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2009-11-11T00:00:00-08:00

HuffPost Game Changers: Who Is The Ultimate Game Changer In Technology?

[Just For Laughs] Pastor's Ass

2009-09-04T15:50:00.001-07:00

*The Pastor's Ass*

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so
pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won
again. The local paper read:**

*PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.*

The Bishop was so upset with this kind of publicity that he ordered the
pastor not to enter the donkey in another race. The next day, the local
paper headline read:

*BISHOP SCRATCHES PASTOR'S ASS.*

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the pastor to get rid of the
donkey. The pastor decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent. The
local paper, hearing of the news, posted the following headline the next
day:

*NUN HAS BEST ASS IN TOWN.*

The bishop fainted. He informed the nun that she would have to get rid of
the donkey, so she sold it to a farmer for $10. The next day the paper read:

*NUN SELLS ASS FOR $10.*

This was too much for the bishop, so he ordered the nun to buy back the
donkey and lead it to the plains where it could run wild. The next day the
headlines read:

*NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.*

The bishop was buried the next day.

The moral of the story is… being concerned about public opinion can bring
you much grief and misery… even shorten your life. So be yourself and enjoy
life. Stop worrying about everyone else's ass and you'll be a lot happier
and live longer!

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hatsoffforu@gmail.com sent you a link to content of interest

2009-09-04T10:21:00.001-07:00

hatsoffforu@gmail.com sent you a link to the following content:

Organizing customers
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/organizing-customers.html

The sender also included this note:

One Of The Best By Seth Godin...
I did think of some crazy biz ideas, but then may be i will keep this one handy for future.Thats a sticky post

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Market Updaye::BSE Sensex bounces 1.9 pct; Reliance, Larsen gain

2009-09-04T06:10:00.001-07:00

via in.biz.yahoo.com

A good 300 point recovery in the markets.Can we see 5k levels in NIFTY soon.

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Online Shopping Goes Social With ShopCorn.in

2009-05-25T01:50:00.001-07:00

If you have remotely been in company of the fairer sex, i bet you know what shopping means to them.Off late, the males have caught up with the fad too.Shopping to me is not the usual I want this,I pay for this and I come back home algorithm.Shopping has to be an experience, an outing with friends complete with lots of friendly banter and obviously countless rejections before we finally select the one thing which we came for.
With online shopping catching up, the fun part of the whole shopping exercise has been reduced to a few clicks.Why you say?? Because it is convinient and happens within click of buttons.
The Cyber World is cluttered with uncountable shopping portals which provide with seemingly amazing deals.But, where do i get the shopping experience from.Is there a way, i can actually ask a friend if the product i am looking at is really worth its money.In Short, Online Shopping is missing the Social part of it which has come to be synonymous with todays internet world.
Twitter introduced me to the Shopping portal with a difference.It actually has the ever missing Social angle to it.Voila!!! Is that a problem solved.Yes, atleast looks like it

Online Shopping+Social Experience= http://www.shopcorn.in/

It might be too early to say that they can be the next Amazon or Ebay killer, but the idea looks good.It is the execution that is gonna sepearte wheat from chaff.

One interesting thing about ShopCorn.in is their brand presence in the form of @PeppySophia .She is the face of ShopCorn.in and has been pretty active online.It is always good for brands to have a public face from the onset.

Enough about the site and lets get to the things that matter

PROS:

1.As already mentioned, it brings the offline experience online.It allows the shoppers across the country to interact in real time environment with the revolutionary Voice-Video-Text chat feature enabled.This sure is a value add when i want a second opinion from a friend while buying the prodcut.

2.Deals Box : How about an aggregator where i am able to select deals from other shopping portals in one place.Yes, Deals Box does exactly that.It allows the users to pick up deals from other shopping cites and upload it to ShopCorn.The others users can then discuss it in the community and based on their opinions kick a bad deal and select the good ones.What you have is a clean shopping portal where the cleaning(kicking the bad deals) is done by the user itself.

There are many sections in the blog that deserve a praise but i dont want to make the post go on.

