SocialPaywall.com - Get paid for your Premium Content

What is SocialPaywall.com?

We all love social media, social networking, facebooking, myspacing, etc. We build followers and friends though sharing links, videos, coupon codes, and other electronic content. Up until now, only the social networking websites see any kind on financial benefit from all of your hard work. SocialPaywall.com is an online service that allows you to create that same content, publish it through your social networks, and  make money by selling subscriptions.

How does it work?

With SocialPaywall.com you can save your “Premium” links, coupon codes, video podcasts behind an electronic toll booth or paywall. Then you share a brief description and link to that content on all off your favorite social networking websites. Your friends and followers click the link and are directed to a page allowing them to pay to see your premium content.

Example SocialPaywall links

Here’s the Kicker

We’ve created a browser extension that allows your followers to view your Premium content directly in several of the most popular social websites. Namely twitter, facebook, youtube, flickr, and myspace. Once you have installed the extension you can subscribe & view content directly on the websites you frequent on a daily basis with no need to go to socialpaywall.com. This is the game changer. Imagine the ecommerce possibilities that are now open to you on several of the most popular websites on the Intenet today.

Example SocialPaywall Subscriptions

Viewing socialpaywall.com content directly in twitter.

We’re in Beta

We’re still pretty early in the beta, so be warned. Also take notice that the financial transactions are all simulated at the moment. We want you to play with service and explore it’s uses without the hesitation of real money changing hands. As we get closer to an official launch we will turn on the payment system. So for now spend all of the “fake” money you want.

So Sign Up and Have Fun

To get started, go to http://www.socialpaywall.com. Create an account with your Google ID. Create some “Premium Content” by sharing your favorite recipe, selling a coupon code, publish a youtube video. Then share your content through your social networks. To see some examples follow us on twitter (@socialpaywall).

A big thank you goes out to Kynetx. They have a great technology platform that we have used to let  you to view SocialPaywall content directly on your favorite social networking websites. So sign up at socialpaywall.com and install our browser extension.

Update:
Here is an example of SocialPaywall.com in action.

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Which prompted me to write the following python code to figure out when the rest of these date palindromes occur within this millennium: (I know I could have used a list comprehension with filtering, but this wraps better…)

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
day = timedelta(hours=24)
def calc(start=None):
    date = datetime(2000, 1, 1)
    for i in range(0,365*1000):
        date = date + day
        str = date.strftime("%m%d%Y")
        if str == str[::-1]:
            print "%s %s" % (str, date.strftime("%m/%d/%Y"))

Which results in the following:
10022001 10/02/2001
01022010 01/02/2010
11022011 11/02/2011
02022020 02/02/2020
12022021 12/02/2021
03022030 03/02/2030
04022040 04/02/2040
05022050 05/02/2050
06022060 06/02/2060
07022070 07/02/2070
08022080 08/02/2080
09022090 09/02/2090
10122101 10/12/2101
01122110 01/12/2110
11122111 11/12/2111
02122120 02/12/2120
12122121 12/12/2121
03122130 03/12/2130
04122140 04/12/2140
05122150 05/12/2150
06122160 06/12/2160
07122170 07/12/2170
08122180 08/12/2180
09122190 09/12/2190
10222201 10/22/2201
01222210 01/22/2210
11222211 11/22/2211
02222220 02/22/2220
12222221 12/22/2221
03222230 03/22/2230
04222240 04/22/2240
05222250 05/22/2250
06222260 06/22/2260
07222270 07/22/2270
08222280 08/22/2280
09222290 09/22/2290

If you tweak the code to use the time format (”%m%d%y”) you get the 2 digit year palindromes which are really only interesting over a 100 year span since they repeat:

101101 10/11/01
102201 10/22/01
011110 01/11/10
012210 01/22/10
111111 11/11/11
112211 11/22/11
021120 02/11/20
022220 02/22/20
121121 12/11/21
122221 12/22/21
031130 03/11/30
032230 03/22/30
041140 04/11/40
042240 04/22/40
051150 05/11/50
052250 05/22/50
061160 06/11/60
062260 06/22/60
071170 07/11/70
072270 07/22/70
081180 08/11/80
082280 08/22/80
091190 09/11/90
092290 09/22/90

So get ready now for the 2 more this month, your next chance to party is in November of 2011.

