Learning2.0 : Journey to about2findout.com

Another landmark for the site: the 100th quiz just went online, it's one about financials. Enjoy.

Just had some fun at another 2.0 like site, this time to add text balloons to your photo's and share them. Below are my cat and myself. The site works very well and you can try it for yourself at : http://www.superlame.com.

Just came across a free site where you can generate an image of a 3D box. It is called 3d-pack.com and very easy to use: just upload the picture for the front, top and side, and you're done.

Labels: 3D internet, 3d-pack.com

I must admit, I'm too old to 'get' the ever so popular Facebook. I do have an account, and some people have thrown me a sheep and such, but I still just don't get the concept. Anyway, this youtube movie shows the 'real life' equivalent to how Facebook works. Hilarious.

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Question number 1000 is part of a quiz on the Eurovision Song Contest. Enjoy and keep the questions coming!

The home page of about2findout.com is renewed. First of all, there is a new slogan for the site. Instead of 'quiz 2.0 has arrived', it is now 'what do you know?'. The main page still has the same general navigation at the top, but the search link is now on the right top accessible anywhere. The center of the new home page has two colored pieces: one for the quiz zone and one for the author zone, with many direct useful links. Every 30 seconds, a new random question and associated author are shown.

Another new feature is the page 'All questions', that as the name suggests shows a list of all published questions in the database. You can order the list by clicking on the column headings, and you can filter it by language and filter out questions you have already done.

Last but not least, there is a 'Tell a Friend' page that allows you to send an e-mail message to invite a friend to check out the site.

The Hall of Fame page shows the 50 highest scores by default, or the 50 highest accuracies, 50 most recent, most difficult, most popular or best rated questions. And when you have answered a question, the left bar shows a link to the quiz the question is part of, if any.

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I'm trying to implement some caching features on the site, in order to speed it up or to allow more users to access it simultaneously. There is a good video tutorial on asp.net caching on the asp.net site. On the next major update of the site, I'm using the outputcache control on a few pages, and I hope it will not interfere with the many ajax calls and personalized data on use on the pages.

Update: I tried it and it failed. I'll have to use other caching techniques to cache parts of a highly personalized and multilingual site like about2findout.com

Labels: ajax, caching

Similar to the about2findout.mobi site, I changed the main web site to also give you the choice of 3 different random questions when you are not following a quiz.

Check it out here.

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Today about2findout.com reached 900 questions. Up to the 1000 milestone!

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This month, the site had 2731 visitors that did on average 7 pages per visit and came from 83 countries. The top visiting countries are in order: USA, India, UK, Belgium, Canada.

The most popular quiz was the Capitals quiz. In April 17 quizzes, 46 new people and 139 questions were added to the site, and Dailydog had the top score, and India was the top scoring country. Except for 1 week, there were no special advertisement or other promotion campaigns. The peak on April 26 I guess is because of a lot of StumbleUpon traffic that day.

Labels: about2findout.com, news