Get the facts right. Determine the difference between these 3 terms and here’s the answer. [Read more…]
How To Start Blogging
There is really nothing hard in starting a blog. The most basic things that you might need to know and do when you start is:
1. Select a niche
You need to decide what kind of topic that you want to blog about. It might be on something that you are really interested in, your profession.
2.Determine a purpose
Why are you blogging? Is it for money? Is it to improve your english skills? Is it to communicate your ideas? Is it to build credibility towards your profession? Will you be blogging everyday? Or will it just be spontaneous? Whatever that you are trying to do, do it for a purpose.
3. Sit down and start writing
You really don’t need a book to tell you how to blog and what to blog. These are your decisions, not what some best selling authors telling what you should do. If you’re doing it for money, maybe you would need to sit down and spend 30 minuted to 1 hour everyday to write something. If it’s purely for social and entertainment, it doesn’t matter how often and how long you spend writing on your blog.
It’s really that simple!
Facebook Instant Messenger
I just login into facebook after a long time of inactivity and was actually impressed with the newly unvield facebook instant messenger.
Well, according to their press release:
The social networking giant flicked the switch on the service which allows users of Facebook to message their friends quickly and efficiently from any page in Facebook. After a user agrees to go online they are greeted with their friends list in a pop up form on within an integrated version at the bottom of Facebook pages. Interestingly the connection doesn’t appear to be SSL so it might be possible for bad guys to sniff any conversations with your friends.
Facebook is in the middle of a re-design aimed to promote aggregation for users personally. In a message to Facebook users the company says “As you have seen in our screen shots, the ‘Wall’ tab of your profile has a new emphasis on recent activity. We think this is the information that your friends care the most about, and the information that will recap what you have been up to lately. This change shouldn’t make you feel uncomfortable, and to ensure this we will be giving you control over what information is displayed about you. What’s really important is that you have a say in what information is being shared about you, and in turn, your friends have an easy way to see it.”
AOL Bought Sphere Blog Content Engine
To gain more online presence, AOL acquired 3 popular online brands in a short period of 2 months, ranging from social network Bebo, then affiliate marketing network Buy.at and then blog content engine Sphere. AOL is really making an agressive run this year.
10 Ways to Make Money Online
As if this kind of topic hasn’t been discuss for many many time already, Times made the leap and say that they want to get some love to by writing an article about “10 ways to make money online“.
For the sake of the summary, Times categorized this into 10 areas/topics:
1. Social networking
2. Blogging
3. Message Boards (come on, that’s such an old term! People call them Forums nowadays. Duh!)
4. Stock Photography
5. Surveys
6. Freelanicng
7. Games
8. Poker
9. Selling
10. Doing Something Crazy
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Top Make and Save Money Online Sites and Forums
Here are the top forums that discusses many make money online related topics. The categories included are:
1. Webmaster + Domain Related
2. Affiliate/Internet Marketing Related
3. Money Saving/Free Stuff Related
4. Work at Home Related
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Melbourne Finance House Opes Prime Collapse
Australia has seen some of the big corporations and financial houses going down like draining water over the past couple of month. Some good examples were RAMS, AllCo, ABC Learning Centres, Challenger etc. And this time, it’s Melbourne’s popular finance house Opes Prime turn as it’s become the latest victim in Australia being hurt by the subprime turmoil (although recent news has suggested that it was probably insider trading and account manipulation that contribute to the collapse more than anything else). The news are out and ANZ is owed about $650 million and Merrill Lynch about $400 million.
Source: SMH
Blogging Skills Needed to Earn Money Online
Blogging is merely an activity of writing good contents that appeal to your targeted audience. It’s easy to get started if you know how and can be a good revenue source to pay some of your bills and possibly make a living out of it if you have the golden touch. Here are a few personal tips that I’ve found useful throughout my blogging experience. [Read more…]
AOL Acquiring Social Networking Site Bebo
Time Warner Inc’s AOL Internet division will buy social network Bebo for $850 million in cash. This could trigger a buying spree of social networking site following Rupert Murdoch New Corp’s $580 million on Myspace back in July 2005. Privately-owned Bebo claims about 40 million global members, and the deal promises to significantly expand AOL’s growing business of selling advertising on the Internet outside of the United States. [Read more…]
Google Adsense Video Beta Launched
It gets better when you can monetize your site by embedding youtube videos onto your site. There are 2 formats of the ads, namely “InVideo overlay ad” and “Text overlay ad”. When visitors clicks on a video ad, you get a share of what an advertiser is willing to pay Google.
AdSense for video will use the InVideo ads adopted on our own property, YouTube, which enable advertisers to make a single buy at scale. Also competing in the auction – and unique to AdSense for video and AdSense video units – are text overlay ads which are contextually targeted to signals in your videos and on the page where the video lives. The InVideo ads are paid on a CPM basis, while the text overlay ads are paid on a CPC basis. You can see ad demos here. While we’ll continue to test a variety of ad formats, we believe that overlays are the best way to balance user experience with the needs of our publishers.