October 7, 2003

Damasanj: Iranians' answer to Blogdex

Ahmad Anwari and I have launched a new website, named "Damsanj" (means Thermometer in Persian), which is a popularity index. In other words it's a blogdex for Persian blogosphere.

The website is entirely Persian, but bellow each title, it's URL is mentioned wich can give an idea of what the link is about to non-Persian speakers.

During the project, I was thinking that it would be amazing if anybody could make his or her popularity indexing application's source code open to public, or at least released it as a shareware or freeware software which you could install on your own server and by building your own list of URLs, you could find the most popular links among them everyday.

I guess small-scale popularity indices would be very needed soon for variant purposes: education, intelligence, marketing, journalism, etc.

Posted by hoder at October 7, 2003 8:44 PM

Comments
okay, i'm testing it on a mac now to see if it'll post
- By: javod on October 9, 2003
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It's good. Good stuff.
- By: Shahrokh on October 9, 2003
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It's great. Good stuff.
- By: Shahrokh on October 9, 2003
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I thought they already have open source indexing projects? although most of them seem to be who links to YOUR site, it wouldn't take much tweaking to make it read just general traffic. i'm sure freshmeat.net has something like that.
- By: javod on October 8, 2003
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I'd be happy to help on bringing an open source popularity metric solution to the world. I have a starting point with the code for BlogShares.... If anyone is interested in that drop me a mail
- By: Seyed Razavi on October 8, 2003
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Also, character, personality,....among other things. A popularity index is a great idea, it will bring about competition and competition is what makes us strive toward perfection.
- By: A persian girl in California on October 8, 2003
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