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‘Ranbir at my place? What a lie!’

2011-02-02T05:34:00.000-08:00

On Wednesday morning, a Mumbai tabloid reported that actor Ranbir Kapoor was in girlfriend Katrina Kaif’s house on January 24, when Kaif’s house was raided by the Income Tax department.

Furious about the reports, Kat tells us, "This is absolute rubbish and a lie. If anyone was there, it would have

been reported immediately and not 10 days later."

Remaining tight-lipped about her equation with Ranbir, 26-year-old Kat is pragmatic when it comes to happily ever afters. "Do I see myself married in two years? I don’t really know. I think by the time I’m around 33, I should be having kids. But you can’t plan it. I do want to get Katrinamarried, but do I want to have a child grow up without a father? No. I think you need more security," says the actor in an interview in the February issue of men’s magazine, GQ.

Though she sizzled as an item girl in Sheila Ki Jawani, she says for someone who lives through newspapers, overt display of sexuality is out. "I’m not comfortable beyond a certain line of sensuality," she says. "I think it can be offensive to certain sectors of your audience. It’s important that it comes across as you."

Her reluctance to open up extends to her wildly nomadic childhood. Born in Hong Kong, she moved out with her British mother Suzanne Turquotte, a veteran NGO activist, when she was two or three, spending time in France, Japan, and then Hawaii by the age of 11, before arriving in London at 13.

"I have a lot of feelings of being lost and shy and isolated. I felt alien," she says.

Are you ready for this Joker?

2011-02-02T05:32:00.000-08:00

The Twitter world is quite a busy one, and Bollywood contributes a great deal to it. Here's looking at the best star tweets of the day.

The cast for Farah Khan and Shirish Kunder's Joker is all ready. The movie now stars Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Shreyas Talpade and Minissha Lamba in the lead roles. Darshan Jariwala will play Akshay's whacko father in the movie.

Shirish tweeted: 'Minissha Lamba has been cast as the heroine opposite Shreyas Talpade in JOKER.'

The first schedule of the 3D film is to be shot in Chandigarh. 'First schedule of JOKER to be shot in Chandigarh now. Not Ludhiana. This is due to some practical issues. JOKER has a very unusual premise.

Nervous and excited about it,' Shirish tweeted over the weekend.

Dev Anaand says, "I will work till something happens to me"

2011-02-02T05:31:00.000-08:00

"I am sure you are excited to meet me for the first time, but I am doubly excited to see you for the first time, because I learn from you. You are the inspiration for my stories, I get my characters from you," says Dev Anand, a charmer even at 87, as he invites me into his Khar office in suburban Mumbai.

Dressed like a suave gentleman he sits behind a pile of files, some foreign chocolates and biscuits boxes, looking like the quintessential aging star, not the simple man he calls himself. 'I am very simple man. I am so well dressed today because I am going for a television interview. I am not dressed like a hero everyday,' he says.

The evergreen hero, who is busy with the release of his film Hum Dono Rangeen, the colour version of his 1961 film Hum Dono, discusses the film and his incredible journey with Patcy N.

You won't feel that it is an old film. If you see any Navketan [his production house] film, it is futuristic.

People have always complained that we have made films ahead of times. Hum Dono is still modern. We had wars then and we have wars today. We had love and separation then and we have that today. Added to all these things you have a double role of Dev.

Other black and white films have also been released in colour, but Hum Dono is better than all of them.

When you watch Hum Dono Rangeen you will feel as though it was shot in colour, you won't feel that I have got the reels painted by brush. That's why I fell for it. They [Goldstone Technologies Ltd] have asked for all my other films too, but I am waiting for the release of Hum Dono. I will give other films after the response to it.

10 Poplular New Year’s Resolutions

2011-01-07T04:47:00.000-08:00

We all make them – those promises to ourselves of things we plan to do in the new year, and yet somehow forget about by February! All around the world, people make New Year resolutions, and here are a few of the most popular:

1. Lose Weight

Losing weight is the number one promise everyone plans to keep to themselves as the new year comes in. Problems with being overweight or obese are growing in the United States as well as many other countries around the world, and yet that number continues to grow. In the U.S. alone, over 66 percent of the population is either overweight or obese. Remember to set a reasonable goal, so as not to discourage yourself before you’ve even begun.

