Twittermania 8 New Twitter Services
June 24, 2008
The twittermania continues. “Every time a bell rings, a new twitter service gets it’s wings” - You may use this quote freely.
It’s almost impossible to keep track of all the new twitter services that are constantly launched. I’ve created a list of the most recent services.
The list goes from Tweetmarks and spamplets to Hiimok and HappyTwitDay.
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Twitter Alternatives - Plurk Or Pownce
June 6, 2008
It’s no surprise that twitter can be a bit unstable from time to time. Twitter is probably the only service I know that’s almost more down than it’s up, and still have a loyal fan base and increase it’s number of users.
But what are the alternatives?
There are a lot of similar micro-blogging services out there, but can they replace twitter? Read more
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Are Online Ads An Endangered Species?
March 26, 2008
According to experts the use of online advertising will increase by 23% in 2008. This is more than 40 billion dollars, but a riot might be around the corner.
Adsense has made Google one most valuable companies in the world and the ads on social networks such as Facebook help those companies make billions each year.
But could all this be in danger?
A new analysis from Deloitte indicates that more and more users are tired of online ads. Read more
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Virtual Worlds For Kids Are The Next Web 2.0 Money Maker
January 22, 2008
As some of you might know I became a father for the first time about 3½ month ago. Now I’ve played Ultima Online,
Everquest 1+2 and seen MySpace.com grow. What will my son see? Will he spend his pocket money on things in a virtual world?
I think there’s a gold fever in the virtual world industry. Everybody wants to get a piece of the golden tweens (8-12 years) segment.
According to a report from eMarketer.com, 20 million American kids between 3 and 17 years will be a part of a virtual world by 2011. The big players on the market have already seen that and I guess that’s why Disney spent $350 million last August on the arctic ClubPenguin.com. For $5.95 your tween child can enjoy the life in his or her custom made igloo, if they aren’t bsy chatting with their friends on the ice.
Apparently $5.95 per month isn’t a problem for many parents. Every month the PenguinClub gets five million unique visits. Webkinz grew from less than 1 million to over 6 million last year. Read more
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Jook - Social Music Experience Or Rice Congee?
January 9, 2008
Jook is both. According to Wikipedia Jook is a type of rice porridge eaten in many Asian countries, but thats not the Jook I’ll
write about.
Jook was announced on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas a couple of days ago and it caught my attention immediately. If the Jook can pull this off social networking is on the street, in the train or sub, in the park or on a plane. It’s everywhere.
So what is Jook?
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30 Day Challenge - Make $10 In A Month And Find Your Niche
August 3, 2007
I recently joined the 30 Day Challenge, where you learn to find a niche and make a few bucks from it. I’m no blogging expert, so I thought it couldn’t hurt to learn something new. Internet Marketing is the keyword in the challenge.
I went through all the Pre-season stuff, where they tell the newbies 
about StumbleUpon, delicious, twitter, facebok and Firefox and Firefox extensions, such as SEO for Firefox and Session Manager. Nothing new to learn there. Ed Dale, who made most of the introduction stuff, did teach me one thing, Bloglines. Until now I’ve been content with iGoogle, but now I see why Bloglines is so popular. I’ve decided to give Bloglines a shot and I’ll make it my homepage. Let’s see how it goes.
Anyway the challenge started August 1, so you can still make it. All you have to do is register and find a team on the forum. I’m still looking for a team, somehow I missed the email (curse the company and private spam filter) that it had started, so I just got in today.
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Test The Latest Flock Release
July 9, 2007
Flock has released the latest beta version of their popular social browser.
The version is called 0.9 (0.8.99.1) and it is a great step forward compared to Flock 0.7. I’m really excited about the final version 1.0, which is to be released later this year (around fall).
I’ve become a even great Flockstar (fan) after the upgrade.
If you compare version 0.7 to 0.9 a lot has happened:
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MSN Launches ‘Live Earth Tree’
July 8, 2007
Microsoft, the exclusive online media sponsor for Live Earth, has launched the MSN Live Earth Tree - an interactive online animation that lets people worldwide pledge their commitment to the environment and join the battle to halt climate change.
The Live Earth Tree can be found at http://www.liveearthtree.com/ and users are invited to visit the site to design their own unique leaf for the tree, and pledge to make small lifestyle changes to reduce their impact on the environment.
The tree will grow in size as people across the globe sign up to make their pledge and show their support for the causes underlying Live Earth, the concert series taking place across the globe to raise awareness of the current climate crisis.
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Connect With Me On These Fine Social Networks
July 1, 2007
Inspired by Wendy’s “Can We Connect?” post, just a quick reminder.
About a month ago I created a page with all my social network profiles.
It would be great to connect to you, the readers, this way so feel free to add me as your friend, contact, homie, dawg, co-worker or love…ehmm forget the last one.
Twitter
Facebook
MySpace
Digg
WAYN
Del.icio.us
Technorati
MyBlogLog
StumbleUpon
LinkedIn
Streetadvisor
Flickr
Plazes
Blogcatalog
Wallop
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7 New Online Dating Start-Ups
June 13, 2007
Did you ever use one of the online dating services? There are plenty of sites on the web offering you personals ranging from adult dating to christian dating from black dating to gay dating.
I’ve collected a bunch of the newest and most innovative dating sites. All of them are start-ups. A few of them requires a fee, but most are free online dating sites.
- Online Speed Dating - You will be matched up in a 15 Minute Blind Date (Speed Dating) session where you can meet your blind date face-to-face via webcam.
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