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WWW.BEOUE.COM

I always wonder is there is any way we can crack the algorithm of how a story is promoted in DIGG.com by looking at each user profiles who digging the story and how many story they submitted, their success criteria, which part of the world they are from and what time they are digging it etc. I wrote a simple prototype application in Flex (Also i want to try Flex for first time), to collect these statistics to find out a pattern. But long way to go.

The application is here , and this is the way it works.

1. Get a URL of a story which you wanted to track for how it get promoted. The url can be Digg URL or actual story url. (For eg- for each story Digg assign a url based on the category it is submitted).
2. Go to beoue.com tool here, www.beoue.com
3. Type the url in the text box given
4. Hit the “Get DIGG Stats” button.
5. Wait for few minutes, the Graphs start building up and the user details start falling down in chronological way how the story was digged.

At this point of time, This tool collect the story details and user profile details who digged the story using DIGG APIs
- Number of users who digged it
- Each users Popularity Ratio (This is computed in a recursive way to find out how many times each user’s stories are promoted vs how many story they submitted).
- The time it is submitted.
- Each users friends count. And DIGGed user is friend of the submitter or not.

These values are collected in a recursive and plotted as graphs against multiple parameters.

Try www.beoue.com and leave your comments here about the tool. I used Flex Builder 2, with Action Script 3 to build this application. Flex is pretty good technology for left brain people to create creative Flash application (I am not sure which part of the brain dominates me always…. some time left and some time right, i guess).

Graphs Explained

Chart 1. User Popularity Ratio (No of Story Promoted / No of Story Submitted by a particular user) VS User.

Chart 2. Popularity Ratio multiplied by number of stories submitted VS User

Chart 3. Total Story Submitted by Each user

Issues and bugs in this tool.

1. Submit URL of only promoted stories (Stories which become popular).
2. To run second time, refresh the page again.
3. Still not added GEO profile chart of the users.

IMG_0188_1, originally uploaded by haja_maideen_m.

Oil on canvas… My favorite scenery

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Hashmi in S.C Bose attire, for Independence Day celebration at her school

hashmi-fancy-dress, originally uploaded by haja_maideen_m.

Hashmi in S.C Bose attire, for Independence Day celebration at her school

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Hashmi in S.C Bose attire, for Independence Day celebration at her school

I got the following error after successful deployment of assemblies in BizTalk. I have BizTalk installed in federated (distributed) way. 4 BizTalk servers associated with same deployment and I have to install orchestration assembly in one server and gac it all other servers. After installing and gacing when it starts processing I encountered unique and weird problem. Some time my orchestration picks up message and some other time throws following error.
Failed while creating a XyZ.Orchestration service.       
Exception type: ServiceCreationException
Source:
Target Site:
Help Link:
Additional error information:
 
File or assembly name XyZ.Orchestration, or one of its dependencies, was not found.
       
Exception type: FileNotFoundException
Source: mscorlib
Target Site: System.Type GetType(System.String, Boolean)
Help Link:
Additional error information:
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp
When I checked the installation logs there was no error and also checked whether the orchestration was present in the gac on all the servers and it was there.
So there is something must happened the way it was installed which made BizTalk engine to run the orchestration on and off mode. 
And finally it got resolved; below you can find what I did to resolve it.
1. If you encounter the problem like above check all the servers have the assembly gaced.
2. If not gac the dlls in all the server and install the assembly in one server (either by deployment wizard or scripts).
3. Most important thing you should do always is restart the host service for the orchestration in all the servers

List of things I like to see in joost

1. Better visual clue to resize and position the window.
2. More channels and programmes.
3. User interface elements in a fixed postion, than appearing and disappearing.

Things which i liked

1. Nice search feature, to search for your favorite programmes.
2. Stunning video quality, even after making the window size bigger.
3. Flicker free resizing.
4. My Joost customization with many widgets (like weather, news ticker, clock, instant messaging - you can share what you are watching with your IM buddies.) etc.

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Same as below post, we had to sweat it out to make her sit in front of the camera.

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This pic taken today (Dec 25th ‘06) after so much struggle to make her pose for the camera.

Hashmi’s videos

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d571scd, originally uploaded by haja_maideen_m.

Around Jan 2006 on a official visit to Arizona, USA. Utilized some spare time to visit Grand Canyon.

d809scd, originally uploaded by haja_maideen_m.

Took this one in Arizona, USA when travelling to Grand Canyon

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Me, Bhima (in middle), Suresh Raj styed and studied together back in 90s. We met after a long gap in bangalore as responsible family men each with a kid.

Welcome to my blog. Here i will be sharing my thoughts in varying subjects from technology to politics and personal. Stay tuned for my updates.

Painter by heart, electronics engineer by studies, software engineer by profession. Married and blessed with lovely daughter. Working as Software Dev Manager, at Intel Bangalore for last 7 years. Got 10+ years of software development experience in varities of roles, PMI Certified, Got wide experience in managing EAI/B2B/Middleware software projects for high tech semiconductor industry. Technical skills include BizTalk 2004/2006, TIBCO , SAP XI, C#, .NET, SQL 2005, Visual C++.