Otaku.fm


Otaku.fm is a way for me to say a big thanks to Featured Feed members for driving traffic to dannychoo.com. So what does Otaku.fm do?
- Aggregates all Featured Feed members blogs. All blog posts are available in the main view and are also sorted by popular categories such as figures, Japan, otaku etc. Each of these views has its own RSS feed.
- Thumbnails are generated from the first image found in a post making it easier to choose what you want to read.
- Click on a members name to see all their posts. Members posts are available in stack and grid view. Grid view makes it particularly easy to choose the item you want to read.
- Members can monetize by placing Google Adsense and Amazon products on thier views and detail pages.
- All pages are search engine optimized to drive as much traffic as possible to members blogs.
- Particularly useful for bloggers looking for content to blog about.
- Increases discoverability of bloggers content. Many blog platforms bury previous posts. Otaku.fm displays posts in a way so that previous posts are easily available through the thumbnailed grid views.
Below: The top page of Otaku.fm - all posts that have thumbnails are aggregated here. This is the first place I check when looking for stuff to write as I want to make sure that I drive as much traffic as possible to Featured Feed members.
Posts where thumbnails cant be created are dumped in the "NoThumbs" category. There could be many reasons why a thumbnail cant be identified including...
- Original feed has images disabled.
- Site owner does not allow images to be displayed outside of their domain.
- Post does not have images or img tag not formatted properly.
- The RSS parser I'm using needs refining.




Through Otaku.fm, I want to help you monetize from your own content as much as possible. If you don't feel like having ads on your real blog - you can stick ads on Otaku.fm instead - all these settings are available through your edit account settings on this site.
Now here is an important bit of information for current bloggers. Some bloggers who have their blog registered with certain aggregators have a strong possibility of having their adsense earnings stolen. For example, lets say you wrote about "Gundam 00." Your post is available on your site and the aggregator site. When one does a search for "Gundam 00", the search result page at Google/Yahoo etc will show the aggregators page above or near the actual post on your site. If a person clicks through to the aggregators page and clicks on a Google adsense ad, you have potentially lost money to the aggregator.
Otaku.fm prevents this by making sure that the Google adsense placements contain *your* tag. Its your content - dont let others monetize and take advantage of you. The publisher-id cant be left empty and defaults to my tag if you do not designate one - make sure you do as you have nothing to loose and much to gain.
If you are registered with the number one anime aggregator Antenna then you need not worry as they don't create detail pages for each of your posts.
If you are registered with other aggregators that create detail pages and place Google adsense on your content, and if the thought of money being generated by others from your content turns you off, then you may want to request that your blog be removed from their indexer.
You work hard on creating content and are monetizing to pay for hosting fees and a few figures - dont let anybody steal your earnings!





I mentioned that this was the first site to join the DC Network. Figure.fm will be the second. All Figure.fm accounts will be merged into a dannychoo.com account - I will announce the merge process soon.
The thousands of registered members at dannychoo.com will be able to use their account not only to post on figure.fm, but to also use the other community sites that will soon join the DC Network.
If you are interested in reading about life in Japan, seeing photos taken daily around Tokyo, like Japanese subculture (anime, manga, figures, Dollfies) then you may want to start delving into the Japan or Figure categories for a start or have a gander at all photo articles.
If you don't have much time now, maybe subscribe to the RSS Feed, Twitter Feed or join the other readers in the FaceBook Page.
Alternatively, you may want to read more about the site.
If you are a regular reader then this message will probably annoy you each time - hide it forever.
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CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Wondering if the dot in the title affects the comment post form...
http://gashapons.blogspot.com/
Hey Danny! Otaku.fm is awesome. A nice place to find nice stuff in the dannychoo.com community.
Graphic Art/Pre-press/3D animator/wannabe hikkikomori
http://moeidolatry.com
Ooooh, awesome :3
Although I noticed my thumbnails come up with "no image" of Mirai =/
Thanks for the continued community contributions :3
Student
http://bakaaaa.wordpress.com
NICE! DANNY! Im feeding you in my blog. =P http://bakaaaa.blogspot.com
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Jay Cee,
Thanks ^^
Aya,
It does that with some feeds. If you have another feed give me url for it.
Choo,
Thanks and just activated you ^^
Technical Writer/Editor, Designer, Collector, Artist, Nice Guy
http://www.xjaymanx.com/toyboxx
Kudos, Danny!
