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Spam sucks!

The spam problem on this blog is a never ending cycle. It just comes and comes with no breaks!

Since I added the marvelous Akismet plugin  more than a year ago it has blocked 13,000+ comments. It with that, it’s hard to tell if there was any legitimate comments in there, but I am not willing to go though as many. The content within the spam replies is rather funny at times, but is a massive pest more than anything.

Also, most of it comes from Russia by the looks of it.

After a month of taking it easy and doing minimal work on the site i’ve decided that it’s time to start working on it more again. But at the same time there are other projects which have to be started too such as some which will help to earn some money online.

There are a few reasons why I want to start earning more money online such as for extra money for myself and for the initial investment for Project-SN’s launch in the near future. I’d like to be able to earn enough to have the site be launched on a VPS or Dedicated Server rather than on a shared one (like it currently is). This is mainly to reduce the bad reputation which can quickly come upon the site if it starts running slow or goes down in it’s early stages of public life.

Another reason is also to help pay for the hosting costs as I know that Project-SN most likely won’t make money for a while and i’d like to keep sponsorship on it to a minimum, hence other means to pay for the sites expenses.

Back to the site though, currently improvements are been made to the security as well as the enabling of notifications. They seem to be a little buggy at the moment but I am working on it and it should be working properly very shortly. I’ll also be updating the Alpha version which is available to the public after I complete these updates.

Stay tuned…

It appears that Bebo.com has just added it’s own Applications platform for third parties to develop applications for their site (alike to Facebook). There were also several applications which have been accompanied with it’s launch aswell. Apparently the same standards as Facebook were used for their developer platform allowing developers to add their applications onto either site.

After a little bit of testing and adding an application to my profile I have to say it works very well and is as easy to use as on Facebook. A good feature implemented with it all is the applications limit, only 8 per profile which should help alot with page loading times, unlike Facebook where there seems to be no limit and pages can take a while to load on broadband.

For something more in depth about it be sure to visit Mashable’s post about it.

Bebo Applications: http://bebo.com/c/apps/browse_apps

The Project-SN Bug Tracker is now up and running and should help alot with finding and fixing issues which appear in the alpha versions of the site. It is open to anyone who would like to post about the bugs and issues they come across. At the moment I have disabled registration so if you would like an account post here or use the contact form on the blog (with your username and email address) and i’ll create an account for you.

The Bug Tracker can be found here:

http://www.chopstickles.com/bugs

That is all for this post! An update will be in the next post.