Blogshares. I know mentioned this site before about 6 months ago, but if you haven't heard of it, I thought I'd tell ya'll about Blogshares. It is a fantasy stock market for blogs. If you are a blogger who uses Blogger.com, chances are that your blog is already indexed...it may even be worth something if others have purchased shares :) If you have a blog through typepad or another service, you must register your blog.
Once you sign up to play the game, you are given a certain amount of $ to start buying shares of various blogs. Each blog is given a value based on incoming and outgoing links and has 5000 shares available. The price of the stock goes up (or down) every time shares are bought or sold. Most shares start at$0 .75 or something like that. If you were lucky (or rich enough), you could own shares in Mi Vida Ocupada, but all of my stock is sold. I had purchased almost all of my own shares over time and then I accidentally sold them all a few weeks ago, majorly raising the price of my stock. Each share in my blog is now worth $1,128.28. Ridiculous!! I am not too serious about this game because I don't know how to do anything other than buy/sell shares, but it is fun!! Give it a try :)
eXTReMe Tracking. Get the stats on who visits your blog and where they are from! I just signed up for it less than 24 hrs ago, but I already know how many unique visitors have been here today. I am very curious to know who my visitors are from the Czech Republic, Germany, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Lebanon, and Iran? Hi!
Another feature is that it keeps track of what browsers people are using when they visit. For example, 44.83% of you are still using Internet Explorer 6!! I highly recommend upgrading to IE7 like 37.93% of the visitors to this site. And 24% of visitors are here between 1-3pm. Pretty neat, huh?
How Many of Me? This site uses U.S Census Bureau statistics on first and last names that are in common use in the USA. Type in your first and last name and find out how many other people in the country statistically have the same name as you. According to the statistics, there are 4 other people named Kristi Sauer. 8 people named Kristen Sauer. It is really weird to know there are others with my name out there!! Dopplegangers. LOL. I have typed in several names of people I know and had fun playing around, but some uncommon names are not listed at all, so I am not sure how accurate this really is. (PS I first saw this on Sarah's blog a few months ago but never got around to sharing it here)
Hopefully that provided some additional entertainment for those of you who are at work right now. lol!
Very cool! Thanks for the links. There is ONLY ONE Nicole Barczak in the world..> COOL!
Hey, do you know how to do the extreme tracking for Typepad? I don't know where to put the code...
Posted by: | January 11, 2007 at 06:31 AM
Oh sheesh, that was me posting above (uh... duh... I said my name in my post) HAHA
Posted by: Nicole | January 11, 2007 at 06:32 AM
Neat sites!!!! TFS!
Posted by: Adrienne | January 11, 2007 at 08:24 AM
I use sitemeter for my blog.
love seeing where people visit from...
and I'd love to know who some of them are!
Posted by: sarah | January 11, 2007 at 10:36 AM
Ok, so I know none of these, must check them out! Especially the Extreme tracking, I love all things Xtreme. lol
Love the new banner!
Posted by: simone | January 11, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Pretty neat post... I figured I'd drop a line - I do peek in every now and then and I'm guilty of not posting!
Your banners are awesome, by the way... you have a real talent for them!
Posted by: Chrissy | January 11, 2007 at 04:58 PM
Hey, can you email me and help me out w/the extreme tracking thing? I don't know where to put the code. Thanks!!
Posted by: Nicole | January 13, 2007 at 09:00 AM