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Speedy Bandwidth Calculation

2010-04-07T20:57:00.000-07:00

The terms of bits and bytes seems very simple but apparently very confusing. Many people are protesting because the brochure said telkom speedy capable of 1 Mbps download speed was only able to reach speeds around 80 KB / Sec. What happens is it true Telkom massive fraud? Why the difference so far?

This problem occurs because the use of bits and bytes are confusing even to the activists even computers. Units used to indicate the speed of a network, usually digunakakan unit "bits". Megabit = 1000000bit so 1Mbps = 1000000bit/second.
Problems occur when the program guide such as download dialogue box in windows and most other programs use byte units. So that user confusion, the abbreviation for bits and bytes, then only distinguished by uppercase lowercase dah. For example, 1Kbps (with the letter "b" small) means 1kilobit/second while 1KBps (with capital letters) means 1Kilobyte/second. The unit itself is a unit of bytes to indicate 8 bits, or 1 byte = 8 bits.
Thus, the download speed 1 Mbps has the same meaning with a 1000 Kbps / 8 = 125. within a very ideal situation once before users will get download speeds of 125 KB / Sec and speed 80 KB / Sec must have been very good and acceptable.
To check the speed of your Internet connection bandwidth can click here.

PENISTAAN AGAMA ISLAM DAN NABI MUHAMMAD SAW

2010-01-08T05:46:00.000-08:00

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3 ways to make your blog profitable

2009-03-08T00:42:00.000-08:00

Few years back, nobody was aware of what the heck is blogging. But today’s nobody care about building websites. Everyone is going to stick with blogging because its sometime fun and you can even make yourself rich with blogging.

Blogging is basically an update of your thoughts that you gives to other readers. Unlike a web forum or community website, blogging is a personal publishing system. Anyways, lets keep the heck of definition away and start the topic.

There could be many way to make money with blogs. Some can bring you a lot while some can give you only few cents a day. Its all up to you that how you run your blog and how much of course.

The key to success with blogging is to update your blog as much as you can. Do an update at least 4 times a week and you are not going to lose generic search engine traffic. Because thats the traffic which brings free money and traffic.
1. Three old words - Sell Advertisement space

Of course selling advertisement space is the biggest way to make money with your blogs. As long as you have enough traffic on your blog, you have the gold chain. If you are starting a blog then choose the topic you can write most because people will stay on your blog as long as they have good information on your blog. Otherwise they will just read and go away forever. You can sell advertisement space on your blogs easily as much as from $50 to $200 per 125×125 banner. But this really need good and targeted traffic. To obtain traffic, you might need to read SEO Tips section to learn how to optimize your website search engine friendly and the best way to get backlinks to your blog.
2. Write reviews for other blogs

This is another good way to earn with blogging. You can go to some best review sites like sponsoredreviews, payperreview, reviewme etc. Then sign up as blogger and start writing reviews or posts on a topic of advertiser’s choice and give them two or three link backs. This way you get two things. One is the few dollars for writing reviews for advertisers and second is the update of your blog. Yeah , your blog is always up to date to get more traffic from Google and other search engines.
3. Write reviews for affiliate Products

Another way to earn with blogging is to start writing your own reviews or posts on different affiliate products. In an action (e.g sale or lead) you can get a good amount of commission from your affiliate advertiser. You can sign up for commission junction, neverblueads or some other good affiliate networks and find the product you can write on, and promote. A good and helpful review always returns something. People make plenty of money by running web hosting blogs, health & fitness blogs etc.

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Open Source Adsense

2009-03-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

It seems that currently Internet advertising is moving into a new phase, called content sensitive advertising. Google is the main contender in this field with its Adsense and Adwords.

In another unrelated area of the net, Open Source is growing very fast, and in the 3rd corner is Peer 2 Peer software (or shared computing).

What makes Adsense work so well is the amount of people that use it, and the Google name behind it makes it better.

Think what would happen if a lot of small websites were to offer services like Adsense... They would not work. But if they were to join in collaboration, developing open source Adsense like software, they could be a step better.

To really compete, the little players need to work together have the advertising network built over p2p so all the players work in collaboration. The network could be built on trust. So you trust your advertising partners, and they trust theirs etc. etc.

If any one wants to grab this idea and start running, I will gladly be a part of it (not that this is a requirement). The only reason that I am submitting this idea, is that without the power of open source, little me can not compete with the Google giant.

Written by Mary Nicole Hicks

Advertising with humor

2009-03-08T00:40:00.000-08:00

Many of the most memorable advertising campaigns around tend to be funny. Advertisers use this strategy to attract customers to their product. Audiences like to be entertained, but not pitched. People will pay more attention to a humorous commercial than a factual or serious one, opening themselves up to be influenced. The key to funny advertising is assuring the humour is appropriate to both product and customer. The balance between funny and obnoxious can often be delicate; and a marketer must be certain the positive effects outweigh the negative before an advertisement can be introduced.

