Just a quick note to highlight some new functionality we ‘plugged’ into Blueworld today. It’s called Gender Bash and is all about asking the opposite sex a question. The new service has been a huge hit with tons of questions and replies.

genderbash.blueworld.co.za – Have a look, learn something from the opposite sex

Most popular question so far – “How big are your boobs” and “Are pink shirts gay” .. haha

Some of the content boxes on the Gender Bash page – you can see the users have been going crazy for the new service:

We have added two new areas on Blueworld aggregating some of our user’s data.

Blogs.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s blogs – Visit

Photos.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s uploaded photos – This is the biggest area on BW with 100+ photos being uploaded each day firmly cementing us as one of the top photo sharing sites in SA – Visit

Both areas are updated dynamically whenever users update their blogs and photos. Next up on our dev schedule is to do the same with videos.blueworld.co.za and chuck bluetube.co.za – Which is now a stand alone site. This should be done by tomorrow as our video sharing code was completed for the KFC campaign last week.

Here’s some screen shots – Blueworld Blogs – blogs.blueworld.co.za

Blueworld Photos – photos.blueworld.co.za

Daily Glamour

SA Rugby Blog

I’m really chuffed with how the blogs turned out. I also have two reliable bloggers working on these blogs now updating the properties daily.

Myspace has been a source of traffic for various social start ups such as Photobucket, Slide and even Youtube. The video sharing site gained millions of visitors from their embeded videos on Myspace’s user profiles. If you look at virtually any Web 2.0 application, whether it’s Flickr, whether it’s Photobucket or any of the next-generation Web applications, almost all of them are really driven off the back of MySpace.

The most recent high profile ‘ban’ is Photobucket, the image hosting site that has turned itself into a social community on the back of the wave of Web 2.0 buzzz. News.com reports

Social-networking giant MySpace.com on Wednesday blocked Photobucket videos and photo slideshows from being uploaded to its pages.

MySpace will no longer let users post such content from Photobucket in their profiles, blogs or comments section. MySpace said Photobucket had violated MySpace’s terms by encouraging users to post advertisements–specifically to an ad campaign for the upcoming feature film Spider-Man 3–in their videos. MySpace forbids third-party vendors from advertising on its site.

We spoke to the company about their actions, but they refused to respect our community’s terms,” MySpace said in a statement. “We had no choice but to disable their service.”

Myspace published their third party terms of service recently which in one point stated no third party widget or video provider can sell adspace through their network. This resulted in many start ups being blocked by the social gaint and in some cases resulting in the fall of that busines. Stick to their rules, after all its their traffic, and find other ways to monetize your service.

Traffic Gain:

How Photobucket stacks up against the other social powers. Note Youtube’s growth in the last year, thank you Myspace.