Maverick RevolutionGreat things in one place.http://mavrev.com/index/atom/feed2008-07-04T22:18:43-05:00urlShort now Supported by TwitterFeedhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/urlshort_now_supported_by_twitterfeed2008-08-18T12:05:11-05:002008-08-18T12:05:11-05:00MattDo you have a blog or website with an RSS feed? Do you use Twitter? Want to keep your followers informed with your postings? TwitterFeed.com does just that. You login with your OpenID, give it your Twitter information and point it to a feed. You can also customise how your feed is displayed and how often it updates. We're really excited because TwitterFeed recently added support for urlShort.
]]>Do you have a blog or website with an RSS feed? Do you use Twitter? Want to keep your followers informed with your postings? TwitterFeed.com does just that. You login with your OpenID, give it your Twitter information and point it to a feed. You can also customise how your feed is displayed and how often it updates. We're really excited because TwitterFeed recently added support for urlShort.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>URL Shortener revamped - Now urlShorthttp://mavrev.com/index/story/url_shortener_revamped_now_urlshort2008-08-07T22:19:27-05:002008-08-08T19:56:28-05:00Matt
We've added an API for creating URLs and fixed all the known bugs. Thanks everyone who reported them, and thanks especially to Rob for getting most of the stuff working. We've also changed the site design and feel: No more cats!
Enjoy! And if you have any feature requests just contact us.
We've added an API for creating URLs and fixed all the known bugs. Thanks everyone who reported them, and thanks especially to Rob for getting most of the stuff working. We've also changed the site design and feel: No more cats!
Enjoy! And if you have any feature requests just contact us.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Abuse of comment reportshttp://mavrev.com/index/story/abuse_of_comment_reports2008-08-05T18:13:24-05:002008-08-05T18:13:24-05:00RobEarlier today someone decided it would be fun to mark about a dozen comments as spam or offensive. This will not be tolerated. If you abuse the reporting and flagging you will be blocked from viewing comments on Maverick Revolution. Do not do this.
]]>Earlier today someone decided it would be fun to mark about a dozen comments as spam or offensive. This will not be tolerated. If you abuse the reporting and flagging you will be blocked from viewing comments on Maverick Revolution. Do not do this.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>OpenID Temporarily Disabledhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/openid_temporarily_disabled2008-07-16T22:21:43-05:002008-07-16T22:21:43-05:00MattFor some reason our OpenID service died earlier so it's disabled for now. It'll be back shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
]]>For some reason our OpenID service died earlier so it's disabled for now. It'll be back shortly. Sorry for any inconvenience.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Reminder: iPhone 3G Coveragehttp://mavrev.com/index/story/reminder_iphone_3g_coverage2008-07-05T14:29:50-05:002008-07-11T16:54:14-05:00Matt
Just wanted to remind everyone that we will still be doing our live iPhone 3G Release Coverage. We've set up a new way for anyone to help without any reason to decide now. You can upload your pictures to Flickr and tag them with 'mavrev' and we'll get them into the stream, with credit to you. All photos on Flickr will be added to the when they're tagged. You can also email anything to iphone@mavrev.com on July 11, or if you'd like to be a full contributor email iphone@mavrev.com before then and we'll get you setup.
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Just wanted to remind everyone that we will still be doing our live iPhone 3G Release Coverage. We've set up a new way for anyone to help without any reason to decide now. You can upload your pictures to Flickr and tag them with 'mavrev' and we'll get them into the stream, with credit to you. All photos on Flickr will be added to the when they're tagged. You can also email anything to iphone@mavrev.com on July 11, or if you'd like to be a full contributor email iphone@mavrev.com before then and we'll get you setup.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Time for more stats: Q2 2008http://mavrev.com/index/story/time_for_more_stats_q2_20082008-07-04T22:25:37-05:002008-07-05T13:09:02-05:00MattSo it's become a habit of mine to post statistics every 3 months and show some of the growth we've had and a review of what we've done. Of course this is exactly halfway through the year and we're on the verge of finishing some new services but it's still a great time to look at what's happening.