The best products to sell using humour tend to be those that consumers have to think the least about. Products that are relatively inexpensive, and often consumable, can be represented without providing a lot of facts, and that's where there's room for humour. Candy, food, alcohol, tobacco and toys/entertainment related products have proven to benefit the most from humour in their campaigns. One of the most important things to keep in mind is relevance to the product. An example of an extremely successful humorous campaign is the series of "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" commercials. The star, a tiny talking Chihuahua who is passionate about his Taco Bell got people repeating the company's name across the country. The repetition of the company name and the actual content of the commercial reinforce the message in a relevant manner. Taco Bell saw a substantial rise in sales and their own mascot became a pop icon.

Another point to consider when using humor in advertising is that different things are funny to different people. A commercial that may leave one person gripping their sides from laughter may leave a bad taste in another's mouth. The target market must always be considered. What's funny in a client presentation may not be funny on an air plane, at a country club or in a hospital. An example of a recent humorous product introduction is Mike's Hard Lemonade. These commercials feature over exaggerated and comical violence with the underlining message that no one's day is hard enough to pass up a Mike's. It failed, ranking as one of the year's most hated campaigns by both men and woman according to 2002's Ad Track, a consumer survey. The series of commercials are aimed at 21-29 year old males and the repetition of comical violence (such as a construction worker being impaled on the job and a lumberjack cutting off his own foot) gets less and less funny every time it's viewed. Eventually the joke just wore out and the commercial became annoying and offensive.

Written by Mary Nicole Hicks

Adsense tips and tricks

2009-03-08T00:08:00.000-08:00

Many webmasters have made very successful websites by using Google's Adsense and for some, it is now their sole job. When you are running a large site, a small change in the way that the Adsense code is placed on your site can make a substantial difference in your income.

The best way to find out where to place your Adsense banner, what colour and what type of banner to use is to try different combinations. Though it does not harm if you start out with the methods that another webmaster find good.
Never click your own Adsense Banner

If you can see the Adsense banner, it will work. Do not test if it, as Google is quite against this.
Never explicitly encourage Adsense Banner clicking

Do not ask friends or family to click your ads. Google not only dislikes it, but it can sometimes confuse the intelligence used to select advertisements.
Ad placement

The best location for the ads are within the content, but still visible without scrolling down the page.
Color

Adsense banners perform better when the border and background are the same colour as your page.
Blend with navigation

As an alternative placement, Adsense ads do well if they are blended in and look like your normal site navigation.
Size

The large 336x280 rectangle banner or 160x600 wide skyscraper seems to perform best.
Drawing the eye

Placing images next to ads or above ads helps in attracting user attention.
Ad overload

It is often said that more is less, and the same goes for placing ads on websites. If a website has too many ads, the user just ignores them and they all perform poorly. If a website has a few well placed ads, they can get a better click through.
Search Box

If you are going to use the search box, place it on the top right corner of every page. This is where people expect it to be.
Focus on content

Don't forget why users are visiting your site. They are there for the content and only the content. Why spend a week improving your Adsense click through then you can spend a week improving your site content and number of clicks as a result.
Be different

If your site is similar to many other sites, users will be used to ignoring your Adsense banner.
Moderate to low priced keywords

Do not create a site that targets the highest paying keywords as they often have the worst click through rates. Find a niche topic and don't care if your ads are getting $0.03 or $0.50. It all comes down to getting more traffic and a better click through rate, not more per click.
Whitespace

Make sure that your site is not cluttered and there is sections of your site with clear space. This can be achieved just by having a wide margin between page items. With skill, whitespace can be used to guide the users eyes to the Adsense banners.
One topic per page

If you have only one topic per page, it will help Adsense find the best ads to show
Simple design

Keep the design of your site simple. It will give the user less design elements or eye candy to look at.
No moving / blinking page elements

All moving and blinking pages elements attract the users eye and stop the user from seeing the Adsense ad. No matter how small it is, if it moves it will attract the users eye.
Monitor your website statistics

Watch your website statistics to see what pages are attracting the users and what is not. Create more pages similar to your high traffic pages.
Experiment

Try many different styles and methods of placing your ads. Never settle on just one style until you are sure it is the best.
What to do next

Create more content. Content is the biggest key to create a site that earns good money with Adsense.

Written by Mary Nicole Hicks

Facebook

2009-03-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

Facebook is a free-access social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc.[1] Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. The website's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with fellow computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.[4] Website membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 175 million active users worldwide.[5] Facebook recently surpassed Myspace in amount of visitors,making Facebook the number 1 social network,followed by Myspace and Twitter.[6][7]

Facebook has met with some controversy over the past few years. It has been blocked intermittently in several countries including Syria[8] and Iran.[9] It has also been banned at many places of work to discourage employees from wasting time using the service.[10] Privacy has also been an issue, and it has been compromised several times. It is also facing several lawsuits from a number of Zuckerberg's former classmates, who claim that Facebook had stolen their source code and other intellectual property.