Pretty soon, we'll be able to customize our profile and directory pages, haha! Keep up the fantastic work! =)
Student
http://bakaaaa.wordpress.com
ah danny!thanks a lot but i cant find my blog in ur featured feeds? XD
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Choo,
It may take up to an hour for the feed to appear after activation - its in the featured feeds section > http://www.dannychoo.com/feedpartners/eng/
Oh, And you forgot to enter your feed address - I done it for you.
Student
http://bakaaaa.wordpress.com
AH ic.. thanks ^^ and here is it just in case =P
http://bakaaaa.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
p.s.
you rock danny =D
13 year old gunpla legend... kinda
class act danny, Well Done :)
Anime Store Owner, artist, Web master
http://www.chucksanimeshrine.com
Awesome stuff. Thank so much Danny.
ひきこもり
http://www.darkmirage.com
Woo. It's me!
Man, those Amazon recommendations are old.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Hey DarkMirage,
If you update your products then changes may take up to an hour to change over at otaku.fm. You should be able to see changes in your profile page on this site straight away though.
Non-profit org. volunteering work addict
Very nice.
I'm not used to RSS feeds-related sites, but I will have fun using that one once in awhile.
Thanks!
student
wow awesome!
Eternal Dreamer
Damn. That's all really very nice. I'm tempted to start a blog just to be featured. This could get big :)
Eternal Dreamer
And it's awesome that it recognizes me! No more annoying registering!
PS: an edit function for the comments would be appreciated :3
Eternal Dreamer
How about keats.otaku.fm?
That would be awesome :)
Software Engineer
http://www.neilduckett.com
Fantastic idea Danny .... i actually checked my stats today and say some traffic coming from otaku.fm and traced it back to here .... it works well, thanks man.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
keats,
No plans for subdomains but if there are enough requests then I'll look into it ^^
Student
http://basement.halfarenaissance.net
Woo! Thumbs up Danny!!
Graphic Designer
http://www.valiantho.com/
Danny,speaking of feature feed, mine doesn't have a blog name on it for some reason haha
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Hey Valho,
Will change the parser running on this site soon which should fix the problem. Gomennasai!
IT, Programmer, Otaku, ...
http://blog.jpopdb.org/
Funny, I was just having a look at otaku.fm yesterday evening, and today I see it's ready ;p Great idea!
Danny, how are the amazon recommended products handled? Are they the ones that are put on your blog or in your feed? Or is it handled from the amazon site itself?
IT, Programmer, Otaku, ...
http://blog.jpopdb.org/
I think I just found it. It's the ASINs on the profile page, right?
And btw, no I don't use any of the RSS feeds of dannychoo.com, I visit the site itself ;p
.NET/Web Developer
http://scrumptious.animeblogger.net
Wow...that must have taken quite a lot of work. Kudos to you Danny.
I don't use any RSS feeds myself as well, I visit the sites I frequent personally. :D I just prefer it that way.
Troubleshooter, Universal Exports
http://funkyblueame.tumblr.com/
ありがとうダニー! -Looking at code and trying to learn from it- Wow, I have so much to learn. I going to become the prevail sponge. With feature like these it's as if we are all becoming one huge otaku portal.
You are adding some great features. All we need now is features in Japanese. ^_- Good for all of still learning and for all the Japanese speakers.
I do use the RSS feeds here at your site. It allows me to keep up with what is going on. I can't view your site at work or on campus, but I can read RSS.
Service desk support
http://lookingglass.kokidokom.net
Interesting idea!
One question, Is it possible to change the category of individual posts or are they all sorted as whatever is set up as our website category?
If that's the case, I had better change my category...
student
http://animesugoi.animeblogger.net/
Thanks a lot Danny ^^, now I need to go fix my image problem lol.
Webdesigner
http://www.fictionjunction.be
Hey Danny!
That's a wonderful tool you've made here! Thank you so much for this!
Ork Warlord
Thank, Danny, to make our live even more freak!!
3d Modeller/Time Lord
Another great addition to the DC network.
I got a question Danny... when is figure.fm going to get out of the beta stage. I've been wanting to register for a long time now... but I can't... so sad :(
anime/cosplay events organizer
http://www.cosplay.ph
another great addition to the growing DC network ^^
... now i really need t get to work on my site lolz XDDD
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Hatix,
Yep - asins on the profile page.
Edward,
Been thinking about adding something in terms of Japanese language learning.
Gundamjehutykai,
Afraid not - can only categorize your site only.
Dan of July,
December ^^
Dropping computers, starting all over again at Journalism
http://xspblog.com
Nice. As soon as I have the time, I'll look into this.
