There’s plenty of tools available to help Emedia dudes (thats me, you and Dupree) get a better understanding of what site is good, bad, big, small, valuable or not. Rather than create a list of links on my nav, this post gives up a bunch of links to pretty cool sites aimed to help me look like a rockstar. As any Emedia dude will tell you, it’s part science, part science-fiction so these tools do the science bit… For science fiction, check out Magic Dragon If you’ve got any more links or want me to link to you - drop me line or add a comment.

SEOmoz
The tool is designed to satisfy the curiosity of webmasters, surfers and web marketing professionals seeking a better metric to quickly assess a site/page’s relative importance and visibility

URLTrends
UrlTrends was developed by Joel Strellner to allow Webmasters, Search Engine Optimizers, and domain buyers to determine a websites (or a specific pages) rankings in the various search engines and directories. Based on this information you can make competitive analysis of any website with another website — and from this you could possibly determine whether your SEO tactics are positive or negative to your website; or, if you are a domain buyer, determine if a particular domain should be purchased.

Compete
Provides free information for every site on the Internet including site traffic history and competitive analytics; a list of available promotional codes across thousands of online retailers; and site-specific trust scores based on up-to-the-minute data from Compete and third party security services.

SiteAmount
This online tool puts together outside information from many important search engines and ranking tools, along with revenue information provided by you to formulate an estimated selling price for your website. These prices are based on the globally used 6-24x Revenue models.

PopUri.US
A tool to check at-a-glance the link popularity of any site based on its ranking (Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, Technorati etc.), social bookmarks (del.icio.us, etc), subscribers (Bloglines, etc) and more!

MarketLeap
Link popularity, Search Engine Saturation and Keyword Verification tools. MarketLeap also gives you the chance to checkout your site vs. competitors and other industry related sites.

At some stage last year, before Google went on a $1.5 Billion purchasing spree, YouTube were claiming upwards of 100 million video streams per day. It was a pretty seismic number and surprised many people - including, no doubt, the meatwads over at ABC, NBC, Disney and Viacom. Within a couple of months, Google had not only risked a huge lawsuit and bought YouTube, but then integrated the videos into the Google machine pretty quickly. Since then, the quoted video streams from YouTube remains at 100 million per day. And then I read this report from ComScore.

Hmmm, Google was the top streaming video property in January, as measured by total unique streamers (54.7 million) and total video streams initiated (1.17 billion). The lion’s share of video streaming activity on Google property occurred on YouTube.com, which accounted for 992.0 million video streams initiated.

Don’t get me wrong, 992,000,000 video streams is a pretty big number. But if the number YouTube was shouting about last summer was true, 30 days x 100,000,000 then the streamed number for YouTube should’ve been at least 3,000,000,000 (all those numbers = 3 billion)- or is my math bad? So either ComScore is getting it wrong (that could easily be the problem, web metrics are pretty dang hard to get right) or YouTube is full of crap And I’m not talking about the content.

BTW, here’s my fave YouTube Clip:

Just when I thought TV was on it last legs, I find I’m completely addicted to Twittervision - thus driving another nail into the coffin of UHF and Cable TV. CBS, ABC and NBC, along with Viacom don’t realise just how far down the pecking order they are now-a-days. Another point to add - I was talking to the Mike, one of my neighbors kids about how I can contact him since I just hired him as my VideoBlog editor over at XBOX365. I asked him for his email “nope, don’t do it” and IM name “not any more dude” were the response… The reason why - Myspace. That’s right advertisers, Email, IM and TV are dead, Websites are taking over as the preferred place to send and retrieve messages, news, files and gossip.

Don’t forget to check out Twittervision, it rocks!

According to Imagini, I’m an easy rider, drawn to the drama of a big spectacle…. As for the rest of my profile, thats kinda private… Check out Imagini, a pretty neat, new social website that identifies your “Visual DNA” and shows you, via a series of images, what kind of person you are, you know, the one you hide from your partner, boss, family etc… It’s pretty neat and well worth the 2 mins of your time it takes to complete.

Simply click on the image you feel answers the question (I think there are 8 questions) and voila, it’ll show you what the real you is all about… Me, I’m happy to be an easy rider…

Every eMedia pundit will be saying “told you so” today as Viacom, owner of the once decent, but now reduced to crap MTV, announced to the world that they are about to take YouTube to the cleaners to the MTV enhanced tune of $1,000,000,000 - yep thats a B. Viacom alleges that about 160,000 unauthorised clips of its programmes have been loaded onto YouTube’s site and viewed more than 1.5 billion times. Google says it is “confident” that YouTube has respected the legal rights of copyright holders. Confident in this case really means they are wondering what the hell they should do to fix this issue - hmmm, lets see if Nickelodeon, MTV, VH1 and Comedy Central accidentally fall off the the Google spider list… Yeah, that might fix it.

Of course Google should be confident - the videos below have nothing to do with MTV:

Lets see how long these clips are available for…