ExactFactor to check the position of the Site Search Engine

2008-12-13T22:28:00.000-08:00

Some of you have a blog or website, may have keywords that diunggulkan from where these keywords are expected to bring in visitors who use search engines. In addition to optimizing the website, you certainly will follow the position of your website or blog search results in Google, Yahoo, Live, or other search engines. One service that can be used for the purpose of check and monitor the position of the website in the search results page is ExactFactor.

By using SEO ExactFactor tool, you can enter the address of your blog or website and then select the keyword-keyword search, which will be tested through the search engine is selected. Currently, search engines, which is supported by Google, Yahoo, and Windows Live. For the election of Google, can also choose a preference for local use, including here google.co.id. Then you will get the position of the sequence information of your website in search results each search engine for those keywords. In addition, you can also add other sites as a comparison the position of our website.

With the registration ExactFactor do, you will be able to determine the weekly reports submitted on the results of the analysis that will be sent via email. With the case, you will know the position changes that occur in your blog or website is up or down or even enter on the first page of search results. From this report, may be used as a reference step further optimization.

Reminder to Send Reminders and Free SMS

2008-12-13T22:07:00.000-08:00

You may already have many ways to remember the schedule or event that will come, so the schedule or event is not forgotten. Cue or a note in your calendar and reminders to use the facilities at the moment is an example of them. Another way you may use is to use the service Reminder.

Reminder is a web service that can be directly used without registration as a reminder of a media event that will come that you can set the date and time. If the time comes, the reminder notes that have been made you can get through one or several media at once. Currently, the media, which can be used as a destination is Twitter, email, Jabber or Google talk, and also Sorth Mesage Services. If the media is that you often use, to send to several media at once may detract you forget something that will have to schedule.

To start making reminders, you go to the website Reminder, and you will immediately find a view like this.

Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 pass Acid3

2008-12-13T21:55:00.000-08:00

Opera recently released version of the Alpha 1 from the Opera 10.0. It is interesting is the release of the Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 has pass Acid3 Test with a score of 100/100, and Safari 4 Developer Preview of the first claim has met the perfect value. As is known, Acid Test is a test for the browser in terms of how big a browser meets standards issued by the web World Wide Web Consortium.

In addition to showing how the Opera 10.0 Alpha 1 is able to pass Acid3 Test, a number of new introductions in the Opera and 10.0 Alpha 1, as quoted from the Opera Desktop Team (via Download Squad).

Presto 2.2 Engine
Performance boost
100/100 and pixel-Like on the Acid3 testAuto-update
In line spelling checker
Opera Mail alerts, including rich text composition and delete after X days
Widget alerts on Linux

So far there has been no release of the final version of the browsers that have reached a score of 100/100 for Acid3 Test. Approximately, who was?

Google Chrome 1.0 Released

2008-12-13T21:37:00.000-08:00

Already more than four years, the label still attached in the beta test of Gmail. Different fates with Gmail, Google on the beta label Chrome finally released in 100 days since betanya version released to the public and has updated 14 times. Today, Google has announced that Google has released Chrome 1.0 and its users can update to this latest version. For this release, Google said it has made improvements to stability and especially its performance. On the basis of the achievement of objectives and performance stability is the basis betanya Google to remove the label. Based on the records of Google, in 100 days has more than 10 million active users this browser.

In the case of start-up and when meloading web page, Google stated that the Chrome 1.0 will do so more quickly. In this release, has also made improvements on the Bookmark feature manager and privacy controls. To support the use of extensions and also a version for Mac and Linux is still in development.

So far, I have only a one-time only use Google because for Chrome features are still limited, but I have had to update the version 1.0.154.36 facilities through automatic update the page. How do with you, whether already using Google Chrome? Have update to Google Chrome 1.0? For those who have not been using, download it directly from Google web page Chrome.

To install the Internet connection without the need to please download Google the Offline Chrome 1.0 Installer.

Using Google Translate Through Nice Translator

2008-12-13T21:29:00.000-08:00

Some times is ago, Google just to design repeat the service interface Google Translate, service translator of Ianguage inggris to 52 other Ianguage which supported by it. Interface Bahasa Indonesia now have made available by the name of Google Terjemahan.

Translator through text or URL web can be done at same stuffing box. But so, be like before all, translator can only be done from one language to one other language in once process. If for example you wish the direct translator result in a few gone to languages, you can try the service given by Nice Translator.
The translator result by Nice Translator be in fact use the translator service Google Translate, but interface and way of its use differ. More dynamic compared to passing Google Translate directly. If you use Nice Translator, so you start to type, processing the translator will direct done, and this can be done for a few languages of purpose of at the same time.

Personal me possibly not yet too needing [of] service be like this, remember so far translator through Google Translate usually limited to from one Ianguage to one Ianguage and that even also a more regular to translate the page;yard web by entering URL-nya, and for translator by entering URL this, Nice Translator cannot process it. Possible you need?