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Families Supporting Adoption (FSA), an organization sponsored by LDS Family Services, seeks to promote a positive view of adoption. It focuses its efforts on three main areas: outreach, media, and education and support. My wife and I are currently serving on the Executive Board as co-secretaries.

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I like the vertical design and the price point. Distributed power generation should play a key role in the next smart power grid. It promotes self reliance and energy conservation by reducing the power loss through transmission. While this model isn’t designed to be directly connected to the grid, I think it’s a good start and a perfect low cost addition to existing solar installations.

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Just doing the math, $30 million spread over 20,000 homes, for 120 months equates to $12.50/household/month. Not bad. Not bad at all.

With all of the talk about a national energy policy during this election, its good to know at least one company is willing to push the nuclear option into the commercial market place. The next U.S. President should adopt this company and streamline the regulatory process to these into working in small towns across the nation.

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As many of you know, I recently spent 2 weeks in Peru and Ecuador seeing the sites and working on content for our new travel site,

Ever since I saw my first GPS I’ve had an strange desire to go to geographically significant places. Last year we took a road trip to Bad Water, Nevada in Death Valley National Park which is the lowest place in the western hemisphere at -282 feet below sea level. This year we went to the equator near Quito, Ecuador.

First thing I found is that their are two "equator places" in Ecuador. The first is Ciudad Mitad Del Mundo or Middle of the World City. This is the bigger and more commercial place to see the Equator. This traditional site was based on work of 2 french geographers during the 1700s .  Interestingly enough, this is not the true location of the equator. It’s actually 240 meters to the north at what is called the Intiñan Solar Museum.

  The Intiñan Solar Museum is billed as the actual equator based on measurements taken by military GPS. This fun little museum has some fun equator experiments and Incan cultural exhibits. 

They have a number of different sun dials which show you how the sun spends half of the year in the northern sky and the other half in the southern sky. No trip to the equator would be complete without trying to balance an egg on the head of a nail. Which I have to admit was pretty easy.

One of the most mind bending demonstrations was of the Coriolis effect. This is the force that supposedly causes drains to flow in opposite directions depending if your in the northern or southern hemisphere. To demonstrate this behavior our guide took a mobile sink filled with water, pulled the plug, and tossed in some leaves to show the direction the drain was flowing. He did this 3 times: once on the equator (no drain rotation), once on the South side (clockwise), and finally once on the North side (counter-clockwise). Some say it’s a trick. Here’s the video for you to decide.

One thing was bothering me at both of these sites. My Magellan Explorist 600 GPS wasn’t reading all zeros for Latitude. So I started walking north, through the Intiñan Solar Museum  grounds, out through the parking lot, and finally out on to a busy road. And wouldn’t you know it, right on the far white line the counter hit zero. So dodging big trunks and heavy traffic, I got my picture to prove that I had been  to the Equator!

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One of the most interesting things we saw was the use of solar panel technology throughout both countries. One such example was on the Eros floating Islands on Lake Titicaca near Puno, Peru. For those of you not familiar with the Eros Islands, it’s an amazing collection of 70+ floating islands built entirely out of tora reeds. The early inhabitants used these naturally growing reeds to build floating platforms to escape persecution from the Incas and early Spanish colonizers. 

We stopped at the Island of Apu Inti which some of you might recognize from Elder Rasbands recent talk. This little island, that is home to a handful of families, sits in about 55 feet of water and is 7-8 feet thick. Most life on these islands centers around tourism, with the natives showing the traditional tasks of life, the uses of the tora reed, how the islands are built, and dressing their guests up in native costumes.

Not being one who likes to dress up and dance, I quickly grabbed the nearest native and with my broken Spanish asked to see his solar setup.  The 53 watt solar panel, made by Condumex,  feed through a charging unit in to a water proof 12 volt car battery. He also had a circuit breaker / distribution unit that powered a compact fluorescent light bulb, his TV & Stereo (so much for be true "natives"), and his neighbors house.

