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Tumblr offers you to create a no fuss blog, from their FAQ:

“Blogs are great, but they can be a lot of work. And they’re really built to handle longer-form text posts. Tumblelogs, on the other hand, let you easily and quickly post and share anything you find or create.”

Here is an example blog (as with this blog you can choose to host it yourself)…see more.

As you can see Tumblr offer no frills blogs, with minimal sidebar flare, this could be just the ticket for less enthusiastic bloggers, or perhaps even for younger kids.

When you first log in there are various themes, colours, advanced options or customise the template to your hearts content.

When you post you get a choice of post forms: regular (title and body), link (title and URL), photo (URL/file and caption), quote (body and Source/URL), conversation (box), and video (URL/file and caption)…there is also a bookmarklet to post about the page you are on.

Add “/mobile” to the end of your URL for a URL friendly version of your Tumblr.

Here is my Tumblr, and mobile version.
(I dont seems to have permalinks or even date links..ahhh that’s why).

My first post is a text post, second post is a conversation post, third is a link post, fourth is quote post (notice this doesn’t have a title), and the fifth is a photo post (no title either).

This kind of reminds me of OPML blogging, eg. Tom Morris, as the posts are more of an informal brief nature and seem like a stream of thoughts. When you look at the homepage it looks like one stream, it doesn’t have defining structure, so it could almost look like one long post.

In a way, social networks aside, it reminds me of other micro blogging sites like Jaiku, Twitter, and NowThen.

Maybe the next step for Tumblr would be sending and receiving posts by SMS, MMS, email (phone).

[ADDED 02/05/07: Tumblr updated]

Spotplex is about finding what’s hot on the web according to social clicks, probably influenced by the Rojo idea of popular posts via a social click behaviour.

Rojo is based on a feed set, this feed set is the aggregated feeds from the Rojo subscription web, stories from these feeds are clicked, saved, tagged, emailed, voted, etc…all these clicks (besides voting) assume an implicit vote of interest.
The most clicked stories appear as popular posts, this is also organised by category and tag.

Spotplex is also a memeclicker, but unlike Rojo it generates submissions outside the subscription web.
The way it works is bloggers place code in their blog, and when people visit their website, this connects to Spotplex and becomes an automatic vote for that post. The more site visits (clicks) the more popular the post becomes.

Hmmm, what if you didn’t like the post, but just by visiting it you voted for it. Anyway it also doubles up as a site visit statistics tracker for your blog posts.

But what about RSS content, do posts only get memeclicked (submitted to Spotplex) if items are clicked, what about views. If I offered summary feeds, I’d get more clicks, therefore more votes to climb Spotplex…is there a way it can harvest RSS views (part of audience enagement)?

They also offer widgets for all articles or limited to one blog, even limited to new or popular articles.

It’s not just posts, why not also list the most popular sources (blogs) these posts come from, basic who has the highest site visits, check out the Blog standing link.

Alternative buzz sites

Memedigging - Digg

Personal memeclicker - Findory, Spotback

Inlinks - Technorati, Sphere (and other variables)

Outlinks - Chuquet

Memetracker - Techmeme, TailRank, Megite

[via TechCrunch, Webware ]

RS3 - similar to system tray RSS Readers, only RS3 also expands to full page (this is a transparent page). Drag and drop feeds, filter watchlist terms that pop up toast, sticky windows, intergrates with adding feeds using IE.

Scouta - bookmark and tag websites, audio, video and you are recommended other sites, also form groups (each had a podcast feed)…here’s an explanation. The recommendation I suppose is similar to StumbleUpon, as you explicitly tell it what you like…see more.

Ning (update) - it’s been a while since their initial release, but now they really do mean a novice can create any type of social network application…seems more inline with the simplicity of website creators like SiteKreator and Weebly.

MyPictr - resize your image for your profiles in social networks, etc…

vFlyer - create professional looking flyers (choice of themes) and even submit it to a classifieds site like ebay and Edgeio…see the tutorial. Also manage your flyers, get stats.
Here is an example of selling a car. Also promoting itself as classified ads widgets. See Letterpop for Newsletters.

Mabber - meta web-based IM client that also has a widget for your blog vistors to chat with the blog owner (the blog owner reponds with their regular IM client)…sounds like meebome, see more.