2. Spend More Time With Family

In today’s fast-paced lifestyle, it seems to be hard to fit the time in to spend more quality time with family and friends. Between moms and dads working, kids going to school and “hanging” with friends, grandparents taking their retirement seriously, there is a lack of time spent together as a family. People are recognizing this, but is it important enough to work at keeping the promise to do better?

3. Quit Smoking

The average 25 year old American smokes about 2 packs of cigarettes a day. That is roughly about $6 a day, $42 a week, $180 a month, and in a year, they have burnt up $2,190, at least! In five years of not smoking, they would have saved $10,950! Crazy, I know. And yet, many do. Hopefully, those who realize this and resolve to quit this coming January will stick to it and save themselves some money!

4. Get Organized

Clutter is one of the biggest battles we Moms must face every day. Kids collect things, husbands hoard things, we hide things…until enough is enough, and we vow to do something about it. January and February are good months to keep this resolution, since it’s cold outside, and not quite as fun to be out and about. Close yourself up and start going through things for a spring yard sale!

5. Quit Drinking

While many use the New Year as an incentive to quit drinking, most are not quite ready to make such a dramatic lifestyle change all at one time. Many fail to quit “cold turkey” and do better by gradually weaning themselves from the bottle. If you decide that you want to quit drinking, help is available. Call your local AA support group to find the help you need to stop drinking.

6. Learn Something Brand New

Whether it’s plans to go back to school, or learn a new craft, or even a new trade, many decide they want to broaden their education just a wee bit more at the start of a new year.

7. Help Others

It’s selfless and thoughtful, and many do it. Helping others is a wonderful resolution to make, and can be carried out in so many different ways! Volunteering for events at schools, libraries, local charity organizations, or even the Red Cross. There are so many different ways that one can make a difference in someone else’s life.

8. Get Fit

On top of losing weight, another popular resolution is to get fit. Join a gym or if you don’t have the money, just make sure you walk or jog at least three times a day, and do basic exercises such as sit-ups, crunches, push-ups, and toe touches every day. You’d be amazed at the difference that simple small changes will make in your fitness.

9. Save Money

Now isn’t this one something we all need help with? In today’s economy, money is tight, so every penny counts. Never leave a penny lying around! Remember, “A penny saved is a penny earned.” Start you a change jar and empty your pockets every night. Open up a Christmas account at your bank. Don’t allow yourself to buy more than what you and your family will eat or use. More money is wasted on food gone bad than anywhere else. Buy what you eat and eat what you buy. Saving money can be easy, but is very possible. You may visit: pueblo.gsa.gov for 66 ways that you can save money in the coming year.

10. Reduce Stress

This is one of the most self-rewarding resolutions listed. While a certain amount of stress is actually a good thing, too much stress can lead to many health problems such as digestive issues, sleep disorders, heart disease, depression, obesity, skin conditions like eczema, and ulcers as well as many other issues. Take time to relax and enjoy some “me time” every now and then. Try taking Yoga classes or something equally soothing. Face the year with a little less stress and a whole lot more ease! You’ll thank yourself!
Research shows that with 52% of participants in a resolution study being confident successfully reaching their resolution goals, only 12% actually did. Men reached their goal 22% more often when they set goals like a system where small measurable goals are being set, such as, a pound a week, instead of saying “lose weight”, while women succeeded 10% more when they shared their goals with others and got support from friends. So, my fellow All Women Stalk readers, tell your friends what your goals are and make sure they show their support – you’ll be 10% more likely to succeed!

Movies and TV fast facts

2011-01-07T04:41:00.000-08:00

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London.

Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world.

Today there are more than 1,5 billion TV sets in use.

China has the most TV sets (500 million).

US citizens watch the most TV. By age 65, an American would have watched the equivalent of 9 years uninterrupted screening, viewing more than 20,000 TV commercials per year.

In the US there are more TV sets than telephones.

The first TV interview was made with Irish actress Peggy O’Neil in April 1930.

The first daily broadcast was started by the BBC in November 1936.

