The Venture Skills Blog

My attempt at showing a working model for stumbleupon mathematics certainly got (is getting) a lot of attention with several questions being asked I thought I would at least try to answer some of them and pass some more generic comments.

If you haven’t read the stumbleupon mathematics post then this will not make much sense but to recap the proposed “simplistic big model”

(Initial stumbler audience /# domain) + ((% stumbler audience /# domain)+ organic bonus – nonfriend) – (((% stumbler audience + organic bonus) + N
http://ventureskills.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/stumbleupon-mathematics-for-stumblers/

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Give it a Sphinn | Or a

What follows is my understanding of the stumbleupon algorithm it is based on some pretty extensive testing using several volunteers however it has been incredibly simplified to make it easier to understand. We may be totally wrong so just a heads up but I hope this will at least give you some idea of what your thumb up is doing. I have also written up a few questions and answers to help people understand what I’m trying to do.
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The first round of beta’s for Drupal 6 is out and its better the ever, you can grab the code from Drupal main site at drupal.org and read all the new features from the release notice.

After eight months of development, we are proud to let you know that the first beta version of the Drupal 6.x family is released. This beta includes a tremendous number of new features and new programming APIs for both users and developers.
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta1

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Is selling Links a crime, Google you decide!

Just a quick post pointing you to two posts the first is a Guest Post I did for SEO Cog on paid Links and the second a Payment blogger post on the same subject.

Both are heated and on the side of Paid Links, I hope they are not rants and that they get the message across. One more thing before clicking the payment blogger link please place your coffee cup down, I am not responsible for damages to your computers caused by my posts
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