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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
Awesome and frightening at the same time

Think of a MySpace or Friendster for geeks and you will get Sci-Edge. The intention to bring down the general scale to a science specific category benefits people of similar interests in many ways.

Above is a screenshot of how the main dashboard looks like. Users get to list down their all their favourite stuff such as movies, sites, bookmarks or even science events that are interesting.

When an user signs in he/she will automatically enter the ‘Admin’ view. That’s where the user get an overview of the entire account. Other preferences like the photo album, private messages, skins, wish lists, reminders, friends’ list and groups are located here. They even have a button for users to block other users annoying to them.

What are the benefits of sharing?

By sharing knowledge and information, everyone helps each other. This act will certainly promote a healthy environment of growth.

Like for example, if bloggers hadn’t share their knowledge about things they write about in their blog, surely it doesn’t help either one of us. Imagine life without ProBlogger, the ultimate guide for bloggers of all walks. No one would have grown past the blogging-about-daily-lives stage into blogging as a full time job.

As the saying goes, ‘The purpose of relationships is not happiness, but transformation’.

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Sci-Edge
Science oriented social networking site

Spotplex.com is a web based blog article aggregator that provides internet users with real-time ranking of blog articles based on actual impression count. In other words, you can find what is the hot news today, this week, or this month in real time at Spotplex. This is not a list of articles people recommended or voted for, but a list of articles read most in a given timeframe. Bloggers can track and analyze their blog traffic with a simple Spotplex code or widget. Not just how many people visit the blog, they can even find which articles people read most and how many people read them. Whenever an article of the blog is read, it will show up at Spotplex in real-time and get noticed by Spotplex users.

This is how it works.

1. A blogger inserts a Spotplex code into their blog.
2. Whenever an article in the blog is read, the code reports Spotplex server that the article is read.
3. The article shows up on Spotplex and the view counter reflects the change.

At the moment, they only allow people with invites to sign up. If you think your website is popular enough, register your email and they may give you an invite.

UPDATE : I’ve just received my invite in less than a week! Go get your invite and test it out!

Spotplex
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