SilverlightCream has been running for about 18 months and has aggregated over 2900 articles in the database. Some developers have told me that they read SilverlightCream or my blog and don't bother trying to aggregate links anymore. That may or may not be a good idea because it's through the network of readers that I find lots of blogs that I end up following.
While at the MVP Summit last week my room-mate, Michael Washington of Silverlight Desktop fame, was discussing possible enhancements to the site. We added some things and while everything isn't ready for public consumption, some is.
If you haven't already noticed, all my links now go through a redirection page that is capturing hit counts for the articles. Since this is live code on the site, no matter the age of the article, if it gets displayed and the link taken, it will get a hit.
The blog is different, because while it might be nice, there's no way I'm going back through over 500 blog posts and modifying all the links :) .... so only links posted since March 2, 2009 on my blog are taking hits. This is a bit of a disadvantage to older posts, but over time it will level out.
The end result of this is I've linked a page I'm calling 'Skim'. If SilverlightCream is pulling the best of what's out there in the world of Silverlight (in my judgement), then the Skim page skims the cream from that and displays the articles being hit in the last 7 days listing how many unique IP hits they've received.
We also coded up a WebService that needs more work but I'll eventually expose that so that authors could display a widget on their site of their top-read articles, or the last 10 articles, or whatever you like. Let me know your thoughts on this and as I proceed I'll try to address all realistic comments.
I also (finally) widened out the page displays to a more realistic size and increased some font sizes. It wasn't until just now I realized I've got a font size issue on the bottom of the left border, but it's not killing anything, so I'll take care of it tonight.
Any problems or suggestions, feel free to write!
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posted @ Monday, March 09, 2009 11:15 AM