Review: LinkWithin.com

LinkWithin.com

I hope I'm not assuming something but Bloggers love widgets. LinkWithin provide a widget supported by most major blogging software including Blogger.

By searching your achieve of articles LinkWithin will return relevant articles below your latest news feed. This is a great way to increase traffic to your past posts. The service is also ad free which is brilliant so your blog won't be covered in junk, just your past posts - that's it!

The Future

They intend to include a revenue sharing feature in the future but this will not be compulsory.

I am currently trying this widget out on this blog to watch its effects!

Review: Share4Gain.com - Simple but sneaky!

Share4Gain.com

Share4Gain really uses the Adsense system to do something which I am not quite sure Google will be happy about.

Basically if you want to link to a website you use their wizard to create a Share4Gain link. When someone follows the link 40% of the time it shows your Adsense, 50% site owners and 10% Share4Gain.

They say that this increases hits to the website, helping the webmaster, but for me this still seems link stealing a part of their website for your own personal use. It's a great idea and piece of technology but I'm not quite sure about the moral ground.

This is my Blog through the Share4Gain link, so I will only recieve 90% of the Adsense revenue in total!

Share4Gain.com/i/wn3cp


Having just tried the link out, a small banner appears at the top of the webpage stating that it has been modified by the linker.


Also some of the link back features on my blog display errors because Share4Gain uses a different domain.

If this really takes off it could seriously shake the Adsense world!

Update: New Facebook Layout

What an uproar! And it always happens, whenever Facebook change their design and layout.

It even hit the news 900,000 dislike the new Facebook. I know I am going to create enemies here but I don't see what's wrong with change.

Would we still be using Facebook if it looked like this...

NO! It looks old and isn't with the web 2.0 feel which modern websites have. The new Facebook has adapted to the times, yes it slightly resembles Twitter, but people like Twitters simplicity and microblogging is growing each day. What website wouldn't give their users what seems to be very popular at the time?

I also believe that everyones dislike for change on Facebook comes from their choice of publicity and advertising the change. Instead of just pouncing the change on their users, why not treat the update like other companies, why don't they say they have loads of new features ready for release which will make Facebook better. This lack of preparation is what I believe causes this sudden uproar of dislike for Facebook.

Coming on... just give it a chance!

Review UnHub.com - Simply Brilliant

UnHub.com

We all have so many accounts whether social or creative and now they can all be connected. UnHub uses iFrames to insert a banner at the top of each linked page, displaying your other links.

I for instance have my YouTube account as my homepage, so going to my unique UnHub URL will direct to my YouTube account. Then from my YouTube their is a link directly to my Facebook, basically you can link to any pages about yourself, giving yourself a central web identity.

The example account they use is Barack Obama's UnHub set up. Going to UnHub.com/barackobama takes you to his wikipedia page, but from their you get links to his books on Amazon, his Twitter, YouTube and more.

UnHub just strikes me has a brilliant idea which can only keep expanding. I look forward to seeing UnHub in the future!

Review scr.im

scr.im

'Share your email a safe way. Get less spam'

That's what they say and they seem to have taken a different route to tackling spam than most anti spam services. Instead of turning your email address into an image, a device lasting since the dawn of the web. You get your own custom url from the scr.im domain which you direct people to, pass a simple 'no bot' test revealing your email address.

That's the technology and as I said it's a new approach, we will just have to see whether this takes off!

Review www.wifi.com

First of all it's a great looking site! Simple navigation and not to many pages make the site easy to navigate and for the user to discover the service.

They offer a small piece of software which finds and locates wireless hotspots and then will connect you to the optimum hotspot available. I have installed this software on my Macbook and a second menu is included in the Airport Menu directing you to the WiFi.com options.

In addition to get the chance to securely share your own wifi connection.

All really simple and easy to use!

What is The New Site Review?

I am going to review the latest web 2.0 websites here, that simple.

I have been monitoring the latest websites appearing on the web for some time, so creating a blog with my reviews and thoughts seems like a good idea!