How to Make Money with YOUR Portal Site

2008-12-13T13:10:00.001-08:00

There are multiple ways you can make money using your free portal site. Read through the below sections to learn different tricks and tops of making money using your portal site.

Money making idea # 1 - Show CPC or CPM ads on your portal site from multiple advertising agencies: This is very basic and must-have thing if you want to start making money with your portal site quickly and effectively. It is very important that you open an account with multiple ad providers like Google Adsense, Bidvertiser or Adbrite or any similar renowned ad provider and start showing their banner ads on your portal site. Depending on what template you have chosen, you will have an option of showing 2 or more ad formats on your portal. All basic ad formats are available. You just need to log in and add the banner codes from your member's area. Once the site admin has approved your banner codes, those banners will start showing on your portal site. All new portal sites are effectively advertised on the main page of this site. You are bound to make money. It is very difficult not to make money if the banners are running on your portal site as soon as possible. So if you have not done so, please add the banners before you read other tricks on this page.

Money making idea # 2 - Pick a niche area and promote using PPC or other advertising means - This is a very effective method of making money using your portal site. Let us take an example. Let us say that you pick "web hosting" as a niche area that you would like to concentrate on. Now you can checkout the web hosting category on your portal. It is already showing many listings with 20 shown at a time on each page. What you could do in this case is start promoting this page using any valid advertising method - something like - "TOP 20 HOSTING SITES" or "TOP HOSTING RESOURCES" or something similar. You need to be innovative here. Now let us see point-by-point what happens when you pick a niche and promote it in this fashion -
# First, when you say "TOP" anything, it instantly generates interest and you will find it effective way of promoting anything. If you look at it, these are actually top sites otherwise they would not end up on top 20 places in ClickBank marketplace. So you are not really misleading anyone. So the ethical angle is also covered.
# Secondly, once you bring people to your portal who are looking for "TOP" sites (in our example we said "TOP HOSTING SITES") they are going to study your portal site looking for the advertised "TOP" sites. Curious visitors like this are HOT COMMODITY - no doubt about that. These are the potential buyers - otherwise why would they click on your ad and come to see the "TOP" sites that you have to show them.
# Thirdly, once you have curious visitors they are not going to leave before they make you money either by clicking here and there or by buying from the ClickBank sellers or by peeking into your "Top income programs" link.
All-in-all, you are going to make some money at the end of it. Very effective and very widely used money making idea folks! Use it!

Money making idea # 3 - Sell portal sites on eBay - You can prepare portal sites and buy our domain name service and once the portal is ready, sell those domains on eBay. This will need a bit of an investment and is little bit risky but if you are good at selling stuff on eBay, you can take this route. There are multiple advantages of using this money-making idea. First is that when you setup a domain, you set it up with your own ads on it. When the portal is put up for sell on eBay, while the auction is running, many visitors will come and visit the portal. They will make you money while the auction is running. Once the portal is sold on eBay, you can transfer the domain to them and add their ads on the portal and hand it over to them. It really depends on how well you sell the portal sites on eBay. More the auction winning bid, more is your profit. Not to mention that while the auction is running the visitors generated from eBay are going to make you money in multiple ways while the auction is live. There is no end to how much creative you can be in this. Just be careful and avoid violating any of the policies but as long as you are within eBay policies and policies of the services you are utilizing, you have only sky as the limit to the money you can earn.

Money making idea # 4 - Add the referral links and top income program referral codes - Your portal is not 100% effective until you complete the setup by entering all the referral codes for all the advertised programs. You will earn passive income only when you have your referral codes showing on your portal. Every day you go without your own referral links on your portal, you potentially loose quite a lot of money. Remember that it is your portal site, make sure you have everything in place that will make you money - not your sponsor. Everytime you don't have a referral link, your sponsor's link is being shown in that place making your sponsor money. You are loosing that money every day you delay.

Those Darn Widgets

2008-12-13T03:55:00.000-08:00

A lot of people have been downloading my Elements of SEO theme lately and I am very excited about all of the kind remarks I’ve been getting.It has also come to my attention that when people are using various widgets in the theme the sidebars tend to get a little messed up. There appears to be two main problems that I’ll try and describe, just in case you run across the same problem.

1.As soon as widgets are activated through the dashboard, IE6 and IE7 give a little extra spacing/padding to the heading of that particular section. The heading ends up pushed to the right about 15 pixels and doesn’t line up with the rest of the list below it. It’s nothing major, but it certainly doesn’t look right and I don’t blame anyone for wanting it fixed.
2.As soon as widgets are activated both of the sidebars wrap underneath the main content area. Whenever anything wraps its usually because something is too big for the section. Once again the extra padding was making the lists too big for the sections.It’s always hard to diagnose and fix problems when you can’t replicate the problem yourself. After a few hours of testing I was finally able to see the same problems that others were.

I uploaded Elements of SEO version 1.3 that fix both of these problems. Once again I am super excited that people care enough about my theme to contact me about the problem when they could easily download and use any of the thousand of other themes available.

