Interesting trivia about Digg

TechCrunch has some interesting trivia about Digg on Digg’s 2 year anniversary. Here is the trivia,

* First story to hit the home page after officially releasing: http://digg.com/tech_news/Google_Cheat_Sheet

* # of users who registered in the first week: 578
* # of registered users today: 707,593

* First 10 users who registered and are still actively Digging:

http://digg.com/users/Waldoze
http://digg.com/users/drinet
http://digg.com/users/mkirk
http://digg.com/users/jkenzer
http://digg.com/users/nickster
http://digg.com/users/Anthony
http://digg.com/users/dkurfurst
http://digg.com/users/bnitro
http://digg.com/users/CUBApete
http://digg.com/users/martinhuard

* # of servers Digg had at launch: 1 (rented)
* # of servers Digg has today: 103

* # of stories submitted the first week: 923
* # of stories submitted last week: 15,412
* # of stories submitted (all-time): 1,001,865

Mike even have put forward a complete coverage about Digg. Take a look at here for the complete coverage.

Congratulations Digg Team on the 2nd year anniversary!!!

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FICO Scores – Explained

You’ve been there and I’ve been there. We all watch our credit history as much as we watch our bank accounts. True? One of the main components of the credit history is the FICO score, you know that.

FICO stands for Fair Isaac Corporation. The credit scores are calculated based on the FICO algorithm/formula. The exact formulae is a top secret and is not available to the public. But the Fair Isaac company has disclosed how much percent they give weightage to the influential factors. Here are they,

• 35% – Punctuality of payment in the past (only includes payments later than 30 days past due)
• 30% - The amount of debt, expressed as the ratio of current revolving debt (credit card balances, etc.) to total available revolving credit (credit limits)
• 15% – Length of credit history
• 10% – Types of credit used (installment, revolving, consumer finance)
• 10% – Recent search for credit and/or amount of credit obtained recently

Well, that gives us an idea of what to watch for if you are to maintain a good credit score.

Technorati tags: Credit Score, FICO Score, FICO calculation formula, Finance, Personal Finance, Money Management

My post-surgery update

Hello Friends –

You might be just wondering what happened to my blog and why is it not getting updated that frequently. May be you must have read my previous post on my accident. I just wanted to update you on my status.

Thank God the surgery went fine. My post surgery recovery is unexpectedly taking more time than what doctors have anticipated as I got more swelling around the eye and have got a balloon effect around my eye that’s making the recovery a bit hard and long. I’m at discomfort when I look at the monitor for a prolonged period of time and so I wouldn’t promise you at this time that I’ll be posting that much to my blog. Rest assured…I’ll try my best to keep my blog updated as much as possible. Hope you understand my situation.

Thanks for your understanding.

- Askar