It displays the twitter updates of your friends according to the Last Hour, Last Day and More than 1 Day (ago) messages.

Time difference is a major issue in Twitter, most of the time you will miss the tweets of the people you are following who are on the other side of the globe, this is especially true when you are following many people. With this above mentioned tool, it almost solves this problem.

Website: www.twitterforbusypeople.com

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• Part 1 - WordPress as Job Board and e-Commerce Site
• Part 2 - WordPress as Review Site and Portal
• Part 3 - WordPress as Discussion Forum and Membership Site
• Part 4 - WordPress as Social Network Site & Contact Manager

In this post we will be looking at two more uses of WordPress.

WordPress as Newsletter Mailing System

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MailPress is a WP plugin that will add Newsletter Mailing functionality to your blog. It can send text or HTML based emails. It supports custom themes as well. If you were looking for a simple mailing list script for your blog, this is the plugin for you!
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Price: Free
URL: www.mailpress.org

WordPress as FAQ Management System

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FAQ Tastic is a free WordPress plugin to create and manage FAQs on your site. With multiple FAQs for various sections, this plugin is a great way of giving your users the answers to the most common questions that have been asked while allowing them to submit new ones. Users can also be notified automatically by email when their question has been approved or rejected.
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Price: Free (seems like the author is developing a pro version at the moment)
Old Site: knowledgeconstructs.com/wordpress-plugins/faq-tastic/
New Site: faq-tastic.com/faqtastic-lite-free/

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• 79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL
• 75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile
• 68.68% have not specified a location
• 55.50% are not following anyone
• 54.88% have never tweeted
• 52.71% have no followers

Seems like half of twitter-nation is inactive, 54.88% have never tweeted. And half of them has no followers (52.71%).

Read the full report by HubSpot here (PDF file, 9 pages).

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Go it Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce Judson costs $14.95 at Amazon.

However you can read the whole book online for free at www.brucejudson.com. Judging by the reviews at Amazon it seems a good book. Perhaps it can give you some idea or motivation to start your own business.

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Lets hope that the global economy will start to recover by the end of this year, and hopefully see a steady growth in 2010.

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MIT’s open source project called OpenCourseWare was setup to provide MIT’s lectures for free. Currently there are about 1,900 courses available on the portal. Lectures contain all the necessary files and some of the lectures include audio and video content. It will be like distance learning, you just sit at home and watch the lectures of MIT on your PC. If you are a good self-learner, you can benefit a lot from this portal.

I am particularly interested in the Sloan School of Managment section which covers topics like Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy etc.

There are many other universities that have similar programs like MIT’s OCW; Yale, Berkeley, Tufts, Stanford etc. But I see that MIT has the most complete archive of their lectures online.

So, enjoy the free education!

Website: ocw.mit.edu

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Website: www.prvsoft.com/split-mp3-download.html

via techblisonline

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Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Saturday, June 13th, at 12:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile…

That means you will be able to choose any keyword for your account, for most it would be their names but for many others who want to make money that would mean registering new dummy accounts and getting like these keywords below:

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WP Smart Sort

It’s a very interesting wp plugin that can be used in many ways in various types of projects. Basically this plugin allows you to provide much more advanced search/sorting option to your wordpress based project. For example, if you are using wordpress for your e-shop project, you could use this plugin to allow users to search for products based on their price, rating, most commented products, most rated products..etc

Unfortunately the premium version of the plugin is not free, it costs $35 which i think is quite reasonable if you have a professional commercial project.

I will bookmark the site for later, I think I will need this plugin in the future, now my hands are quite full. Back to my plugin search… if you find wp plugin like Amazon’s “… people found this useful” do let me know.

Website: www.dyasonhat.com/wp-smart-sort-premium/

Update: found this plugin and modified to suit my need.

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The strategy is the same old strategy: offer free stuff, increase the traffic and then sell ads.

Most of the sites that have priced their advertising opportunities competitively are making quite good money.

For example, look at this site that offers free vectors. As you can see from the screenshot to the right, all the slots on the site have been sold out.

So the site is making at least $1150 per month - that is the income that comes only from BuySell, not including direct ads and sponsorships.

Your next project

So, your next project (one of many projects that you are launching) can be something like these sites. Sites that offer free stuff. Free templates, free themes, free icons, free graphics, brushes, vectors… etc.

Free stuff is also very easy to market. You can load some money to your StumbleAds and let it run for a few months. You can set the limit to few bucks a day and let the stumblers do the rest of the job (read how to promote your site with stumbleupon here). If the site offers quality stuff, many bloggers might blog and link to it too. You got the idea right?

So, now we have two projects already; one is Windows7 that we talked before and now this “Free Stuff” project :) What do you say?

