June 2009

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Most common Popmundo names

June 28, 2009 in Namesearch, Statistics

Yesterday I published some Popmundo name statistics, but here’s some I haven’t published before. Most common names (first name and family name combined).

Turns out that there are 24 names that occur 6 times or more in the game.

So here’s the list:

6 times

David Russell
Stephen Taylor
Pınar Sever
David Taylor
Paco López
Su Şahin
David Hughes
David Davis
İclal Şahin
Edward Cullen

7 times

David Williams
John Taylor
Scott Williams
Mark Johnson
Mark Williams
Juan Fernández
Chris Johnson
Grace Johnson

8 times

Kevin Taylor
Mark Ward
David Johnson
Baby Gui

9 times

Michael Johnson

10 times

Baby Tai

You can search and verify the names if you like. My name search is always at your disposal:

http://popodeus.com/namesearch/

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Name database updated again

June 27, 2009 in Namesearch, Statistics

In the middle of the summer heat, what would be cooler than having a fresh name database? Well probably some ice cream which I’m having right now, but here’s the stats for this week:

http://popodeus.com/namesearch/

Number of names: 355,792
Different firstnames: 13,464
Different familynames: 41,332
Name minimum length: 5
Name maximum length: 48
Mean: 13.927 characters/name
Standard deviation: 3.414
Skewness: 1.321
Variance: 11.658
All the letters used in names, from least common to most common:
[Ė, ľ, し, ご, さ, こ, М, Ū, Þ, Ð, ら, ゆ, で, あ, け, ん, ð, き, じ, À, ろ, ひ, þ, ù, œ, ű, Ą, Ő, ì, Ţ, ,, à, ., Ø, Õ, Ó, Ż, Ä, ò, Ć, Ś, ő, Â, Ú, ß, ź, ’, ´, Đ, đ, ń, Í, æ, Ł, ż, ţ, ï, ś, ą, Ž, Å, ę, õ, û, Č, Š, É, ë, å, ø, ă, ê, ô, ž, î, è, Á, ñ, ', ł, š, ú, ū, â, Ü, č, ã, Q, ć, ä, X, q, -, ó, U, x, Ş, İ, ė, Ç, á, í, Ö, Z, ö, é, W, I, j, w, ç, O, V, ğ, Y, ş, f, N, F, J, H, P, R, p, T, L, ü, E, ı, D, K, G, b, C, v, B, z, g, M, S, A, h, c, y, k, m, d, u, s, t, o, l, r, i, n, <space> , e, a]

Most common first names

David : 1331
John : 1020
Paul : 900
Pınar : 795
Michael : 792
Zeynep : 771
Emma : 769
Emily : 755
Kevin : 722
Mark : 685
Anna : 669
Su : 661
Daniel : 646
Scott : 644
Olivia : 640
Hande : 629
Danny : 624
Özlem : 616
Jessica : 595
Elizabeth : 573
Sezen : 572
Peter : 570
Grace : 558
Simin : 548
Steve : 543
Chris : 541
Ava : 538
Alex : 534
Sophia : 530
Laura : 528
Rachel : 527
Isabella : 525
Yasemin : 517
Ian : 504
Amanda : 498
Alan : 489
James : 487
Samantha : 486
Hannah : 484
Alexis : 483
Aslı : 470
Abigail : 459
Gary : 458
Eva : 453
Jonathan : 451
Robert : 450
Yaprak : 446
Brian : 443
Tuba : 438
José : 436
Lee : 428
Başak : 419
Sarah : 418
Nisan : 415
Chloe : 413
Emre : 410
Ada : 407
Seda : 404
Nil : 402
Megan : 401
Christopher : 400
Baby : 396
Isabel : 389
Ogün : 388
Ekin : 387
Mehtap : 384
Seçkin : 382
Victoria : 367
Ege : 365
Sydney : 364
Andrea : 359
Özge : 358
Deniz : 356
Neil : 352
Ece : 351
Ana : 344
Jason : 343
Dean : 340
Solmaz : 332
Paco : 331
Ceren : 329
Thomas : 327
Gabriel : 326
Suna : 322
Berrak : 315
Sandra : 314
Efe : 311
Diana : 309
Sara : 305
Darren : 303
Martin : 301
Phil : 300
Stuart : 297
Christian : 294
Lucas : 293
Karina : 292
Arzu : 286
Adam : 285
Ela : 284
Simon : 283

