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 […]

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 […]

So I am now working at Swivel part time finding, compiling, and uploading interesting data. My new coworker Seema had the idea to graph the occurances of certain words in State of the Union Addresses over time. Here are two of the most interesting graphs.

I did some analysis on the effect of age of domain names on search engine ranking. I ran the 300 top searchs according to wordtracker through google, msn, and yahoo. I checked the age of each site according to Archive.org and here are the results. I just wish I had done months instead of […]

One thing that really annoys me with some vistor tracking software is that it truncates the referring url at the query string.(ie someforum.com/post.php?id=354353 show up as just someforum.com/post.php) This makes it a huge hassle to find the specific referring page that your users are coming from.
Google Analytics is a good example of tracking software that […]

I have just finished up creating the German and Japanese versions of my Amazon Filler Item Finder website. Here are the Amazon.de Filler Item Finder and the Amazon.jp Filler Item Finder. These links will be fairly useless unless you speak one of these languages and reside in one of these countries, but I […]

I just spent a lot of time trying to parse some UTF-8 xml and put parts of it into a mysql database with python.The parsing in UTF-8 I already had done, but getting MySQLdb to use UTF-8 instead of latin1 was very annoying. I did this with MySQL-python-1.2.1_p2 and MySQL 4.1.21.
The first thing […]

I recieved a few emails recently about my Amazon.co.uk Filler Item website. Apparently it was mentioned on Radio 2 by Martin, and it was mentioned on the BBC programme Working Lunch. I would love to see/hear these clips, so if anyone recorded them or knows how to get a copy let me know.
Update: […]

One of my sites, filleritem.com has been on some well trafficked sites recently. Lifehacker recently made a post about it, and the number of people adding it to the del.icio.us bookmark site put it on to the front page of del.icio.us briefly. Then moneysavingexpert.com sent out the uk version of the site in […]