The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT, New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Bulova paid $9 for that first TV spot. Bulova also was the first watch in space.

2 billion videos are watched per day on YouTube.

Every minute, 24 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube, or about 200,000 videos per day.

It will take a person more than 400 years to watch all the videos on YouTube.

The first regular TV soap was DuMont TV’s A Woman to Remember, which began its run in February 1947.
The first televised sporting event was a Japanese elementary school baseball game, broadcast in September 1931.

The world’s first TV news helicopter was introduced by KTLA Channel 5 in Los Angeles on 4 July 1958.
In “Father of the Bride”, Annie and Bryan marry on January 6. But in the opening montage of “Father of the Bride 2″ there is a framed invitation of their wedding which states that they were married on October 9.

Towards the end of the Forrest Gump, Forrest narrates that his wife died on a Saturday. When he is at her grave in the next scene, the tomb stone shows her passing on March 22, 1982, which is a Monday.

STAR TREK’s Captain James T. Kirk’s middle name is Tiberius.

In Terminator 2 – Judgement Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger received a salary of $15 million; the 700 words he spoke translates to $21,429 per word. “Hasta la vista, baby” thus cost $85,716.

The largest movie theater in the world, Radio City Music Hall in New York, opened in 1932 – it seats almost 6,000 people.

The longest movie in the world according to Guinness World Records is The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV. Released in 1987, the running time is 5220 minutes (87 hours).

The first film animation was “Humorous Phases of Funny Faces” made in 1906 by American J. Stuart Blacton.

In 1919, 18-year-old Walt Disney teamed up with Ub Iwerks, to produce a series of cartoons entitled “Alice in Cartoonland.”

The Walt Disney company was founded in 1923, and in 1927 Walt came up with the idea for an animated mouse called Mortimer Mouse. His wife Lillian convinced him to change it to Mickey Mouse.

In 1937 Disney won a special Oscar for the first full-length animation: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, created Tom and Jerry in 1939.

The first Best Picture Oscar for an animation was awarded in 1991 for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.

More Technological Facts

2011-01-07T04:38:00.000-08:00

Facebook has 500 million registered users… about 100 million less than QQ.

About 1.8 billion people connect to the Internet, 450 million of them speak English. See list of Internet languages.

Google indexed it’s 1 trillionth unique URL on July 25, 2008. That is thought to be about 20% of all the pages on the Internet but a high percentage of the World Wide Web (the public Internet).

One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

Google handles about 1 billion search queries per day, releasing some 200 tons of CO2 per day.

The average US household uses 10.6 megawatt-hours (MWh) electricity per year.

Google uses an estimated 15 billion kWh of electricity per year, more than most countries. However, google generates a lot of their own power with their solar panels.

The first public cell phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X was the first cell phone sold in the US; launched on April 11, 1984, it was designed by Rudy Krolopp and weighed 2 pounds.

About 20% of the videos on YouTube are music related.

24 hours of video viewing is uploaded every minute on YouTube.

People view 15 billion videos online every month.

On average, US onliners view 100 videos per month each.

Flickr hosts some 5 billion photographs, Facebook hosts more than 15 billion.

Technology fast facts

2011-01-07T04:35:00.000-08:00

160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

A twillionaire is a twitterer with a million or more followers.

There are some 1 billion computers in use.

There are some 2 billion TV sets in use.

There are more than 4 billion cell phones in use. About 3 million cell phones are sold every day.

The first known cell phone virus, Cabir.A, appeared in 2004.

Since 2008, video games have outsold movie DVDs.

Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

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Making money with mobile apps

2010-11-13T06:41:00.000-08:00

To many companies and independent developers -- not just software publishers -- mobile apps represent something even more powerful and important than a brand-new platform to deploy apps on. It's a new and dynamic source of revenue, one with a lot of room to grow. And given how tough it can be to make money selling software at all, especially in this world of open-source and free Web apps, any proven way to make money in that field can become a magnet.

To many companies and independent developers -- not just software publishers -- mobile apps represent something even more powerful and important than a brand-new platform to deploy apps on. It's a new and dynamic source of revenue, one with a lot of room to grow. And given how tough it can be to make money selling software at all, especially in this world of open-source and free Web apps, any proven way to make money in that field can become a magnet.