So the first thing to take a look at is the growth we've seen in unique visitors. In Q1 we had 4,450 unique visitors total, averaging 1,480, but in Q2 we had 6,700~ total unique visitors with an average of 2,233~ per month. That's almost a 66% increase in traffic. Amazing, especially considering we haven't added much in these last 3 months in terms of new services as we did in previous times. Our hours of viewership is still spread fairly evenly throughout the day, all 24 hours, and is pretty well spread throughout the world as a whole. Top countries, in order, were the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Sweeden, China, Germany, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
Now some more technical stuff: The search engine spider that crawled the most was Yahoo followed by Google, MSN, and Ask. This is rather interesting because traffic from searches comes from, in order of most to least, Live.com/MSN, Google, Yahoo, Baidu, GoodSearch, and Ask. Speaking of refers, Digg was once again a prominent source of traffic with over 900 uniques in the 3 month period, followed by Stumbleupon with about 100. Individual sites and blogs where we got traffic include UneasySilence, HGANB Forums, Mozila Labs, Download Squad, Scobleizer, and Six Revisions.
Some great news on the browser front, Firefox usage is still the dominant browser in our visitors with 71.2%, followed by IE with 18.4%, Safari with 6.8%, Opera with 2.1%, and a mix of Mozilla, Camino, Netscape, and others for the remaining percentage. Even with Firefox 3's release fairly late in the quarter Firefox 3's usage was around 9% of the 71.2 and IE 8 even showed up with .3% of it's 18.4. As far as OS's go it's about the same as last time. Windows usage actually went down, to 74.7% with the majority being XP users with 36.7%, Vista with 28.2%, and surprisingly 7.9% using ME. The rest was a mix of 98, NT, CE, 2000, 2003, and 'WTF?' 3.xx? Someone's having fun with useragent switcher. Mac usage was 12.8%, all but less than .1% using OS X. Linux distros took up almost 11.5% with the dominating bunch Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora. The rest of the OS makeup was mobiles, unknowns, and spiders.
We haven't been pushing our RSS feeds, still, nor have we been using FeedBurner how we should be but based on unique hits we have around 1,180 subscribers to all our RSS feeds combined, the majority for the main website.
Plans we have for the next 3 months are relatively undecided yet, but we plan to launch soundUp, an updated and fully configured installation of OpenX, for Athena, Flexible Adsystem, complete and push out a major overhaul to imgUp, and add more advanced URL creation to our URL Shortener including bookmarklets, and possibly an API. Plus don't forget that we will be doing live iPhone 3G release coverage on July 11.
It's really amazing to see the growth we've had and I want to thank you, the people reading this, for coming back and in some cases getting involved in the comments. It's great and I hope you keep coming back.
]]>So it's become a habit of mine to post statistics every 3 months and show some of the growth we've had and a review of what we've done. Of course this is exactly halfway through the year and we're on the verge of finishing some new services but it's still a great time to look at what's happening.
So the first thing to take a look at is the growth we've seen in unique visitors. In Q1 we had 4,450 unique visitors total, averaging 1,480, but in Q2 we had 6,700~ total unique visitors with an average of 2,233~ per month. That's almost a 66% increase in traffic. Amazing, especially considering we haven't added much in these last 3 months in terms of new services as we did in previous times. Our hours of viewership is still spread fairly evenly throughout the day, all 24 hours, and is pretty well spread throughout the world as a whole. Top countries, in order, were the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Sweeden, China, Germany, France, Spain, and Saudi Arabia.
Now some more technical stuff: The search engine spider that crawled the most was Yahoo followed by Google, MSN, and Ask. This is rather interesting because traffic from searches comes from, in order of most to least, Live.com/MSN, Google, Yahoo, Baidu, GoodSearch, and Ask. Speaking of refers, Digg was once again a prominent source of traffic with over 900 uniques in the 3 month period, followed by Stumbleupon with about 100. Individual sites and blogs where we got traffic include UneasySilence, HGANB Forums, Mozila Labs, Download Squad, Scobleizer, and Six Revisions.
