Has anyone tried logging on to their Amatomu account today. I believe the South African blog aggregator has been hacked or something else screwy is going on because I can get into someone else’s account wih my log-on details.

I tried logging on with two different accounts and each time found myself mysteriously in the account of one Daniel Born. Now if I was mean and nasty I could have deleted all three of his blogs. But I’m not so I didn’t.

Maybe this has to do with changes on the site and is not a result of malicous hacking. Anyone else having a similar problem today.

Click on image to see what I mean. If you are Daniel Born, I’m sorry about this. Maybe you are logging on to my account?

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So what’s your website or blog worth? What the suckers with the money are prepared to pay, you might think. Well, maybe not. I’ve found a fascinating real time estimator of website values based on mathematical algorhythms called Stimator that chomps info from your websites (i.e. referrals from various sources)  and mixes it up with other economic stuff  I don’t pretend to understand. What’s so much fun about it is that in under a minute it  gives you a_ value — in US dollars nog al.

A half  hour of noodling around with South african URLs on Stimator’s calculator produced these results — and some  are mighty surprising. Of the big four news websites — IOL, News24, the Mail & Guardian and The Times — IOL came tops and the M&G second but News24 and The Times were beaten by the Daily Dispatch’s website (in East London). Here are the estimations done on 24 March:

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