Over two million people use StumbleUpon

According to this press release, StumbleUpon is now over two million users strong.

I’ve been reading many bloggers write about how stumbleupon makes up such an important share of their traffic referrers pie.

It’s too bad I haven’t been active at stumbleupon yet - hopefully, this piece of news is enough inspiration for me to go and check out the service and make some use of it’s mammoth potential as a source of traffic.

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Are you a technorati addict?

[Via Beth’s Blog]

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PayPerPost launches “Review my post” affiliate program

PayPerPost, one of the preferred revenue sources for many bloggers now has an affiliate program, and it’s kind of unique how they plan to implement it.

If you are a ‘Postie’ or a PPP member, you can make $7.50 for every blogger who signs up with them via your referral, but there is a slight difference in how you do this.

Bloggers who plan to promote PayPerPost via the new affiliate program will be required to place a ‘Review My Post’ button on the bottom of their posts. Any non-postie blogger can click on button, join PPP and write a review of your post on their own blog - and get paid $7.50 for doing so. On the other hand, the postie who’s post is reviewed also gets $7.50 as referral commission.

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Shoemoney unbanned from MyBlogLog

Technorati 100 Blogger, Shoemoney was banned yesterday from MyBlogLog, after he exposed a lot of vulnerabilities(including how to browse the web as other people) of the social networking destination popular with bloggers and recently acquired by Yahoo!.

There’s a new post titled “Everybody hurts…Sometimes.” on the MyBlogLog blog by Eric (Founder and automatic friend of every new member). He writes:

“After fixing the exploit, I should have unbanned (Shoemoney) and thanked him for finding it. But I didn’t. I screwed up. Shoemoney’s picture is now featured on our Members page, we unbanned his IP address, and we at MyBlogLog hope to return to the constructive dialog that we once had.”

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Offer your blog’s readers instant SMS alerts and make money.

TechCrunch, my preferred source for Web 2.0 news has just reported the launch of a widget from Textmarks that lets bloggers offer readers to subscribe to SMS alerts at a subscription fee - of which, however, bloggers get to keep only two thirds for themselves, the rest goes to textmarks and mobile carriers.

The service is currently only available to U.S. cell phone users who use Cingular, Verizon, Sprint or Alltel services. Bloggers can send out as many as 100 alerts per month to paid subscribers.

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Google Reader will now report number of feed readers

Finally!

TechCrunch reported sometime ago that google has begun to report the number of subscribers that use the Google reader and Google’s personalized homepage to read syndication feeds from blogs and other content sources that publish feeds.

Google also recently added sort of an FAQ page for that feed publishers can refer to.

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WP-Notable modification for Bumpzee and PlugIM

Lately, I have become a regular at two fantastic new web 2.0 sites that list the latest and greatest content from internet marketing blogs - Bumpzee and PlugIM

Both of these are digg-like sites where users can network as well as vote for some of the best blog entries.

FinalTag has been getting a lot of traffic from these sites since the blog started a couple of weeks ago and I decided to modify the WP-Notable plugin that I use to display links that help readers social-bookmark posts easily, to include links where readers can easily ‘bump’ finaltag posts on bumpzee or submit them to PlugIM.

If you author an internet marketing blog and happen to use wordpress with the WP-Notable plugin, then I highly recommend that you:  1- download this, 2- deactivate your plugin, 3 - overwrite all files with what you downloaded and 4- activate the plugin again.

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Update: Added nofollow

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Odiogo - lets you type your podcasts.

Odiogo™ recently announced the launch of a brand new Web 2.0 application that enables bloggers to create new audio media in a snap. Blog entries are converted on the fly into podcastable audio files ready to download.

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Free Whitepaper out - Blogging for retailers

Written by experienced corporate blogger and podcaster, Dave Olson, “Blogging for Retailers” puts forth five “Critical Success Factors” to ensure blogging turns into a beneficial campaign for resource and time-constrained retailers.

According to Olson, “Blogs and Web 2.0 tools in general are about creating and sharing compelling content. Blogs provide a uniquely affordable opportunity for retailers to cultivate conversations with passionate customers. This paper aims to assist savvy retailers in reaping the significant rewards gained from having conversations with their customers.”

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FinalTag.com now running wordpress 2.1

It seems as though I find myself upgrading the blogging software here more than actually blogging something.

Wordpress 2.1 is now powering FinalTag.com. Apparently, there have been 550 major bug fixes in the 2.1 release (which came out about 13 hours ago from the time I am writing this)

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