However, there are a few things that i would like for the site to work on

CONS

1. The Site could do a lot more with the design.The site design does not look too WEB 2.0 ish to me.

2.As far as social is considered, there is still a lot to be achieved. Something on the lines of A twitter/facebook app is something that will make it more social.

3. At the end of the day, online shopping boils down to only one thing "Value For Money". If http://www.shopcorn.in/ can deliver it time and again, i would love to shop with them.

I generally do not do site reviews but then @PeppySophia is running a blogger's contest where we need to write about the Online Social Shopping Experience. Moreover, it is always good to explore and discover a product that alteast tries to shy away from the Me-Too category.

Easiest Way To Open Your TaskManager:One Step Method

2009-04-06T08:46:00.000-07:00

For all The Windows users out there,task manager is something we all open frequently.Now,for the lazy bums like me pressing CLRL+ALT+DELETE simultaneously is too much to ask.You feel the same too!!!
Here's the answer to the trouble.The easiest way to achieve the same functionality at once.

Interesting Ain't it.The Dude Should get hired by microsoft:D

FYI: This is my post for the awesome contest at onlygizmos .Wish me luck !!!

The Real SlumDog Millionare

2009-04-02T11:34:00.000-07:00

SlumDog Millionare,The movie that rocked at oscars is about a guy from a slum who makes it big in the show 'Who Wants to Be a Millionare' by winning one million dollars.How about a literally real Slumdog Millionare.

Wishing You Were The Dog:-)

Please dont take it otherwise.Shared for some humour,no vulgarity included!!!

Share it with your friends if you like:D

Image Credit: Unkown via Email Forward

Magpie Lets You Make Money With Twitter-Online Treasure

2009-03-29T23:41:00.000-07:00

Can Twitter users monetize their Twitter account?Sounds Strange since there is hardly any margin left when you only have 140 characters to deal with.Unlike Blogs where you can run contextual ads with services like Adsense,Bidvertiser or banner sales,Twitter monetization looks a distant dream.
The dream has been put into realization with Magpie-An European company with a business model similar to the Pay Per Post for Blogs. Magpie will pay you to send ad-tweets through your time line. They auto-select the ad-tweets based on the keyword selection and then post it with your twitter public timeline.Revenue Sharing happens like most of the other ad networks and the payouts are pretty decent.
Whats good about Magpie is, you get paid without doing anything.It also gives you almost complete control over the kind of ads that are served.This makes it more friendly since your friends/followers will not be bombarded with irrelevant information.

You can decide the frequency of the ad-tweets. It can be as frequent as every other tweet or one ad-tweet after 20 tweets.
You can choose to append a custom message to differentiate the magpie tweet if you wish.Generally,it is better to append the magpie tweets with hashtag #magpie in the beginning of the tweet.
With the revenue mechansim catching up and advertisers increasingly finding value in twitter based promotions,magpie has come up with lot of monetization models like per view,per sale,per click,per lead etc.Again, you have complete control of what you wanna see in your timelime
They also have an affiliate program with as much as 30% revenue share.If any advertisers signs up with your refferal link, you stand to get 30% of the transaction fees all year long.

All and all,it looks a pretty decent service to give a shot at.A small sample earnings page of my magpie account looks promising.

Have you already signed up with magpie.If yes, what are your thoughts on the same

Do share your thoughts on Magpie.

Do join in to share in my tweets at twitter.com/getinmoneywise

Blogger Appreciation Award:The First Blogospehere Recognition For This Blog

2009-03-05T10:18:00.000-08:00

A Blogger Appreciation Award For a rather new and nascent blog.Sounds unreal.But when I received the confirmation from Cellphones.org on my Blog Online Treasure being short-listed as the semi-finalist amongst hundreds of other blogs,I couldn't hold back doing a post about it.
Cellphones.org is a one stop shop for all your mobile needs.They have the almost all the handsets under the hood with even competitive prices.This is not all,they have a range of carriers listed where you can choose your preffered cell phone carrier along with the phone itself.

Coming back to the award and why i made it to the semi-final list is primarily due to some Mobile Advertising posts i did sometime back around here.The posts even though small apparently got good response since they had a money making mechanism associated with them.Be sure to give them a look if you could get a chance.

