Link Count Widget

Technorati has unveiled the Link Count Widget, a widget through which every entry of the blogs that insert it, will display in real time the quantity of links that this specific entry has received.

To put it in another way, now if you have a blog, you will be able to show to your visitors the number of links that refer to your entries in real time so that they can access some of the posts that link to you to and follow the ongoing discussion from other blogs or see the repercussion you had.

The Myspace of Poker

Now that Internet gambling is coming under heavy legislative fire with the new puritan laws, a new free service: PokerDIY - Connecting Poker Player for Live Games, eases the task of finding local, brick-and-mortar and charitable poker events in your vicinity.

You can announce the poker games you host or start and join a poker league and keep track of results. You can invite users by email and keep the members of your league informed of the results.

I forsee Prohibition will have no real effect and poker will continue to be a prominent American entertainment. I even saw an event hosted by the The Fraternal Order of Police of South Oakland County in the calendar. Maybe poker will go back to the living-room for a while with the aid of well-structured services like this.

PokerDIY has additional services like a forum, poker blog, TV poker schedule and poker articles.

Rrove

Thanks to the Google Maps API many useful service can be created .Rrove is a social net|network where the users add their favorite places and can share them with the rest of users.

The operation is simple; we will have to look for the area, introduce its location, then we can cover it with a rectangle and enter tags, description, evaluation and even a description if we want. We can add our photos, or import them from flickr.

Sharing places is a great idea, but may I suggest a possible connection to travel offers? That would monetize the idea and I'm sure it has crossed the creator's mind.

Pay per Click goes Pay per Lead

This is a identifiable trend in Internet advertisement as companies want to quantify the real impact of their campaigns. Recently Apogee Search, a Search Engine Marketing firm in the Southwest, announced that it has decided to endorse and support the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO). SEMPO's mission is foster awareness of SEM and its role in marketing.

Apogee Search's motto "Customers, not clicks" exemplifies this tendency. They provide their clients with data about specific number of completed lead forms, conversion rates and actual cost per lead.

Wii are Waiting

Only 3 day for the US release of Nintendo's new playtoy: the Wii. But this is not "yet another console" release. The Wii offers technological innovation that might change they way we approach gaming.

Nintendo wants to make gaming as accessible to people of all ages and all abilities. The key to this strategy is the controller: the Wii Remote controller. It features motion-sensing technology that turn it into a multifunctional device:In a tennis game, it serves as your racket;in a driving game, it serves as your steering wheel.

The potentiality of this device is overwhelming. It could end with the topic of the obese kid closed in his room. Nintendo want to turn the family's living room into a playground for all, even the most techno-adverse. I think they will succeed.

tags: Nintendo, Wii

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Youtube in your Ipod

Itube is a free windows app that will put your favorite youtube videos straight into your Ipod. You just need to input the YouTube page URL and iTube will download the file, convert it to MP4 format from the original FlashVideo (.flv), and then import it directly into iTunes.

When you plug in your iPod video it will transfer automatically . If you don't have an iPod video, you can watch the movie in any MP4 player or even in Itunes.

If you want the original .flv video use the the Video Downloader plugin for Firefox. It suports a plethora of video sites like Google Video, Metacafe, Ifilm, Dailymotion and also embedded video.

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tags: itube, youtube, ipod, video downloader