The New Social Network With Google Friend Connect

2008-12-13T03:51:00.000-08:00

Look out MySpace and Facebook, Google has decided to enter the social networking game. Google announced the launch last weekend and has just opened up beta testing to a select number of people. I think this is a great move by Google and will quickly become a contender in this space.

Google Friend Connect is a service that helps website owners grow traffic by enabling any site on the web to easily provide social features for its visitors. any website owner can add a snippet of code to his or her site and get social features up and running immediately without programming — picking and choosing from built-in functionality like user registration, invitations, members gallery, message posting, and reviews, as well as third-party applications built by the OpenSocial developer community.

Google Friend Connect boasts the following high-level features:
1.Attract more visitors to your site - Visitors bring along friends from social networks like Facebook, orkut, and others to interact on your site.
2.Enrich your site with social features - Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets provided by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.
3.No programming whatsoever - Just copy and paste snippets of code into your site, and Google Friend Connect does the rest.

4.There are a couple of demo sites already setup which you can test and interact with.If you’re interested in being part of the beta testing group, you can apply directly on their site here. I just applied today so hopefully I will get accepted and can start using Google Friend Connect on eBlog Templates.

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To Find Out, Why do OurBlog Entries Have Zero Comments?

2008-12-13T03:45:00.000-08:00

Blogs can be thought about from different perspectives. While the history of blogs reveal that they are meant to be online journals where people vent their daily frustrations and feelings, today’s blogs are becoming the mainstream media for the most updated news for any topic in the world.

A good blog, however, requires good consistent traffic. One key feature of blogs is the ability for readers to leave comments, and the great thing about the commenting feature is that bloggers can choose to allow anonymous comments, which is unlike forums, where user usually have to create an account in the forums in order to post.

So how then, do you get people to come back again and again, and leave comments? The answer lies in two keys - the first is “Writing on Controversial Topics”, and the other is “Responding to comments”

Writing on Controversial Topics

People feel an urge to voice opinions when they find an idea worthwhile commenting on, and when there can be different viewpoints to a certain topic. So, if you want them to comment, leave some room for chatting!

As an example, you could pose an introduction to both viewpoints, and then end of with a simple question - “What do you think?”

Responding to Comments

It is important to realize that in many successful blogs, readers comments will eventually form part of the blog contents. To be able to get people to actively contribute value to your blog is a very powerful way to build a value added site!

However, your readers’ contribution is only the first level. In order to bring the quality of your blog to the higher level, you need be able to hold a conversation under every post - that is exceptional!

To achieve this, there must be a few things that you must be do.

The first is of course, to recognize that you must respond to your comments. Your response to your blog comments acknowledges the reader and their contribution, motivating them to drop in time and again, to leave more comments.

The second, is to build in functionality in your blog to allow your users to subscribe to comments. This can be done using the comments RSS features, or using a comments subscription service.

Thirdly, there must be a good commenting policy on your blog. To promote conversation, it is recommended that do not require explicit moderation of every comment! If you are concerned about comments spam, install a spam filter.

Lastly, you, the blog author, need to be informed of comments on your blog. Most blogging platforms allow email notification when there are new comments on your blog - and bloggers can maximize the use of this in conjunction with a frequent email checking practice to get almost immediate notification of comments on your blog.

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How Many Blogs Do You Have?

2008-12-13T03:39:00.000-08:00

In my mind there are three main types of bloggers in the world. The first being a person who wants a simple web page to keep an online diary or personal journal. The second being a business person needing an online presence whose not technical nor wanting to spend a lot of money to design a custom site. And the third and most popular being those looking to try and make money online. My guess is the majority of eBlog Templates readers belong to group number three.

With the ease of setting up a new free blog via Blogger, Typepad, WordPress, Vox, or one of the many others out there, we’re seeing more and more “make money online” blogs and why not? It’s easy to setup and place Google AdSense ads or affiliate banners on your blog or even create eBay affiliate sites and duplicate the process over and over.

Assuming you follow the general blogging rules (unique content, etc) and don’t get banned from Google, you can easily succeed in having dozens if not hundreds of blogs out there. My question is how do you update them all making sure the content is continually fresh and interesting? Do you hire writers to help you post? Are you scraping content from other sites with an automated script? Maybe you’re creating the sites but not updating the content.

So from my experience let me tell you a bit about us. eBlog Templates actually belongs to Niche Blog Media which has over a dozen (and growing) different niche blogs in it’s network. Having to manage all those sites is actually quite tough and the biggest problem we have is lack and frequency of new content. We hire some writers to post daily but it’s honestly tough to find additional people who are looking just to blog.

We’ve posted contracts on eLance but those who responded were asking $20/post for original content. That’s just too much for each blog post. They are of course good writers with original content but there’s a gap not being filled right now. Writers are used to writing sales letters or longer documents which is not the same as blogging really. Blogs need 300-500 word posts on a daily basis but those types of posts don’t pay very much. Who is going to fill this gap and why hasn’t somebody already stepped up?

