YuviSense: Codin Kid

Getting Dugg

June 1, 2007 | 5:27 am

My Engadget analysis was a huge hit: Huger than I had thought. Besides lots of links from lots of cool bloggers, it also got on to the frontpage of Digg (Thanks No.1 to Rob for submitting it (He also gets Thanks No.0 for actually making the analysis possible)), and heck even TechMeme!

All this is very cool. It was useful to a lot of people. That is also very cool. What was NOT cool, was what happened after that.

This, was what the visitors were getting. Even Technorati saw fit to rename my blog to “Website Suspended”

After some time with the support folks, I was able to get my most crucial stuff (the charts and the database) away from that host (yes, I had backups of the charts, but they were in the Word document itself, and reupdating everything would be a PITA). I could understand their position: My hosting is damn cheap (around $70 for 2 years is cheap, ain’t it?). Their server seems to have crashed 3 times in around 20 minutes when I had hit the Digg frontpage. They had to pull down my site inorder to keep their other sites going.

Digg user Steve tried to help me by offering me some space on his server, but we were unable to get it up and running. A lot of people offered to help too. Thanks!

Then, Rob woke up, and in a few hours my blog was up and running in one of his servers (So this is Thanks No.2 to Rob!). But before the site was up, I was down ;)

Overall, getting dugg and seeing my blog going down had an emotional effect on me. Even though I knew it won’t survive a Digg, much less Digg, Techmeme, Scoble, Calcanias and a host of others at the same time. But still, it was a sad and somber few hours for me from the time when my site went down and Rob(this time the super-hero) came up. Thanks for all those who helped!

Now that the site is back to normal, blogging would resume soon. I might not be able to do a link analysis of Engadget, because I sold it to Ryan Block for $300(not yet sealed, so if it goes awry, you’ll get link analysis). But, I’m open to suggestions as to what to do next: Analysis of a particular author? A particular category? Or, a more drilldown analysis of the categories? Comments welcome!

And yes, I did email Calacanis. Haven’t heard back yet. Guess he’s busy with his product launch and the D conference.

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Good Work, Yuvi.

fo.unta.in | June 1, 2007 | 6:44 am

Good Work, Yuvi.

Thanks Srini!

yuvipanda | June 1, 2007 | 8:05 am

Thanks Srini!

Yuvi Not sure if this is too late. I didn't

Anand | June 1, 2007 | 1:58 pm

Yuvi

Not sure if this is too late. I didn’t realize you had bandwidth and CPU issues. If you need a linux box, I have a P4 3GHz with 2 GB memory and 160 GB HDD running apache, mysql and the works on the internet. Bandwidth is not an issue for me.

If you need a linux server, feel free to email me.

And congrats on all fronts. Just watch out of getting sucked into new jobs this time of your life. Concentrate on your +2 and get it done with. Get into a decent college and you will be free from there on :).

I can’t stress enough that you go on to complete at least a bachelor’s degree. No matter how smart you are, without one or more degrees, it would become difficult for you to emigrate out of India in a later date.

Good luck :~). It is going to be fun watching you grow.

I know you'll be flooded with similar offers but let

Patrix | June 1, 2007 | 4:46 pm

I know you’ll be flooded with similar offers but let me know if you are interested in analyzing DesiPundit. We are no Engadget but relatively big in the Indian blogosphere. We linked to your earlier post and you dropped by to comment. A reader has done some brief analysis of our linking behavior using a cron job and we compiled results from our Reader Survey but nothing too substantial as your analysis.

just wanted to let you know that your link to

trevor manternach | June 1, 2007 | 5:01 pm

just wanted to let you know that your link to Ryan Block is wrong. its actually http://ryanablock.com/ (notice the “a” in between?).

Sorry to hear about your bandwidth problems. The analysis was

Brown Baron | June 1, 2007 | 5:06 pm

Sorry to hear about your bandwidth problems. The analysis was a great job though, and you deserve whatever praise and opportunity comes your way. Nice job.

What would be really interesting is to analyze how the

deannie | June 1, 2007 | 6:51 pm

What would be really interesting is to analyze how the blog is evolving toward what the readers [of Engadget] or any site really actually are interested in reading. There was not enough of that on your page to help make that really clear (to me).

You know what else would be interesting? Understanding how valuable the images were in relationship to the posts. Since they are talking about things all the time, what kinds of images drew the most response?

Many blogs are no longer just about words, they incorporate other elements (pictures, video, et al). How does this change things? Does it change things? Can anyone know based on blog publishing technology today?

right on, really interested to see whats next. If you

sean percival | June 2, 2007 | 12:41 am

right on, really interested to see whats next. If you do what you told me in email it will be VERY interesting. I won’t spoil it here.

And dont worry, I’ve emailed Jason a ton of times and he hasnt written back. When I email execs like him sometimes I dont get a response for 30-60 days. I’m sure they just have overfilling inboxes.

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Deanna, I guess I ain't imaginative enough :) Hope to

yuvipanda | June 2, 2007 | 9:36 am

Deanna, I guess I ain’t imaginative enough Hope to do a better job next time.

Thanks for the offer Anand! However, Rob’s got my blog hosted on his server. Thanks for the offer! I’ll contact you if I need em And yes, I am hoping for atleast 95%+ in the exams. In fact, got a Chemistry Record to submit in a few days that’s keeping me from doing more blogging