For now, I'm only using the main RSS feed.
Google Reader is great. But it's also a curse... I spend almost 5 hours a day on it.
http://obliviousity.wordpress.com/
Hi Danny,
I have linked you from my blog using RSS. Can you activate me?
Thanks,
shiro
Graphic Art/Pre-press/3D animator/wannabe hikkikomori
http://moeidolatry.com
Not sure if it's possible, but would you be able to have a selection of using the second picture in a post instead of the first, as the thumbnail image?
Thanks
http://rianime.blogspot.com/
Hi Danny,
I put the RSS feed to my site, could you activate me :) ?
Web Designer
http://xorsyst.com
Hi Danny. I have added your RSS feed to my site, was wondering if I could have an activation too? ありがとうございます!
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Xorsyst, Random Image,
Sorry for the delay - activated.
Aya,
Not now I'm afraid ToT.
Wannabe Web Developer
http://www.sakuafk.com
Hi Danny,
I added your RSS feed on my site. Can you activate me when you have a chance ? ^_^
IT TechGuy
http://starboykb.blogspot.com
I added your RSS to my blog. Please have a take a look!
Wanderer of the Mist
http://hangmen13.16ops.com/
Added your RSS to my new blog.
Blogger
http://twitter.com/yonasu
I added your feed to my blog (http://www.sanokame.com/). Could you activate me? ^^
I've added my feed here, but here's the URL if you need it http://feeds.feedburner.com/sanokame
Thanks! =)
Journalist, Magazine Editor, Web Developer, Entrepreneur
http://jamart.forge-craft.com
Mr Choo, may I ask that you activate my feed please? http://jamart.forge-craft.com (Art site, have many manga fans, otaku and things) Thanks! Been viewing your site for AAaaaaaages now, only signed up recently.
CEO MIrai Inc
http://www.dannychoo.com/profile/eng/
Sorry for very late reply - activated.
Video Game Developer
http://radiantdreamer.wordpress.com
Hey Danny,
I'm still waiting for mine to be activated. Not sure if it is yet. -_-;
Overload
http://yitza.wordpress.com
Hey Danny, got a problem. My feed doesn't seem to be appearing on Otaku.fm or Featured sites. It shows up on my Site Directory though, just no where else.
Overload
http://yitza.wordpress.com
Oh wait... nvm it's not showing up cos there's no thumbnail. However, my feed still isn't appearing on the featured feed list.
Programmer Trainee
http://jointsareokay.blogspot.com
I'm still getting the hang of it.
I was so stupid to think that asking for activation would get my site to be shown here.
I forgot to activate my RSS feed.
So...I have a question.
What if I had feed activated, but didn't have a feed when I asked for it? Will adding it in my profile work now?
Graphic Designer
http://woofan.net
Hi Danny. We request approbal for http://woofan.blogspot.com/ your feed is unde Danny Choo
^_^
http://www.mangaspirits.com
Hello Danny Choo.
This is a feed activation requeest for http://www.mangaspirits.com.
Feed (in Japanese) is on the bottom right hand column.
Thanks!
browsing the nets
http://otakuposts.blogspot.com/
Hi Danny, any method to deactivate a feed?
NSF
http://www.speedknight.com
hi danny,
it seems that the recent post on my blog is not updated,
on the the feed on danny choo yet,
however it is on my feed burner?
What cause of this?
NSF
http://www.speedknight.com
opps sorry this is my feed burner url:
http://feeds.feedburner.com//speedknight
Accountant
http://www.myninethings.com
Hi there Danny, I have added your Featured Feeds to my site. Could you please include my blog in your feeds list.
http://www.myninethings.com/
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/9things
Thanks,
Junjinkai.
IT Expert / System, Network, Security Administrator
http://www.digitalanime.com.br
Guy I need help with this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4GD2PHj2n4
Shinigami
http://superchan-oktaku.blogspot.com/
read the first 3 sentence !!!!
UPDATE: This post is outdated - please go to here for details and request. Requests left in this post will be ignored. Announcing the launch of the first site to join the DC Network - Otaku.fm. The DC Network will comprise of sites that use the dannychoo.com member account to manage user authentication and login.
Otaku, Gamer, Collector, Forum Moderator
http://pandatr0nics.wordpress.com/
hey danny please include my blog into your feeds list.
I have added your Featured Feeds on my blog.
http://pandatr0nics.wordpress.com/
http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Pandatr0nicssBlog
Thanks,
Pandatronics