Tuesday 26th May 2009 will officially mark the day I will cross the 75% Mark of the London School of Economics and Political Science Job.

This is because I will be taking my last exam (Combinatorial Optimization)  and my dissertation follows later in September(25%).

I am still trying hard to cover all notes and solve as many questions as possible.

Once I am through with the paper …… I will get back online and write more about my the LSE!

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Despite this challenge I tried to put in some occasional articles to keep the page alive.

This year I plan to make Mboateng.com a personal blog whilst i move all the IT and Technical Stuff to a new domain i acquired mbcoding.com

This I believe will give me enough time to concentrate on helping people with PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET and other web languages on mbcoding.com whilst i use this domain as a personal blog.

I am also teaming up with the Lyon Media Guys, the designers of Ghana Base Music to put up their new gig www.ghanafusion.com for the Ghanaian Community in and outside Ghana to link Up. It is an extension of Ghana Base Music site into a more social-like site where users can get more of their music and entertainment event photos whilst browsing and linking up with friends.

I will also continue my series of programming tips on Clickatell’s API using PHP and C# .

These are basically what i have planned for the first quarter of 2008.

Happy New Year!

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If you happen to be a tourism fanatic like myself, then you would want to visit one of the hottest travel destinations in the world.

Thinking of traveling outside your country?

Here are a few tourism destinations you would want to tease yourself with; Amsterdam Attractions, Athens attractions, Greece Attractions and Prague attractions.

You would also bear with me that around this time, getting a very good and affordable hotel is a bit worrisome but Cheaperthanhotels.co.uk will ease your pain in searching for the best of hotels that will give you value for your money.

With Cheaper than hotels, you can get discounted rates at budget and luxury accommodation from Europe to America and the World Over.

Also on their site you can get the best of deals for Prague Hotels, Greece Hotels, Athens Hotels and Amsterdam Hotels.

Visit their site for more information on getting Cheap Hotels >>>

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Clickatell is happy to announce Len Pienaar, CEO of Mobile & Transact Solutions for First National Bank (FNB), will present “Cellphone banking in South Africa, and innovation success”, on Thursday, 15 November at 12pm.

The BAI Retail Delivery Conference is a leading financial services conference and expo to help banking executives understand how to increase the bottom-line and invest in customer relationships.

Pienaar will discuss how FNB has employed SMS and other cellular technologies to drive business results and deliver valuable and intimate services to customers.

Clickatell, the leading provider of global mobile messaging for banks and other financial institutions, will be featuring the FNB case study in its booth number 2444.

Clickatell provides the mobile messaging software for FNB to deliver international balance enquiries, account payments, micro-payments, and critical fraud alerts over cellphones via SMS to its customers worldwide. Clickatell has been providing mobile messaging solutions since 2000 and has over 8 000 active customers worldwide.

A world expert in SMS banking, Len Pienaar is CEO of the Mobile & Transact Solutions division for FNB and is part of a delegation of South African bankers facilitated by the Business Trust. Pienaar has been integral to the implementation and delivery of valuable services to FNB customers.

To learn more about FNB and their banking services, please visit www.fnb.co.za.

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Shopping Ads, a new CPC Ad Network and monetizing kid on the block is in for bloggers to start blogging to the bank.

Like their slogan goes “monetize your site with live merchant listings” bloggers are sure getting good CPC from their blogs.

ShoppingAds is owned by Peter Galvin of Text-Link-Ads and AuctionsAds. The site, which is in private beta testing is currently doing so well on my blogs.

Shopping Ads unlike Auctionads is based on a CPC (cost-per-click) model instead of the CPA (cost-per-acquisition) model and it has a CPC of around $0.25.

Shoppingads has also partnered with a number of online merchants to display their inventory like Amazon and shopping.com .

Shoppingads like John Chow’s TTZ Media Affiliates offers publishers the ability to either add your own keywords or let publishers recommend ads based on their website’s content.

Increase your site income with ShoppingAds >>>

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In its effort to take over the SMS Message world, Clickatell earlier this week hired Chuck Drake as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, and Bill Wolfe as Executive Vice President of Research & Development to help steer the affairs of the mobile company.

Clickatell has also upgraded all its servers and if you are an existing client, you will realise there are now many IP Addresses available for use in sending SMS Text Messages.

With over 8,000 active customers worldwide, including Barclays Bank, BBC, CNN, FNB, and Oracle, Clickatell has proven itself as the leader in providing mobile messaging solutions to large enterprise organizations and delivering online SMS services for small to medium businesses.

With the explosion of cell phone usage, mobile messaging is fast becoming a ubiquitous and cost effective way to communicate directly to customers, partners, and employees.

Clickatell is bolstering its worldwide facilities to meet the growing demand for SMS messages being sent globally for a multitude of applications. Having expanded coverage to include an additional 85 networks, Clickatell supports more networks and carriers than any other messaging provider in the world. Clickatell has further upgraded its enterprise-grade facilities to include hosted services, receiving the SAS 70 stamp of approval, a widely recognized standard used as a proof point used by Chief Security Officers to examine the due diligence process needed to assure data security, safety and integrity.