Some great news on the browser front, Firefox usage is still the dominant browser in our visitors with 71.2%, followed by IE with 18.4%, Safari with 6.8%, Opera with 2.1%, and a mix of Mozilla, Camino, Netscape, and others for the remaining percentage. Even with Firefox 3's release fairly late in the quarter Firefox 3's usage was around 9% of the 71.2 and IE 8 even showed up with .3% of it's 18.4. As far as OS's go it's about the same as last time. Windows usage actually went down, to 74.7% with the majority being XP users with 36.7%, Vista with 28.2%, and surprisingly 7.9% using ME. The rest was a mix of 98, NT, CE, 2000, 2003, and 'WTF?' 3.xx? Someone's having fun with useragent switcher. Mac usage was 12.8%, all but less than .1% using OS X. Linux distros took up almost 11.5% with the dominating bunch Ubuntu, Suse, and Fedora. The rest of the OS makeup was mobiles, unknowns, and spiders.
We haven't been pushing our RSS feeds, still, nor have we been using FeedBurner how we should be but based on unique hits we have around 1,180 subscribers to all our RSS feeds combined, the majority for the main website.
Plans we have for the next 3 months are relatively undecided yet, but we plan to launch soundUp, an updated and fully configured installation of OpenX, for Athena, Flexible Adsystem, complete and push out a major overhaul to imgUp, and add more advanced URL creation to our URL Shortener including bookmarklets, and possibly an API. Plus don't forget that we will be doing live iPhone 3G release coverage on July 11.
It's really amazing to see the growth we've had and I want to thank you, the people reading this, for coming back and in some cases getting involved in the comments. It's great and I hope you keep coming back.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Recent breakagehttp://mavrev.com/index/story/recent_breakage2008-06-30T11:21:52-05:002008-06-30T12:58:06-05:00adamsSorry about the 12 hours we were basically down earlier. Our server monkey got drunk and broke some things. We promise it won't happen again. ;)
]]>Sorry about the 12 hours we were basically down earlier. Our server monkey got drunk and broke some things. We promise it won't happen again. ;)
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Announcing iPhone 3G Release Coveragehttp://mavrev.com/index/story/announcing_iphone_3g_release_coverage2008-06-27T19:21:56-05:002008-06-27T19:21:56-05:00MattWe'll be bringing you live coverage on July 11, 2008 for the iPhone 3G release. We also hope to have some people at AT&T and Apple stores around the country sending in photos, comments, and information as it happens.
If you are already going to be standing in line anywhere in the U.S. and would like to contribute send us an email at iphone@mavrev.com.
We hope this goes well and thanks for watching!
]]>We'll be bringing you live coverage on July 11, 2008 for the iPhone 3G release. We also hope to have some people at AT&T and Apple stores around the country sending in photos, comments, and information as it happens.
If you are already going to be standing in line anywhere in the U.S. and would like to contribute send us an email at iphone@mavrev.com.
We hope this goes well and thanks for watching!
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>RSS Feed Problems Fixedhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/rss_feed_problems2008-06-25T21:47:01-05:002008-06-26T14:11:43-05:00MattWe've fixed the columns RSS problems. If you experience any problems still let us know.
Yes, we do know that our RSS feeds for our Columns are not working right now. We'll be fixing this sometime tomorrow. We apologise for this problem and that we didn't catch it until now. Thanks for understanding.
]]>We've fixed the columns RSS problems. If you experience any problems still let us know.
Yes, we do know that our RSS feeds for our Columns are not working right now. We'll be fixing this sometime tomorrow. We apologise for this problem and that we didn't catch it until now. Thanks for understanding.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>URL Shortener brought to you by Catshttp://mavrev.com/index/story/url_shortener_brought_to_you_by_cats2008-06-24T21:15:22-05:002008-06-27T16:24:35-05:00adamsTonight we're happy to launch our latest service URL Shortener brought to you by Cats and Maverick Revolution. It does just what other services like TinyURL and other similar services do except ours has lolcats, and we think that makes it better.
Thanks for using Maverick Revolution services.
