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I’ve been working with programmatic development since kid. Mainly focused on websites, I can easily troubleshoot and use php, asp, good css, and mainly whatever code, with some research time provided. I’ve created corporate websites, and i’m currently focused on Blog SEO and social linkage optimizing. I can fly, and i read minds. i see dead people.
Just joking. I guess it’s up to you.
As you can see, I’m currently finishing off the .net website over there, and in about a week i’ll be free to work. Suppose not being from US shouldn’t be a problem, as we can take advantage of good technology.

Thanks.

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I’m on for the first one! Check my website. I qualify.

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…I can’t believe that guy put his face so close to that copier, just imagine how many but-cheeks have been on it

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sounds awesome will have to try this one out

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Google Blog Alerts as well. So probably something high level in their indexing engine as opposed to Alerts alone.

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Is lijit open for publishers from Indian subcontinent also?
~BALA

Living @ http://www.inchennaitamilnadu.com

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Diamond does not give his readers the whole truth and nothing but the truth. In fact, he gives them much less. Inexcusably for an evolutionary biologist, Diamond fails to inform his readers that it is different environments that cause, via natural selection, biological differences among populations.

What seems to be true (from preliminary studies) is that the gene variants that were under strong selection (reached fixation) over the last 10k years are different in different clusters. That is, the way that modern people in each cluster differ, due to natural selection, from their own ancestors 10k years ago is not the same in each cluster — we have been, at least at the genetic level, experiencing divergent evolution.

In fact, recent research suggests that 7% or more of all our genes are mutant versions that replaced earlier variants through natural selection over the last tens of thousands of years. There was little gene flow between continental clusters (”races”) during that period, so there is circumstantial evidence for group differences beyond the already established ones (superficial appearance, disease resistance).

http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-scientific-basis-for-race.html

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That is good news for me to market my contents in a different way. Before this i have joined the network and is now looking for the actual roll out.

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Wow! What a great idea!

Now I can blog about my business - http://www.aaajewelrystore.biz - and earn ad revenue also!

While enabling my blog ad to be grouped with other similar relevant ads - so I will have a higher Google SEO ranking!

Thanks Lijit!

Angela Bustamante
AAA Jewelry Store
http://www.aaajewelrystore.com

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I have to say the atmosphere of Lijit is rather clutch to job satisfaction. The company I’m interning for is small but embodies the same dynamics and attitude toward people-to-people. Well said Adam. Keep it up, G.

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I’m visiting Grace in Boulder and there really is a coherent uplifting feeling in Lijit’s light and airy office. What a progressive model for a successful business.

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Great post. I have noticed with this post and others that you really spend a good amount of effort portraying the personality behind the people in the office and make the reader just plain like you. This is a great move as many companies forget the simple fact that people like people, not just java script and mission statements. Enter, personality. This is a huge defining characteristic that people love, the addition of the human aspect to the web and I applaud you for embracing it and it will take you far. Props.

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While Andy points out some areas these numbers could be improved I like the graphical representations as an easy fast way to see who’s winning the widget wars.

Thanks for at-a-glance resource.

ALexander

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Tony: Thanks for the feedback on the pie charts. I agree that they don’t represent the data in the best possible way. I am open to any suggestions on better methods of visualizing that data.

Andy:
Thanks for the incredibly thorough analysis.
You are correct that the network effect does add a bias to the numbers. We try to be up front about this and indicate that the stats are based on a subset of sites/blogs we have crawled(which also explains the Blogher Ads number).
We focus this report on flash, and javascript widgets because we feel that their existence on a site is a sign of publisher intent to install. We do our best to indicate which widgets are native to a publishing platform(the platform category),and separate these out where we can.

Feel free to contact us if you have any other questions at info at lijit dot com.

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I found Lijit’s blog from the NY Times article. Very cool, guys!

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Of course I meant “that was awesome.”

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That what awesome! You guys crack me up.

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I suppose the numbers all come down to the definition of what a blog and a search widget are…
Forcing the definition to only include javascript and flash makes it extremely biased, because the standard Google search box, with branding outside the text area, doesn’t use javascript.
Thus an extremely high percentage of Google search boxes are ruled out of the equation.
I believe Technorati’s search is also just plain HTML.

Blogger, Myspace and a number of other platforms have Google search by default.

I believe Wordpress.com allows the use of a Google search now, though they default to a database query.

On some of the stats you need to identify whether the inclusion of the code is a choice by the blog owner.

Analytics? You will get Google Analytics on every Blogger and Wordpress.com blog, because it is used by the blog host.

You might also have some extreme bias in blog selection. An obvious example is on the advertising.

Blogherads themselves claim only 2200 blogs in their network, yet somehow they have a 4% market share.

The quantcast stats seem extreme, again must be a decision by the host for their own purposes.

I happen to know the real numbers for Blogcatalog, because I work with them on a few things.
It is nice to see them supposedly having more “widgets” than Google has “search widgets (coop)” but I know in my gut that Google search is on countless millions of sites, not just blogs, and Blogcatalog’s penetation is significantly less.

From what I understand your stats are based upon blogrolls, possibly the blogrolls of the people who have installed Lijit, plus one additional degree of seperation?

That would explain the high Blogher numbers, and Blogrolling numbers, because Blgher members typically have long blogrolls of other members, and it would only take a few to use Lijit to have a significant impact.

Network effects have nasty effects on stats, especially when your pool of data is only 0.1% of the total (at a guess)

As they say, “lies, damn lies, and statistics” - interesting stats, but without detailed analysis of what they actually represent, I don’t think stats are actually useful…

What you are currently showing is probably about as accurate as Alexa data is currently - I currently don’t have a lot of faith in Alexa.

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Hey guys- Love the stats, though pie charts are a decidedly awful way to display this data.

Anti-piechart rant here: http://blog.rescuetime.com/2008/01/11/no-pie-charts-not-ever-says-i/

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Fantastic report guys - it’s a pleasure working with you and growing this ecosystem together.

I’ve reposted some of the stats here http://blog.js-kit.com/?p=15

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Thanks for the great feedback and clarification Jay. The classification side of this data hasn’t had a facelift in a while, so your feedback is invaluable.

The next report iteration will definitely account for your suggestions. Glad you enjoyed the post.

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Daniel,

We are very happy to keep seeing Snap Shots ranked as one of the 10 most popular web widget overall. It is true that Snap Shots is not a “Search” widget. Snap Shots serve users even better than a search engine. They bring the content to the user in the right place and time, and eliminate the need to switch focus to a parallel search process.

My suggestion to you - start a new category called “Semantic Widgets” and track the popularity of services like Snap Shots, Yahoo Shortcuts, AdaptiveBlue SmartLinks, Apture, Lingospot, Zemanta, and the others I have forgotten. You might also want to include blog ranking services who also highlight related content such as Outbrain & Spotback.

I would also like to correct you and say that Snap Shots provide more than previews. There are 13 types of Snap Shots and not just previews, including RSS, Wikipedia, Video, Audio, Photo, Product, Map, Stock, Movie, Profile, WorldOfWarcraft, and the latest one we released - the CrunchBase Shot.

Keep on the good work. Your widgets statistics are great!

—
Jay Meydad
Vice President, Products & Operations
Snap.com

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The best is Bucks, bustin’ his dance move and Zach doesn’t even flinch or laugh as he passes him!

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This post made me smile. I’ve never been in a high performance go-kart, but my four-year-old and I love riding the go-karts at our local incredible pizza company.

Based on the few interactions I’ve had with you all since blogworld, I can vouch that you all are doing something right. I’ve rarely had such great customer service.

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I love it though I cant quite understand it!

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