On 4th March 2010, Telnic has updated it’s Tel proxy and the CTH hosting. There are a number of new and fantastic features that will help you customize your .tel site.

New .Tel Layout & Features

• Ability to embed phptp/logo
• Ability to change the background using selection of templates
• Ability to have different graphics
• Ability to enable Search Functionality
• Ability to use custom icons for online services
• Ability to embed Google Adsense Ads

However Telnic should consider

• Replacing the full display of the URL with the use of Anchor text in place
• Ability to enable or disable of “Learn More” link on the new .Tel layout (Disabled by Default)
• Ability to enable or disable the “Manage Link” on the New .Tel Layout

Apart from the recent Telhosting update, DotTel domains are facing hosting issues like long delays in update propogation, errors in the Telhosting panel. Hopefully Telnic is in a position to resolve these new issues sooner.

I have put this on DTSAnalyzer.com and on a seperate server. So this should perform even better, increased speed.

Thanks for your support and encouragement

I am positive that I will find some time to complete the server transfer. Thanks for all your support.

Normally the story submitter avatar is displayed adjucent to the story.
Avatar is one of the easiest way to identify if the story is submitted by your friend(s).

I believe Digg wants to reduce the diggs from friends as a good network of friends circle can influence the number of diggs on not so good story and sometimes (could be majority of times) more number of diggs could lead to only those who have strong network of friends.

With this update, there will be less number of diggs from those users who diggs only the stories that are submitted by their friends.
Because they have to read the user names before digging the story.

If digg really wants to reduce the influence, why not it just remove the submitted by info on the upcoming list and just display on the individual story page?

Well, you cannot see the same using a general web browser yet

With the success of DotTel Analysis v1 (800+ reports generated since launch of DotTel Analyzer v1 which is hardly 1 month & 20 days), I am much encouraged to release the new version a bit sooner

New Feature List

• Pie Chart displaying the percentage of crawler visits.
• All Graphs & Pie chart will now display in PDF Report.
• Email the PDF to your inbox – Dont want to save the generated report? no problem now you can send it to your email for future reference.
• Upto 10 MB log file size.
• Improved accuracy.
• Crawler Stats.
• Unique Visits Excluding Spider Crawls – Improved.
• Visible stat counter

N’joy the analysis!

There has been drop in the submissions (at least to my observation). Earlier when I used to check upcoming section -> recommended stories, I used to see at least 17 to 23 pages with all the recommended stories. But since the update, I have seen only 5 pages of recommended stories and sometimes not even a single recommended story. The reason for this is quite visible and its because of the drop in submissions by Digg.com members.

This is because the chances of getting the story to front page is dropped and looks like everyone are concerned about loosing their digg power if majority of the submissions do not get to front page or may be worried of loosing their existing popularity ratio.

Today as I was browsing the recommended section, I was shocked to see 2 days old story being recommended by Digg which I believe could be in front page as it already had more than 1000 diggs (votes).

Note: To view, click on the image.

For any reason, it’s clear that Digg.com is short of stories or spam.

It was fun and worth the weekend!