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Cool Hunting is one of my favorite trends blogs. They post about five short and sweet updates a day, which caters to my ADD attention span. It is probably the only blog I read almost everyday. That says something.

This past week they just launch a nifty feature, powered by ThisNext, that allows readers to post ‘product discoveries’ to the Cool Hunting blog. This is a big deal for multiple reasons…

It’s smart. Cool Hunting is empowering their readers by giving them voice. Very important to survive online. Secondly, they can potentially acquire new readers from ThisNext’s existing user database. For free. Uber smart.

Cool Hunting’s Reader Finds section… 

Stroking the readers’ ego. Seeing your product post on Cool Hunting feels pretty good to the ego. How would I know? Aaah. I have a “few” posts uploaded recently.

The part that amazes me is how easy it is to do this. Web 2.0 technology never ceases to amaze me. It was super easy for me because I already have products at ThisNext. All you have to do is to tag your product “cool hunting” to get it posted on CoolHunting.com. Seriously, it’s that easy. If you are gonna do this, try to pick cool products, okay?

Here’s an example of it on ThisNext…