What is Twitter?

April 29th, 2008

Having lived in the United States for many years, I have seen how hate campaign, in any manner, in any way, in any highway, could provoke – well, what else, hatred and violence. Which is why, I take them very seriously. Be it on the internet and out of the internet. Unfortunately, people will do just about anything to push their own personal agendas just so they would look good. This is how I discovered Twitter. Not a real good way to discover something. Obviously, I had a very bad impression about twitting and most twitters themselves. I did went ahead and twitted just like everyone else hoping to find some good things about it..

Personally, I have been tweeting for a few months – on and off – and I haven’t been very consistent with it. But, what is Twitter? According to the Twitter FAQ:

“Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing.”

Wikipedia says:

“Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, to the Twitter website, or any one of the multitude of Twitter applications now available”.

Twitter allows you to send and receive updates (also called tweets) via your browser, email, instant messaging clients and SMS (using your cell phone). Stuck in traffic? In a meeting? No matter what you do! You can tweet! 

Essentially, Twitter asks the question, “What are you doing?” and allows you to send a short update but are limited to 140 characters, to whoever are you followers.

If you’re new on Twitter, it could be a very desolate place. Why? You’re basically alone. So, it’s like - “Ok? What am I doing here?!”

Basically, what you do is find the Tweets that you want to follow. Next, start building followers.

Popularity: 9% [?]

If you live, work and play in the United States, you must have known what a sub-prime crisis is. Well, the most brutal real estate slump in decades I now reverberating through the rental market. I can’t help to blog about this because we have a division that deals with property management and I am seeing them first hand. In this part of the industry, you could have a rental property that’s foreclosed, the next thing you know, the renters were being evicted.

I was reading a lot of property management magazines and rents are accelerating across the USA. Vacancy rates are down from last year, according to the National Association of Realtors. In some cities in the US, rents are climbing at a double digit rate.

There’s a positive note to this. With the rising demand for rentals, it would spur construction of apartment buildings and this is a trend already that’s already occurring even in the greater Philadelphia metropolitan areas.

Why is there a spike in rentals? Well, renters are waiting for home prices to drop. They are also finding it harder to buy. Even getting some affordable mortgage, the lending rules are now very strict calling for larger down payments and excellent credits. The days of getting a home with no money down or with unconventional loan structures are gone. And finally, there’s a steep rise in foreclosure filings!

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Talk about spam! You’ve heard this one right? :-) I’ve installed all sorts of plugins and I am still bombarded with a lot of spam. It’s now coming to a point where I need to hire a security guard. No, it won’t solve the problem. I’m just desperate.

Well, people at Carnegie Mellon University have created an application called Mailhide to help you hide your email address. Users have to enter their email address and copy a piece of code that displays a partial email address (yah…@yahoo.com) wherever it’s posted. If a person really wants to find out what the entire email address is, they’ll have to solve one of the two CAPTCHAs the application displays. HTML code is also provided for website owners. The words can be hard to read, but once solved, the visitor is taken to a page that shows the complete email address (here’s an example). It’s a bit tricky, but it keeps spammers from collecting your email address.

Follow this entry here.

Popularity: 31% [?]

What’s great with Kontera is that it tells me what articles my readers are clicking. Now, if you are suprised about the percentages, it’s because my Kontera is just a week old. 

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Having seen that, I thought I would look at the keywords again. Exactly, what did they clicked on these articles? Here they are:

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With these tools, I’d like to see what happens if I focus my entry with the keywords that they are clicking. Let’s see what happens. I hope the clickrate improves!

Popularity: 26% [?]

Currency Trading

April 11th, 2008

Currency trading is quite similar to trading stocks on themarket. While you may or may not have any familiarity with those options, you should know that trading in this form is quite popular and it keeps gaining in popularity. There are many reasons for that, but in most cases it is popular because it works and is quite straightforward which makes it very well worth your time. Currency trading is a method of trading based on the value of currency.

In most cases, the world’s economy is the judge of how much you can and will make. This is different than with stocks which rely heavily on the United State’s economy. In this case, you are dealing with world markets and world currency rates. The basis is very simple. You simply will purchase currency at a time in which it is worth less. For example, the dollar is worth more. You purchase low and then as the economy strengthens in that country, you can sell to make a profit. Basically you turn in your money for dollars again. But, that is quite a simplistic look at it. There are many things that influence currency trading. What makes it attractive to anyone, anywhere is that you can invest pennies or quite a bit of money. Obviously you can make more money, the more you invest, but you still make money either way. Currency trading is a market that many are looking to get into for that very reason.

There are many currency trading options available to you to help you as well. You will find that people often have a system in place to help them monitor and make sales. This software is able to be found throughout the web and can be quite beneficial if you want to do the trading yourself. If you do not, you can easily get the help of any of the currency trading advisors outthere. It’s a great opportunity!

Note: This is an article that’s constantly being sent to me by spam mail. Guess what, I am re-printing it in verbatim and will not give credit to the site that spams me. Let’s see what they feel when they see their article being printed without links to them and I could have it advertised! Grrr!

Popularity: 23% [?]