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The site will provide reviews of every island in Malaysia. The reviews will be written by those who have visited the island. The goal of the site is to provide as many reviews as possible to the user so that he/she can make an objective decision for his/her trip.

Plugin Used

I am using WPReviewSite for the rating management for this site. It’s a great plugin for setting up such websites. But the plugin has one huge drawback and that is - you can only create one set of rating criteria. That means if I setup rating criteria for the islands (water purity, beach quality etc), I cannot setup another set of criteria for the hotels for example (room quality, price etc). And that is a big drawback, because most of the sites won’t be only about one thing, they will have sub-categories that will need different rating criteria. Just wanted to point that out in case you are going to invest $97 for this plugin and expect to have additional rating criteria.

Request

I am sure the local readers of my blog have visited many islands in Malaysia. I would like to ask them to rate and write a review on MIR. Also please let your friends know about the site too. Thanks in advance.

For the people of other countries who haven’t visited Malaysia but would like to one day, don’t forget to check back MIR before your holiday!

Website: www.malaysianislandreview.com

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1. Week 1 - The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing
2. Week 2 - Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products
3. Week 3 - Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches
4. Week 4 - Pay Per Click: How To Earn Cash With Each Click
5. Week 5 - SEO: How To Rank Higher And Increase Traffic
6. Week 6 - Site Creation: How To Build A Site With Zero Programming Knowledge
7. Week 7 - Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales
8. Week 8 - Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand
9. Week 9 - Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability
10. Week 10 - Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures
11. Week 11 - Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners
12. Week 12 - Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

I am not sure how he is going to make money from this project since it’s free, but probably through affiliate links and embedded advertisements. But it’s all good for the readers - free course from an acclaimed entrepreneur like Jeremy is expected to be good.

Website: www.shoemoneyx.com

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So, most ideas will be left as they are - in the form of ideas only. Some people might act on their ideas and pick a good domain name and register it, but won’t have the will to follow through and setup a website. Some people might setup a website but the outcome (design or the content) might not be as good as it supposed to be in order to be successful. And yet, some people might launch a great website but fail in their SEO and online marketing just to find out that other less great websites had beaten them because of that… etc etc

So, my advice is - if you are confident that you can launch a decent website about Windows 7, do the proper SEO and market it online successfully then you better don’t give up on that idea of yours! Because I am sure you have a pretty good chance of succeeding in it!

How do I know it? For the same reasons that I have mentioned above - that most of the people will not act on their ideas and even if they act many of them will not follow through until the end. As for the ones who complete their projects - “no one is perfect” - I am sure you will find a way to beat them, be it in the quality of the content, design, SEO, marketing etc. There is always a way to beat the competitors.

So the challenge here is:

1. Acting on your idea.
2. Following through with it until the end (i.e don’t quit half way).
3. Do the necessary adjustments to outperform your competitors.

Sounds like a plan? Then let’s get busy with our new project!

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So how would you make money around Windows 7? The possibilities are many. You could setup a tech forum for Windows 7, or make a wallpaper site, or tips & tricks site, or Windows 7 hacks site etc - all of which are very popular segments for previous versions of Windows OS; XP and Vista.

Tell me more…

The idea is simple, basically you are going to use first mover advantage and try to be the authority website in your niche, to make your site popular and high traffic. And then put up some ads (adsense etc) and enjoy the fruits. Or sell the site and get a huge pay for it. (more…)

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It’s locally developed web application by Malaysian startup called Green Cube Solutions Sdn Bhd. I had the privilege to work with the CEO of this startup Ganee Baharudin back in 2004 at one of the local IT companies.

Currently the system has two fully completed modules running, more modules are expected to be added in the future. If you use the sytem, do let them know about your experience and where you would like to see improvements. I am sure they would appreciate that.

Website: www.gcube.com.my

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Short URL services were popularized by Twitter due to its limited characters in ‘tweets’.

Long URL Please

Fortunately, there is always a solution for a problem. (more…)

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This is what swine flu (h1n1) does to the friendship :)

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In this update, the tool has been optimized (i.e the coding) now it runs even more efficiently. Also the #FFFFFF-bug which caused the tool to get stuck in some situations has been solved. (This was a tough bug, literally ;) took me very long time to find.)

So, please download the new version of the color picker (click here).

Website: www.adesclrpicker.com/

P.S Thank you for your continuous support, feedback and suggestions to make this color picker the best freeware!

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Notice: Those who have spammed the blog with tens of comments in one day just to get into the top list were removed from the list. In this list, regular readers and regular commenters are given priority.

This doesn’t mean that you cannot comment on more than one post in one day, the fact is you can! But I am talking about those who come on the last few days of the month and spam-comment the blog just to be in the list. The rest of the days of the month they are nowhere to be seen on the blog. This won’t work here my friends.

P.S @Ties UK, you have given your email in the URL field, do you want it to be linked to your email?

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