Wednesday, March 30, 2005
News: Mad-Den.net
In an off topic post you should be aware that Mad-Den.net has a domain registrar issue that will effect mad-den traffic in the next three to six months.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Updates and changes
After much downloading and subsiquent hard work I can now say that the welcome page of Mad-Den Traffic works as well in FireFox as it does in Explorer.
Also we have added microbanners to the graphical collection for you to link with. Three of these are now showcased on our side bar here at the blog website (for those reading via ATOM or RSS).
Our plans for the future of Mad-Den Traffic include a banner exchange that is almost compleate and is just in the final debugging process.
After the banner exchange is up and running we have jsut a few tidy-up things to do and then the "to do list" runs out. This is where you get a chance to direct your traffic exchange: we are looking for three new projects that will take Mad-Den Traffic into 2006.
Current suggestions include: further intergration with Mad-Den Main, Games for points, Buy more points, Hot Surf Score board, Hot or Not style link to Hot Surf, New graphics and look and feel, Tag board/chat, Forum and advert exchange.
We can not do them all and it is likely most would not be very usfull to the blogging community.
Also I am aware that bloggers might have other ideas altogeather. So I am opening up this comments section for your suggestions on what you would like next.
Fire Away! ¶ 2:44 AM 0 comments
Also we have added microbanners to the graphical collection for you to link with. Three of these are now showcased on our side bar here at the blog website (for those reading via ATOM or RSS).
Our plans for the future of Mad-Den Traffic include a banner exchange that is almost compleate and is just in the final debugging process.
After the banner exchange is up and running we have jsut a few tidy-up things to do and then the "to do list" runs out. This is where you get a chance to direct your traffic exchange: we are looking for three new projects that will take Mad-Den Traffic into 2006.
Current suggestions include: further intergration with Mad-Den Main, Games for points, Buy more points, Hot Surf Score board, Hot or Not style link to Hot Surf, New graphics and look and feel, Tag board/chat, Forum and advert exchange.
We can not do them all and it is likely most would not be very usfull to the blogging community.
Also I am aware that bloggers might have other ideas altogeather. So I am opening up this comments section for your suggestions on what you would like next.
Fire Away! ¶ 2:44 AM 0 comments
Friday, March 25, 2005
I am very pleased to announce...
WE'RE BACK!
It would seem the server "Calvin" was cracked by some script kiddies (beastly nasty "girly boys") but after hours and hours of tirless work the site and all the services on Calvin are comeing back on line.
So Mad-Den Traffic, Phaos the second age, Mad-Den FAQ, Mad-Den: *D-Web, and all the other services are back.
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Thursday, March 24, 2005
We regret to announce...
It is with great sadness that I announce the total loss of services to mad-den UK. Back-ups do exist and we will rebuild. It seems that the host have suffered a total loss of ability to resolve domain names and while the underlying IP can be pingged the site does not work and you can not sign up for anything.
Maybe they suffered a DDOS attack, who knows - the result is that mad-den traffic is down as is hot surf, mad-den FAQ, listings, banner exchange and other Mad-Den UK srvices. The databases used on Mad-Den UK will have to be rebuilt and this may take several months if Globedomain are unable to respond to simple emails.
Please comment here if you have any news about the company at all. ¶ 2:03 PM 0 comments
UPDATE: Services resumed after 24 to 48 hours... server was "hacked".
UPDATE: Mad-Den Traffic and Mad-Den Index were uneffected.
It is with great sadness that I announce the total loss of services to mad-den UK. Back-ups do exist and we will rebuild. It seems that the host have suffered a total loss of ability to resolve domain names and while the underlying IP can be pingged the site does not work and you can not sign up for anything.
Maybe they suffered a DDOS attack, who knows - the result is that mad-den traffic is down as is hot surf, mad-den FAQ, listings, banner exchange and other Mad-Den UK srvices. The databases used on Mad-Den UK will have to be rebuilt and this may take several months if Globedomain are unable to respond to simple emails.
Please comment here if you have any news about the company at all. ¶ 2:03 PM 0 comments
Saturday, March 19, 2005
A non surfing hint!
At last a non surfing hint: a new idea sweeping the world wide web is the idea of tagging things in order to identify and categorise items like blog posts. It's a good way to get that extra attention to your blog. Which is why Mad-Den Traffic exists after all.
Blog Tag: mad-den traffic tags ¶ 10:46 AM 0 comments
Blog Tag: mad-den traffic tags ¶ 10:46 AM 0 comments
Saturday, March 05, 2005
NEWS: How Hot is My Site - BETA
The New Mad-Den UK service is here!
This new service allows members of the general public to come and vote on the mad-den traffic sites. Of course you vote counts for more if you sign up and the whole thing is now considered to be in BETA - that is testing to me and you. You may wish to click here to have a look.
It is not so different to many other "rate me" sites but it has the Mad-Den prommise - real content only!
New features will be added over the comeing days including an FAQ and general information pages and other apparently top secret stuff... ¶ 4:51 PM 0 comments
This new service allows members of the general public to come and vote on the mad-den traffic sites. Of course you vote counts for more if you sign up and the whole thing is now considered to be in BETA - that is testing to me and you. You may wish to click here to have a look.
It is not so different to many other "rate me" sites but it has the Mad-Den prommise - real content only!
New features will be added over the comeing days including an FAQ and general information pages and other apparently top secret stuff... ¶ 4:51 PM 0 comments
Friday, March 04, 2005
NEWS.
Good news! Mad-Den Traffic have released a great new set of graphics... ok so it's not the best news ever and not nearly as good as world peace but hey at least it's another way to get visitors.
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Good news! Mad-Den Traffic have released a great new set of graphics... ok so it's not the best news ever and not nearly as good as world peace but hey at least it's another way to get visitors.
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This banner is from the new beta version of Mad-Den Banners
