If you EVER get an email like this, simply delete it or you can choose to have some fun with these inglorious bastards.

Dear President/CEO,

We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

On Feb .15 , 2009, We received an application formally. One company named ” Falong Holdings Ltd ” wanted to applied for the Internet brand ” Ethnicdenim ” and some domain names through our body.

During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword and internet brand is identical with your trademark. Meanwhile, it is in the special time of financial crisis. Many companies are registering and protecting their own internet intellectual property right in various methods.These days we are dealing with this case, I wonder whether you consigned Falong company to register these domain names through us? If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names. Or you do not even know this company what so ever? Currently, we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards
Meryl Yue
Auditing Director
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Hong Kong Head Office:
Tel: ++852-95660489
Fax: ++852-95660302
Email:Meryl@scdomain.org
Web: http://www.sk-holdings.net

I then wrote to them saying:

Hello,

I have owned EthnicDenim.com since 2005. I am not affiliated with your client, I retain all rights to www.ethnicdenim.com.

Hyder

They replied back with this horseshit excuse for an email -

Dear Hyder,

Please note, the auditing period is coming soon. If you decide to protect these domain names, pls reply us within 3 workdays. We will send the application form to you to fill in. If your company do not register these domain names, we will finish aforesaid company’s registration within 5 workdays. Falong Holdings Ltd will become the legal owner of these domain names in the world.

Best Regards
Meryl Yue

So now you know about these sorts of scams and what you can expect.

Also, don’t worry because your domains names are COMPLETELY safe. My best advice would be to immediately call your domain registrar and let them know about these sorts of scams, if you ever receive them, and forward them copies of the email.

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There are many aggregators out there that let you log into your profiles from one central location. Though, I would not trust my login information with any such service, some people do find it useful. SmartProfile is one such new service, but rather than ask you for your login information it just asks for your profile usernames.

I’ve made one of my own here.

The sign up is pretty straight forward and you specify the profiles you have at the time of sign up. As of now the site only supports 8 social websites, you can request them to add more. The one thing that I think will hinder the wide adoption of SmartProfile is that they “reserve full rights to place any kinds of advertising on your SmartProfile page”. This might be OK for a LinkedIn, MySpace or Facebook but if you’re just starting out I would suggest you lay off the the CPC ads and work on getting a user base first.

In 2009, user base is everything.

The main features of SmarProfile are -

1. A universal URL for all your profiles. Several choices from .Com, .Org, .Me, .Name, .Info, .Us…
2. Bring all your profiles to your blog or website through their widget.

I think the service has it’s uses, could use some design and usability enhancements, I don’t think it will hurt to reserve your username just in case

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What is TweetRoll?

Well, if you take a look at my sidebar you will see what it looks like. Basically, it’s a widget that you can place on your blog or website to show the number of Twitter followers you have, how many you follow and show the 9 latest Twitter folk you are following. Like a MyBlogLog of twitter followers for comparison purposes.

Simply enter your username in the field provided on the site and you will get a snippet of JavaScript code. Place that on your site or blog and you should be good to go.

At this point of time it’s very early stages, but we do have a few things like color customizations planned. But, I would love to see the widget on your blog and I’m sure you would love to see an increase in your twitter followers

If you have any questions let me know about it.

What is the directory on Tweetburn?

The Tweetburn directory is a repository of topics and the twitter users that talk about them. So if you were looking for bloggers talking about blogging on twitter you would just look at the page linked there to see all the experts on that topic on ONE page.

Convenient, Right?

Currently we’re building the directory and have made it super easy for you to send us a tweet if you belong on a topic. If you have suggestions for topics please let me know.

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YouLiveSee is an interactive portal where you can create your own webcam portal. Basically what the site allows you to do is to set up a channel to broadcast yourself via your webcam.

From the outset the site looks very bare and offers little in terms of features. Maybe that was the intention of the owners of the site? If they want to be able to compete with similar services that are being offered right now they have a lot of work to be done.

First of all a better layout would not hurt. Social bookmarking features, a more interactive call to sign up for their service by showcasing the benefits right away would immensely help as well. The member profile pages could use a face lift as well.

I registered on the site to check out how it works. Basically you create a channel/topic of your choosing and decide if you want to just let certain users or everyone see and/or hear you. Or you can just have them see/hear you. Like any normal webcast. You can also make it public or private.

Quite a few services like YouLiveSee have cropped up on the web, most of which are successful. If they want to be able to make a difference in their service I suggest a serious overhaul in their website structure. The developers of this site have a good product, they just need to give it the “oomph” factor.

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Apart from that I’m on Twitter a lot as well. I don’t tweet as much as the other people I follow but I tend to follow links that show up and most of the time it’s interesting stuff.

