Blog . Jiboneus

I receive an email from Nokia, at first I thought it was spam but then it address me as “J Shamsul”. It said something about the first three contenders for the first Blogster Unite contest have been selected but I’m not one of the three and there’s still a chance that I may be selected to compete in the second or subsequent contests. I think they are asking people to vote on which of those three blogger should win. Blogster Unite is basically a blogger popularity contest done by Nokia. First I was rejected to be Malaysia’s first astronaut, now this, damn.

Three Malaysian Bloggers have been selected and they could win some Nokia phone most probably. Three names are on the page but clicking them just brings me to another blank Nokia site page. The contest starts 1st Febuary and ends at 3st March, may be the site is not ready yet.

That email has done something to me. It has awaken my inner ego. Now I want to know how “popular” I am on the web. I started googling myself just to see number of result. I wish there were a better way to do this. Yes there is, egoSurf.

From egoSurf :-

egoSurf helps massage the web publishers ego, and thereby maintain the cool equilibrium of the net itself.

We, the publishers of this here internet thing, need the occasional massage, the odd stroke. We aren’t paid. We aren’t recognised. Our sites hit count used to be enough, but no longer.

You put in your name and your site / blog and egoSurf will calculate your “ego point”. I think what it is looking for is the number of links to your site associated with your name. It could search Google, Yahoo, MSN, Del.icio.us and Technorati. The calculation of “Ego Points” is kept as a secret by them. Here is what they say over at their FAQ:

What are ego points ?

A highly secretive and complex algorithm developed over months of work, utilising the best mathematics brains in Weston-super-Mare, to calculate the cubic volume (in cm3) of ego contained in your search engine experience.

Don’t ask - would you have asked Larry and Sergey about pagerank?

Search on “J Shamsul”.

So how did I do in my Ego Points? First try, I use my name “J Shamsul” against my blog and you can see I scored :-

• 2511 points at Google
• 0 points at Yahoo
• 500 points at MSN
• 0 points at del.icio.us
• 6146 points at Technorati

Search on “Jibone”.

Second try with my nickname that i often use when registering for something “Jibone” against my blog and the result are :-

• 3780 points at Google
• 965 points a Yahoo
• 1712 points a MSN
• 0 points a del.icio.us
• 5715 points a Technorati

Well to conclude, I might not be popular but at least I’m not unknown. Technorati points are higher then the rest, may be I’m more popular over at the blogosphere then the whole web.

Try out egoSurf on your self.

Popularity: 60% [?]