Posted by Jeremy G. on 12th, 2008
Lol, I would sell if for this in a heartbeat. By answering 19 questions, MyBlogValue.com takes a guess at how much your site is worth if sold right this second.
14,501.5
How much money is your blog worth?
If I was to guess, I think this blog might go for $100-$200 bucks if I tried to sell it. It’s a confidence booster to see that someone thinks my blog is worth some good money though and I guess they are better judges of website value than me… So maybe it is worth more than I thought. Pretty cool little website 
Posted by Jeremy G. on 11th, 2008
What is Social Networking?
The whole point of social networking sites is to find cool shit out there on the internet. They do this by allowing users to share sites they’ve found with other people in a variety of ways.
To be honest, when I started using both Stumbleupon and Twitter, I was ONLY doing it to get more traffic for my own website. Pretty selfish I know, but when it’s free, hey, anythings worth a try. But I’ve come to really like both of these sites just for what they are, a new way to communicate, and a great way to find amazing web pages that you would have never found otherwise.
Stumbleupon (be my Stumble buddy here!)
Awesomeness: 8/10
Usefullness in Driving traffic to your web site: 6/10
Stumbleupon is like channel surfing the best sites from all over the world. It puts a button bar on your web browser, and when you press the “stumble” button, it will take you to a random website which people have liked in the past. Like the site? Press the thumbs up button and that site will be showed to more people. Don’t like it? Thumbs down it and it will be shown to less people. Don’t give a shit? That’s fine too, you don’t have to rate sites if you don’t want.
Why is this awesome? Because it takes you to a lot of REALLY great sites that there is no possible way you would have found by yourself. It’s kind of like when you get those chain emails with really funny pictures or something, but instead of getting one email every few days, you can sit there and get as many cool pics/movies/sites/games as you want in one sitting. I don’t feel like I’m adequately explaining it, just try it!
You can also make friends on Stumbleupon, then send them links which they can thumbs up. This is a decent way to get some traffic, but if the content isn’t great, it will die down very quickly. You can only get so many thumbs up’s by asking for them, at some point people will just have to like your content. Still pretty easy to get a few hundred visitors to see a post thought, and if it’s really good, then tens of thousands of visitors to your site is totally possible.
Bottom Line:
A really cool site which can entertain you for hours. Also decently good at sending traffic to your site if you take the time to make “friends” on the site.
Twitter (follow me by clicking here!)
Awesomeness: 4/10
Usefullness in Driving traffic to your web site: 2/10
Twitter is like a big message board for a bunch of peoples text messages. You choose to “follow” people, and when you do, everything they “tweet” (ie messages they send) will show up on you list of recent tweets. Messages are limited to 160 characters, the length of a text message, so tweets usually are from a few words to one sentence. I know it doesn’t sound like much fun, but try it, it gets pretty addictive. What makes it cool is that you can update it via text messages from your phone, allowing you to update with such things as “I just walked past 2 parrots sitting on a trashcan,” which would be pretty tough to do sitting at home in front of your computer
You can also send links in tweets, but I’ve found this to be just a terrible way to promote your site. I have about 100 people following me, and whenever I send them a link, anywhere from 5-10 people click on it.
Bottom Line:
Can be fun, but don’t even bother if you just want to promote your site, as the effort to reward ratio is terrible.
So join up, be my friend on Stumbleupon by going here, and follow me on Twitter by going here!
Posted by Jeremy on 20th, 2008
Got a few really cool sites for you guys.
1. Rag Doll
Rag Doll is actually just a simple flash file but, because of the awesome physics, is a ton of fun. I finally figured out what this reminds me of. Loony Toons! Just some cartoon character falling off a cliff and hitting EVERY single rock on the way down! Or Shrek, when the donkey climbs the cliff and hits every branch on his way down. When she starts hitting a bunch of stuff in rapid succession, I laugh my ass off. Anyways, don’t forget to grab and fling her with your mouse!
You can find it here. Remember to drag her with your mouse if she gets stuck, or if you just feel like flinging her through the air!
2. Animoto
The second is a site called Animoto, which I actually made a very brief mention of a few posts back, but thought it was cool enough to warrant a better review here. In short, it takes a bunch of pictures that you give it and makes a bad ass music video out of them. Here’s one I made in about 2 minutes, make sure to put your headphones on or something, as a big reason why it’s so cool is that the pics really ride the beat.
It’s really easy to set up, you can either upload photo’s from your computer, or it can automatically retrieve them from your facebook, flicker, or photobucket accounts! One word of advice though, if you do upload from another source, such as photobucket, first create a new photobucket album, don’t just dump in your default one. If you upload an album with hundreds of pictures in it, you will have to delete the ones you don’t want in the music video one by one, which is a big pain.
LAST SECOND EDIT. Just check out this video, don’t know how to describe it, but definitely worth a watch! Crazy Dancing Machine