Most common family names

Şahin : 536
Williams : 473
Taylor : 468
Johnson : 449
Koç : 385
Çetin : 383
Kaya : 372
Murray : 366
Rüştü : 363
Yıldız : 359
Yılmaz : 358
Alemdar : 337
Kılıç : 336
Duran : 325
Özdal : 307
Küçük : 302
Sever : 296
Thomas : 293
Karahanlı : 292
Tuna : 288
Karahan : 285
Aktaş : 283
Anık : 282
Martin : 275
Doğan : 271
Yücel : 269
Avcı : 268
Çakar : 267
Coşkun : 265
Evans : 264
Şen : 258
Bursa : 254
Edwards : 251
Campbell : 249
Gercek : 248
Gündüz : 247
Tural : 246
Erkan : 245
Topaloğlu : 241
López : 240
Sertel : 238
Akyol : 236
Yeğin : 233
Şirin : 231
Çolak : 227
Göztepe : 226
Akut : 225
Hughes : 224
dos Santos : 220
Türktaş : 219
de Oliveira : 217
Gümüştaş : 216
Müge : 214
Üstün : 213
Hoca : 212
Köprülü : 210
Karabekir : 209
Ruiz : 206
Güzelizmir : 205
Avcıbaşı : 204
Kayaoğlu : 203
Köse : 201
Silva : 200
Koraltan : 199
Turan : 198
İnan : 195
James : 194
Şekercioğlu : 193
Sağlam : 190
Orga : 189
Onat : 188
Erol : 187
Tuncay : 186
Gray : 184
Kloraksatan : 183
Erbakan : 182
Ellibirekran : 181
Öyken : 180
Polatkan : 179
Özkan : 178
Ryan : 177
Adams : 176
Fernández : 175
Sarı : 174
Topçu : 172
Akyüz : 171
Topal : 170
Özcan : 169
Ökte : 168
Kartal : 167
Başar : 166
Altınkaymak : 165
Smith : 164
Uçakkaldıran : 162
Kemalettin : 160
Anaçoğlu : 159
Allen : 158
Kutluğ : 157
Tellioğlu : 156
Davies : 155

Number of family names with n users:

n: 1 => 15,866 (38.387%)
n: 2 => 6,629 (16.038%)
n: 3 => 3,692 (8.933%)
n: 4 => 2,303 (5.572%)
n: 5 => 1,538 (3.721%)
n: 6 => 1,007 (2.436%)
n: 7 => 890 (2.153%)
n: 8 => 722 (1.747%)
n: 9 => 637 (1.541%)
n: 10 => 562 (1.36%)
n: 11 => 527 (1.275%)
n: 12 => 461 (1.115%)
n: 13 => 364 (0.881%)
n: 14 => 332 (0.803%)
n: 15 => 332 (0.803%)
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Popmundo

June 26, 2009 in Uncategorized

Popmundo, a game of Pop and Rock (and music in general) has its idols and inspiration. The king of Pop, Michael Jackson surely was one of them. May he rest in peace.

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CSS sprite idiocy

June 24, 2009 in New Technology, rant

This blog post has nothing to do with Popmundo or Popodeus in general, but this is just my quick rant on the current trend of CSS sprites.

They suck.

They’re too complicated to build, redesigning your site after you’ve used them is more difficult, changing one icon or graphic forces you to resend the entire sprite map, they use up more memory if there are blank spots in a huge grid. It’s a huge step backwards in technology, to times when machines were very limited and sprite buffers were an absolute necessity to get blazing fast sprite blitting into video memory. We are not in those times anymore!