Having said that, it takes time and patience to build, foster, and grow your blog network. There’s a lot of competition out there and it’s only going to get more difficult.

So since I’ve shared my experiences with you, I’d like to hear how many blogs you have and what’s your ultimate goal? Make money? Create inbound links for SEO? Is it working?

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Spotplex Traffic For Your Blog

2008-12-13T03:30:00.000-08:00

Are you someone who always submits your blog posts to Digg hoping it gets enough “Diggs” to make their front page? Well, here’s a new site that takes all the work out of having to submit your post each time. Spotplex is a free service that dynamically provides an instant, impartial ranking of popular web content based on unique number of page views. That means the more people that read your blog posts, the more popular your content is and it will rank higher on Spotplex.

By inserting a single line of HTML code into your blog, you can instantly track the number of post reads. This will then be dynamically updated on the Spotplex site which is essentially like the Digg.com model, except you don’t need to vote or “Digg” a post. The voting is done dynamically by how popular your blog posts are.

Their free service also provides you detailed analytics of your blog as well as potentially driving new traffic to your site. Spotplex also offers bloggers downloadable widgets to instantly analyze viewer traffic and to list other popular articles on your blog, increasing reader retention over time. Here’s an illustration as to exactly how the Spotplex model works.

t’s fairly easy to install for both Blogger and WordPress and is only one line of javascript code. All you need to do is enter your blog url and Spotplex will automatically find your rss feed and provide you with a few options for installing it. The sidebar Spotplex widgets seem like a pretty cool addition as well but I didn’t bother using them.

You’ll then be asked which type of blog platform you’re using (supports multiple types) and if you want a Spotplex image or not. You can also easily add it to your Blogger blog by clicking on the “Add Widget” button. This way you don’t need to muck with the template code. I prefer to not use a widget and just paste the javascript code (without the buton) right into my template somewhere in the section.

WordPress users can add it as a sidebar widget or also just copy the .js code and paste it into their header.php file.

If you are tired of “Digging” each one of your posts and your site gets a lot of traffic, this might be a great alternative for you. Spotplex is nowhere near as popular as Digg (at least not yet) but it doesn’t hurt using both services especially since Spotplex requires no manual post submissions. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

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Fifty Great Widgets Blogger

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Widgets are a great way to add some flare and uniqueness to your blog. Whether you’d like to show your live blog traffic stats or show your visitors which sites have recently linked to your web site, you can do it with widgets.
I recently came across a list of 50 great blog add-ons that are useful or simply just cool widgets and wanted to share it with you. Most of them work with both WordPress and Blogger so it doesn’t matter which blogging platform you use.

Go through the list and pick and choose some new widgets to test drive on your blog. I recommend not overdoing it by dressing up your blog with too many widgets. There’s a fine line of functionality vs clutter and a blog with too many confusing widgets will only deter people from your site.

So check out Mashable’s 50 Great Widgets article and let me know which widgets you like best!

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Free Live Blog Traffic Widget

2008-12-13T03:08:00.000-08:00

Ever want to know things like who’s visited your web site, where they came from, and what they’re reading? Well, now you can with this cool free blog widget by FEEDJIT. They provide a simple page where you select one of four widgets which are: live traffic feed, live traffic map, live recommended reading, or live page popularity.

It couldn’t be any easier for Blogger users to install. Just click on the “Add It” link and a Blogger icon will appear. Click on that and it will take you to your Blogger site asking to install the widget. Same goes for Typepad users. WordPress or other web site owners will need to copy the small bit of javascript and paste it somewhere on your site.

Having this widget on your blog makes it fun to look at your site each day and see who’s recently stopped by. Knowing that people from all over the world actually read some of your content is pretty rewarding. Also knowing what sites they came from provides some good data especially if you don’t have any blog analytics like Google Analytics running on your site.

Go and get your free FEEDJIT blog widget and get a better idea of who’s coming to your blog!

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History of Internet

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Creation

A 1946 comic science-fiction story, A Logic Named Joe, by Murray Leinster laid out the Internet and many of its strengths and weaknesses. However, it took more than a decade before reality began to catch up with this vision.

The USSR's launch of Sputnik spurred the United States to create the Advanced Research Projects Agency, known as ARPA, in February 1958 to regain a technological lead.^[2]^[3] ARPA created the Information Processing Technology Office (IPTO) to further the research of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) program, which had networked country-wide radar systems together for the first time. J. C. R. Licklider was selected to head the IPTO, and saw universal networking as a potential unifying human revolution.

Licklider moved from the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory at Harvard University to MIT in 1950, after becoming interested in information technology. At MIT, he served on a committee that established Lincoln Laboratory and worked on the SAGE project. In 1957 he became a Vice President at BBN, where he bought the first production PDP-1 computer and conducted the first public demonstration of time-sharing.

