platereader
Joined: Dec 08, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-08 19:35
Hey!
I just tried the new red Thumbshots ball (next to green Google ball at bottom of page) and I have to say I am very impressed! I'm clickin' sites that I thought I'd never visit in a million years. Thumbshots make up for the seldom poor editting job at DMOZ. Oh lala...they have a cute Adult category too...hehe :D
http://dmoz.org/Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Advertising/
There's a cross topic at resource-zone. Seems like the editors, users found thumbshots so useful they added thumbshots into DMOZ faster than they add my links usually:
http://resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=53603&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
I'm glad anyways. Finally a worthy addition to DMOZ.
Very cool improvement! 
PReader
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tomrudy
Joined: Dec 08, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-08 20:35
Just checked it. Very nice indeed...
Anyone knows how to add thumbshots into my own ODP directory using one of the live scripts? I checked out ODP++ and Anaconda. They don't have it yet. I really want to add thumbshots to my site. Post it here if you know. I use PHP mostly but Perl is fine too.
Tom Rudy
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crash
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Joined: Dec 02, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-08 22:55
That is pretty slick, wonder if they will keep it to ODP (which I would do were I them) or release them for inclusion with the Feed (which I would want were I using ODP data).
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Mark Wolk
Joined: Sep 19, 1999
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Posted: 2003-Dec-08 23:49
It does not work on my computer. On the page http://open.thumbshots.org/Business/Marketing_and_Advertising/Advertising thumbnails do not appear at all.
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crash
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Joined: Dec 02, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 00:19
hmm - did you scroll down? they are not at the top (categories) but with the sites listed only..
hey - i just noticed it's got it's own url! http://open.thumbshots.org/
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 01:15
The data is hosted externally to http://dmoz.org/ on separate servers.
Thumbshots is just one of many sites that use ODP data, but this one does so in a completely different way to the others. The idea has not come from within the ODP at all, but was openly discussed at RZ before any actions were taken.
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naz
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 02:17
the thumbshot to my site is over 2 years old
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tomrudy
Joined: Dec 08, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 02:40
According to their posting on resource-zone, they're updating all the thumbshots right now as we speak because of the recent dmoz-thumbshots popularity. Once done, they should be fresh and kept fresh every month or so 
http://resource-zone.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=53603&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1
Tom
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naz
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 03:03
thanks that is good news
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Mark Wolk
Joined: Sep 19, 1999
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 10:35
Does not work for me at all from New Zealand. I only get text pages with the green ODP gifs. Results are displayed separated by large amounts of empty space. On the left hand side of the page, I can only see empty space. I tried to access the pages via anonymiser.com, but it is impossible as well.
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tomrudy
Joined: Dec 08, 2003
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Posted: 2003-Dec-09 16:51
Mark,
On resource-zone, someone else mentionned they have the same problem because they were using some ad-blocking software and/or wierd firewall. You can report your bug here directly:
http://www.thumbshots.org/bugreporting.pxf
Tom
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Mark Wolk
Joined: Sep 19, 1999
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 04:12
Thanks. I reported the bug and was efficiently helped. For future reference, in my Norton Internet Security, I went to Options - Internet Security - Web Content and I added www.thumbshots.org in the list of sites. At this stage, that allows me to see 98% of thumbnails. Some thumbnails still do not display at all.
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windharp
Joined: Mar 11, 2002
# Posts: 513
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Posted: 2003-Dec-10 07:22
" Some thumbnails still do not display at all."
Not all thumbnails do exist. That's most likely why :o)
Anyway, I don't see it as a good way that users have to add thumbshots.org to their firewall by hand... :-/
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tomrudy
Joined: Dec 08, 2003
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Posted: 2004-Jan-06 15:57
Looks like they just updated all the thumbshots. Great work, it's really useful!
http://open.thumbshots.org
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jan-07 01:58
Can you verify the "all" or is it just "some" or "most".
How many categories dod you look at?
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windharp
Joined: Mar 11, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jan-07 07:43
Well, at least the owner said so over at RZ, and why should he do so otherwise?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2004-Jan-07 22:37
Fine! The original post just said that it "looks like they were updated" but without quoting a source.
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