Filed under: Web services, Social Software, web 2.0
Traackr: gauge your popularity across social sites
Each day Traackr will get information like number of views, comments, and ratings, with trend graphs to make the data pretty. It will also show you which of your tags get the most views (helpful for getting user attention). You can also create campaigns to track how well certain media objects are "performing" which could be very useful for a photographer to see how popular certain groups of photos are.
Traackr could be a great tool for musicians, photographers, videographers, and the ego-centric social-site user. It's a central location to see how popular you (or your work) are, and it gives you seemingly arbitrary "Buzz" and "Populartity" scores.

So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