Thanks to Cellphones.org for appreciating my blog and giving it its first appreciation award.
Did your blog receive an award recently.I will be happy to be a part of the celebration.

Blog Traffic Series:Stumble and You Shall be Stumbled

2009-02-22T04:31:00.000-08:00

Stumble Upon, for those who are not familiar is a toolbar enhanced website and says
'StumbleUpon helps you discover and share great websites with the community.It is totally community driven social networking where people can discover and share interesting websites along with rating them and sharing it with their friends'

Stumble Upon is a proven social networking tool that can bring loads of traffic to your blog/site given the content is valuable and is found interesting by others.However, for a beginner getting to build a good Stumble reputation may not be easy.
That's where, StumbleUpon Exchange kicks in.It is a relatively new and not so popular website but a very decent and interesting idea.
It helps you exchange stumbles with fellow members.you stumble their pages and in return they stumble yours.The system works on a point based system and therefore you cannot game the system by spamming.
Here are some tips on how the site works.

1.You create an account and provide relevant details.
2.You are given 25 points to begin with.If you want to register your website to be stumbled, 3 points will be deducted.
3.For every stumble that you make,you get 1 point.However,you have to drop a message to the owner to credit you the point.
4.For every stumble that you receive 1 point is taken from your account making it a fair deal.
5.Also,any refferals that join through your link gets you an additional 10 points.
Additional points mean more stumbles to your site
The process might not seem too lucrative to begin with but it is yet another way for new blogs to get noticed.If the blog/site has valuable content it will catapult the traffic since the visitors will stay and may be subscribe to your blog too.
I found it worth giving it a shot.infact,it might help you find some good sites which otherwise take a lot of googling to dig out.
Do give it a shot and let me know your comments.
You can join here

How To Get More Targetted Traffic To Your Blog: XavierMedia Exchange

2009-01-12T21:33:00.001-08:00

XavierMedia Exchange is an innovative and a new blog exchange network which can actually deliver a stream of targeted traffic for you.The way it works is similar to some other banner exchange networks which work on reciprocal basis.But here are some details as to why XavierMedia Exchange might actually be worth trying.

You will get 3000 banner impressions just for joining.
Their standard ratio is 3:2 which means that for every three visitors clicking ads on your blog, you get two visitors to your blog. They use a sliding ratio, which means the higher click rate you have on your blog, they will give you better exchange rate next month.
For each new user you refer to them, you get 10% of all the credit they get.
You can get another free 5000 impressions, just for writing a review about them.
The exchange code is not bulky and it does not interfere with the normal load of your blog

In the end, you are actually promoting someone else's blog on your website.Now,since the script is automated you dont even have to change the code manually to display other blogs.

I found the reasons good enough to give it a shot.I feel that you should give XavierMedia Exchange a try.

Please share your experiences with it!!

Make Money Online to start the New year!YouMint offers 500 rs cash voucher

2008-12-30T02:56:00.000-08:00

If you have been here, you would probably know that this blog discusses the legit get rich slowly methods to make money online.

YouMint is one of the first one to harvest the Mobile & Email advertising in India.They have a clean website and the way to make is multi-fold.

Get paid for every e-mail or mobile ad that you recieve
Get paid everytime your network recieves any ad
Get paid everytime your network's network receives an ad.

Whoa!!Thats a lot of money.Ahem..Ahem.I agree that the payouts are not huge but then, it is free and they are completely legit.If you have the ability to influence people to sign up under you, it is a matter of time to start churning money from YouMint.

Need any more reasons!!Here's the best one
Get a 500 rupees Cash Voucher on signing up now.Join youmint now
Moreover, if you get 5 people to join under you, you have a chance to win 50,000 rupees

So,what are you waiting for.Go sign up now here

Drop me a comment when you join.Share this article as much as you can.The more you make it visible,more are the chances of making people under your network.

Happy Minting

Links for 2008-11-22 [del.icio.us]

2008-11-23T00:00:00-08:00

Learn Hacking

Increase Your Blog's Technorati Backlinks Anyone?