]]>Tonight we're happy to launch our latest service URL Shortener brought to you by Cats and Maverick Revolution. It does just what other services like TinyURL and other similar services do except ours has lolcats, and we think that makes it better.
Thanks for using Maverick Revolution services.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Follow us on Twitter.comhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/follow_us_on_twittercom2008-06-24T18:42:54-05:002008-06-24T18:42:54-05:00MattStarting Today you can follow us on Twitter to get the latest updates about new products, services, and freebies. We'll also be announcing a very cool little something sometime later this week so be sure to follow!
]]>Starting Today you can follow us on Twitter to get the latest updates about new products, services, and freebies. We'll also be announcing a very cool little something sometime later this week so be sure to follow!
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Update Status, the first dayhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/update_status_the_first_day2008-06-22T21:00:10-05:002008-06-22T21:46:12-05:00MattSo here we are near the end of our day of major updates and here's where we stand.
What we did:
- Updated Drupal to 5.7
- Updated all modules to the latest
- Added many new features including
- Content list
- Better image attachments and viewing
- New ways to view columns, updated menu links coming soon
- Fixed Ajax that we could, removed Ajax that was buggy. Added Ajax to searching and some other stuff
- Added password strength checking and username uniqueness check to registration. Added confirm email change. Added instant feedback via Ajax
- AddThis widget
- Updated legal terms and privacy
- OpenID support
- Automatic searching on 404 not found
- Backend for taxonomy/tagging support and related links. Implementation coming soon
- reCaptcha
- Tested everything.
- Fixed all known/reported bugs
What we didn't get to today:
- Fixing the menu's CSS/JS
- Standards compliant CSS/(x)HTML
- Athena Ad backend and frontend improvements
- Implementation of taxonomy/tagging
- Addition of new views
- WYSIWYG, probably not happening now
What we won't do right now:
- WYSIWYG editor
- Drupal 6.2
- URL path changes from /index/ to /
We'll keep you updated. ;)
]]>So here we are near the end of our day of major updates and here's where we stand.
What we did:
- Updated Drupal to 5.7
- Updated all modules to the latest
- Added many new features including
- Content list
- Better image attachments and viewing
- New ways to view columns, updated menu links coming soon
- Fixed Ajax that we could, removed Ajax that was buggy. Added Ajax to searching and some other stuff
- Added password strength checking and username uniqueness check to registration. Added confirm email change. Added instant feedback via Ajax
- AddThis widget
- Updated legal terms and privacy
- OpenID support
- Automatic searching on 404 not found
- Backend for taxonomy/tagging support and related links. Implementation coming soon
- reCaptcha
- Tested everything.
- Fixed all known/reported bugs
What we didn't get to today:
- Fixing the menu's CSS/JS
- Standards compliant CSS/(x)HTML
- Athena Ad backend and frontend improvements
- Implementation of taxonomy/tagging
- Addition of new views
- WYSIWYG, probably not happening now
What we won't do right now:
- WYSIWYG editor
- Drupal 6.2
- URL path changes from /index/ to /
We'll keep you updated. ;)
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Important Notice: We will be offline sporadically the week of June 22ndhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/important_notice%3A_we_will_be_offline_sporadically_the_week_of_june_22nd2008-06-18T13:57:45-05:002008-06-22T17:34:51-05:00MattThis is a very important notice to everyone who visits or uses anything on Maverick Revolution. The main website, anything at mavrev.com/index/, will be offline sporadically next week, June 22nd through June 28th. Hopefully we will only have to be offline for a short amount of time, but who knows with such a large update we're doing. We will hopefully put up a static website on the 22nd with all the content as of a couple days before and all our services such as Cypress Proxy, imgUp Image Hosting, and fileUp File Hosting will remain up and functioning for most if not all the time. At worst these may be down for a few hours as we migrate some things to the newer Drupal.
For the techie in you here's an overview of what we're going to be doing.
- Upgrade from Drupal 4.7 to 6.2 5.7
- Update all modules including fixing all known bugs (especially in Ajax)
- Push out our updated theme/layout with valid CSS/xHTML
- Push out new features including WYSIWYG, Tabs, OpenID support, reCaptcha, improved Ajax, AddThis support, column enhancements and more.
