- Entrecard for Social Networking| Comments Off
Entrecard is a relatively new concept of social advertising. It is based on a model of a free exchange network that allows you to display 125×125 ads. The idea behind is revolutionary in terms of being able to earn credits to have your card displayed on a budding network site.
I see this as a modern [...]
- Get Your Own Web 2.0 Icons Free| Comments Off
I still remember my first days blogging away. I didn’t really know much about design and tools and all the free applications one can find on the Internet.
It is amazing what we can digg up with a little search and creativity. For those of you who are a bit challenged when it comes to designing [...]
- Build Your Own Digg Clone Site With Pligg| 5 Comments
Pligg is a popular open source content management system (CMS) software that allows us to create a social bookmarking and voting system like Digg for example.
The software is installed as a PHP/MySQL script on your web server. The CMS is available free of charge but does come with upgrades and Pro themes, etc.
Upon closer inspection [...]
- Consider Linking from Linked In| Comments Off
Most of us know by know that incoming links are good for our blogs and websites. But what do we do to build them? For starters, we need a lot of links to make a difference and those links should preferably be from higher ranking sites to carry any weight. In the end, it really [...]
- Have You Logged into MyBlogLog Recently?| 1 Comment
If you have a MBL account and have not really signed in in a while, you need to do it now.
MyBlogLog has integrated Yahoo ID into their system, so you need to merge your current MBL data with your Yahoo IDs and update other important information. Otherwise, you mat be able to used MBL [...]
- Web 2.0 Opt-in Designs for Your Blog| 1 Comment
In the previous post, I talked about choosing selling affiliate products from your blog as the main income model. If that’s the model you choose, then you may want to focus on building an email optin list rather than RSS subscribers. Of course you can do both, but common marketing wisdom dictates that you should [...]
- PayPerPost is One Year Old| Comments Off
Seems like yesterday.. someone told me about a service that pays you to write for your own blog. Although not what I initially though it to be, PayPerPost came close enough. Now, PPP is already one year old.
In an email from Ted Murphy, CEO of PayPerPost:
July marks our one year anniversary and I [...]
- Google Slaps Squidoo| 7 Comments
Google, the God of Internet Marketing, has chosen a new recipient for it’s infamous “Google Slap”. Quite honestly, it’s not totally unexpected either. The brainchild of Seth Godin, Squidoo has from the very beginning been about making money online. Of course it supports a lot of charities but the bottom line is, most people [...]
- Tagging On MyBlogLog| Comments Off
If you have being around in your MyBlogLog account lately, I’m sure you’ll realize that MyBlogLog had now implement their latest features, Tagging.
With this feature, friends and visitor can now tag or represent you with a word. This tag will grow larger and bolder as more people tagging the same word.
Among the features that you [...]
- Using Squidoo to Make Money Online| 14 Comments
Oh yes, as if MySpace, blogging, Craigslist, coregistration, MyBlogLog and Technorati were not enough, now there’s a new player on the block in the Web 2.0 world.
It’s an orange-colored one-eyed alien squid affectionately know as Squidoo. I’m sure you may have heard some hype about it, but what is Squidoo, really?
Squidoo launched in December [...]
- MyPictr – A Handy Profile Image Editor| 1 Comment
Ever wonder, how to create those stunning profile avatar without the use of professional picture editing software.
First all, we do know that most website,like Digg, Youtube, Facebook, last.fm or Xing accept images in jpg, gif or png formats. Other than that they do not follow any standard dimensions or even the image aspect ratio (like [...]
- MyBlogLog Problems and Recent Drama| 1 Comment
I guess it’s not all too surprising to find out that MyBlogLog.com analyzes, stores and uses the information gathered on your site. Just by looking at the statistics feature (mine is Pro) you’ll be amazed by the amount of detailed reporting, especially the “off-site clicks” and clicks on your Adsense ads features, which makes you [...]
- ReviewMe – PayPerPost Copycat?| 2 Comments
ReviewMe just opened their doors to both bloggers and advertisers today. Are they just another PayPerPost copycat?
From what’s obvious, ReviewMe is built of the foundation of product & service reviews. Unlike PayPerPost where you can get a blogger to just mention your site’ latest news, this seems to be more specific. Reviews only.
Here’s a quote [...]
- Kevin Rose Started Digg From Elance?| 1 Comment
Can someone actually go to Elance, hire a programmer, and make a couple of million bucks?
Yes they can, according to Elance. Here’s the quote on their site:
“In 2003, Kevin had a big idea. He came to Elance to post a project and look for a PHP programmer, selected Owen Byrne… and worked with him to [...]