Blog Engage, a generalist “Digg-Like” site where you send your blog stories had it’s one year anniversary. For this great even the site owner Brian decided to surprise us all with a brand new design. I noticed many changes:

- No more header ads, you can see more content when you arrive on the site.
- Each stories takes much less space, it makes the site appear much cleaner.
- The categories widget is gone, it used to eat much space on the right side.
You can go visit BlogEngage and if you have a blog, register and submit stories. You will get many visits if you hit the front page!

The crowd is great and you can meet some quality bloggers, Geoserv and Raivyn are two of them.
It has been a great experience to observe Blog Engage rise, after being stuck at 120k in Alexa, it now has a rank of 75k and I’m sure it will keep on getting better. If you are already a member, what are your thoughts on the new design?

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, Google announced the launch of project “10 ^ 100″ (pronounced 10 power 100), whose goal is simply to “change the world.” To do this, Google requires users to submit their ideas to help “as many people as possible.” The group states that it released for a sum of $ 10 million, which will be used to finance the implementation of the five best ideas. Google will select a hundred ideas among those that have been sent out. People around the world will be able to vote and finally a jury will select up to five ideas.

I have been using Analytics for more than a year but never really explored all the different tools google offered. I fell on this graph: Visitors Loyalty.

I’m not sure if you are familiar with this type of data. If you read the last line, does it mean 146 different IPs hit my website between 101 and 200 times in a month?

If you count the bots for around 46, it would mean there is about 100 people that like the website. I’m not sure this is possible…

Like many Submit Your Blog Post Style Website, I think Blogengage is slowly but surely getting his brand name around the Blogosphere. The owner, Brian seems like a great person. I see all the hard work he’s putting into his project, it’s very inspiring, many bloggers could learn from his work and thoughts.

I discovered some great Blogs because of this website, I’ll list a couple of them:
- Syed knows how the system works, he will soon be one of the Top bloggers.
- Raivyn knows what a beginner in the blog business needs to know and implement in order to succeed. Go visit her blog, it’s always interesting.
- Mert, like Raivyn will give you some good advice in this shark market. He often comes up with some new stuff that just appeared on internet, and has Johnchow link on his entrecard right now ;).
- Michael writes on many different topics, I got many tips from his posts.

There are other great Blogs you can discover at Blogengage, visit the place I’m sure you won’t be disapointed. I won the June monthly award @ BlogEngage for the Top Engaged link: Too Many Money Blogs. I just wanted to say Thank You to everyone voting my story. This community is composed of great people, let’s keep working hard to make it a better place.

I received many hits after writing a post on Facebook’s Spam wall issue. You know smoking bud?

This morning my brother woke up with the following message in his mailbox:

From: warning+pgdf6l1@facebookmail.com
Subject: Facebook Warning
Hello,
You made one or more wall posts that violated our Terms of Use. Among other things, posts that are hateful, threatening, or obscene are not allowed. We also take down posts that attack an individual or group, or advertise a product or service. Continued misuse of Facebook’s features could result in your account being disabled.

If you have any questions or concerns, you can visit our FAQ page at http://www.facebook.com/help.php?topic=wposts.
The Facebook Team

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They don’t seem to realize there is a failure in their architecture. I’m sure many people will receive this warning, yet these poor users haven’t done anything to go against the rules, they followed a link sent from a friend. It’s sad they can’t make the difference between the attacker and the victim.

I don’t think it’s a spyware sitting inside the computer. The problem could be related to an application you installed, maybe if you remove the last application you added, it can solve your problem. Again they should restrict and have a tighter security in their API (application programming interface).