Popular video games

This is fun: List of best-selling video game franchises. Also good: List of longest-running video game franchises. Before I read the first list my sense of perspective was all off. I certainly hadn’t realised how seriously Mario had nailed it.

I ended up on those Wikipedia pages because I was reading about Capcom. And I was reading about Capcom because I have discovered Fabien Sanglard’s wonderful books.

Online advertising and website popularity

I was doing some research into online advertising and found… nothing… swear!

Also I used alexa.com for the first time to get some reports on my domains, for example jsphp.co which is ranked 5,148,442 in the world.

I’d like to know what the average number of monthly visitors to all websites is (so I could know if my sites were more or less popular than the average website), but my search didn’t turn up any answers.

I bumped into this MLM scam guy too. He did mention one useful thing though: authorize.net, an online payment system.