Hey there … my buddy, Nathan Anderson, author of Search Engine Optimization Tactics (available right now for free) recently re-launched his incredible SEO Club.

I was a member of SEO Club back in 2003 when Nathan first started providing this kind of data. “What kind of data” you ask?

Here is a snippet:
Membership to SEO Club [...]

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SmartyPig is a recently launched site that brings a community approach to a single savings goal. With SmartyPig, you actually set up a savings account with the bank it’s partnered with (West Bank), and invite others to contribute to your savings account.

The idea is to set a goal (for a new bike or books for [...]

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Over the past week, I’ve come across several very interesting sites. Rather than writing an entire post for each of them, I’ve consolidated them into one post. Have fun:

Zopa
Zopa calls what they do “Social Finance”. They want to change how money is shared (borrowed/loaned). “We will bring people together online so they can [...]

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Chris Yeh, investor and executive over at PBWiki, just dropped us a line to let us know of the public release of PBWiki version 2.0:
“As you know, there’s been a lot of activity in the wiki/collaboration space recently, especially with the launch of Google Sites. I thought that PBwiki’s first major overhaul could [...]

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Some friends of mine are putting together a press release service called PR Publisher. They were sharing a couple of targeting ideas they had with me, and I must admit, it sounds pretty promising. They may really set themselves apart from the mainstream PR news distributors.

Look for PR Publisher to break into the press release [...]

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PollDaddy has emerged as a slick polling service with pretty widgets, and has since grown to acquire a reported 300,000 polls since its launch last year. What to do with all that data? Make it searchable. This is PollDaddy’s attempt to make a Yahoo Answers competitor, and this is even evident in the [...]

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Depending on your outlook, you will either find this depressing or motivational. A website named the Museum of Conceptual Art has a simple page on its site that allows you to enter your age. After hitting submit, you can see what other people accomplished when they were that same age.

So if you are 23 years [...]

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There’s a new widget from the team at Amung.us: A mapping plug-in, maps.amung.us, that you can add to your site to show you where your site’s visitors are coming from, updated in real time. At first it looks to be more fun than useful, but underneath the widget, Amung.us collects interesting stats. You need [...]

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DoMyStuff.com is an online community where busy people can quickly find Assistants to complete their chores.

The Assistants you’ll find on DoMyStuff.com are individuals and businesses located near you who compete by bidding to run your errands. This bidding system ensures that you find the best people to do your stuff at the lowest price.

The [...]

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