- Better RSS Feeds via FeedBurner.
- All links will change from mavrev.com/index/ to simply mavrev.com/ . The old links will still work and will forward to their respective pages, or URLs rather, on the new links.
- Better integration with Athena Ads, basing things on what page is being viewed and better targetting
- Proper tags and taxonomy put into place
- Preparing for upgrade to imgUp and integration with the main site
- Misc. fixes and things we don't like such as the splash page.
So once again we will be offline as needed for next week, but hopefully not too long, to do some major updates which we've been needing to do for a long time. Thanks for your cooperation and patience in this, and thanks especially for visiting.
-
Adam, Matt, & Rob
Updates
You will be able to follow the status of our upgrade at status.mavrev.com
6/19 - We will probably not be going all the way to Drupal 6.2 because some essential modules we use are not ported and we haven't had much luck mondifying them on our test site. We will still upgrade to 5.7.x and add some new features. This should keep our actual downtime to a day maybe two. - adams
]]>This is a very important notice to everyone who visits or uses anything on Maverick Revolution. The main website, anything at mavrev.com/index/, will be offline sporadically next week, June 22nd through June 28th. Hopefully we will only have to be offline for a short amount of time, but who knows with such a large update we're doing. We will hopefully put up a static website on the 22nd with all the content as of a couple days before and all our services such as Cypress Proxy, imgUp Image Hosting, and fileUp File Hosting will remain up and functioning for most if not all the time. At worst these may be down for a few hours as we migrate some things to the newer Drupal.
For the techie in you here's an overview of what we're going to be doing.
- Upgrade from Drupal 4.7 to 6.2 5.7
- Update all modules including fixing all known bugs (especially in Ajax)
- Push out our updated theme/layout with valid CSS/xHTML
- Push out new features including WYSIWYG, Tabs, OpenID support, reCaptcha, improved Ajax, AddThis support, column enhancements and more.
- Better RSS Feeds via FeedBurner.
- All links will change from mavrev.com/index/ to simply mavrev.com/ . The old links will still work and will forward to their respective pages, or URLs rather, on the new links.
- Better integration with Athena Ads, basing things on what page is being viewed and better targetting
- Proper tags and taxonomy put into place
- Preparing for upgrade to imgUp and integration with the main site
- Misc. fixes and things we don't like such as the splash page.
So once again we will be offline as needed for next week, but hopefully not too long, to do some major updates which we've been needing to do for a long time. Thanks for your cooperation and patience in this, and thanks especially for visiting.
-
Adam, Matt, & Rob
Updates
You will be able to follow the status of our upgrade at status.mavrev.com
6/19 - We will probably not be going all the way to Drupal 6.2 because some essential modules we use are not ported and we haven't had much luck mondifying them on our test site. We will still upgrade to 5.7.x and add some new features. This should keep our actual downtime to a day maybe two. - adams
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>fileUp and down.mavrev.com offlinehttp://mavrev.com/index/story/fileup_and_down.mavrev.com_offline2008-06-17T03:23:15-05:002008-06-22T17:34:55-05:00adamsRecently fileUp was featured in a blog post with free file hosts and under the stream of new activity it's started to crack. While file uploads still worked the download page generation wasn't working right, and download queries were just flat out not working 90% of the time. Because of this we've taken both fileUp and down.mavrev.com, the subdomain serving downloads, have been taken offline until further notice. I'm not sure when we'll be able to put them back up, mostly because I'm busy with updates to imgUp and I was more or less in charge of those two things, but hopefully they will get back up sometime.
I apologize for the inconvenience this is causing people, especially all the 300 a month visitors still seeking out the windows music files, and will try and get a fix, even if its just temporary, out there soon. If you're looking to download the music files there are some links in the YouTube video description for additional mirrors.
