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Ego Surf - Know Your Place
If you have a blog, or a personal website, there is a good chance that you’re intending to make a name for
yourself out there on the “internets”. With that as a given, you probably occasionally search for your
own name (ego surf) to see how well you are doing at getting your name linked with your site.
Ego Surf is a site that will do that search for you in a much deeper way than you would likely do yourself, then give you a score. It’s relatively fast, considering what it’s doing, and it’s fun – the results show a speedometer and where you sit on the dial, and the whole thing is done in fast AJAXy goodness. I did a search for “downloadsquad” to see how well we do for links to “www.downloadsquad.com”, and it looks like we’re doing quite well at making a name for ourselves. Obviously this tool is a great way to track any type of online brand-building.
The best part is that once you’ve created a search, you can subscribe to it via RSS to see how it changes over time, and what new links are pointing to you that affect your score.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
