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friendfeed Keep Track of Online Friends and Family with FriendFeedI have heard of FriendFeed but never took the time to try the free service. When I finally did try FriendFeed, I was pleasantly surprised at the convenience it provides.

FriendFeed allows you to keep track of the online activities of friends and family. You can keep track of the web pages, videos, music, and photos your friends and family interact with around the Internet. What this does for me is to provide one place to share all my online activities, presenting one complete online personality.

FriendFeed allows you to to use up to 59 services which includes Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Amazon.com and many others.

You can hook up with friends and even create rooms that are really mini private groups. If you want to have your activities private….no problem.

Of course, there are also several additional tools to make using the FriendFeed service enjoyable. These include Bookmarklet, posting to Twitter, embeddable Widgets for your web pages, read and post by emale and iPhone, etc.

Check out my feed and add me at http://friendfeed.com/dejagib

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All About Blogging

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If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic in their own sense; carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.

Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journalism had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales. Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life. From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.

So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online. Super Affiliate Blogger

Here’s how:

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.

blog-blogging-150x150 All About BloggingAfter all, people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.

2. Pictures speaks a thousand words

To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

Even if you are free to write anything you wan to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers. After all, its information technology that you have there so it is better to be inclineblogging2-300x264 All About Bloggingd to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Avoid making multifaceted and complicated blogs

In order to have an interesting blog, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.

5. Make it interactive

As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. You can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog. You can even place an area for comments or for some feedback. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.

Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.

Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it. As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.

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AWSurveys is a SCAM!

spot-that-scam-150x150 AWSurveys is a SCAM!AWSurveys is another one of those online survey sites offering payments for filling out online surveys.

Here’s how the AWSurveys program works:Membership is free and there is a $6 bonus just for joining. You start by simply giving a short evaluation of 2 websites at a time for which you receive a $4 payment. There is a referral program that pays $1.25 for each person you refer that joins free. In my first session, I netted $27. AWSurveys are supposed to send surveys every month, but the only thing I got was a monthly entry into a prize draw.

I wrote a blog post entitled “Making Money With Online Surveys at AWSurvey.com” in order  to promote it and earn commission for referrals. The post did well and I was ready to claim my commission. However, by the time I was ready to collect, I already knew what to expect as several articles started popping up about the AWSurveys scam.

I applied for them to send payments through Paypal and the first thing they did was to deduct $25 for processing charges. I was supposed to hear frrom them in  5 working days. After about 5 weeks of waiting,  I contacted them and received this ludicrous response:

Hello dejagib,

We have processed and Denied your payment. Your Account has been flagged for what appears to be fraudulent activities, for more information please read below.

This could be for any of the following reasons:

- Same IP Address (All of your referrals signed up from the same computer)

- Low or no Survey taking ratio (Your referrals took 0 surveys)

- Promoting A.W.Surveys in a way that violates our T.O.S.

- Other Fraudulent Activity detections we have in place

Please Open a Ticket with us if you believe your account has been flagged incorrectly. Do not reply to this E-Mail.

Thank you,
A.W.Surveys

I did not even bother to reply. The above “possible” violations are so general, they could tell it to anyone and they couldn’t prove otherwise. All I did to promote them was to get referrals from my blog post. This seems to be a criminal attempt at getting numerous email addresses to sell to mailing lists.

DO NOT waste your time with AWSurveys! Personally, I have given up on surveys and have decided to use my own talents through pay-per-click advertising. I have joined the outstanding ppc training program at PPC-Coach.com and am making money while learning how to promote affiliate offers from reputable CPA Networks like Neverblueads, COPEAC and Revenue Loop.

Going this route, I am sure I won’t get scammed!

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Necessary Info About Blogging Software

blogging-software-box Necessary Info About Blogging SoftwareThe time has come and you decided to start a blog. No matter what triggered you to do so - an ambitious plan to become the most popular blogger or the desire to get traffic - still you need to choose a quality blogging platform.

Basically the blogging solution is everything for you and your success. The blogging software will influence how easy will be blog management for you; it will influence how nicely is your blog optimized in terms of SEO; it will limit or expand your media publicity freedom.

Though the blogging itself started from the Google’s push of blogger as the way to publish your ideas in a simple and convenient way, since that time much has changes and the market today is full of different blog solutions or blog platforms.

What to focus my attention on?

Today we can say that the most widely spread blog platform is WordPress or WP. It is not that easy to explain the success of this platform, but perhaps this is the combination of good marketing and nice technology.

First of all WP was the first big blogging giant who gave people a possibility to run a blog on their own host. Yes, blogger (Google’s platform) also allows to attach a domain to the blog and change it from “something.blogspot.com” to “yourdomainname.com” But in any case the blog will remain on their hosting and WordPress gives you the full freedom - download it, install on your hosting and use it.

Another advantage of the WordPress is that it is a very easy to use blogging platform. It has made many people switch from using different site management software to using blog software. The best proof is that today - if you check what things people are searching in Google - you will see that the number of people who are looking for site manager for WP blogs is increasing. It is not easy to convince that huge mass of people to do that. And this is the best proof that WP is quite easy to use.

Another thing to consider - the number of plugins that are available on the market. Plugin is a tiny script that adds to the default functionality of the blog. For example, one plugin can make the vertical advertising banner move together with the page as you scroll it down or another plugin can help authors to share AdSense profits from one and the same page.

You understand that the more plugins, the bigger your functionality in terms of how you run, promote and monetize your blog. This is where WP blog is also a winner, because most of the plugins today are done for the WordPress blogs. There are free and paid plugins, but the most important is that the majority of the plugins are for WordPress and this is quite notable.wordpress-t-shirt-logo-150x150 Necessary Info About Blogging Software

You can even find plugins that are working like blog posting software or even automated blog posting software which can be very useful in terms of blog promotion.

Though this article seems to be the promo of WP, but as there are no affiliate links to the WordPress platform and as this platform is free - no money is made from promoting WP. And the rest of the things are nothing but facts - WP is the leader on the blogging market.

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