Just like there's more than one way to deliver software in general, there's more than one way to monetize mobile applications. The various strategies aren't conflicting, but complementary. Each app can use the business model -- or models -- best suited to it.

With mobile apps, the purchasing process varies wildly, depending on which operating system you're dealing with. On the iPhone, everything's done through one interface: the App Store in iTunes. Windows Phone 7 supports direct payment via credit cards and third-party billing of the customer's service provider. Purchasing through a service provider is convenient, but I imagine people might still opt for credit cards to avoid the possibility of spurious charges on their phone bills.

But with Android, the dreaded "F" word -- fragmentation -- comes into the picture. The main way to pay for apps through the Android Market is via Google Checkout, widely criticized for its bad end-user experiences. You can also pay the app merchant directly and there are a number of other merchant mechanisms ... all different. (PayPal has also recently been added to the mix.)

What's most lacking in Android right now is a single, consistent interface for payments. The most seamless solution would be an API that allows app purchases to be added to the carrier's bill (with user consent, of course), which would make the process of purchasing an application all but frictionless. This hasn't happened yet, but Patrick Mork, vice president of marketing for GetJar, a cross-platform mobile app store, claims that it is "right around the corner" and that Google has made no secret of its negotiations with the various carriers to make this possible. Integration with PayPal is also a step in the right direction, even if not everyone uses it.

Less clear is whether such a sea change will require a new version of Android -- meaning those stuck on older handsets that aren't being updated to newer editions of the OS would be left behind. Because Apple and Microsoft both have ecosystems where the purchasing system is already pretty seamless, Android runs the risk of falling behind unless the vast majority of its existing installed base can be brought up to speed when new merchant mechanisms arrive. And because of the way Android is delivered to the end user -- by the handset maker rather than by Google alone, and with any number of gratuitous changes -- a good chunk of the existing generation of Android phones might remain stuck on the old-school merchant systems.

The need to make app purchasing as convenient as possible will only become more important over time, to both the people buying and selling them. Smartphones have become increasingly prevalent among consumers as well as business people; many new users have no experience with buying an app and don't want the experience to be more complex than a click or two. "Many apps are currently purchased on an impulse," says Ric Ferraro, founder of mobile start-up GeoMe. "People crave apps in the same way [as candy bars], and the longer it takes to buy the app, the less likely it is that the purchase will be completed."

Mork puts it another way: "The best purchasing experience is probably the one where you never have to leave the app."

Standing out from the crowd

Along with ease of purchase, discoverability -- how easily you can find a given app and pick it out from its competition -- will also become increasingly important. I've read more than a few comments to the effect that one drawback of the Android app stores is a proliferation of me-too apps that duplicate functionality to the point of redundancy.

From this comes the argument that an app store with a more carefully curated selection of products is more genuinely useful -- like the iTunes app store, for instance. But it's also possible to make an argument that the size of the store is not as important as the interface used to query it. Few people complain about the size of Amazon.com's catalog, in part because it's relatively easy to drill down and narrow the scope of a search.

Another possible solution would be a universal app catalog -- "a single store or a single set of standards which can be accessed independent of the type of mobile device or OS it is running," as Ferraro describes it. "Some initiatives are being set up to attempt this -- for example, the Wholesale Applications Community initiative sponsored by the GSM Association could go a long way in setting unified standards and creating a single platform."

That wouldn't make things much easier for developers, who would still have to produce and test variations of a given app for different platforms -- but the app market is driven by consumers and not developers alone, and where the consumers go, the developers inevitably must follow.

The cost of selling

One other major factor that comes into play when selling an app is the cost of making the app available in the first place. Apple's iTunes store splits revenue 70-30, with Apple getting the 30%. Windows Phone 7's app store has a similar 70-30 split, but a portion of Microsoft's 30% is distributed back to the network operators. Both also have application requirements and yearly membership fees -- $99 for Microsoft, and from $99 to $299 for Apple, depending on whether you get the Standard or Enterprise iPhone software development kit.

