MyScoop the new South African blog aggregator and social bookmarking site by Nicolas Duncan has built upon what the community requested.

MyScoop launched about a month ago with limited functionality just as Amatomu shut its doors. The blog aggregator started out with only functionality to fetch the latest blog entries from subscribed blogs and displaying it. Now things has changed and on track to provide the same functionality that Afrigator has to offer and Amatomu used to offer.

Nicolas Duncan has improved MyScoop allot during the last month and added a badge and ranking system. MyScoop now has the ability to keep track of your site hits and what pages users access on your blog. MyScoop also introduced a ranking system that keeps track of what blogs is most popular and what blog posts receives the most traffic, they also added a stats section to the control panel that shows you how many hits your site had on different dates.

The possibilities are endless now that MyScoop has the badge system in place and can gather all sorts of stats from your blog to display to you. What I would like to see is perhaps a Unique visits and Page views combined graph, and maybe one to display weekly, monthly and yearly stats.

Also perhaps Nicolas can provide us with some insight as to how the ranking of the blogs is calculated.

If you have any suggestions about features you would like to see on MyScoop, please leave a comment.

ZATorrents opened it doors today to the public. ZATorrents is a new initiative by owner of ZA-Portal, the free local proxy service that allows you to browse and download content with local only cap.

ZATorrents is having a new signup competition, and I decided to help out a bit. The ZATorrent competition is a refer contest , the top 3 members to refer the most users get a prize as listed below.  To refer someone is quite easy , during signup you just put your name into the refer box and that is it.

Prizes:
1st Place: 5GB International – Unshaped
2nd Place: 5GB International – Shaped
3rd Place: 3GB International – Shaped

All account SAIX Based.

The contest will end on 28th August 2009! and the winners will get their prize exactly at 7:00PM.

So this is what I propose, go sign up to ZATorrent and use referer name igeek. Then if igeek gets one of the prizes, I’ll have a small competition for you guys to win the prize.

UPDATE

If there is no referer box simply pm the user ZAPortal with the words Referer: igeek