Two days ago Google released a new feature in their webmaster tools which display who is linking to your website. It was interesting to see that two of my posts which were recently on digg.com had several times more backlinks than my home page.
Home Page - 0 diggs - 531 backlinks
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Myspace users are mostly young, but there are fairly large communities of 69 year olds and 100+ year olds:

How many friends do myspace users have, you ask? The younger they are the more friends the have(they then lose those friends over time):

What sign are myspace users?

Who knew Leo’s had such a hard time making [...]

I did some analysis of Google’s search results based only on the way Google display’s its results. The analysis is based on the first ~800 well formed unique searchs in search data that AOL released(here is a list I made of the first 5000 well formed queries). I initially was going to do this analysis [...]

I think google just gave some pretty strange advice in their recent blog post.
 ”If you don’t want to see personalized results, just sign out of your Google Account.”
Last time I checked you could turn that feature off without signing out of your account. That would be a pretty annoying way of turning a feature off.

Kevin Rose digg’s your site, it will make it to the front page of digg if it is not there already. Unfortunately, the effect of being on Kevin Rose’s dugg page is lost in the massive amount of traffic you recieve from the digg front page. Luckily I had the unique experience of having Kevin [...]

I found some interesting analysis of the netflix prize dataset, but it was not exactly what I was looking for. I downloaded the dataset, and decided to do some analysis myself. I went with what I though was the easy route by installing pyflix, which in hindsight might not have been the fastest approach(pyflix took [...]