The rest of my social time is spent on facebook, IM and email. Naturally the bulk of my time is spent working with my sites online, and designing for others, but a guy’s gotta have a break. Y’know what I mean?

So what about you? Where do you spend your social net time?

How much ever time you do spend online make sure to get up, go out and take a walk and really meet your friends and family. It’s good for ya.

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Before I begin the list I must say that the days of direct linking are getting over pretty soon. Sure it’s a great way to test the waters but it can also turn out to be very expensive. Setting up a moderately populated content site can have its benefits for a much longer time, plus organic traffic is free. Even if you outsource the writing it will be way cheaper than setting up a direct linking PPC campaign.

Here are the Top 10 Tips for Buying Affiliate Site Domains

1. Make sure it’s search term friendly – Let’s face it you are trying to make money with affiliate products, your best bet is to get a domain that would match a bunch of search terms. So ValentinesChocolates.com would probably be more effective as a site than ShopForValentineChocolates.com
2. Three Word Maximum – People don’t like to read on the internet, there’s just too much going on. While a two word domain is gold for affiliate marketers you can get away with a three word domain. It’s better to go for three short words, than long ones. ThanksgivingHolidayRecipes.com is bad, QuickTurkeyTips.com is better, plus it’s available
3. Will it Fit? – What I mean by that is will it fit in a regular Adwords/Yahoo PPC text ad. All of the search advertisers have a 35 character limit when it comes to URL displays. So think about that when you buy a domain as you may want to add extra words after the URl. For example QuickTurkeyTips.com/Cranberry is below 35 characters.
4. Use other TLD’s – You do not have to get a .com for an affiliate domain. There are dozens of TLD’s available and you can use them quite creatively.
5. Think about branding – At some point of time your site may get popular and you may want to expand it and give it more attention. So make sure that you get a domain that can be branded, this could virtually double or triple your income.
6. Use hypens with care – If you are thinking about building up a reputable affiliate business then try to get domains without hypens. Since most of the good domain names are taken, you can still buy them if owners will sell. Also see point no.4 above.
7. Buying registered domains/sites - You may frequently run into the fact that a lot of your domain ideas are already registered. If you are serious about building a long term strategy than you should consider buying an already registered domain/site from its owner.
8. Use Keyword Tools to get an idea of traffic – A great way to know whether a domain will get enough traffic to make you a sustainable income is to do some keyword research. KeyCompete.com is a great tool to help you do just that.
9. Long term strategy – In affiliate marketing there is a high probability that you will want to shift niches as fast as you can say ringtones. So sometimes it does help to get a domain name that you know you will use in the long run as a sustainable income source. It’s fine to get domains which will serve the “here and now” purpose, but it doesn’t hurt to look 3, 6 and 12 months down the line.
10. Think before searching – This has got to be the biggest mistake most new affiliate marketers will make. They keep on typing domain variation after variation into Go Daddy and expect to find something available. If they find something they buy it and then sit on it, doing absolutely nothing. How about you do some REAL thinking about what you want to build rather than just looking for a quick buck. Because if you look for a quick buck, that’s all you’ll make – a buck. I would recommend you do some old fashioned writing {y’know pen/pencil & paper} and figure out exactly what you would like to spend the next month of your life doing with a domain/site. But if you sit on a domain for a year and do nothing with it you’re just wasting your time, and other people’s time who would otherwise seriously want to develop that domain.

Think about all those tips long and hard, especially the last one. I’ve done my fair bit of domain squatting and have nothing to show for it.

If you would like more tips on getting the perfect domain for you I would recommend you buy Killer Domains – an ebook by Daniel from DailyBlogTips. I own the ebook and I must say it is spot on and provides a huge amount of information for only $17.00.

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The consumers can look at posted deals that are newly popular, the top deals of the day, the top deals of the day before, and deals from both weeks and months ago. Every deal that is posted also has a special link where they can “Tell a Friend” by sending the link to that deal to up to three e-mail addresses.

The community of DealShouter users can then vote to decide what the best deals are. Therefore deals that are classified “popular” are ones that many people have saved money on. There are also Special Offers straight from manufacturers that can also save consumers money.

Some categories that consumers have included great deals on include: Appliances, Audio/Video/DVD, Automotive, Babies/Kids, Books & Magazines, Clothing & Apparel, Computers & Software, Electronics, Monitors/TV, Media/Storage, Phones/Communications, Food & Drink, Furniture, Home & Garden, Health & Beauty, Jewelry & Watches, Sports Equipment & Outdoor Gear, Toys & Games & Travel & Leisure. The possibilities to find great deals, coming directly from unbiased consumers, by using DealShouter.com are endless. DealShouter.com allows people to both find savings they have found and look over savings that others have found.

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