Multiple Social Posting Meets Video

July 10th, 2007 3 Comments »

onlywire.gifOnlyWire is a free service that allows you to post URLs to about 20 Social bookmarking services at once. I personally don’t use this service. But, this is an extremely useful service for those who use these bookmarking site for traffic. When seen from the other angle, anyone would use only one bookmarking website to manage his favorite links. So this site is practically useless for genuine users of del.icio.us, Furl and others.

heyspread.pngThis method of posting the same content to many sites at once has now hit videos. This time it serves a better and useful purpose. Hey!Spread is a service that allows you to upload your videos to multiple video sharing sites at once. Currently it supports YouTube, MySpace, Google Videos, Yahoo Videos, Daily Motion, Blip.tv, PhotoBucket, MetaCafe, Bolt and PutFile. The reason i call this a more useful service that OnlyWire is that, the primary purpose of websites like del.icio.us, Furl etc.. is to help users organize their favorite links and one place. But this is not the case with YouTube and others. They are used so that your video will have a wider audience.

Note : Multiple is always better. I, even own a website that allows you to search over 100 different video sharing sites. The website is VidSav.com. I’m planning to sell it. So, anyone interested can contact me.

Buying Blog Comments

July 10th, 2007 6 Comments »

In the recent past, Buying blog posts became an active trend. A number of services like ReviewMe and PayPerPost and a few others were started to automate this. Even, a wordpress plugin was released to do this. Now that, this arena is full, Buy Blog Comments has taken this to the comments level. Of course, Buy Blog Comments is the first of its kind, and hopefully be the last of its kind.

Blog comments help your site rank better in the SERPs. We hired a few people who go through a list of blogs in a database we set up and pick out blogs that are in your niche. They then read through blog posts and leave a comment that has to do with the blog post they read, that way it wont get deleted. Your backlink will then be on a targeted blog, giving you more weight in the search engines.

Everyone sees it as a really bad idea and this would lead to more Spam. Blogger’s reaction (here, here, here & here) are extremely negative. But John Chow is always different and he sees this from positive angle.

Let’s face it, all blogs want more comments because it makes the blog look active. And if the comments are related to the post topic, do you really care if it’s being done by a hired gun instead of the true commentator?

I tend to agree with this highly. When i get some nice comments related to my posts, i don’t mind if they are being paid for. But as John points out, the price is not high. $20 for 100 comments is a good price in my opinion.

As a whole, Buy Blog Comments is service that would destroy the system of blogging, thought it wouldn’t encourage Spam. This might be successful or even not, but i expect to see a lot of similar services in the near future.

Pownce Invites Selling On Ebay

July 7th, 2007 No Comments »

Looks like Pownce has become very popular. The Pownce invites have started to appear on eBay. Kevin posted a note on Pownce about this. The prices start at $0.01 Bidding and go up to the Buy It Now price of $9.95. People are just crazy. It is a free service and there are lots of blogs out there which are giving out Pownce invites for free. I have 4 invites left to give away too.

Atlast, i’m Powncing too

July 7th, 2007 1 Comment »

pownce.jpgIts not even a day since, i created my Twitter account, now i’m lucky enough to receive a Pownce invite. I got it from Mashable’s invite chain. I spent 3 invites over at Mashable and now i have remaining three. I have planned to give it away here. So, if you need one, just reply here and i’ll send you right away.

As i already mentiond, Pownce is really better than Twitter (though i have to play around a lot). The only problem i’m experiencing now is the Scrolling problem. Seems that its a lot of load on the server and the scrolling is not smooth. It is the same problem that i experience on Digg Submit page (Step 2). So i assume that it due to AJAX.

If you are already on Pownce, you can send me a Friend invite. My profile is here. If you don’t have one, you can get an invite here.

I’m Twittering

July 6th, 2007 2 Comments »

twitter.pngAfter reading a lot of blog posts on Twitter and Pownce, i got the interest to try either of them. But, since Pownce is in invite-only beta, i went with Twitter. (yes, i didn’t have a twitter account till then). But i feel very lonely over at Twitter. So if you have a twitter account, add me as your friend http://twitter.com/GotChance.

After experiencing Twitter and comparing with Pownce (based on the video review), i seriously think that Pownce has got the upper hand. A lot of users might migrate to Pownce once they open up the service for all.

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