The Android Market also features a 70-30 revenue split, but the 30% is distributed between the payment processor and the carrier. The registration fee for developers is also only $25, but an unlocked developer phone, either the Android Dev Phone or the Google Nexus One, can cost upwards of $500. These phones are not required, but they provide some major power-developer features: They can work with any GSM network, and the Android Dev phone also lets you install any custom Android system image.

Alternative places to obtain apps are also starting to become available. For example, Verizon is planning to open its Android V Cast apps store sometime in November, for which it will be offering a 70-30 revenue split. GetJar, an independent site, takes a varying fee for each app download, using a bidding system that starts at one cent per download.

Making a living at apps

All that being said, there are a number of different strategies that developers are using to earn money with their apps -- most outside the traditional pay-for-product model.

The freemium model

The first and most basic approach to monetizing a mobile app is to just sell the application itself. But even a method this elementary is fraught with complexities. After all, how much will people be willing to pay for a given mobile app? Set the price too low and you can't cover development costs; set it too high and nobody will touch it.

One quick way to resolve that problem is to adopt an approach that's been used in the PC world for decades: Give away a minimally functional version of the application -- sometimes ad-supported, sometimes just outfitted with nag boxes -- and encourage the user to buy the full version. The missing feature or features don't have to be significant but should be worth paying for. Another way to put this would be: Give away the app, sell the functionality.

The word freemium has been coined to describe this approach, and it has quickly become an essential means of bringing a mobile app to market. Ferraro described the freemium model in his blog as "a classic marketing tool available to mobile app developers to maintain the perception of a free service, while attempting to lock-in customers into some type of charging mechanism."

The key word here is perception: As long as people feel as if they're getting something for free, they don't mind as much if they have to pay down the line -- even if they have to pay again and again. What matters is the sense that they're getting something for their investment.

Online games have developed this to the level of an art form. As subscription-based games lose favor and "freemium" gaming comes to the fore, the game makers have come up with any number of ways to scare up revenue that don't depend on selling the game itself. Ferraro concurred on this point in an e-mail interview: "App publishers can monetize free by capitalizing on the audience they obtained, and promoting upgrades. This is particularly visible in mobile games, where more advanced gaming levels are only available at a premium."

That said, reluctance on the part of app makers has been one obstacle to use of the freemium model. "Publishers of well-known brands didn't want to be perceived as giving things away or devaluing the brand," says GetJar's Mork. "But this has changed in the past couple of years." Electronic Arts, for instance, has been moving toward a freemium model for its online games -- something enhanced all the more by its purchase of game publisher Chillingo, creator of the hit game Angry Birds. Chillingo's game-development SDK includes technology to easily create freemium applications, something useful to any company that wants to push out such applications across multiple mobile platforms.

Microsoft sensed, quite correctly, the need for developers to create freemium apps. The Windows Phone 7 SDK has direct provisions for this. The free and full versions of an app created with the SDK can be the same binary; all that's needed is an unlock code. No new download is required. This takes the work out of building a separate trial version -- and gives app developers that many fewer excuses not to offer both options.

The service-and-subscription model

A major business model for mobile apps is to sell access to a service and give away an application that's just a convenient front-end for that service. The biggest question is: What service is worth paying for?

It's not just a question of the service being useful. It's about the integrity of the data provided by that service as well. Consider Zagat, the venerable dining and entertainment guide, which has a subscription version of its review service accessible through its mobile apps for $24.95 a year. Zagat's main competition is from crowd-sourced services like Yelp, but Zagat's business model is based on the idea that its information has such a known pedigree, it's worth paying for. Yelp's database may be contributed to by a broader range of people, but it's arguably much messier and more inconsistent.

Another method for selling data involves creating applications that offer a repository of locally stored data. For example, let's say you worked for a company that is known for publishing foreign-language dictionaries, and you wanted to sell mobile versions of its books. You could give away the app itself, with a minimal version of the dictionary data thrown in on top of that (say, 2,000 words), then sell the full-blown version of the dictionary, either all at once or in a regularly updated, periodic-subscription version. This wouldn't stop amateur competitors from creating their own apps and data sets, but a free dictionary that's not very accurate would have less appeal to a serious language student than a modestly priced one that has a brand-name pedigree behind it.