At the IPTO, Licklider recruited Lawrence Roberts to head a project to implement a network, and Roberts based the technology on the work of Paul Baran,^{[citation needed]} who had written an exhaustive study for the U.S. Air Force that recommended packet switching (as opposed to circuit switching) to make a network highly robust and survivable. After much work, the first two nodes of what would become the ARPANET were interconnected between UCLA and SRI International in Menlo Park, California, on October 29, 1969. The ARPANET was one of the "eve" networks of today's Internet.

Following on from the demonstration that packet switching worked on the ARPANET, the British Post Office, Telenet, DATAPAC and TRANSPAC collaborated to create the first international packet-switched network service. In the UK, this was referred to as the International Packet Switched Service (IPSS), in 1978. The collection of X.25-based networks grew from Europe and the US to cover Canada, Hong Kong and Australia by 1981. The X.25 packet switching standard was developed in the CCITT (now called ITU-T) around 1976.

X.25 was independent of the TCP/IP protocols that arose from the experimental work of DARPA on the ARPANET, Packet Radio Net and Packet Satellite Net during the same time period. Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn developed the first description of the TCP protocols during 1973 and published a paper on the subject in May 1974. Use of the term "Internet" to describe a single global TCP/IP network originated in December 1974 with the publication of RFC 675, the first full specification of TCP that was written by Vinton Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine, then at Stanford University. During the next nine years, work proceeded to refine the protocols and to implement them on a wide range of operating systems.

The first TCP/IP-based wide-area network was operational by January 1, 1983 when all hosts on the ARPANET were switched over from the older NCP protocols. In 1985, the United States' National Science Foundation (NSF) commissioned the construction of the NSFNET, a university 56 kilobit/second network backbone using computers called "fuzzballs" by their inventor, David L. Mills. The following year, NSF sponsored the conversion to a higher-speed 1.5 megabit/second network. A key decision to use the DARPA TCP/IP protocols was made by Dennis Jennings, then in charge of the Supercomputer program at NSF.

The opening of the network to commercial interests began in 1988. The US Federal Networking Council approved the interconnection of the NSFNET to the commercial MCI Mail system in that year and the link was made in the summer of 1989. Other commercial electronic e-mail services were soon connected, including OnTyme, Telemail and Compuserve. In that same year, three commercial Internet service providers (ISP) were created: UUNET, PSINET and CERFNET. Important, separate networks that offered gateways into, then later merged with, the Internet include Usenet and BITNET. Various other commercial and educational networks, such as Telenet, Tymnet, Compuserve and JANET were interconnected with the growing Internet. Telenet (later called Sprintnet) was a large privately funded national computer network with free dial-up access in cities throughout the U.S. that had been in operation since the 1970s. This network was eventually interconnected with the others in the 1980s as the TCP/IP protocol became increasingly popular. The ability of TCP/IP to work over virtually any pre-existing communication networks allowed for a great ease of growth, although the rapid growth of the Internet was due primarily to the availability of commercial routers from companies such as Cisco Systems, Proteon and Juniper, the availability of commercial Ethernet equipment for local-area networking and the widespread implementation of TCP/IP on the UNIX operating system.

Growth

Although the basic applications and guidelines that make the Internet possible had existed for almost a decade, the network did not gain a public face until the 1990s. On August 6, 1991, CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project. The Web was invented by English scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.

An early popular web browser was ViolaWWW, patterned after HyperCard and built using the X Window System. It was eventually replaced in popularity by the Mosaic web browser. In 1993, the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois released version 1.0 of Mosaic, and by late 1994 there was growing public interest in the previously academic, technical Internet. By 1996 usage of the word Internet had become commonplace, and consequently, so had its use as a synecdoche in reference to the World Wide Web.

Meanwhile, over the course of the decade, the Internet successfully accommodated the majority of previously existing public computer networks (although some networks, such as FidoNet, have remained separate). During the 1990s, it was estimated that the Internet grew by 100% per year, with a brief period of explosive growth in 1996 and 1997.^[4] This growth is often attributed to the lack of central administration, which allows organic growth of the network, as well as the non-proprietary open nature of the Internet protocols, which encourages vendor interoperability and prevents any one company from exerting too much control over the network.^{[citation needed]}

University students' appreciation and contributions

New findings in the field of communications during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s were quickly adopted by universities across North America.

Examples of early university Internet communities are Cleveland FreeNet, Blacksburg Electronic Village and NSTN in Nova Scotia.^[5] Students took up the opportunity of free communications and saw this new phenomenon as a tool of liberation. Personal computers and the Internet would free them from corporations and governments (Nelson, Jennings, Stallman).

Graduate students played a huge part in the creation of ARPANET. In the 1960s, the network working group, which did most of the design for ARPANET's protocols, was composed mainly of graduate students.

Internet

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The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data by packet switching using the standardized Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP). It is a "network of networks" that consists of millions of private and public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by copper wires, fiber-optic cables, wireless connections, and other technologies.

The Internet carries various information resources and services, such as electronic mail, online chat, file transfer and file sharing, online gaming, and the inter-linked hypertext documents and other resources of the World Wide Web (WWW).

