Popdex

The piece ranked No. 1 on a variety of blog indices such as Popdex, with traffic being driven largely by cross-linking through the liberal blogs and forums.

January 2004 2004

"Popdex game" beta launch: bet on the rise and fall of linked memes

Boing Boing: May 18, 2003 - May 24, 2003 Archives 2003

The server Popdex runs on can actually boot to 5 different OSes.

Boing Boing: June 8, 2003 - June 14, 2003 Archives 2003

Xeni Jardin over at Boing Boing discovered that the Popdex server had been 0wnzer'd by some script kiddies, and replaced with a bad Mp3 collection full of old songs from 1999 and before.

Boing Boing: June 8, 2003 - June 14, 2003 Archives 2003

Unless I've taken one too many hits on the crack pipe this evening, it appears that Popdex has been hacked -- and replaced by someone's really bad '90s music collection, which includes a section called "Chick Music." screenshot, Discuss Update: Game over, all clear.

Boing Boing: June 8, 2003 - June 14, 2003 Archives 2003

"The Popdex Game" just went into beta release, according to PopDex founder Shanti Bradford.

Boing Boing: May 18, 2003 - May 24, 2003 Archives 2003

Popdex. com stats skyrocket after the normal content is replaced with 7 GB of Mp3s instead.

Boing Boing: June 8, 2003 - June 14, 2003 Archives 2003

Technorati, Feedster, Bloglines, Blogdex and MSN BlogBot are all competing for the blog search space, not to mention the popularity trackers like Blogdex, Daypop and Popdex.

Foo Camp on web feeds Greg Linden 2004

Technorati, Feedster, Bloglines, Blogdex and MSN BlogBot are all competing for the blog search space, not to mention the popularity trackers like Blogdex, Daypop and Popdex.

Archive 2004-09-01 Greg Linden 2004

I didn't mirror the site when it first launched, but Popdex had originally used a great deal of Blogdex's HTML, including the same link names, same table widths, etc.

payment LINK tags - Anil Dash 2002