@yoski tech note

It's been a long time since I last updated this site.

I was focusing on other projects and had no time to update... sorry.

Now web scouter seems to be losing its power, but inspected sites are about to reach 80,000.

Current Top 10 sites are:

- CNN
- NYT
- /.
- Digg
- CNET
- Lifehacker
- WordPress
- BBC
- Dictionary.com
- TUAW

I love to read all of the above, except Dictonary.com.

It's a really good site, but I have no idea why they use "reference.com" instead of "dictionary.com"..

Posted by aka at 12:43 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Today, I am happy to announce that the Web Scouter API is now open to public.

Though it is just a simple REST API to grab the scouter value of the given url, I believe it is useful for most of the web sites that want to measure the real power of the media sites and blogs.

» Web Scouter API

I have also prepared a Japanese version of the same API, in case you are Japanese.

Enjoy!

Posted by aka at 3:53 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web scouter on Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.

Do you know "Yahoo! Japan"?
A company that is famous for free Internet portal site, issues a magazine called "Yahoo! Internet Guide", famous for expensive, or I would say "comparably expensive" magazine.

Now Web Scouter is on Yahoo! Japan Internet Guide.

Web Scouter - check the power of the website

Geez, you can also see "simpleapi.net" on the captured image :)
It's also a cool service.

webscouter.net

Posted by aka at 4:59 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web Scouter is introduced by Weekly ASCII, a major Japanese PC magazine published by ASCII Co.,Ltd.

It says "You can check the power of the web site by just clicking the web scouter button on your browser. ... Web scouter has a cool effect on activating it."

They never say it comes from "Dragon Ball." Good respect for Toei :-)

Check out p160.

Posted by aka at 5:55 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Thanks to delicious.

Web scouter's media power is getting more precise with delicious api.

I'm updating the whole data, and it may take 20-30 hours to complete.

New web scouter ranking will appear within a couple of days.

Web Scouter - inspect yatsu's media power - FIGHT!

Posted by aka at 3:54 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

You may heard of "toread", a neat private-bookmarking service with email.

Now web scouter meets toread.

When you bookmark web pages with toread, it has a link back to webscouter to inspect the media power of the web page.

Sounds great.

toread - an email-based bookmark service

Posted by aka at 3:47 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web scouter is now introduced by ITmedia - one of the most popular online media in Japan.

Here's the page generated by web scouter, which has a useful link to read the article in English.

IT media Biz.ID - web scouter

He knows Dragon ball :)

Posted by aka at 3:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Web scouter reaches 1 million hits for about 4 days after it's release.

Thank for enjoying the "web scouter".

Actually, I'm not so enthusiastic about Dragon ball, but I bet I will pay good respects for it, and would like to track the history of it during my new-year holidays... to improve my "scouter".

Today I have updated a bit, as it reached maximum requests for delicious server.

If you find some other problems using web scouter, please let me know.

any feedback is appreciated and helps me a lot.

Posted by aka at 3:25 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

I'm happy to announce that my new service "Web Scouter" was finally released!

It's a simple tool to check the media power of your website, using the famous metaphor "Scouter".

What Web Scouter does is to collect useful information about website using open APIs such as Yahoo search APIs.

I always wanted to know the real power of the website, by checking Alexa, delicous, bababa...

And now I have my Scouter equipped on my browser.

It really works fine for me.

Hope it works the same for you, too.

Enjoy!

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