The last couple of weeks have been witness to huge changes in the blogging world. The Internet in general (for those that are paying attention to the online community) has had a couple startups that took flight within a relatively short amount of time that have the possibility of untold and explosive growth. Here are the ones that have caught my attention lately.

Blog Rush- Blog Rush is a widget for blogs that was just thrown out onto the Internet last week. On November 10th, Blog Rush’s buzz began to churn and the chaos started. It went from unknown to blogosphere superstar in about 4 days and then exploded on the 14th. Once John Chow and Shoemoney threw their very positive 2 cents in on the product, it was pretty much all over with at that point and the rocket took off. The idea behind Blog Rush is a pretty good one. It’s a widget that you can put on your website that will give you 1:1 ratio of impressions per pageviews on your own site. To say that it sent shockwaves through the blogosphere would be putting it mildly. Blog Rush is the amazing product of Mr. John Reese at Income.com. If you want to check out his blog, you can read through his pre-release notes and general thoughts of a man that is pretty damn sure he’s about to light a fuse on a big bomb, and he was right. It will be interesting to see what happens next for Mr. Reese.

Yuwie.com - This might be the Myspace killer. Visually, its pretty much the same thing as myspace. Yuwie is a social site, where you can upload pictures, interact with other, join clubs, all the same stuff you could do on Myspace when it started. The only notable exception that I see is that there is no way to upload videos. But Rome wasn’t built in a day. Here’s the bonus. You can get paid to use this. This is a social networking site that not only plays you residuals, but let’s you create a downline. Getting paid to flirt..can you beat that one? I already see people using myspace backgrounds, I haven’t seen the music in the pages just yet, but I’m sure that’s only a matter of time. I could see this getting to be pretty big pretty quick.

Dealdotcom.com - Dealdotcom will actually launch within 30 minutes of the time of this post. The buzz around it is very heavy at this time so to see what happens when they actually lift the gate will be interesting. This is going to be something like Woot but for marketing oriented programs, software, books, etc. If you have something you want to get out to the marketing circles of the internet, this is the place to go.

Milliondollarwiki.com - This is one of my favorites. Beautiful in it’s simplicity. The Million Dollar Wiki is an ingenius site created by Graham Langdon, a 21 year old senior from the University of Connecticut. For $100 you can buy a page on the milliondollarwiki and have full control over its content. add what you want. This very well could be something that, if it catches, could be a major driving force for many sites. I expect to see wiki’s everywhere in this capacity soon. As of this writing MDW has sold 902 pages for $100

Each one of these sites, in their own way are inovative, clever and in some ways groundbreaking. It will be interesting to see how they grow, and what overall effect these sites have on internet marketing.

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