The ad-funded model

A third way to generate revenue from mobile apps is a method ported directly over from the Web at large: advertising. But be aware: Ad-supported apps come with all the controversies associated with using advertising as a revenue model, plus a few new ones.

Ad-supported apps can serve as a way to hook people into buying a full version of a program without the ads. For example, the MixZing Music Player for Android has a free, ad-supported version; pay $6.99 for the full version, and you not only remove the ads (which are at least unobtrusive), but unlock a slew of extra features, like an MP3 tag editor.

The problem with ads in a mobile application is -- for lack of a better word -- acreage. On an ad-supported Web page, ads can run in banner or skyscraper elements confined to the edges of the page and don't have to be as intrusive. With a mobile app, the small screen means any ad is going to eat into the UI, and a badly integrated ad will turn people off. Ads placed too near controls, for instance, may mistakenly intercept button-press actions.

Another small drawback to advertising in mobile apps: The ad system is all but useless if the user doesn't have an active data connection. This will become less of an obstacle as more mobile devices are sold with some form of data plan included and as municipal Wi-Fi becomes more pervasive. (Also, an ad can still be effective, even if it clicking on it doesn't work due to a lack of networking. As long as it raises some awareness in the mind of the viewer, it's still doing its job.)

Another method of monetizing through advertising is using revenue generated through a search engine. This has been Mozilla's model with Firefox and could just as easily be applied to mobile apps as well. Whenever a user executes a Web search via Firefox's native search box, a certain percentage of ad revenue generated from the search goes back to Mozilla through an affiliate program.

The downside to this approach is that it lends itself only to applications that have some search component -- such as a mobile browser -- which make up a very small segment of the existing app mix. That said, it's entirely possible that creative methods of integrating search with mobile apps will make search-engine revenue that much more viable a choice.

Five ways to make money from social networks

2010-11-13T06:37:00.000-08:00

The average Facebook user will spend over six hours on the social network every month. When you consider that there are 25 million Facebook members in the UK alone, that’s an awful lot of time that could be better spent.... making money.

Because, believe it or not, you can actually make money using social networking sites nowadays. Here's how:

It pays to talk

Social networks make money by taking your content and monetizing it by adding adverts. It’s a cracking business model for sites like Facebook and Myspace as they’re effectively providing a blank website; setting you to work providing photos, music and videos that will draw in readers to the site, and then pinching the advertising revenue that your content earns!

But many smaller start-up sites will pay members to comment on profiles, upload photos and pretty much do anything else that they would normally do on a social network. Yuwie is one such site and claims that some members are earning between £200 and £250 a month. But we haven't tried it ourselves so we're not sure how accurate this claim is - if any lovemoney.com readers do sign up, please come back and share your experience using the comments box below.

Similarly, 'social utility' site MyLot pays out for blog posts and discussion comments whilst the ‘social networking for grown ups’ site, Gather, allows you to earn points for participating in group activities and sharing videos and photos. These points can then be redeemed for cash or exchanged for Tesco and Starbucks coupons.

Referrals

Many smaller social networks will also pay you a flat fee for referring new members to the site. MyLot and Yuwie will shell out for every person you sign up and will also forward you a percentage of the advertising revenue that your referred user attracts. So whilst it’s still a good idea to canvass your friends for potential members, if you can get them posting and chatting on the network then you’ll earn more.

It’s also worth checking how many levels a sites referrals programme runs for. This means that when the people you’ve introduced to the site start getting their own referrals, you’ll keep earning!

Host your own advertising

As I mentioned above, advertising is the real money spinner for the social networking entrepreneur. Most sites will use pay-per-click advertising – where a client will pay a set fee every time their ad is clicked on. This also gives the owner of a social network a way of tracking how profitable each profile is – the more clicks on ads on your homepage, the more money goes into your pocket!

Many social networks host these adverts through the Google application AdSense, but there’s nothing stopping you signing up for your own personal account and hosting adverts on your own webpage. It’s free to use, and if you’ve got a popular website you could see a hefty chunk of cash come your way every month. Google even tailors the ads to your webpage’s content and they can be altered to suit the style of your site.

