Hi everyone, first of all I’m sorry updating so late (I was at the GDC — Game Developers Conference, at San Francisco).

Anyway, I’ve been hearing lots of comments about both Entrecard and Spottt, and how they differ. First of all, I want to comment about how Entrecard and Spottt can join forces to help your blog, and the HTML code needed to include them next to the other one so that you don’t waste precious space over the fold.

Entrecard + Spottt = Sinergy

The problem with Entrecard’s traffic is that a lot of it resolves in high bounce rates (in other words, they just enter your website to drop their Entrecard). Of course, there’s valuable traffic in Entrecard too, but let’s say this straight, most people simply drop their Entrecard and that’s it. This may not be the most desirable traffic for your blog, but certainly there are benefits, including a higher Alexa Rank, those who are really interested in your blog, and bigger exposure for smaller blogs. Now, what happens when we team up with Spottt?

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Here’s my latest project on WebSoda: The WebCloud!

What’s the WebCloud anyway? Well, it’s the Top 50 website list on WebSoda.net, bigger websites represent websites with more votes, while those in vivid red are the ones with higher scores (either by Votes or Frequency).

One curious fact is that BodyBuilding.com is the most voted website (and has a very high score too). This is actually because the website was stickied in their forum, which generated many hundreds of votes. However, even though the websites are viewed on a random order, common websites such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Gmail, or Google, are quite big in the cloud too!

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Yesterday, I made a new Vote and Skip buttons for Websoda, since some visitors suggested me that it was not too clear what they were doing. Anyway here they are:

I also added Feedburner and Entrecard to my website, both great services that I was using before starting this blog. Also, if you’re too lazy as to insert a website, feel free to reply here and leave me the URL’s for your own website / other nice websites that you visit. I’ll take a look at them and insert them if they have good content

Welcome to the WebSoda blog! So, what’s this WebSoda thing about? It’s a (taken from the About page) repository or list of websites, which ranges from the most known websites to other less known ones. On our main page, you’re shown a different random website with a big thumbnail and a description. After seeing the website, you can cast your vote from 0 to 10 (10 being highest), and how frequent you see this website (if you knew it before seeing it here). After voting, you’ll get to see the website’s average score and frequency, and will be redirected to another random website.

If you’re a little lost, I invite you to check out a random website at WebSoda.net and you’ll get the point in no time

WebSoda was just released to the public and some websites already have more than 500 votes!

What about the website trends?

The real pupose of WebSoda’s blog (besides mentioning changes and features) is to analyze all the input received from users about websites (number of hits, score, and frequency for now). So, help us vote! It won’t take more than a minute!

Anyway, please let me know of any suggestions/feedback/anything