Going viral is a fast way way to attain on-line riches. The creator of bla.st has a potential virus on his hands. Euhh.

Bla.st is a sophisticated webby 2 re-work of the simple business card idea and looks set to make web site owners the world over salivate with envy and think "If only I had thought of that!"

Having said that, bloggers, webmasters and advertisers might be pleasantly happy with the benefits of associating their own empires with bla.st. Link love and traffic!

How to have a bla.st

Assuming you have some artwork ready, it is a doddle to get a card uploaded onto the site. The second part of the process, to get listed in a variety of categories, takes a few easy minutes only. The Pisstakers took a chance and subscribed to the bla.st humor section. Hopefully nobody calls us on that blatant attempt to manipulate ourselves into a category some would argue we don't belong!

The cost to bla.st

How much did it cost? (shout the Scots, Jews and tight blogmasters amongst you). From zero to infinity, I guess.

Tier one. I's free to get on bla.st for up to 10 years.

Tier two. The auction price for number one spot on the front page currently costs over $5 a day. Kudos for cash!

Tier two subsection 1 . To stay up there on the front page of your chosen category, it could cost you as little as a cent a day. At the top end - as much as you want to pay. I think $0.48/day is a lot, just to secure your spot as top humor entry, but then again ... with people like us looking to kick a $4 a day Starbucks habit, you may have to dig deep into your pockets, mr myspacenow.com

This is us, top of the New sites page - for 5 seconds!



In theory the number of business cards that can be deposited with bla.st is unlimited. There is also no limit to people's desire to outbid each other to stay on top of the latest new thing. So bla.st is a cash cow in the making. Also, one day it will become an unusable morass of info, but no worries, that is then and this is now.

Give it a shot, and the sooner it becomes a success, the sooner the clever Kiwi behind bla.st business cards will be able to relax - canyoning and bungee jumping, or whatever it is they do over there. Good luck to him.

Disclosure, we may get as much as 1 cent per day from bla.st for this review