Wow, today I got up to see stats on SiteHoppin.com and found out StumbleUpon is “secretly” working on a new “extension-less” toolbar just like SiteHoppin.com.

It seems like the guys at StumbleUpon might have picked up SiteHoppin’s new ideas. We praise them for doing that since that confirms that we are on the right path. Why didn’t StumbleUpon come up with it earlier? (They came out with this new toolbar 18 days after public beta launch of SiteHoppin.com, which means they probably “copied” our idea. Not that we care, information should be free right?)

On a technical note, the new StumbleUpon “extension” is works just like SiteHoppin’. If you look at the source, it uses the iframes.

On a secondary technical note, the new StumbleUpon toolbar works only with javascript, meaning it might not work with iPhones or new phones that don’t support javascript. (They will probably work on this soon after they see my post.)

Check out the new “secret” extension-less StumbleUpon Toobar. I think it’s still in development but we think this is good for our business since competition always create something better.

Great job GMC! (GMC is the chief architect of StumbleUpon and the creator)

Imagine that all you need is to shake hands with someone to get all of their personal info; well this could be true soon if the concept design gets the thumbs up.

You get a card and ring, the data on the card is transferred onto ring and when you shake hands with another ring holder the data is exchanged.

No need to worry about power either the rings are powered by the heat from your body.

Source [Gadgettastic]

As some disposable razors are quite expensive and as they are only used once it sometimes seems to be a waste of time. But there is way that can prolong the life of the razors.

This device looks as if it would really work and finally make disposable razors a little less disposable than before.

Priced at $20

Source [Oh Gizmo]

In order to find out more about the serious matter of what happens when someone is shaking a baby, we have seen the news stories that occur every now and then.

This one has been developed by the University of Oslo and if any feels that this could be a waste of money, and then we would just have think about the thousand babies that die from this terrible cause every year in the US alone.

Source [Gadget Phreeks]

Check out the interview with Bill Gates on SiteHoppin. Interesting.

In the first segment of our Bill Gates CES 2008 interview, we asked the difference between Apple’s approach and Microsoft’s approach when it comes to product releases. Apple steers clear of products that might be iffy in their first iteration—portable music rentals; DVR—whereas Microsoft rolls out stuff that may not be quite ready. Bill’s response is illuminating, direct and humble. [

via Gizmodo

This is a really great idea where you have a traditional business card along with such electronic gadgetry to make it into a nice little auto dialler for the customer.

All that the customer has to do is place the card next to the phone and it will call up your office or the dedicated number which is a great bit of technology and practical.

Priced at around $2 each

Source [Instructables]

Put these shakers down on the table and people are not going to know what to them.

The cool thing about the beauties is the fact that if someone picks these up and shake them and nothing at all will happen, but bend them slightly and you will get all of the salt and pepper that you need, cool!

Priced at $54

Source [Nerd Approved]

Wow, it seems like search results for “Knol Project” is multiplying at the rate of every hour! It’s amazing how no one has really even tried this new Knol Project yet, there’s so much buzz going around the internet. We think Knol Project will be basically Google’s new knowledge database that will add nicely to their portfolio of search knowledge database.

Although we predict that Knol Project will never be close to Wikipeidia’s mass collaboration of information, Google’s new Knul Project could prove to be pivotal in providing useful information from authoratative sources such as real doctors and real professionals who practice their content, instead of having random people contributing to articles like Wikipedia.

We predict that their search results will still honor Wikipedia’s authority as long as Knol’s content isn’t any better. But if Knol proves otherwise, Wikipedia could be on its way to slow and tortourous death. (We doubt that though…)

In our efforts to keep up with Google’s latest Wiki project, we’ve got all the great news about the Knol Project in one post here:

CNet - Google develops Wikipedia rival

Zedomax - Knols Project Followup - Google’s Knol Project reminds me of a Paid Wiki

Wired News - Google’s ‘Knols’ aren’t a Threat to Wikipedia

QuarterWiki - Knols Project - Google’s new Wikipedia

BBC News - Google Debuts knowledge Project

OneBuckWiki - Knols Project - Google is building their own Wikipedia

EntreWiki - Google proves Wiki monetization is the future with its new Knols Project!

FiveDollarWiki - Google trying to make a paid wiki with its new project Knols Project!

The Huffington Post - Google Knol: Finder Becomes Producer

Gizmodo - Google Puts Wikipedia in its Sights, to Launch Knol Open Encyclopedia

EarthTimes - Google unveils anti-Wikipedia project ‘Knol’ - Featureseachviews - Google Launches Encyclopedia Project Knols

iTWire - Here comes Google’s Knol ‘edge’

BloggingStocks - Google’s Knol project: A Wikipedia killer?

Joe Duck - Google’s knol project

ReadWriteWeb - Knols Project: Google Experimenting With User Generated Encyclopedic Pages

Lately, I’ve been keeping a keen eye on my friend Graham Langdon, creator of Million Dollar Wiki. He has created a new site called EntreCard that allows bloggers to advertise for free on other blogger’s blogs. Basically, bloggers can trade 125×125 pixel ad spots.

Today, I got up and looked up on Alexa and found that EntreCard has finally beaten BlogRush in the numbers of Reach, Rankings, AND TRAFFIC!

As an evangelist user of EntreCard, I was really happy like I just snorted a line of cok* of something. (not that i do drugs….)

Here’s the wrap up:

As you can see, what EntreCard is doing is taking over BlogRush and its customers. It’s going to be a horrible slow death for BlogRush but who knows? Maybe they will get enough bad publicity out it and come back alive by copying EntreCard’s ideas.

Here we look at the Daily traffic Rank Trend for BlogRush vs. EntreCard. EntreCard clearly beats BlogRush and they are STILL on their way up whereas BlogRush is again, dying slowly.

The last graph shows Page Views for EntreCard vs. BlogRush. As you can see here, the problem with BlogRush is that once you put their widget, there is no other community groups or actions you can do whereas EntreCard is a vibrant blogger community where bloggers are actively trading invisible business cards.

Our prediction from last time is becoming more true and true.

This is the letter from John Reese that really pissed me off and I stopped using BlogRush:

We’ll be applying some quality guidelines and criteria to our
decision-making process. (We’ll be publishing these guidelines very
soon.) If a blog does not meet our guidelines and criteria, THEY
WILL BE REJECTED from the network and not allowed to join — i.e.
they won’t be able to serve our widget, refer other users, or have
their blog posts distributed across our network. They will have no
access to any BlogRush services.

Our members, like YOU, made it LOUD AND CLEAR to us… BlogRush needs
to only have members that have quality blog content — not blogs
filled primarily with ads and other spammy looking JUNK.

The only accurate way we’re going to keep these junk blogs out of our
network is to REVIEW EVERY SINGLE ONE BY HAND. And we’re willing to
do it to protect the integrity of our network. I don’t care what it
costs us to hire more people (if we need them) to review 100% of any
blog trying to join our network. We will be reviewing ALL OF THEM
from here on out.

Here’s what I say, “Take your stupid hype and your hype traffic and put it up your as*!”.

I don’t need the founder of a website telling me their technology sucks so much that they have to review every blog by hand (Is that like Web 0.5?). With a stupid founder like that, BlogRush will never succeed.

What BlogRush should have done:

BlogRush should have hired 3 PHP developers and tell them to develop a spider hack that checks for the language of the site and validity by checking values like Alexa rankings, Technorati rankings, etc…etc… Heck, I can even do this but I don’t have to send out a freaking 10 page email wasting everyone’s time.

Why are we so bitter? Don’t take it too seriously. (Remember our motto? Satiric opinions on Gadgets and Tech…Lol…)