Within its existing 24×7 system, Clickatell has significantly extended its customer support capability by enhancing Quality of Service (QOS) and reliability of its IT infrastructure, which is built on the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework, a set of industry guidelines and best practice techniques for managing IT infrastructure, development, and operations. In addition to these enterprise-grade additions to its facilities, Clickatell has added network support in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, and Guam, and has also increased reliability in China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

In addition, Clickatell has hired Chuck Drake as Executive Vice President of Global Marketing, and Bill Wolfe as Executive Vice President of Research & Development. These two executives are poised to bring a strong focus in the financial services sector and building large infrastructures to support millions of mobile transactions.

Chuck joins Clickatell from MarkMonitor and Corillian where he led both companies to achieve market leadership status in their respective Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Enterprise software markets serving Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, High Technology, CPG and other verticals worldwide.

Bill joins Clickatell from VeriSign and Openwave Systems where he was responsible for managing critical business cycles to provide complex, intelligent, highly secure, and reliable enterprise infrastructures to deliver core communications services targeting the Entertainment, Technology, and Telecommunications markets.

Via Clickatell

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Under a month of monetizing with WidgetBucks, Ads performances and CTR seem to be far better compared to some of the Ad Networks I have already been using on my blogs and websites.

My WidgetBucks account so far has 8 referrals and Click-Thru revenue in also doing impressively OK. Don’t forget the $25 sign up bonus is sitting comfortably in mybucks.

WidgetBucks has also updated its control panel and below are the Payments  schedule:

1. Earnings accumulate from the first through the last day of the month
2. Referral commissions are posted during the first week of the subsequent month
3. Finalized earnings are posted during the first week of the subsequent month
4. Payment is issued 45 days following the month your account balance reaches $50.00

If you really want to start blogging to the bank, then Join WidgetBucks and start making good money online with your blogs.

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What is this day About?
This is generally a day where real bloggers who Blog To The Banks (LOL) write articles on their blogs to promote environmental safety and quality.

What can we do as bloggers?
We can serve as an ambassadors by blogging to help to protect and improve the environment. Bloggers can also take it upon themselves to make sure that air, land and water are looked after by everyone in today’s society, so that tomorrow’s generations can inherit a cleaner and healthier world.

In Short this is what you can also do to help

• Post on your blog relating to the environment on Blog Action Day
• Donate your day’s earnings to an environmental charity
• Promote Blog Action Day around the web

What did i do on this day?
Well instead of my normal 3 Plates of my favourite Fried-Riped-Plantain and Beans, I decided to forfeit two of them and take just one in solidarity of this great day of celebrating the environment as a blogger. Hope you also did something interesting. Cheers.

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This tutorial is will just show you how to create your “settings.php” which declares the main settings of your programme. It stores your mysql login details and the clickatell gateway api login details.

All you have to do is copy and paste the code below and save it as “settings.php”. Then you change all the xxxx in the code to the appropriate values per your mysql database and your credentials at clickatell.

settings.php

<?php

$baseurl =”http://api.clickatell.com”;

//User details @ Clickatell
$user = “xxxx”;
$password = “xxxx”;
$api_id = “xxxxx”;

//mysql details
$hostname_conn = “xxxx”;
$database_conn = “xxxx”;
$username_conn = “xxxx”;
$password_conn = “xxxx”;
$conn = mysql_pconnect($hostname_conn, $username_conn, $password_conn) or trigger_error(mysql_error(),E_USER_ERROR);

?>

User Details @ Clickatell
//$user = This is the username assigned to you by clickatell
//$password = This your clickatell api password;
//$api_id = The api id can be generated on your clickatell control panel

User Details @ Clickatell
// $hostname_conn = This is your database hostname
//database_conn = Change this to the name of your database
// $username_conn = This is the user logon to ur database
// $password_conn = Change this to your database password

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About two weeks ago Mpire Corporation launched its Ads Network WidgetBucks promising that it was going to pay bloggers more than what Google pays its publishers. (Tried and Tested and So Far So Good)

After WidgetBucks comes TTZ Media Network, a new Adverting and Affiliates Network from the internet dot com mongul, John Chow.

Well for those of you who don’t know John Chow, he is by far the known blogger who makes money online and tells people how he makes it and the amount he makes. (interesting isn’t it?)

What is TTZ Media

TTZ Media provides shopping ads to its affiliated sites. These ads feature hot selling products from thousands of online stores. When a reader clicks an ad and visits the store, the affiliate makes money.

Unlike other shopping network that will only let you pull from a board category, TTZ Media ads allows extra keyword matching for products.

TTZ Media ads are completely customization. Not only can affiliates control border, background and link colors, they can even control the hover color and font style.

Entry Requirements

1. You must own a domain name. No free hosted sites allowed.
2. Website Content Should be English only.
3. You Should have High quality content.
4. Your Site must be Updated frequently.

Features

1. Publishers have access to customized Ads Code Setting with Code generator
2. Publishers enjoy detailed Ads Performance Statistics

Payments

TTZ Media Affiliates currently offers payments via Checks and Paypal. The Minumum payment threshold is $20.

Join John Chow’s TTZ Media Affiliate Network now and start earning more income on your blogs.

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