

I tried to use the service for my site and it generated a link to foo.com

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:27:18 +0000

Very similar to yoorl.com. Yoorl.com also gives you real time info on who’s watching the URL you sent/posted RIGHT NOW and the way the link spreads around the world via a dashboard. Check it out!

By: EH

EH — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:04:54 +0000

Step 2: RICKrl

By: sd

sd — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:42:26 +0000

@12, kind of. but there aren’t a lot average web user knows about Digg as well.

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:22:28 +0000

become lol

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:18:05 +0000

these sites are lame

digg is the king

all these clones need to go after another market

is this what web 2.0 has begun copycats

By: Uninterested

Uninterested — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:15:14 +0000

The link you gave is wrong, it should be http://poprl.com/r/S as is depicted in the screenshot you included in this article.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:11:27 +0000

Seems they could add a service like the http://ri.ms URL shortener and allow people to submit their own text descriptions if available. Still no certainty where it comes from, but they have the ability to do a “preview before sending me” thing like TinyURL supports.

By: Z

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:09:07 +0000

http://www.poprl.com/r/0M

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:01:08 +0000

@7 that’s also one of the benefits of our site. All of our headlines are pulled directly from the site.

By: stationstops

stationstops — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:54:55 +0000

You cant even judge a regular digg story URL by clicks - that only measures the popularity of the *headline*.

Which every digg user knows is consistently sensationalized beyond any sensible limits in order to get the click.

Digg headlines frequently read like Weekly World News.

By: Etan

Etan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:49:10 +0000

Kinda sorta doesn’t work…

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:34:34 +0000

Sorry about that Michelle. The heavy load is causing the site to act erratic. Should be solved shortly.

I think we just pulled a twitter.

By: Michelle McCormack

Michelle McCormack — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:27:18 +0000

It might be good if it worked at all. I tried two different URLs and they either went nowhere or sent me to a hacker site.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:17:51 +0000

Thanks for the review Jason.

We are currently working on a tracking algorithm to minimize click fraud and to maintain the quality of our links.

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:08:14 +0000

So all you have to do is to make people open the link?
That’s ridiculously easy to game. All you have to do is submit the link to one of those traffic exchange sites (autosurfs or manual surf).

By: sd

sd — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:04:09 +0000

a way to link baiting. i would say. and people are not getting backlinks.