lolstupids is down.
Tags: lolstupids, mashup
I forgot to mention I took down lolstupids this past week. It wasn’t doing particularly well. There was 1 quote that came in it, that I didn’t make. It was just leeching money. I still like the idea and somehow in the future it could take off.
I just have to think of a proper way to do it. I’m thinking of perhaps mashing it up with some service so that it gets more traffic and incentive for its use. *goes in search for mashup opportunity*.
lolstupids.com revamp
Tags: ads, facebook, google, lolstupids
Since I have been playing around with Google adsense and adwords, I decided to revamp lolstupids.com. Instead of having the top10 quotes on the front page, I decided to make it a random quote.
It is MUCH less cluttered. The previous version had a nasty clutter at the top. You did not quite know where your eyes had to look when greeted with the page. It is now much more simplistic and “accesible” with a clear “add quote” on the bottom.
It is also much more “facebook” app friendly now. I’ll get around to properly implementing a facebook app version of lolstupids.com somewhere in the december holidays.
Tell me what you think? Better?
P.S. Next in line for lolstupids.com is implementing a feature that emails people when your quote has been approved.
lolstupids gets it first spam!
Tags: lolstupids, spammer
Yay! Well, this term has been very hectic, and as I said, I have kinda neglected my blogging duties.
But I return with good tidings (for me at least). lolstupids.com has received its first ever spam quotes! While I haven’t really hunted for stupid quotes or really promoted lolstupids, I was delighted to see that spammers’ bots or something found my site. 
Anyway. That’s all for now.
Google voted on lolstupids!
Tags: google, lolstupids, robots
Well, it ain’t precisely Google. It is search engines and their robots. Robots are used to trawl the web – following all the links – in order to index THE INTERNET (say that in a deep voice).
It dawned on me quote inexplicably that these robots might have been following the “vote” links! This means that the current “ratings” for the (lowly) 3 quotes on lolstupids.com have most likely been followed and thus had their ratings pushed up.
Well not to worry, I managed to fix it by adding a rel=”nofollow” tag to each of the “vote” links. This way the robots don’t follow it.
I promised that I would add stupid quotes as I ventured through the web, but the university have been keeping me busy! But don’t worry, it will happen… eventually. 
Integrating with Facebook.
Tags: lolstupids, university
Today, I decided to try and integrate lolstupids.com with Facebook. It was fun! Before I started I trawled through countless apps, to see how successful they are. Needless to say, loads of really stupid things (in my eyes) are ludicrously popular. I would love to see if I can do something similar sometime in the future.
Anyway, I integrated lolstupids.com with facebook. You can’t add the app (yet). I still have to wrap up the profile side of things. I want to have a random quote of the day. At the moment it only displays the last quote on the top 10.
Normal CSS don’t also seem to work with Facebook apps. If the app looks a tad better and the profile part of the app is done, I’ll submit to the public directory! It will be interesting how many users I get from it. The app will have the same functionality as the site. You can add quotes and such. The added bonus as I said, it will display a random quote of the day on your profile page.
It is very basic stuff. I haven’t really delved into the social aspects of Facebook apps (don’t know how it works).
Anyway, the site isn’t really taking off (not that I expected it to), but I am sure, once I add more quotes, it will pick up. I am trawling the web in search of quotes as I speak.
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In other news, I am going back to university tomorrow! Whoo! It will be great to see all the people again. This will no doubt put me in a no-blog mode (see jan 2008- may 2008).
That’s all from me for now. Cheers!
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Tags: lolstupids
I quickly did some work on lolstupids.com. Some changes:
-Added ads (If the site pays for itself, I’ll be happy!)
-When adding a quote, you don’t need to add manual <br> tags anymore. In PHP there is a nifty function called nl2br($string) that automatically inserts <br> tags into a string when it reaches a linebreak.
-Changed the front page. Instead of having news there, I decided to let it link to this blog with “lolstupids” tags. It is now a tad neater.
Yeah, that’s it.
On my some time to-do list is: editing functions for admin, emailing users when quotes are accepted and much better looking website.
lolstupids.com
Tags: lolstupids
Heya!
My site that I’ve been working on this holiday is kinda done-ish. I would like to refer to it as alpha. It is functional, but the layout is kinda sucky.
This is my new site! Through my history of browsing the net, I’ve gathered up stupid things people said. I wanted to make a blog about it, but instead decided to try my hand at making a proper database driven site. This site is primarily a pet web project: a hobby.
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With lolstupids.com you can browse many (not yet ) quotes from across the internet about stupid things people have said (YouTube is a goldmine) on the internet. You can add a quote too if you are so inclined. It is currently under a moderation system. Since it is only a hobby of mine, don’t go too crazy when your quote is not accepted immediately!
So yeah. enjoy it. Tell me what you think. I will slowly but surely add new things and a better layout over time.
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