Aug 19, 2008 by: terra 
If you had to guess the top three pages visited on Buzzillions today, what would you say? Well, fortunately, you don’t have to guess. In fact, you can always check out what our users are reading about and researching by clicking the Sitemap link found at the bottom of every Buzzillions page.
So, today I went to the Sitemap page to get a sense of what’s popular right now. I probably could have guessed the top page, GPS Reviews, without much trouble. It’s summer, people are traveling, they’re hiking, and really, GPS is just cool. The second one, Television Reviews, is fairly predictable as well. Starting February 17, 2009, all television signals will be digital, so it’s understandable that people are starting to research (and buy) their digital TV options.
But number three came right out of left field. The number three most visited page today is the Trojan Elexa Ultra Sensitive Premium Latex Condoms product page! This means that this single product is getting almost as much “play” as the entire GPS or Television category! Let’s see if they can keep it up 
Aug 11, 2008 by: shammara 
The other day Robert Scoble wrote a pretty good post about how some companies like Twitter gets a disproportionate amount of blog coverage compared to other companies like Meebo (who has a significant amount more engagement and traffic than Twitter) and is under represented.
His very realistic theory was that Twitter is a tool most bloggers actively use, thus have a strong bias to cover the company frequently, while Meebo isn’t a tool most technology centric writers use. The disappointing thing about this truth is that readers don’t get a diversity of startup and technology news, since the top bloggers end up covering the same story about every single (often uninteresting) move Twitter makes.
Recently we got coverage on VentureBeat “PowerReviews aims to become the AdSense of product reviews” which highlighted our goal to be the OS for retailers of every size to collect customer reviews. It got a decent amount of pickup, but it was definitely no $999.99 for “I am Rich” iPhone app story.
What do you think about the news, analysis, and coverage of technology in the blogosphere?
Aug 11, 2008 by: jeanbuzz 
What’s next in the food challenge series? We’ve had several Wendy’s challenges. I would go so far as to say we’ve pretty much exhausted the Wendy’s possibilities (that said, I’m sure someone will read this as a challenge and come up with something even worse than the fries and milkshake challenge).
Thank goodness for Taco Bell.
Gautam (aka The Unsung Hero) had come up with the idea of eating 20 Taco Bell original tacos (those are the hardshell crunchy ones - 89¢ each) in an hour during one of our many reminisces over previous food challenges. Unfortunately, he came up with this idea on his last day of work before taking a couple of weeks vacation. Everyone thought this was a great idea but understandingly, did not want to proceed without Gautam (even though he said he would come back from his vacation just to witness this challenge we didn’t really think this would be fair).
So now that Gautam is back and all caught up with work, it’s time to get the ball rolling.
20 Taco Bell tacos don’t sound like a lot. I mean, I order 3 of those suckers every time I eat at Taco Bell (because they taste great at 2 AM and we all know they aren’t that filling). So what’s the big deal? 20? No problem.
But think about it…..
20 tacos in an hour means you have to finish a taco every 3 minutes. For an hour. When was the last time you ate food steadily for an entire hour? We’re not talking a normal dinner with conversation and wine.
Steady eating.
For a whole hour.
20 tacos.
The talk is this is going down this week. So I hear… I’ll keep you posted.
Note: as an aside, I was going through the office working up enthusiasm for the new Taco Bell challenge. Of course that dredged up stories about previous challenges, who had participated, how they went. The one that brought up the mose fries and milkshake in a blender challenge. Mark B was describing how he tested out this challenge ahead of time and how the coldness of the milkshake made all the fat from the fries congeal so that the resulting goop was the consistency of cement. It was so thick it had to be eaten from a spoon. In fact, if you scooped some out then held the spoon upside down, none of it would fall. You would think such a colorful description would deter anyone from trying this challenge again, but nope, instead this long store only stoked the passions of some of our eaters. So there may be rematch… stay tuned.
