Over the past few months I found myself wanting to search for “web 2.0″ versions of many different websites just because most of the time I find that 2.0 sites are more intuitive, simpler, have useful features, and are a lot more fun to use. However there is not a “Web 2.0 search” that I’m aware of, so I decided to roll one myself using Google Co-op.

Introducing … (drum roll please) … Hype 2.0

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At the beginning of this month Shoemoney (Jeremy) threw up a challenge to Marketing Pilgrim (Andy Beal) by claiming that he could get more MyBlogLog community members by putting a picture of an attractive woman in his avatar rather than “Win a Free Zune” message.

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‘Tis but thy name that is my enemy.

Yes, I am whoring out Shakespeare for effect, but I’m hardly the first. I really want to chime in on this “Is Linkbait bad - to be or not to be” discussion that’s been going as of late. The main facets being discussed are: A. Is linkbait badly named? B. Is linkbait bad? and C. Does linkbait drive bad traffic?

» Continue reading “What’s in a name? That which we call LINKBAIT; By any other name would read as sweet”

My favorite CMS / best blogging platform on the planet just got an upgrade (35 minutes ago) with the release of Wordpress 2.1 - codenamed Ella. Can’t wait to take Ella for a test drive. This is a pretty significant upgrade with lots of new features.

Here are some of the more exciting new Wordpress features:

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Posting has been light recently (hectic few weeks) but I’d just like to take a moment and say “hi” to my new StumbleUpon readers. Welcome.

I was looking through my stats and noticed that StumbleUpon has been the biggest source of traffic this month, sending over 8,200 visitors to this blog.

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