Ping.fm is now open beta to the public

The fun and extremely useful service is now open to public beta.
As some of you may know, I am a member of 67 social networking services, that means 67 online profiles that I have to maintain regularly, Do you you how hard it is do do so? You probably do.
That was until I discovered the best tool of 2008 in my opinion, www.ping.fm and until September 2nd, it was an invite only beta service.
Well now it’s open to the public, still in beta, but open to all.
What is Ping.fm?
Let’s say you have multiple online profiles, like me, you might want to update all of them almost everyday.
Before Ping, I would manually go on my twitter, facebook, plurk, pownce, linkedin, tumbler, identica, brightkite, freindfeed, jaiku, plaxo, bebo, hi5, kwippy, xanga and rejaw to update my status, sometimes twice a day for each one.
After I got my special beta invie code and signed up with Ping.fm, set it up, I can update all the above and more in one shot, whether I am updating from web, phone, email or IM, it’s all in one shot, life became way easier
Now here is the best part: (Warning! geeks content follow)
Ping was built with open API calls, meaning if you hire a nerd like myself (And you can!) to set it up with your blog or RSS feed, guess what? You know it. More organic exposure. I even setup some of my affiliate feeds to go there immediatly and I can’t tell you how much I love getting those extra commision checks in the mail.
Ping.fm is more than just status update, you can even setup your wordpress blog so you can blog through Ping.
I advice everyone to get an account (Now that it’s open to all) and enjoy everything Ping offers.

Update: I have some Brightkite invites, comment on this article and I will email you an invite. (Hurry I only have 10 invites and I will send it to the first 10 commenters only).

A new wordpress update

Remember when the magor update came out of 2.5 (Go here), and remember when I used to remind WordPress users with new updates (Go here), well it’s time for another update (more security issues resolved). WordPress 2.6.1 is out. Download here.

Free 888 Entrecredits for 8/8/08

Yes I am giving out 888 Entrecard credits to two lucky winners, just because it’s 8/8/08 and it’s easy to get it.
All you have to do is to comment on this post and drop your card, that’s all.
Note: If you don’t know what Entrecard is, or to sign up, please click here.
Now, here is catch:
You must comment between 8:08 PM EST (Eastern U.S. time) and 11:08 PM EST (or 8:08 PM Pacific).

There will be 2 winners picked up randomly after confirming they had dropped there card and commented below, and I will contact them to send them the credits.

So all you have to do is the following:
1. If you’re not signed up with Entrecard, please do so through this post.
2. In any page on this site on the right column look for the Entrecard ad and just click on “Drop”.
3. Comment on this post and make sure you include your blog’s link in your comment.
4. Sit back and I might be contacting you within 24 hours if you are one of the winners.

Note: All comments will be approved before the drawing. Please don’t double submit your comment.

Good Luck

A Google launch: KNOL!

While on my “Semi-vacation!” I was working behind the scene, when all the sudden Google launched their new (Introduced originally in 2007) encyclopedia that’s edited by users. KNOL (pronounced: nol) as in (KNOwLedge) and each page is called a KNOL which means (ironically) a unit of knowledge.
Don’t make the mistake of going to www.knol.com which belong to some kind of hardware company in a non-English language (Their Alexa.com rank jumped up from 1,112,000 to only 91,000 in less than a week (I wonder why!)).
The correct address that you may want to add to your del.icio.us is: http://knol.google.com/
Unlike Wikipedia, Knol recognize their authors and feature them as experts with their real bios and photos. (In the process while signing up, Google will call your phone as part of their verification of your authority).
I like that. Along with a couple of other options that I found out ahile playing with it the last couple of days:

• You will have options to choose how you licene your work.
• You will share some income with the ease of adding your AdSence with your work.
• I love the WYSIWYG editor (Allowing you to add HTML) unlike Wikipedia.
• And you can have more than one person publishing their work in one Knol.

I have heard this around the web for the last couple of days: It’s the Wikipedia killer, and I think that this project was Google’s attempt to compete with Wikipedia. To my surprise “Wink Wink” I find some pages on Google search results from Knol ranked higher than pages from Wikipedia, and that’s only within the first 3 days of it’s launch to the public. Which raise my (And a lot more people) point: isn’t this a conflict of interest?! Wasn’t Google’s main mission is to stay natural?!
I wonder!

And the winner is:

As promised the winner for the first GuruOfSales.com Entrecard contest is:
….
Wait…
Let me give you the numbers first:
Total entered: 451 (Noticed some people entered twice)
Total Drops: 7111 throughout the week.
Total new RSS by email: 232.
Total new twitter fans: 429
Total comments: over 800 mostly spam (Had to delete it all, but your entries were not effected).
The next contest will be coming up very soon.
The winner of this contest was “Many Afkaran” (His blog just started).
“Many” won an extra 200 credits due to a feeling good in the air attitude
Next contest we will up the prize to 5000 Entrecard credits.
Congratulations to Many.

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