I asked how long he had been running this setup. He told me that the President of Peru had given the solar panels to the people of the Eros islands 6 years ago. Apparently they had been using candles and had trouble with their homes and islands burning down. Go figure. No doubt the gift was an attempt to help keep the tourist trade going.

The Eros Islands were not the only places we saw solar panels.  We found them all over Peru and Ecuador and on the islands of Amantani and Taquille. Look for pictures of these wonderful islands on our MunchkinTravel.com  website in the coming weeks.

I think the wide spread adoption of solar is directly related to the lack of quality power infrastructure. In many ways, countries with emerging markets are perfectly positioned to leap frog the US in the coming green technology revolution because they don’t have existing infrastructure that is still trying to pay for itself. It’s true that  technology is often driven by the underlying business model. It’s also true that disruptive next generation technology is also held back by existing entrenched infrastructure and it’s associated economic model.

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So, I thought I would cover The Big Business & Technology Expo at the McKay Events Center on the campus of the soon to be Utah Valley University. Being armed with my camera and a couple of extra free tickets (explained later), I was off for my conference experience.

After seeing the big press coverage and the expo’s PR machine at work I knew I needed to show up early.

Parking was crazy, even at  11:10am on opening day, just 10 minutes after the show opening. These people were so excited to get here, they stole cars from a local dealership and had to park on the grass just to get a close parking spot.

The show floor didn’t disappoint. It seems like it is exactly the same size as in years past. Among the many marketing companies, banks, and promotional item salesmen, the big surprise was how many people were playing Rock Band or Guitar Hero in their booths. There is nothing like a good guitar riff that screams "We should be your business partner."

The highlight of the expo is the free lunch from Bajios (Fresh Mex), Goodwood BBQ (BBQ at it’s best), or Rumbi Island Grill (Hawaiian goodness). Your entrance ticket is also your meal ticket. Thus, the best tip for those of you going to the Big Business Expo: Take extra tickets. That way you can get multiple meals (which are currently running small on portion size.)

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To be fair, he hasn’t had that much experience with Ethernet, 10-base-T, CATV, or the like. He was able to run all of the cabling himself. He followed the instructions on modular wall jacks. He had picked a wiring scheme (T568A) and was consistent. The problem was getting connectivity. There was none.

We were able to isolate the problem to one section of cabling and the connectors on each end. We verified the right order of the colored wire pairs on each end of the connection. But still no luck.

We came to the conclusion that it had to be one of the follow problems:

1. He had miss labeled the some/all of the 15 different cables.
2. The cable had been cut or damaged during the dry wall installation.
3. The ends were incorrectly wired despite following the diagrams.

This is the point when a good cable tester is an invaluable tool. Luckily I had suggested that he pick up a LinkMaster – Network testing device from IDEAL.

This little tester is great. It was able to quickly show us the problem with one of the connections. Despite following the wiring diagrams exactly, the tester turned us onto a problem that the manufacturers connector wiring diagram was printed incorrectly. It showed the connector upside down, from the text. A quick fix on that end of the cable solved everything. It’s a good thing we had the LinkMaster CATV/10-base-T tester.

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All to often I find myself running as fast as I can on a project or research topic and not stopping to blog about it. Sometimes I get stuck in the quandary "Is this topic too boring blog about?" vs. "Is this information too valuable as a trade secret to blog about?" In the end both my blog and readers suffer.

I think the best thing to do is to blog. Get information out there where it can have the biggest impact. Thanks to Richard for sparking that thought process.

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Ok, so I had a little fun with the title of this post. But, I’m going to share with you my top secret Google keywords. These aren’t just any keywords. These are the Google keywords that rank tylerwhitaker.com in the top ten search results on Google. I’m not really sure if other Internet Marketers share this kind of intel. But, In the interest of setting the baseline for this blog, here’s the list:

Tyler Whitaker – Rank: 1  I think this is has a lot to do with my domain name. I’ve owned tylerwhitaker.com for years. Owning a domain name for a long time with your keywords is always a big help.

tyler whittaker – Rank: 2  This is a funny one since my last name is spelled with only one ‘t’. I must have some backlinks somewhere with my name mis-spelled.

is there a tyler whitaker anywhere – Rank: 4  This is a good question and most days I have a good answer.

racellete – Rank: 5  This is the name of a specific cheese and a popular meal I fell in love with in Switzerland. I tried to find a local Salt Lake City supplier of racellete when I got back. I wrote a blog post about it. I think racellete is a misspelling. The correct spelling is Raclette.