]]>Recently fileUp was featured in a blog post with free file hosts and under the stream of new activity it's started to crack. While file uploads still worked the download page generation wasn't working right, and download queries were just flat out not working 90% of the time. Because of this we've taken both fileUp and down.mavrev.com, the subdomain serving downloads, have been taken offline until further notice. I'm not sure when we'll be able to put them back up, mostly because I'm busy with updates to imgUp and I was more or less in charge of those two things, but hopefully they will get back up sometime.
I apologize for the inconvenience this is causing people, especially all the 300 a month visitors still seeking out the windows music files, and will try and get a fix, even if its just temporary, out there soon. If you're looking to download the music files there are some links in the YouTube video description for additional mirrors.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>fileUp Download Service Restoredhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/fileup_download_service_restored2008-06-03T21:35:36-05:002008-06-22T20:14:46-05:00adamsfileUp and our download service, down.mavrev.com, unexpected stopped working late yesterday. We've restored service to both of these, although fileUp is still having some problems so please be patient with times between upload and links working. It could be as much as 2 hours. We've added an optional link on the page, "email me when it's ready", which you can fill out with your email and you'll be notified when it's complete. We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime caused you.
]]>fileUp and our download service, down.mavrev.com, unexpected stopped working late yesterday. We've restored service to both of these, although fileUp is still having some problems so please be patient with times between upload and links working. It could be as much as 2 hours. We've added an optional link on the page, "email me when it's ready", which you can fill out with your email and you'll be notified when it's complete. We apologize for any inconvenience this downtime caused you.
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Subscribe via RSS and Emailhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/subscribe_via_rss_and_email2008-05-23T16:10:51-05:002008-07-04T22:18:34-05:00MattWe haven't really talked much about RSS here but I just set up FeedBurner in preparation for our redesign this summer. While there won't be a change in how the subscribe buttons are right now, they're still located in the bottom right, you can now subscribe via FeedBurner's RSS and via FeedBurner's Email feature. To subscribe by RSS go to our feed and for email go to the email form and submit it. Currently FeedBurner is only set up for the main feed, frontpage stories, but in the future we'll be adding columns feeds.
Thanks for your subscription!
]]>We haven't really talked much about RSS here but I just set up FeedBurner in preparation for our redesign this summer. While there won't be a change in how the subscribe buttons are right now, they're still located in the bottom right, you can now subscribe via FeedBurner's RSS and via FeedBurner's Email feature. To subscribe by RSS go to our feed and for email go to the email form and submit it. Currently FeedBurner is only set up for the main feed, frontpage stories, but in the future we'll be adding columns feeds.
Thanks for your subscription!
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Get free advertising on Maverick Revolution!http://mavrev.com/index/story/get_free_advertising_on_maverick_revolution%212008-05-18T12:50:46-05:002008-07-04T22:18:37-05:00RobMatt and I are happy to announce that the first 100 followers of Matt on Twitter will receive free advertising on Maverick Revolution. Length of advertising is to be determined but will be at least 1 month, possibly 3. To get free advertising you need to register and start following mavrevMatt. It is totally free! Once Matt gets 100 followers those first 100, give or take, will be messaged with a link on how to get their free advertising. We will work out the logistics later but it will probably be you send your email to Matt on Twitter and I will email you with the information we need to get your ad going. You will be able to use your free advertising time whenever you want, you will just need to let us know. Thanks for reading and good luck!
]]>Matt and I are happy to announce that the first 100 followers of Matt on Twitter will receive free advertising on Maverick Revolution. Length of advertising is to be determined but will be at least 1 month, possibly 3. To get free advertising you need to register and start following mavrevMatt. It is totally free! Once Matt gets 100 followers those first 100, give or take, will be messaged with a link on how to get their free advertising. We will work out the logistics later but it will probably be you send your email to Matt on Twitter and I will email you with the information we need to get your ad going. You will be able to use your free advertising time whenever you want, you will just need to let us know. Thanks for reading and good luck!
