Futuremark Corporation has launched YouGamers, the World’s First Intelligent Gamer website. A destination for PC gamers, it offers full reviews/ previews of original games, gaming industry news and exclusive interviews.

What makes it intelligent is its Game-o-meter? gaming performance analysis, a service that scans your PC, estimates the system’s gaming performance and provides you with an accurate assessment of how well your PC measures up on the game of choice. Results are based on Futuremark’s database of over 13 million benchmarks results. So now, you could do a test on how good or bad the game runs on your computer without relying on the printed game compatibility summary and taking a chance with purchasing the game.

Currently the game database has about 100 or so PC titles with ratings and system requirements. Each game review actually has a convenient comparison service with direct shopping links (with prices) allowing you to purchase it immediately. The shopping links I noticed were from Amazon, Wal-Mart and J&R Music Computer World. I am not sure whether they have more shopping retailers to choose from but will assume that they probably do. Each user can also categorize the site’s information with tagging, a must have feature in Web 2.0 sites nowadays.

Visually, the site has a futuristic look with cool blue shades. The layout of the site is neat and organized. I loved the way the reviews and previews were laid out, (unlike most gaming sites) they managed to fit a lot of features and links within a page and still make it very pleasing to the eyes with no clutter. Each review has a nice end of review summary with scoring ratings broken down into 5 areas: gameplay, graphics, audio, technology and an overall average.

“YouGamers is a complete web resource for gamers that offers a full range of game information and an active community, but with an intelligent twist. Every gamer website up to this point has only provided a piece of the puzzle, largely ignoring the relationship between PC hardware and game-play,” said Tero Sarkkinen, EVP Sales and Marketing of Futuremark Corporation. “We’ll provide the regular news, reviews, links, content and forums, but YouGamers is smarter than that. Aside from serving the enthusiast gamer with detailed gaming performance analysis, we also help all gamers by telling them which games their PC can play well, before they actually buy one. We also give reliable upgrade and new PC purchase advice for an even better enjoyment of gaming. YouGamers is going to change what gamers expect from game websites.”

Together with a full featured forum for game discussions, YouGamer is a great next generation PC gaming site that may soon give some of the current top gaming sites a run for their money.

About Futuremark? Corporation

Futuremark? Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark? is known around the world for its benchmark products, including the 3DMark? and PCMark? Series, SPMark? and VGMark ? (with more than 30 million copies distributed worldwide) and value-added services powered by a database of over 13 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark? maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland.

One of the most respected blogs on the web is up for sale, BusinessLogs.

BusinessLogs was established in May of 2004 and has about 50,000 visitors a month and a PR7 ranking. They are asking $55,000 for it but offers are accepted within their auction sale.

Here is what you’ll get:

+ All blog entries written by the current owner Mike Rundle since May 2004.
+ A new design for the site to begin upon finalization of the sale. Normal blog design projects for clients start at $4,000 but this is included in the price.

It does not include:

- Continuation of the 9rules affiliation which accounts for <4% total referral pageviews.
- The work portfolio of Mike Rundle (currently located at businesslogs.com/work).

The package doesn't come with the tag team of Mike Rundle, chief designer and Paul Scrivens ... so you'll most likely have to hire one or do it yourself if you are design savvy enough. Bear in mind, you'll be paying for the name and a lot of credibility too from the likes of Christian Science Monitor, RedState.com, PBS.org, Mozilla, Microsoft, and many more well-known Web 2.0 startups.

The asking price is a little pricey and I can't see a $55K price tag justification. Even if you purchase it, everyone would know that Mike isn't there anymore to do the great designs that the company is known for. I might be wrong but I see the bulk of the client?le and the blog credibility following Mike where ever he goes. It also doesn't include the 9rules affiliation (which is a huge negative) and the actual blog only takes in about $750 in standalone revenue every month. Pretty hard to sell a design company if its priced assets (the designers) doesn't come with it. Interesting to see how this progresses.

Business Logs Auction Page
Business Logs Site

Weebly the online web design tool we wrote about a week ago has relaunched today.

The new version features newly designed themes, a new editing and management interface, an added multiple column layouts, a new photo gallery and contact form element and Google Maps and YouTube integration.

I stumbled upon Tumblr not to long ago. At first, I dismissed it as yet another online blog software. However, looking closer, it has many subtle differences. The analogy that they give is perfect, “if blogs are journals, Tumblelogs are scrapbooks”.

Tumblr is not meant to be a blog (or to replace it) but an unorganized compilation of quick short messages, links, photos, quotes, dialogues used to share author’s creations, discoveries or experiences without any commentary. It is meant to be simple way to quickly publish things you run across in the web or in your daily life.

Created by a web development company in New York called Davidville (also the creators of Senduit), I see Tumblr as something you would use before you write a post on a blog - a creative scrapbooks with links, photos and RSS.

Instead of using the old pen and paper to jot things down, you can write it up informally and know that it won’t end up under that pile of papers or in the trash.

As an AJAX lover, I am more than happy to see an AJAX web creation tool online. Weebly is just that, an easy tool with a drag and drop interface for personal and professional websites.

You can simply create a site, add pages, then drag and drop its elements (like title text pictures, videos, maps, ads and more) anywhere on the page. When you are satisfied with your design, preview it, set the properties of the page and publish it live. Different themes are also available and can be interchangeable on the fly.

Weebly hosts your sites as subdomains e.g. http://myexamplesite.weebly.com. For those wanting to host the files on another server and domain of their choice, there is an option to zip the files for easy transfer.

Weebly is compatible with Internet Explorer 5.5+/7 and Firefox 1.5+/2.0 on Windows, Firefox 1.5+/2.0 on Linux and Firefox 1.5+/2.0 on Mac OS X.

It is currently in Beta and is accepting sign ups for testing. This is a great tool for spending minimal time on site design to concentrate on what is really important - content.