Seriously, what’s wrong with HTTP 1.1 keep-alive? If we need to improve network transmission speeds, lets improve network technology and protocols. How about sending all images in a .jar (or .zip) file? Instantly send a bunch of related files. Jar files used to be quite popular way of sending multiple .class files (Java applets) to the browser, why isn’t there technology to send a whole site zipped up in a tight package instead of sending individual item separately compressed. Wouldn’t that be awesome!

I say no to sprites, they suck badly.

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Previous site

June 22, 2009 in Website Changes

I got lots of old and previous sites, but for those of who need to access the previous version, it can be found here http://tr.popodeus.com/

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Whoa what happened here!?

June 21, 2009 in Website Changes

Oh yes, I took the new website live, despite still having some serious technical issues. I decided holding back wasn’t an option anymore. We’re going forward, baby!
And that’s the direction that should make us all happy.

Right now I got a long “things to fix” list, but… please leave a comment if you find anything odd, not working or just have something to ask or suggest.

Main problem: IE6, IE7 and IE8… Quite untested for one reason. I don’t have those browsers so I don’t use them. I recommend Firefox or Opera.

Snuggly isn’t working again, I think I broke the upload code. And it was working so perfectly… I’ll go through any last-minute changes that may have messed it up.

Anyways… Comment!

P.S. you can access the old site with http://tr.popodeus.com/

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Name statistics

June 10, 2009 in Statistics

Yesterday there were 358,257 characters in Popmundo.
Only 13,489 different first names, of which 3,076 (22.8%) are unique.
There are 41,691 different family names of which 15,987 (38.3%) are unique, meaning only one character has it.

Full list of unique Popmundo names:
http://popodeus.com/unique-poponames-2009-06-09.html (warning, it’s a 173kB HTML file with over 19,000 lines)

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Popodeus version 2.0

June 4, 2009 in Snuggly, Website Changes

Any loyal visitor to Popodeus may have noticed that the site occasionally changes looks, and then the suddenly disappears offline, pops up again and looks different. Well, that’s because we’ve had some server troubles and had to relocate the content quite a few times between multiple servers. And something seems to break or change on each move.

During the last couple of months I’ve been working on a new Popodeus.com site that will have a consistent layout, an easily translatable interface (I want my website to speak fluent English, Turkish and Spanish!) and in general, everything will be updated to work faster and better than ever. This is all possible because of our super fast server in Turkey at my disposal.

Popodeus Beta Website

The new website design is NOT complete enough that I’m confident it will be final, but I really need to release the new site to be online as soon as possible. Not because it’s perfect, but because the current Popodeus.com website is truly horrible in design and has been a temporary solution all the time.

Many have asked about the Snuggly Diary Analyzer which I used to have online before, if it will ever come back again. And I have good news for you. Yes! The previous Snuggly disappeared during the last server crash, and I decided to abandon the old and slow v1.0 code and focus on 2.0 instead.

Snuggly Example

Right now I would estimate it’s working quite well with my own test files I’ve tried with so far, but there are still a few things to fix before I can launch it for public use.

Snuggly version 2.0 will display you two graphs. One resembles the old one in many ways and shows raw counts of interactions per week and a summary total. The other image wasn’t available in the previous version. It’s a scatter plot (or a bubble chart) to give you a handy overview of when you interacted with who.

Scatter plot visualizes event types and names over time

Right now the the only problems I have so far is with fine-tuning the visuals, and trying to make a “messy” graph look “clean”.
I’ve made literally hundreds of test charts and haven’t come up with anything that I am truly happy with yet. In the next couple of days creating a good base look will be the focus of my efforts. Later on, you as the end user will have the possibility to select a style from multiple options. For an initial version 2.0, maybe we can have a public beta release this weekend, who knows!

Start copying your Popmundo diaries into a text file, you may soon need that, so better be prepared! :P

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