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popurls, here I come..

Steve Rubels picks popurls as the the best web site of 2008. Here’s why: Popurls calls itself “the dashboard for the latest web-buzz, a single page that encapsulates up-to-the-minute headlines from the most popular sites on the Internet.” The site was created by Thomas Marban. What it basiscally does is aggregate web sites all in one place – digg, delicious, news sites, Techmeme, key blogs, media sites (Flickr, YouTube, etc) and much more. The great thing about it is that you can easily personalize it to your tastes. As you use it, the site gets smarter and shows you recommendations.... [read more]

Create your own social network sites

Ning (http://www.ning.com/) Ning is great for those without alot of technical knowledge and who don’t want to host anything on their own hardware. It takes seconds to set up a site (I made one here for fun http://mitwebpub.ning.com/) and you can choose from a number of design templates available. What makes your own social network on Ning special? It’s yours. Your brand and visual design. Your choice of public or private. Your very own members. Free features include inserting your own brand, member management, your choice of custom text and widgets, rss feeds in and out, discussion... [read more]

NYTimes article: The Socializr

The Socializr: A night out with Jonathan Abrams The article is mostly about Jonathan Abrams, the serial entrepreneur who founded Friendster in 2002, and Socializr, a site devoted to optimizing users’ social calendars. I mostly found it interesting because it mentioned some newish Web enterprises I hadn’t heard of yet. Check them out: Dropbox Disqus Justin.tv (this one i remember from when it was just a kid wearing a tv camera on his head and streaming the feed, but its grown alot since then) Scribd Snaptalent (relaunching in Feb ‘09, read more about them on TechCrunch) Livemeeting  [read more]

Facebookgate

A great play by play on how Brad Ward, Director of E-Comm at Butler University, uncovered “Facebookgate”. I’ve included an excerpt from his blog below… A colleague asked him to investigate a couple users that started a ‘Class of 2013′ within their Facebook network. Mr. Ward found a startling trend – the usernames were popping up on class groups from coast to coast at private and public universities. http://squaredpeg.com/index.php/2008/12/18/facebook-pay-attention/ See how many times those names appear in admin for these groups, and look at their friends... [read more]

Website Grader

Website Grader is an interesting tool from a company called “HubSpot.” It measures the marketing effectiveness of your website. Simply type in your URL and you will find out how your website scores out of 100 as well as information like your Google PageRank, blog ranking and number of inbound links. Check it out at http://website.grader.com/  [read more]