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Welcome Rob!http://mavrev.com/index/story/welcome_rob%212008-04-28T20:31:03-05:002008-07-04T22:18:40-05:00MattIt's at great last that I officially welcome my friend Rob Sanworth to the team. He'll be our resident advertisement person (both on the site and on other sites), user interface experience guy, and will be doing alot of layout changes for our redesign this summer. He'll also be posting to his new column, understandings_ by:rob, with tips on how you can improve your site layout, the best ad placement tips, and more!
]]>It's at great last that I officially welcome my friend Rob Sanworth to the team. He'll be our resident advertisement person (both on the site and on other sites), user interface experience guy, and will be doing alot of layout changes for our redesign this summer. He'll also be posting to his new column, understandings_ by:rob, with tips on how you can improve your site layout, the best ad placement tips, and more!
Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>From the columns: IPB 1.3 Finalhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/from_the_columns%3A_ipb_1.3_final2008-04-24T19:04:35-05:002008-07-20T20:05:24-05:00MattNow for download: IPB 1.3 Final
"IPB 1.3 final was one of the last free versions of IPB before IPS became greedy hypocritical bastards and made a product that they promised would always be free, cost hundreds of dollars. This forum software was previously available on Teh Blarg until the owner, Ray, took the files down because people said it was illegal. Well, I don't think this is the case. I present the following evidence below." continue reading...
About Columns: Columns are our version of blogs except what anyone blogs can be found on one page. People can write a column article on whatever they want, we don't censor, for free. All you have to do is register. For more information see this article.
"IPB 1.3 final was one of the last free versions of IPB before IPS became greedy hypocritical bastards and made a product that they promised would always be free, cost hundreds of dollars. This forum software was previously available on Teh Blarg until the owner, Ray, took the files down because people said it was illegal. Well, I don't think this is the case. I present the following evidence below." continue reading...
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Copyright 2008 Maverick Revolution ]]>Analysing analytical tools: A weeklong testhttp://mavrev.com/index/story/analysing_analytical_tools%3A_a_weeklong_test2008-04-22T19:18:15-05:002008-07-04T22:18:43-05:00MattRecently we decided to get some more insight into our userbase after I read an article at SixRevisions.com. Today we've setup the following services on our website to record new analytical and statistical data for the next 7 days. After 7 days we will see which of these services, if any, are really useful to us and implement them for permanent usage.
We understand that some of you may have concerns about privacy these tools so we want to offer you some options and explanations. To begin with the weeklong test will be opt-out for anonymous users, those who have not registered, and opt-in for authenticated users, those who have registered. If you are an anonymous user and would like to opt-out of this weeklong analysis please go to this page. If you are an authenticated user and would like to opt-into this analysis please go to this page. As far as privacy goes the data collected ranges from country, times and dates, refers, times of visit, links clicked, and for some random users estimated mouseovers. This last one means the links you mouseover may be recorded to help us pinpoint content placement. Note: If there is no setting cookie, set by using the links above, then the default setting will be used based on your existing mavrev cookies to determine if you are logged in or not.
Thanks for everyones understanding and support in this analysis and if you have any questions just post 'em here.
Updates: CrazyEgg is really slowing down the site. Removed April 26.
]]>Recently we decided to get some more insight into our userbase after I read an article at SixRevisions.com. Today we've setup the following services on our website to record new analytical and statistical data for the next 7 days. After 7 days we will see which of these services, if any, are really useful to us and implement them for permanent usage.
We understand that some of you may have concerns about privacy these tools so we want to offer you some options and explanations. To begin with the weeklong test will be opt-out for anonymous users, those who have not registered, and opt-in for authenticated users, those who have registered. If you are an anonymous user and would like to opt-out of this weeklong analysis please go to this page. If you are an authenticated user and would like to opt-into this analysis please go to this page. As far as privacy goes the data collected ranges from country, times and dates, refers, times of visit, links clicked, and for some random users estimated mouseovers. This last one means the links you mouseover may be recorded to help us pinpoint content placement. Note: If there is no setting cookie, set by using the links above, then the default setting will be used based on your existing mavrev cookies to determine if you are logged in or not.
Thanks for everyones understanding and support in this analysis and if you have any questions just post 'em here.
Updates: CrazyEgg is really slowing down the site. Removed April 26.