Even if you don’t have your own webpage you can still make money from AdSense. Senserely allows you to write blogs, reviews or just general waffle and have your AdSense feed displayed next to your content.

Tagfoot also allows you to input your AdSense code, and places personalised ads next to blogs, videos and photos that you upload. But they’ll take a share of any per-click revenues that your ads bring in.

Social networking bargains

There’s not just money to made social networking, you can also save a few pounds by getting social online! Sites like Groupola, Groupon, Keynoir and Living Social offer cut price flash sales on adventure days or group activities in your local town or city. You can get between 50 and 90% off the high street price - but that's not all.

The deals only last one day and these sites need a critical mass of people to sign up to each deal. So they will reward you if you can convince your friends to buy too. Groupon, for example, will give you a £6 credit as a reward for each friend you sign up to a deal, while with Living Social, if you can get three friends to buy the deal after you’ve picked it up, then you get yours free!

Twitter perks

Companies have also cottoned on to the power of social networking and the ability of the so-called ‘Twitter-verse’ to sell products and bolster trends. This could be good news if you fancy yourself as a social networking expert as companies are beginning to offer freebies to those online identities they deem to have a large enough influence over others.

In fact a whole company has sprung up that identifies influencers across the social web – the aptly named Klout. Earlier this year Klout teamed up with Virgin America to offer free flights to Twitter users with a great influence. They’d hoped that favourable tweets would help kick-start business on new routes between California and Toronto.

Of course, creating an influential online identity won’t happen overnight and if you want to start making big bucks from social networks you really have to throw yourself into it and start posting and commenting every day. Cross advertising profiles, sites and blogs on different networks will also help drive more traffic to your pages and see your per-click advertising revenue increase.

Finally, you can’t be a profitable social networker without a good internet connection – so take a look at our article on the best – and cheapest – broadband deals for a bit of expert insight.

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2010-09-11T06:52:00.000-07:00

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Motorola Droid 2, more than a hardware device

2010-09-11T06:50:00.000-07:00

According to reports, the new Motorola Droid 2 is more than a Hardware Device. The new device is a next step in a Android device. The new electronic device is best if u want a compact, Android smartphone with a hardware keyboard and Verizon service, the Droid 2 is the perfect answer.

The new Motorola Droid 2 is better than the earlier Android device.Learn the attractive updates of this new device, the part where it excels, and the design which makes it more attractive.

Meanwhile, the new Motorola Droid 2 is powered with features like:-

1. It is powered with Verzon Wireless.

2. Its processor has TI OMAP 1.0 GHz with dedicated GPU.

3. It has 512 MB RAM with storage capacity of 8 GB internal + 8 GB microSD (expandable to 32 GB).

4. Motorola Droid 2 has 3.7-inch 480×854 FWVGA and dimensions of 4.58(h) x 2.38(w) x 0.54(d) inches.

5. The device is powered with 5.0 MP Camera, digital zoon, dual LED flash, auto-focus, image stabilization.

6. Its keyboard includes 45-key slide-down hardware QWERTY; vertical and horizontal on-screen keyboards.

7. The device is loaded with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n; Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR; DLNA as well as 3G Mobile Hotspot (connect up to 5 devices via Wi-Fi).

The original Droid was just introduced in the electronic market around 10 months back, and was the first Android 2.0 smartphone, the first Android product to hit the huge market. But, the Android was hit hard due to launch of devices from HTC, Motorola, and Samsung, which forced that month after month fall with the
launch of new devices.

On the other hand, the new Motorola Droid 2 also has some draw-backs as well. It has smaller screen as
compared to devices like HTC EVO, the Droid X and the Samsung Captivate. Further, its keyboard was awful, if fact you can say that one of the worst smartphone ever.

However, the new Motorola Droid 2 is out in the market with the price tag of $199 with 2-year contract.

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2010-08-25T21:32:00.000-07:00

Personal finance is the application of the principles of finance to the monetary decisions of an individual or family unit. It addresses the ways in which individuals or families obtain, budget, save, and spend monetary resources over time, taking into account various financial risks and future life events. Components of personal finance might include checking and savings accounts, credit cards and consumer loans, investments in the stock market, retirement plans, social security benefits, insurance policies, and income tax management.

