YouTube closed the browser refresh hack… mostly, but not quite. If you take the code i posted before and add the SwitchProxy firefox plugin to switch your IP, you can still rack up a ton of views. SwitchProxy has a setting to automatically switch the proxy you are using – you can…
Archive for May, 2007
Cracking YouTube, part 2
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007Integrating phpBB in to a community site – part 1
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007PhpBB is definitely one of my favorite open source projects ever. Because its open sourced with the GPL, a huge modding community has emerged full of people molding the forum software in to what they want it to be. Its pretty common for people to add on their own stuff, like spam filters or ways to post YouTube videos…
Blogging, Podcasting and Invisible Communities
Sunday, May 20th, 2007Ryan, a friend of mine and co-designer of iswapyou, has a new podcast called Ichiraku Ramen. It’s a Naruto podcast, and a total nerdgasm of one at that…
Cracking Youtube
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Update: As of 5/21/07, I think YouTube rigged it so it doesn�t update your video views, only your channel views. Thanks to reader Mario for pointing this out.
Mashable recently posted about a user named “SuperMoviesDownload” getting top results on YouTube consistently, and trying to charge $10,000 to allow people to get a top video on YouTube. Mashable says that “it was easy to enter the Most Viewed list on YouTube just by opening some tabs in Firefox and setting them to auto-refresh – no real skill required.” That’s what Mashable said. This is what they meant…
