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://URLfan – The FUTURE of ‘Website Popularity Indexing’

Prashant Sharma — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:38:34 +0000

To check out what’s the ‘Popularity Status’ of “xyz.com”(any site),one usually refers site indexing platforms such as Alexa,Compete, Quantcast and similar others but all these websites follow quite conventional methods of evaluating overall rank of a website or a blog.

Such indexing sites can’t even be called a ‘true’ evaluater of a site/blog’s popularity because traffic isn’t always proportional to popularity.For instance,a content-rich website may be getting bulk of traffic through search engines but may not be as popular among its readers.

So,is there any existing solution to this problem of accurately evaluating ‘what’s popular’ and ‘what’s not’ ?

YES….It’s ://urlfan

://urlfan measures how popular is your website in the world of Web 2.0.And the basis on which it ranks websites on ‘Popularity Scale’ is one’s reputation/popularity in Blogosphere.

As there’s hardly any space left where bloggers are silent and bloggers(both casual & professional) are considered to be the ‘trend picking’ & ‘most frequent’ independent journalists with unbiased views about anything that comes their way,blogosphere could actually be the best possible standard for measuring popularity of any web entity and that’s what ://urlfan does.

Founded by Monir Boktor(surprisingly the ‘only’ brain behind this concept) in early 2007,://urlfan is bringing more than 2 million uniques every month at the moment.

There’s an interesting and useful thing called ‘Buzz Radar‘ on ://urlfan that keeps tracking the most recent Buzz Words,floating in blogosphere.This can prove quite uselful for bloggers,who are always looking for their next ‘Hot Topic’ to write about.

What happens behind the Scenes

://urlfan evaluates websites/blogs by cultivating millions of blog posts that are generated everyday,literally counting every mention of every website it comes across.It parses billions of pieces of information to make a transparent ranking based on that data.As of now,they are ranking 3,783,534 websites by parsing 128,555,600 blog posts from 2,121,733 blog feeds.

The website is developed alone by me starting in 2007, it now receives over 2 million unique visitors a month.Have a look at the Top 100 websites on popularity scale,ranked by ://urlfan.

Conclusion

If ://urlfan continues the way it’s progressing at the moment and adds even more innovative metrics to its evaluation algorithms,one can’t deny admitting it “The FUTURE of Website Popularity Indexing” !

Looking to brand ‘Yourself’ ? Try PeopleJar !

Prashant Sharma — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:32:33 +0000

PeopleJar is a user-generated people search and connection tool aiming at connecting people across the globe for recreational,social and professional purposes.

The service is proud to present exhaustively customizable robust search features allowing to easily find a person you would like to connect with.

The best feature of PeopleJar is that you can create your own search and let the service update you of new members meeting your defined criteria.So,there is no more need to repetitively check Peoplejar for finding appropriate matches,the system will itself alert you about any matches according to your input.

In their own words

PeopleJar allows you to create detailed profiles of specific attributes in any field to be found You can also create and save targeted attribute-driven searches to express who you are specifically looking for.

So is it YASN ? (Yet Another Social Network)

Not really.Unlike other social networking sites, PeopleJar provides an aggregate platform for users who need to meet people in more than one area of their lives. It is like a compilation of numerous,interest-specific sites,in a single location.

PeopleJar provides many ways to promote yourself to the world. Whether it’s for business, a hobby, friendships, or networking, they provide the tools for you to be found. Join networks and fill out relevant profiles so others can find you.You may attach media to your profiles to show off your work.

This california based service,founded by Alexander A. Alexandrov started operating from the month of september and is looking for a wider audience at the moment(massive audience is what keeps such services active).

The biggest challenge for them will be to make the people believe that it’s not YASN.They can probably do some feature additions or re-think over their ‘packaging’(sort of “A place for Personal Branding”).

Most Popular Celebrities

Prashant Sharma — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:26:27 +0000

The popularity of any celebrity is time-bound and it fades away with time as someone else takes away the ’most popular’ spot from the former celebrity.

And when it comes to judging who’re the most popular celebrites in the world,the very first parameter to evaluate this may be Who’re the most searched celebrities in the world ?

But as wikipedia tops hundreds of thousands of search results when a particular celebrity is searched(wikipedia mostly shows person’s biography,achievements etc) so Who’re the most popular celebrities on Wikipedia ? has its own significance.

So,we have compiled a list of popular celebrites which are currently the most viewed (bringing maximum pageviews) on Wikipedia. Some of the results are really astounding but fact is a fact…

So here goes the list….

..Popular Celebrity #1…………………………………………………………………….

Mediapops – A Web Assistant For Entertainment

Prashant Sharma — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 15:31:39 +0000

Did you miss out favorite pop-star yesterday night because you weren’t informed about the concert ? OR You check out or have subscribed tens of media and entertainment sites to not miss out any event,movie release,gaming updates and stuff like that.

Then, Mediapops.com is made for you…

It lets you select your favorite artists,movies,gaming gizmos,music and similar stuff and tracks all of them for your convenience on your account’s homepage or by e-mail.

What it offers…

Get all the Desirable entertainment updates,from movies to gaming,from concerts to books
Buy required stuff like movie tickets,books,concert passes etc

Why it can be THE NEXT BIG THING !

Void filling Service – There are hundreds of websites dealing with sectors like movies,games,music and books but no service has yet established its dynasty in regard to Collaborative Services Environment(CSE). Hence,it stands with a good chance in this sector.
Extensive Monitoring – Mediapops tracks decent figures of books,artists,movies,songs and concerts which is subject to grow as they get time-matured in their field.
Sterile Interface – Sometimes, a clean interface speaks louder than a crowded one.Ideal example is Google’s Homepage.Mediapops interface is clean,decent & motive driven and hence adds to the glare of the service Mediapops provides.
Wide Domain – Mediapops covers majorly all the categories in entertainment sector and hence carries with it a good scope of public.A Novel Frenzy and a Gaming freak can be equally tempted to Mediapops.

Why it may prove to be a Web Struggler !

Regional coverage – International users can’t enjoy this service as much as US users can and hence service needs to go global.
Redundant Stuff -There are numerous websites sharing the same information to the public already and people are used to visiting their selective websites for such news.Hence,no exclusive stuff means no uniqueness means less users
No Wow effect – In Web 2.0 generation,a tracable trend of successful startups has been WTH(Wow To Habit ).It first creates wow and then becomes a habit.This isn’t true for Mediapops.