WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

MyBlogLog received its own reiteration of Gravy Train that gained popularity with technorati and swept through bloggin community. I was a bit surprised to discover myself on receiving end of the new train and can only express my thanks to “The Real Estate Schmoozer” for inclusion. You can see the train and possibly participate in it here.

And while looking through the site I have followed on of the links to another site and then another until I run into something cool! A new tool that displays all information related to your site rank – free!

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MTV is joining the social networks with its own contribution. They will be announcing today their plans to license a new application apparently developed by couple Georgia Tech students.

Developed by Georgia Tech students David Jimison and Jeff Crouse, Hit! or Sh!t, as it is now named, is a social networking media player designed to build online community groups based on how members rank and recommend clips seen on the Internet.

In the announcement, MTVN said it will deploy the Web-based application, developed through last year’s mtvU Digital Incubator 2.0 program, across MTV Music Group’s online properties as part of its efforts to discover new musical talent.

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I have just stumbled into a new, still in Beta (hmm … rather unusual for web 2.0 service ) service that introduces a different concept of social networking – iStalkr. After reading all the information on their site I still have mixed feeling about this one.

According to them …

iStalkr is a web app that allows you to create a lifestream (based on Jeremy Keith’s Lifestream concept) tracking all your RSS and ATOM feeds for services you use, like Digg, Del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia, Flickr, Last.fm, Google Reader’s Shared Items, Tumblr, Twitter , etc, and create a time line of your activities. You can paste this time line data into on your blog or use the data in other apps. iStalkr then utilizes that data socially, like twitter, where you can monitor your friends time lines and other people can monitor yours.

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Blogosphere is all about communities built by people just like you and me … and no, “splogs” are not part of it :). Web 2.0 simply implies more participation and better interaction but strong communities are still based on same basic principal of similar interests. And now we all can benefit from a new trend started by Gary Lee and called Technorati fave train.

I have run into this concept after visiting one of my favorite blogs “the thinking blog” and really liked the idea, which I invite you to participate in – Fave My Blog and I Will Fave Yours! And no – this is not unethical and not cheating but a simple way to build community and provide more exposure to the blogs with real content and not one of the adsense blogs that have been properly optimized for SE.

Participate and Benefit!

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So you have managed to create your very own web 20 website based on Wordpress either by following my instructions or on your own – now what? Without targeted traffic your super interactive website filled with superb content is nothing. So how do you bring that insane amount of visitors interested to read information you share?

There are many ways to get targeted-traffic, including commercial but this is not what we will talk about. Our goal is to get things done with as little expense as possible – free is preferable. Well guess what – social networks are perfect for that, as long as you don’t abuse it and actually contribute to their community value by providing information people are interested in.

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