As some of you may know, the requirement for a story to reach the front page of PlugIM was 2 plugs within 10 days of the story being submitted.  Because of the site’s continued increase in popularity and traffic, the requirement has been adjusted to 3 plugs within 7 days.  Over the last couple of days almost every story submitted has been reaching the front page.  This not only increases the value for a story reaching the front page, but also better reflects the opinion of the community and it’s members as to what is considered to be the best stories submitted.

Sorry it’s been so long since I last posted. The holidays and last minute Christmas shopping all caught up with me and I’ve been a touch overwhelmed recently. I’ve also noticed a dramatic decrease in free time since we hooked up our new Nintendo Wii… As a result, I haven’t had much time to devote to PlugIM but fortunately the site is taking on a life of it’s own.
 
December has already broken all records for unique visitors, visits, page views, bandwidth, new member signups, you name it… I wanted to write a quick blog post to thank two of the individuals who helped make this possible: Seth Godin and Guillaume Bouchard.
 
Seth mentioned us in a recent post on his blog here:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2006/12/here_comes_the_.html
 
Guillaume (http://www.go-referencement.org/) mentioned us in a post on Seomoz here:
http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=1600
 
There have been many others who’ve mentioned and/or reviewed PlugIM on their blogs and I want to let you all know how much I appreciate it. The site continues to grow beyond my highest expectations and I can’t wait for 2007. It’s going to be an incredible year.

Recently PlugIM.com user garageband777 posted a story about Socializer which is a free service from eKstreme.com that allows you to easily submit a link to several social bookmarking systems so instead of having a link to each social bookmarking website, you have a single link to all of them.  So of course my first comment to the post was “Does Socializer allow you to add your link to PlugIM?” which unfortunately it didn’t.
 
I contacted Pierre over at eKstreme and asked him to consider adding PlugIM to Socializer and after taking a look at PlugIM and realizing how rapidly the community is growing, he agreed to add PlugIM as one of Socializer’s social bookmarking sites.  I’m quite excited about this and really feel it’s going to help push PlugIM to the next level.  We’ve already had several new members sign up and post new stories coming in from Socializer and we’ve only been listed there for a couple of days.
 
You’ll notice the Socializer link has also been added to the list of links under each PlugIM story so please make use of it and check it out.  You can add your favorite PlugIM stories to your other favorite bookmarking sites with just a couple quick clicks.  Once you see how easy it is, you’ll be adding Socializer to your blog or website as well.