I will be frank here, I think that the marketing rep of Wikio.com emailed me about 10 times on the last month to let me know about their new blog ranking system (as you can see perseverance pays off…). But I am not writing about them only in the hope of stopping the harassment: I also think that they have an interesting service.
Wikio is a kind of news aggregator, but with an interesting slant: surf and subscribe. That is, they feature a bunch of news and stories from around the web, but they also give you the possibility to subscribe either to local RSS feeds or to the direct feeds of the sources.
The Top Blogs section is particularly useful. Basically they have a Top 100 list for several niches, from business to celebrities, from technology to sports. If you are trying to find some quality blogs on a certain topic, for instance, you could go there and browse around, and even subscribe to their RSS feeds directly from the Wikio website.
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“
CommandShift3 is like Hot or Not. Except, instead of clicking on hot babes, you click on hot websites.”
A very straightforward concept and one that has definitely caught on with a bunch of people. One of the neat things they've done that I like, is the video you see when you submit your site. They've conveniently compiled a list of
all the videos for your perusal. Ben Brown and Taylor McKnight are probably my two favourites of the list.
Beyond that,
Elliot Jay Stocks got asked to put together a special video for their 404 page. I left a comment on that post about doing a video. Lo and behold, they saw the comment and asked if I'd do a video. (See, it never hurts to ask...even in an off-handed way.)
If you'd like to see said video, try to find
a page from the unknown. You may have to refresh as it'll randomly choose a video between myself and Elliot. (And yes,
I bought a webcam just to do this video. Although, trying out
Ustream.tv and
Y! Live has been fun, too.)
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