2008-11-17T08:00:00.000-08:00

Here are the Rules:

Copy the official list below into a blog post of yours.
Add your link to the bottom of the list.
Comment HERE so that we can update the list with your link.
Watch the backlinks to your blog increase dramatically via Technorati.
The sooner you join, the more backlinks you will recieve.

*–Copy Here - Technorati Authority–*

See the original post where you can sign up at MoneyBush.blogspot.com

Links for 2008-11-16 [del.icio.us]

2008-11-17T00:00:00-08:00

Is Firing Manpower India Inc's Answer To Tackle Global Recession or Are we just aping the West

Earn Money From Your Mobile! Only by Invite Registration

2008-09-19T13:02:00.001-07:00

AdMad is one of its kind mobile advertising site which pays you to recieve ads on your mobile as SMS.What is different is that they allow users to join only by Invitation, that means there is no way that we can join if we dont have a valid invite.I was lucky to have someone invite me and thereby i wanna return the favour:-)

Join Here

Earn Money Reading E-Mails and SMS

2008-09-19T13:02:00.000-07:00

I have been quite busy lately with my other blog and haven had a chance to share various online money generation methods lately.Now,as before they are not 'become a millionare' kinds ,but then with time they sure can foot you mobile phone bills.All it needs is some patience and 5 minutes of filling out a form.

Here are the ones i have become a part of recently

1)YouMint - A site with lots of useful content on it,its worth joining for its 'Free Sms' feature itself.They also have some useful content-rich applications like wallpapers,games and stuff for mobile.Frankly, the payouts from SMS aren huge since they dont send many but they send you a lot of ad email which fetch you 25 paise each.I know it sounds very cheap but then what's the harm.

Feel Free to Join it here.

Please Subscribe to the Posts to get these slow-n-steady money making links in you e-mail.

Watch out for the next post where i discover some more 'get rich slowly' links;-)

Earn While You Learn!!!

2008-09-08T23:20:00.000-07:00

Is it really possible??If you ask me, yes it is now.Thanks to an Indian Iniative we have a education portal, ,completely dedicated to providing a platform for students to excel in their academic careers by providing evrything from

1.Extensive List of Colleges and Schools in India .

2.A huge database of previous year question papers for various courses and various colleges to help students prepare better.

3.A discussion forum to discuss and seek any help from the experts listed in various domains.

4.Stress busters in the form of funny pictures and useful links.

One site doing so many things deserves a look-in.Ain't it

But,wait up.This is just the start.

Come the monetary part and you will jumping with joy to join the website.How?

You get points for just about anything and everything you contribute to the site.Then there are cash awards for many sections like question papers,link submissons and stuff.

And those who are aware of GOOGLE ADSENSE,this is the site you want to be to multiply your earnings through adsense.ISC is google adsense approved website,so you get your ads displayed in the ISC in sections where you contribute.

For any information on Google Adsense,please contact me at hatsoffforu@gmail.com.

Don't wait, Join the best educational portal of India

http://www.indiastudychannel.com?ref=hatsoffforu

Join to Earn!!

2008-08-07T04:25:00.000-07:00

This happens to be the latest in this mad world of "u see ads,and we pay u" band wagon.and this sure heads the list beacuse it is toatally INDIANISED. Even the name says so,and they payout handsomely for referrals(2 rs. per refferal).so,go wild and register,by clicking the image below

Turn the Mobile into a Cash Generator!!

2008-07-29T22:35:00.001-07:00

Paisa4Sms

This is one of the sites I stumbled upon when googling to kill time. The site itself doesn’t look too appealing though they seem to have some salient features:
1. They give out Rs.5 each for registering a user under you.Voila!Sounds Amazing
2. For every registration you also get some points credit to your account, which can be redeemed for mobile content as in for getting stock messages, jokes and stuff. So, it makes it a good enough reason to join them.
3. The minimum payout is rs.250.50 ppl under you does it! Simple
The not so good part is that they don’t have a good network of advertisers so they hardly send any ads, but then where’s the harm when you get enough jus to get users under you.
They have all the usual address book imports to send invite messages to your contacts, but then it is always better to take the invite link generated for you, and paste in you social networking sites.
JOIN NOW!!

