As I am running out of money to live and keep up websites, it’s seems like getting drunk everyday helps me forget all that.

On top of all that, I am so drunk off my mind while trying to develop our new site, SiteHoppin.com.

The reason? Well, you need to be able to be in the same mind frame as someone who’d be using the site and the site is all about having a beer in your hand while you go “site hoppin’”. So the developer needs to be highly drunk before trying to put content, which means I gotta get drunk out of my mind before I start editing any PHP code for the site.
This does remind me of the “drunken style” Kong Fu, which focuses on the fact that you confuse your enemy through your drunkenness…

On the bright side, SiteHoppin is the first site in the world ever to convert a MediaWiki into a social networking site. (by a professional drunk who can gulp down 3 Soju bottles in any day…)

Anyways, this is an honest drunken update and development update while gulping down a nice bottle of Soju. If you don’t know what Soju is, you should take a look at my Soju tree. Well, my Soju tree has grown a lot bigger now, I will post an update soon about it.

We did get the new “Tag Browing” function working but too lazy to update the site as it’s still the 3rd of January. We should have it up by tomorrow so you can “tag browse” blogs that use EntreCard and save time.

Thanks to Mike from Bloggin-Ads for helping us send a buzz out on the internet. His blog is growing very quickly and already has 377 RSS readers in just couple months!

Thanks everyone, and remember to “hop some sites” if you have a beer in your hand or want to just mess around…

Okay, go check out SiteHoppin.com today and make sure to sign up for an account and upload your hideous Jpeg photo so everyone can see it.

You’ve been wondering why there were so few posts on Zedomax.com over the last 3 weeks, we have been working around the clock, through Christmas Eve and New Years to bring you brand new sites.

While they are in heavy development, you can check out our “live” progresses.

You are welcome to register for a username and play around with it until we get our new “tag browsing” function implemented and bunch of other stuff being added on.

You can check our .Net post for more details.

If you want to invest in the new SiteHoppin.com, shoot us an e-mail at zedomax [at] gmail.com. We are looking for some VC funding for this new big project.  Basically, you will get pre-paid advertising for your investment.  Although this idea is not fully cemented yet, you will be added to our priority list of investors to be alerted when the opportunity knocks.

On another bright 2008 New Years 4:30AM note, we are developing the domain name we bought, KnolProject.Net, to build a community of open source developers dedicated to making new “paid wiki” or “social networking wiki” sites using MediaWiki. Google’s new Knol Project is a great site but we will show you how to make something similar from scratch using MediaWiki and your imaginations and keyboard.

If you have noticed our post about how to be a moron and learn to not be rich, that WAS a big joke so go check out Can’t Get Rich and learn how to double your traffic by collaborating on a “set” blog-fight and talking trash all day long to bring more traffic.

BTW, Geoff, that was a lot of fun. Let’s do another one soon. We will have to stage it better or pick a more popular topic I guess…

TIgHT! We are on Lifehacker!!! Although it’s been almost a year since we last made that Christmas Wreath! Happy Holidays everybody!

Special Thanks shotout to Tamar Weinberg for featuring it as a Weekend Project. You made my weekend!

Here’s a fun little Technorati FaveMe Up exercise Mike from Bloggin-Ads has started:

The basic idea of this Trainstation is to have people come to fave the last 5-10 commentators. This allows everyone to receive equal publicity to their blogs and receive Technorati authority.

Rules: (Changed just a bit)

1. Click the following link to add me to Technorati Favorites
2. Leave a comment with your Technorati link (create an account easily)
3. Fave everyone that posted above you

So whoever leaves a comment with their Technorai link here will get a fave from Zedomax!

via Bloggin-Ads

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…)

Great thing that Google has come up with the Knols Project. (I think it’s pronounced “nol’s project” right?) It’s totally like the Million Dollar Wiki concept except they have more money and power to get “authoratative” writers on their content.

How is it like a paid wiki?

Well, Google offer revenue sharing as stated in their blog:

At the discretion of the author, a knol may include ads. If an author chooses to include ads, Google will provide the author with substantial revenue share from the proceeds of those ads.

Wow, that IS a paid wiki, just like the QuarterWiki and the One Buck Wiki. The only difference is that you don’t have to pay for pages in the beginning. I believe this is due to Google’s enourmous status as an Internet Giant with billions of dollars to spend on moderators, developers, and what not. We wish we could too but no we have to charge a small fee for each page.

Plus, there’s “one author” per page, just like the paid wikis.  Google might have ripped off those ideas…

Regardless, this is a definite sign that Wikis are going to start taking over the world. (and Google will try to take over the world, literally…)

We encourage you to try out the new Knols Project if you do get an invitation and when they launch, we strongly suggest you take advantage of Google’s offer of revenue sharing.
(In case you can’t get an invitation and while you wait, you can take advantage of 100% revenue stream on the QuarterWiki, One Buck Wiki, or the Five Dollar Wiki.)

Is Google going too far? Go vote at TechCrunch!

Google is trying to compete with Wikipedia with its new Knols Project. We don’t know how successful it will be as we have seen Google Video and Youtube before.

But one thing is for sure, Google is trying to get into the Wiki business. (Knol Project is very similar to our QuarterWiki, OneBuckWiki, EntreWiki, FiveDollarWiki, and other wikis that we are developing right now.)

The interface does look pretty neat from the screenshot here:

What amazes us is that we are trying to build the largest commercialized Wiki with our new QuarterWiki but Google is also making similar site. We don’t intend to compete with Google of course, but we think we are going in the right direction if the Big Guy thinks so too.

You can get to the new Knols Project login by going here:

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=knol

But unless you got an invite, you can’t access it. Does anyone want to give us an invite? We’d like to incorporate Knols’ features on our