A key component of personal finance is financial planning, a dynamic process that requires regular monitoring and reevaluation. In general, it has five steps:

1.    Assessment: One's personal financial situation can be assessed by compiling simplified versions of financial balance sheets and income statements. A personal balance sheet lists the values of personal assets (e.g., car, house, clothes, stocks, bank account), along with personal liabilities (e.g., credit card debt, bank loan, mortgage).

2.    Setting goals: It is not uncommon to have several goals, some short term and some long term. Setting financial goals helps direct financial planning.

3.    Creating a plan: The financial plan details how to accomplish your goals. It could include, for example, reducing unnecessary expenses, increasing one's employment income, or investing in the stock market.

4.    Execution: Execution of one's personal financial plan often requires discipline and perseverance. Many people obtain assistance from professionals such as accountants, financial planners, investment advisers, and lawyers.

5.    Monitoring and reassessment: As time passes, one's personal financial plan must be monitored for possible adjustments or reassessments.

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A budget should have a purpose or defined goal that is achieved within a certain time period. Knowing the source and amount of income and the amounts allocated to expense events are as important as when those cash flow events occur. The more complicated the budgeting process is, the less likely a person is to keep up with it. The purpose of a personal budget is to identify where income and expenditure is present in the common household; it is not to identify each individual purchase ahead of time. How simplicity is defined with regards to the use of budgeting categories varies from family to family, but many small purchases can generally be lumped into one category (Car, Household items, etc.). There are several guidelines to use when allocating money for a budget as well. Past spending is one of the most important priorities; a critical step in most personal budgeting strategies involves keeping track of expenses via receipts over the past month so that spending for the month can be reconciled with budgeted spending for the next month. Any of the following allocation guidelines may be used; choose one that will work well with your situation.

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In general usage, a financial plan can be a budget, a plan for spending and saving future income. This plan allocates future income to various types of expenses, such as rent or utilities, and also reserves some income for short-term and long-term savings. A financial plan can also be an investment plan, which allocates savings to various assets or projects expected to produce future income, such as a new business or product line, shares in an existing business, or real estate.

In business, a financial plan can refer to the three primary financial statements (balance sheet ,income statement, and cash flow statement) created within a business plan. Financial forecastor financial plan can also refer to an annual projection of income and expenses for a company, division or department. A financial plan can also be an estimation of cash needs and a decision on how to raise the cash, such as through borrowing or issuing additional shares in a company.

While a financial plan refers to estimating future income, expenses and assets, a financing plan or finance plan usually refers to the means by which cash will be acquired to cover future expenses, for instance through earning, borrowing or using saved cash.

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2010-08-25T21:24:00.000-07:00

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The term “eco-friendly” is used to describe activities which are good for the environment. It is an acronym for “ecologically friendly,””. There are a range of ways in which activities can be eco-friendly, ranging from products which are constructed in an environmentally friendly way to making lifestyle changes which are designed to benefit the environment. People engage in eco-friendly activities because they are concerned about the health of the environment. Pollution, rampant use of natural resources, and other activities are those activities that hurt the environment, and people should begin to look into more eco-friendly ways of living and doing business.

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2010-08-25T21:21:00.000-07:00

Green home is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building's life-cycle: from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation, and deconstruction. This practice expands and complements the classical building design concerns of economy, utility, durability, and comfort.

Green building brings together a vast array of practices and techniques to reduce and ultimately eliminate the impacts of buildings on the environment and human health. It often emphasizes taking advantage of renewable resources, e.g., using sunlight through passive solar. Many other techniques, such as using packed gravel or permeable concrete instead of conventional concrete or asphalt to enhance replenishment of ground water, are used as well.

Green buildings often include measures to reduce energy use. To increase the efficiency of the building envelope, they may use high-efficiency windows and insulation in walls, ceilings, and floors. Another strategy, passive solar building design, is often implemented in low-energy homes. Designers orient windows and walls and place awnings, porches, and trees to shade windows and roofs during the summer while maximizing solar gain in the winterSolar water heating further reduces energy loads.so,the major advantage of green homes is reduction of energy use.

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