Kinds of Widget

2008-12-12T11:34:00.000-08:00

Widgets are interactive virtual tools that provide single-purpose services such as showing the user the latest news, the current weather, the time, a calendar, a dictionary, a map program, a calculator, desktop notes, photo viewers, or even a language translator, among other things. Examples of widget engines include:

Dashboard widgets of Apple Macintosh
Microsoft gadgets in Windows Vista and in the Windows Live system
Plasmoids are widgets in Plasma the workspace for the KDE desktop environment.
gDesklets,Adesklets,Screenlets of Linux systems.
Portlets in Google Desktop
Yahoo! Widgets
Klips in Klipfolio
Mobile widgets webwag,Zumobi, Mywidz, Plusmo and WidSets are a few examples
Adobe AIR

Originally, desk accessories were developed to provide a small degree of multitasking, but when real multitasking OSes became available, these were replaced by normal applications.

Early examples of widgets were desk accessories on Mac OS. The Active Desktop system, developed by Microsoft, was the first system to enable desktop objects with internet access.^{[verification needed]} Widgets resemble the tiny freeware apps that were developed by enthusiasts during the 80s.

On 9 November 2006, the Web Application Formats Working Group in W3C released the first public working draft of Widgets 1.0.^[1] Widget is on its way to standardization.

Mobile widgets

Most mobile widgets are like desktop widgets, but for a mobile phone. Mobile widgets can maximize screen space use and may be especially useful in placing live data-rich applications on the device home-screen/"phone-top". Several J2ME-based mobile widget engines exist including Bling Software, BluePulse, Zumobi, Mywidz, Plusmo, WidSets, Webwag^[2], WidX, Bicon. However the lack of standards-based APIs for Java to control the mobile device home-screen makes it harder for these engines to expose widgets on the phone-top.

Several AJAX-based native widget platforms are also available for mobile devices including Access' NetFront, Openwave's MIDAS and Opera's Opera Platform.

The growing pervasiveness of mobile widgets is easily understood. While widgets are a convenience in the online world,they can be looked at as near-essential in the mobile world. The reason: the mobile device is small and the interface is often challenging. Wading through large amounts of information in a mobile environment isn't just a nuisance; it's a near impossibility.

One of the biggest challenges of widget development is writing multiple sets of computer code so that a widget will be compatible with multiple operating systems and types of devices.

Companies considering new mobile widgets should evaluate and then deploy applications according to four criteria: the business model, distribution model, server-side application framework and the run-time environment.

Web widgets

Web browsers can also be used as widget engine infrastructures. The web is an environment well suited to distribution of widgets, as it doesn't require explicit interaction from the user to install new code snippets.

Web widgets have unleashed some commercial interest, due their perceived potential as a marketing channel, mainly because they provide interactivity and viral distribution through social networks. The first known web widget, Trivia Blitz, was introduced in 1997. It was a game applet offered by Uproar.com (the leading online game company from 2000 - 2001) that appeared on over 35,000 websites ranging from Geocities personal pages to CNN and Tower Records. When Uproar.com was acquired by Vivendi Universal in 2001, the widget was discontinued.

Information flow of Desktop Widgets

A desktop widget is a small footprint application, which resides on the user’s desktop using a small desktop space and computer resources, such as the HDD and RAM. Its purpose is to provide relevant information to the user in a non-intrusive manner and using few resources. Basically, desktop widgets enable the user to view on demand, capsuled information from predetermined data sources. Ideally, a desktop widget must present personalized content, based on the user’s preferences. It is supposed to beam the most important information that a user requires on a day to day basis. Most of the desktop widgets are available as free downloads from the vendors’ Web sites.

What is Widget ?

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In computer software, a widget engine is a software service available to users for running and displaying desktop widgets on the desktop.

The term widget engine is not to be confused with that of a widget toolkit. Toolkits are destined to GUI programmers, who combine several widgets to form a single application. A widget in a toolkit provide a single, low level interaction, and is prepared to communicate with other widgets in the toolkit. On the other hand, widget engines are intended for end users and each desktop widget is a stand-alone, task-oriented application which can be composed of several related interactions on its own.

The desktop widget model is attractive because of ease of development. Most of these widgets can be created with a few images and about 10 to several hundred lines of XML/JavaScript/VBScript source code. A single host software system, such as a web browser, runs all the loaded widgets. This allows several desktop widgets to be built sharing resources and code.

What is Facebook Ads?

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A Facebook ad is the single best way to start a conversation between you and your ideal customers. The ad is 100% branded by the advertiser and does not include any social actions.
Reach people who care
Target the people with specific key words in their profiles — from broad demographics like age, gender or location to more in-depth topics like interests, groups or alma mater.
Integrate content
Get noticed not skipped. Ads are displayed in the left hand Ad Space — visible to users as they browse Facebook to connect with their friends.
Flexible pricing
Buy clicks (CPC) or impressions (CPM), whatever works for you.