"s infotech" – Rank: 5  This must be a typing mistake. Some kind of truncated version of title of this blog. "Tyler Whitaker’s InfoTech"

flying dragonfly – Rank: 7  Last year a wrote a post about the RC Flying Dragonfly from Wow Wee. It’s a remote controlled plane of sorts that is shaped in the form of a dragonfly. This might be a interesting keyword to use for a future marketing experiment.

tyler "news com" – Rank: 7  I have now idea why I’m listed here.

apprentice tv show 2008 – Rank: 8  I recently posted my thoughts on Donald Trump’s Apprentice TV Show. This current 2008 season has a group of celebrities competing. To bad it’s not more about business.

whitaker business solutions – Rank: 8  This blog is about technology business solutions.

The next step is to increase the rankings of this site using some of these keywords. Stay tuned.

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Akismet
Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.” To show off your Akismet stats just put <?php akismet_counter(); ?> in your template. See also: WP Stats plugin. By Matt Mullenweg.

All in One SEO Pack
Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog. By uberdose.

Contextual Related Posts
Show last 5 contextually related posts on single blog posts, increase exposure By Mark Ghosh (LaughingLizard). I did some editing on this one so that it would work with my theme.

FeedBurner FeedSmith
Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber. By FeedBurner.

Google XML Sitemaps
This plugin will generate a sitemaps.org compatible sitemap of your WordPress blog which is supported by Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. By Arne Brachhold.

ShareThis
Let your visitors share a post/page with others. Supports e-mail and posting to social bookmarking sites. Questions on configuration, etc.? Make sure to read the README. By ShareThis and Crowd Favorite (crowdfavorite.com).

Twitter Tools
A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter. By Alex King. My Twitter account is tylerwhitaker come follow me when you get a chance.

What Would Seth Godin Do
Displays a custom welcome message to new visitors. By Richard K Miller. Richard is a good guy and I’m glad to support him and his plugin.

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So I’ve reached a crossroads of sorts in my research. I’ve learned a fair amount through passive research. And now I’ve come to the conclusion that to learn more I really need to become active in the field and run my own experiments.

I think that means working on this blog. Setting up a couple more highly focused blogs. And generally rolling up my sleeves and getting dirty. I hope to record my success and failures here as well.

So to set the baseline. This blog is currently at a Google toolbar page rank of 3. And sense I haven’t been writing much in the last few months, the traffic is next to nothing. I’m currently sitting at 4 feed subscribers.  I have upgraded to the latest WordPress, updated the theme, and installed a number of plugins. (More on the upgrades in another post.)

So on with the fun. Check back often to see my progress.

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Unfortunately the two new employees that I had starting today at Mozy, pulled me away from a good chance to “get pumped” for more information on Berkeley Data System, Mozy.com, and Mozy Pro.com. I did however get a� funny IM from Phil Burns during the breakfast saying something to the effect: “We’ve been talking about you and Mozy for like 20 minutes.” It’s good to know that our products are finding so much interest� with such talented� technology professionals.

For those of you that don’t know about Mozy, it’s simply the best online remote backup solution on the market. It’s fast, easy, and very affordable. MozyPro.com is the business version of Mozy that offers all of the enterprise features without the pain and expense typically found with the more established legacy solutions.

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Swivel.com is the YouTube for data. Interesting business model: 1 part Google Spreadsheets, 1 part YouTube, 1 part graphics. I guess in this day and age you can take just about any idea and put it on the web and create a community around it. I like it. But I like the business ideas it represents even more.

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Original Article: http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196900575

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FEMA already have 2 of these $500,000 units and the military is looking at sending them to Iraq. I’d love a personal/family size unit if they were priced in the $200-$400 range.

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http://news.com.com/1606-12994_3-6150150.html?tag=ne.video.6150150 

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