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Badges, I need some stinking badges

Badged.netGet badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good:
  • Digg This Story
  • Sphere It
  • Add to Technorati Favorites
  • View Blog Reactions (via Technorati)
  • Add to del.icio.us
  • Add to Furl
  • Add to Netscape
  • Add to Yahoo! Myweb
  • Add to Google Bookmarks
  • Add to Newsvine
  • Add to Blinklist
  • Add to Reddit
  • Add to Blogmarks
  • Add to Magnolia
  • Add to Windows Live
  • Add to Tailrank
  • Add to Favorites (Internet Explorer)
  • Email This
You type in your site URL and name, check the boxes, and get the code at the bottom of the page. It could not be any easier to do and you can insert the whole thing at the bottom of your posts, your site, whatever. Sweet, slick, and fan-tas-tic. Here is what the actual badge I created looks like:

[Via The Global Geek Podcast]

Filed under: Internet, Video, News, Web services

Megite and Tailrank make it easier to find popular videos

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Ever spend hours looking through YouTube videos only to find out that there's a famous clip of Mentos and Coke being played on CNN that you missed? Well, I don't know if that's the problem these new sites are set to fix, but there's a new crop of services designed to help you find popular videos.

Megite and Tailrank are sites that track popular news stories based on how they are linked to in other blogs. This week both sites added video tracking, which determines how popular online videos are based on how often they are linked to or embedded in other sites.

NewTeeVee writes that Megite has a prerelease version of their video tracking service, while Tailrank 2.1 with a "Video Memetracker" was released on Tuesday.

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