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September 18, 2007 at 5:56 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs
Blog Rush is a blog syndication network. It works around a widget that the blogger needs to put in his website, and the widget displays headlines coming from the blogs on the network.
The goal of service is straight forward: to give you more traffic and readers.
There have been many similar services in the past, but Blog Rush is introducing some interesting innovations. First of all you earn “syndication credits” every time the widget is loaded on your website (i.e., one credit for each page view). If your blog has 500 daily page views, your headlines will be displayed on other blogs using the widget 500 times daily.
Secondly, you can also earn credits by referring people. Every time the widget is displayed on the blog of your referrals you will also earn one credit. So early adopters will be rewarded - Get it now!!
January 4, 2007 at 3:02 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs
It seems like selling your startup Web 2.0 businesses on auction sites such as eBay, is an increasing trend. This comes after another MySpace-type clone, Shout Central, is now available on eBay. The starting bid is only $100 and it seems incredibly cheap, considering the site has in excess of 1000 registered visitors. The interface also looks good and in our opinion, this should be a good buy if you pay less than $2500.
There has been 12 bids to date and the current highest bid is at $2000, so it looks like the “good-buy” at less than $2500 will not happen! So it is not bad going for an auction listing that has only been online for a day or two.
I would however like to question whether this method of selling your business is really successfull ie. do you get a better selling price through eBay compared to selling through more conventional ways? Obviously an auction place, brings a lot of buyers together, which is obviously to your benefit (and it makes finding buyers a lot easier), and it is online as well, which means that the sale is open to a global market and not just limited to the seller’s area. Although this all makes sense in theory, I’m still not convinced though…
Maybe I should stick Cool Crowd up there and see what happens? But for now anyway, check out the progress of the ShoutCentral sale here - it ends on 12 January.
December 1, 2006 at 4:09 pm · Filed under The Web & Blogs
With this new service being launched, it just increases our ever-mounting dislike of MySpace. With Fakeyourspace you basicly buy friends who will comment on your profile every now and again. For only $.99 a month, you basicly get two comments a week from your new friend.
All of the available friends are semi-hot people with very little clothing. It is also quite evident that most of these “friends” are obvious fakes with very fake pictures. So all in all, this is just silly - although we’ll take nothing away from the creators as this could yet prove to be very profitable for them. The bottomline is that all the MySpace kiddies want to be popular and this is an easy and affordable way of doing it.
But, to us, this is also where MySpace absolutely fails in its mission (or is some’s viewpoints, where it thrives like hell). To me, the original idea of MySpace was to create personal profiles to use for interacting with real friends. If MySpace has become all about popularity, then certainly the interaction between friends has been lost? Maybe I’m being a silly little boy without my own MySpace, but this is just stupid.
Here at The Cool Crowd, you only have to read the blog to be cool (smiles)! Don’t worry about buying friends to be cool, but if you’d like you can pay friends to visit us!
November 29, 2006 at 10:47 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs
According to reports the USA have struck a deal with mother Russia at last to shut down the illegal MP3 distribution website, AllofMP3.com.
We can seriously see how AllofMP3 must’ve been pissing George Bush off, but why go spoil everybody’s fun? See the thing is, you can download full albums from there for ridiculously low prices - ie. get Tenacious D’s new album, The Pick of Destiny, (over here) for only $1.63…
But we guess AllofMP3 was probably considered a threat to Bush for some reason and that’s why they were closed down…
November 24, 2006 at 5:54 am · Filed under The Web & Blogs
Everyone, who is anybody, is jumping on the social networking / web 2.0 bandwagon - and mixing the old with the new seems even more popular! According to reports the UK’s Channel 4 have decided to audition candidates for their upcoming Big Brother series via Social Networks.
Apparently, their website, E4.com, will be redesigned to look more like MySpace & Friendster, with visitors being able to upload photos and videos, chat to other members and rate their stuff.
Channel 4 chief, Andy Duncan, has however gone the “safe route” by declaring that they will choose “at least one” contestant from social networking, which means that the majority will still be auditioned through “normal” means.
Although this is quite clever and it will give Channel 4 some cloud in the blogosphere, it is only conforming to Web 2.0 and thus to whatever everyone else is doing. But again we find ourselves in a situation, where we can diss / rant / comment too much, because after the big blogging boom, who got on the blogwagon as well? One of these days however, you’re not going to need to leave your computer screen, because we’ll all be Matrix-type “robots” and we’ll just be plugged into the system - Google and Microsoft (or MySpace perhaps) are still however fighting for the right to be in control of the Matrix…
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