Sms2India
I joined this site on the insistence of my friend sometime back, so I cant really comment on what they have to offer but the site looks pretty decent with lot of content rich sections. They also seem to payout an extra bonus amount for every 10 users under your network.So,go wild and get people under you network.

JOIN NOW!!

mginger
This is probably the most appealing and genuine mobile advertising partner. They have a huge user base and lot of advertisers. The advertisements are very genuine and pretty useful at times. The payings are slow since they only pay you for the ads they send. But, as is common with all these sites, they pay you for the first level and second level user’s too. i.e. even when the people under you and the people under them receive ads, you also get paid. The recent addition of games section is pretty good too.
Best Part of the Deal::A messenger to send SMS to your friend for free.
JOIN NOW!!

Get Paid To Recieve Sms!!

2008-07-29T22:21:00.000-07:00

The title itself may be elating and heart warming and sure it is.Though the paid part refers to getting paid in "paises" rather in rupees or better,dollars:-)
The funda behind receiving money in lieu of receiving ads via Sms is simple.The mobile advertising sites take money from the advertisers and then based on the target customers,they send out ads and share the revenue they receive from the advertisers.Simple and Genuine enough:-)
The various mob ad mediums(sites) i have come across off late vaguely work in more or less the same way.
They need you to register with some specific details and of course,your mobile number.
You need to verify your mobile which they tell you how.
You get benefits of registering people under you network,which the sites explain efficiently
The "Blog" and "Proof" sections vie hard to prove their honesty in payouts
All in all,all it takes is 5 minutes of registration and an occasional 5 minutes sending out invites to your contacts so that you network grows rich.
The best part being that you don't have to spend a penny to be a part of them.So,even if the payouts aren substantital,these are worth joining purely to get some worthy ads and to access the rich contents they have on their portals.
Confession::being a part of a few sites for around 2 odd months i can say is that i have around 100 RS for the taking though for it to materialise ,there s still time left.
So,for those who don't mind an occasional sms from any unknown sender,it is worth a try.For that matter,it is at least better than the spammers who keep bombarding us with ads that we don't require.
My next post brings out the few mediums available and the links to join them and be a part of the ever growing mobile advertising.

Mobile Advertising Moolah!!!

2008-07-25T04:14:00.000-07:00

Mobile advertising is a form of advertising via mobile (wireless) phones or other mobile devices. It is a subset of mobile marketing.
Mobile advertising is closely related to online or Internet advertising, though its reach is far greater - currently, most mobile advertising is targeted at mobile phones estimated to reach 4 billion in 2008.
It is probable that advertisers and media industry have started increasingly taking account of a bigger and fast-growing mobile market, though it remains at around 1% of global advertising spend. Mobile Advertising is less than 0.5% of the approximately 450 billion dollar global advertising industry.
India Inc. has to joined the bandwagon to woo the advertisers and consumers in a big way.
Why am I hankering about Mobile Advertising?????

Cos it bears the honour of being a “CASH GENERATOR”.How???Read on to identify the stakeholders and what they have in store in the mad rush for mobile advertising.
1.Merchants(Products and Services):
For Merchants and Business Houses looking for promoting their products and services ,Mobile Advertising is the sure shot way to reach the masses as is clear from the stats above.For a very competitive and flexible fee structure ,the advertising can be aimed at a very specific target audience eg. Based on location,age group etc.
With Mobile Advertising mediators throbbing in the cyber space,it helps to tap the ever increasing user base of these websites without running around to create the user base for marketing.This helps in saving some useful money and effectively results in a higher ROI(Return On Investment).Spare me for the jargon:-)
2.Users or the Consumers(People like Me:-))
How can it be fruitful to us where all the advertiser is doing is to fill his pocket with the advertising fees and luring us into advertisements??
The answer is two fold:
a) By bringing to us some very useful ads for our specific interests including various discounts on products and likes effective saving us some hard earned money by availing the discounts.
b) “Get Paid to Receive Ads” is the mantra that these Mob Ad websites are following to create that indispensable user base.This is something that I will be talking about in detail along with the various existing cash generating mediums that I am a part of:-).

Till then happy reading!!