CrunchGear - gadgets, gear and hardware

Remember my top gifts for men post? Here is another great site by the name of CrunchGear to do with gadgets, gear and computer hardware. CrunchGear is part of the TechCrunch network.
The site is blog based and features some really cool products such as the Razer ProType iPod/Zune Dockable Keyboards which has an iPod/Zune docking cradle as well as some USB ports and audio line-out.
It's a cool site if you like to drool over new gadgets.


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Best of July posts

Is it too late to do a "best of July" post? Hmmm, not sure. Let's try anyway as there are some posts that really deserve some more attention.

July 3rd: Pay Per Post
Can I really get paid to blog?

July 10th: One Red Paperclip
All about the guy who traded one red paperclip for a house in Canada.

July 18th: Get One Mail - one time email
One time email? what will they think of next?

July 24th: Match My Pet
A dating site for pets...

July 27th: Visual meditation
Some visual fun with images

And a parting comment, do you know what post is most popular in this blog? Red Square game

Leave a comment...Please

I've been blogging for a few month now and loved every minute of it, but if there's one thing I couldn't figure out is what gets people to comment. I have tried in many ways to get my readers to react and interact with my content but for some reason failed. Imagine my surprise when I saw Liz's post titled 10 Reasons Readers Don't Leave Comments. I have identified with at least 4 reasons out of her 10 that prevented me from commenting at other sites (can you guess which?).
My personafavoritete of reasons is You end your posts with a giant general question like "What do you think of the Big Bang Theory?"

So, What do you think of Big Bang Theory?



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Visual meditation

Need some time off work? Take a look at this web page that offers what I call visual meditation. Once the page is loaded (shockwave required), a buetiful image is displayed on the screen and allows you to drill down into it's details. As you get closer to the image you find out that it is comprised of other pictures into which you can also drill.
You can also find other related stuff in the homepage of the group who created this page

WARNING this site is highly addictive


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103bees - SEO oriented analytics

In a time when you can find dozens of web analytics solutions (some even for free), it gets harder to compare what you get by their feature list without experiencing it first hand. After playing around with several solutions including Google Analytics and Performancing Metrics, I came across a really cool solution by the name of 103bees. What 103bees offers is a very light weight solution that does not affect the load speed of my sites and gives great insight on the organic traffic my site gets (organic traffic is what comes from search engines). The reports I get from 103bees show my traffic trends, popular search phrases and top keywords. Setting up 103bees in my blog was very easy and I started seeing my stats in realtime.

For anyone who wants to understand their search engine traffic, this would be the solution I recommend.


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Match My Pet

Many pet owners feel their pet is a part of the family and refer to them as he or she and not it.
A new site by the name of MatchMyPet wants to become the leading community for pet owners offering videos and articles as well as pet personal cards, But what I really liked about MatchMyPet is the way they enable us pet owners to find partners for our pets for breeding purposes or just as friends. I have a small Maltese dog who fears most other dogs and it would be great if I could find a friend for her there.

Let's see if you can guess what her name is.

CoComment - track your comments II

I have just received an email from coComment regarding a major upgrade to their service.
The most important feature released is the ability to track non-coComment user comments.
Not sure what coComment does? Read more about it at my previous post CoComment - track your comments


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