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One month and five days ago, I joined Project Wonderful. I thought their business strategy made more sense than EntreCard. So, I invested $10 into the project. Initially, I let the system work with the usual $0.01 bid price. I figured, since Reyna Elena has a lot of traffic, $0.01 was not a fair price. I jacked it all up to $2.00. I was greedy! It stayed there for 3 days, gasping for air! I decided to change it and started at $0.20 and now I am barely ekeng out at $0.30 per day. I honestly don’t know how to improve my wonderfully slow project! I heard that one of my favorite blogger is already wonderfully earning $10 a day on this one. My earnings? Well, here’s what my very slow wonderful earnings!

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The only consolation I have is that I was able to recoup my $10 investment and doubled my money in 1 month and 5 days.

Popularity: 28% [?]

My other income source

April 8th, 2008

It will soon be raining men, or at least, I know that it will be raining $$$ into my paypal account beginning this month, starting now! Look!

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1 Blog 

It’s not much. My blogging friends are probably earning more. But if you blog and write say, 3 paid post per day at an average of say $10 per entry - that’s $30 per day - that’s $900 ($30 x 30 days) a month! And I am talking about just 1 advertising company.

2 more Blogs 

Now, what about if you have 2 other blogs approved to write paid posts? Let’s say you only write for an average of $5 per post. Now, that’s $30 per day ($5 x 3 posts x 2 blogsites) and that’s another $900 ($30 x 30 days) for the two blogs. At a minimum, you’d be earning $1,800 per month on these three blogs.

1 Blog = $900

2 more blogs = $900

Three blogs giving you $1,800 per month, convert them into pesos at Php41/$1, now that’s an easy Php73,800 monthly. Man! I am going home to Manila pretty soon!

Now, I have a full time day job that is very stressful. I still find time to blog because it’s money that’s easy to earn. I was explaining this to my niece and my nephew. I wanted them to blog and write paid posts. Instead, they rely on asking money from me. Pisses me off like insane! And they have an internet cafe in their hood! Grrr!!!

Please note: Blog earnings differs from one individual blogger to another and is dependent upon your page ranks, your discipline and determination.

Popularity: 32% [?]

My Kontera

April 7th, 2008

I signed up with Kontera for a little less than a year now. Since my google adsense account was no longer reinstated, I thought Kontera would be a good substitue. Unfortunately, several paid advertising outfits do not like them. So, I have to take it down. Lately though, I discovered that I could actually use Kontera on my original entries and block it from some of my entries that I write for some advertising outfits by filtering them.

So I decided to test Kontera if this would bring me some reasonable earnings in the future. The first thing I did was analyzed what my readers were looking for in my site and examined what I wrote on March 28th and 29th. The keywords gave me an idea.

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Then, I changed the way I write. You will notice it here.

In the meantime, I’m excited because my Kontera seems to be responding to the simple tweaks I did to my writing style. I hope I get lucky and I get to maximize it on my blogs! We will revisit this performance in the next few months and see what happens!

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Popularity: 37% [?]

A few months ago, all of our websites were slapped with a page rank zero by Google. We all cried foul, after all, most of what we write for advertising companies is priced according to our page ranks. Unfortunately, most of these advertising companies decided to use page rank as their standard.

It was a business decision by Google. Obviously, they wanted to force bloggers to start writing quality content in their blogs. By having quality content, Google was hoping that it is able to serve its clients better by getting quality clicks from their customers. Of course, these are just my personal opinion because Google will not tell us exactly the reasons why.

Now, most of our page ranks have been reinstated. Albeit, not at their original ranks, for the most part, at least in my case, they were lower than what I had before. So, the question becomes, when do we start getting a higher page rank? One visitor blogger on my site discussed backlinks.

Here is the table that will tell you how many backlinks you need to increase your page rank.

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Now, is this guaranteed? I’m not sure. Will they count all the viral tagging that we’ve been doing? I don’t know.

Popularity: 33% [?]

Make More Friends

April 2nd, 2008

Mitch tagged me once again.

~~Begin Copy~~

This is the easy way and the fastest way to :
1. Make your Authority Technorati explode.
2. Increase your Google Page Rank.
3. Get more traffic to your blog.
4. Make new friends.

Rules :
1. Start copy from “Begin Copy” until “End Copy” to your blog.
2. Put your own blog name and link.
3. Tag as many friends as you want.

1. Picturing of Life 2. Juliana’s Site 3. Hazel-My Life, My Hope, My Future 4. Jeanne-The Callalily Space 5. Starz in De Sky 6. My Charmed Life 7. Denz Techtronics 8. Denz Recreational 9. Life’s Simple Pleasures 10. My Blog 11. Because Life is Fun 12. In This Game of Life 13. Scribbles of my Life 14. Changing Lanes 15. This is what my heart says… 16. A mom’s note 17. Tasteful Voyage 18. Jackie’s Everyday Life 19. Jackie Simply Pinay 20. Gerthy’s Scrapbook 21. Gerthy Sanctary 23. Asawa’s Love Book 24. A Mother’s Journal 25. Simple Life, Simply Me 26. Pinaymama’s Diary 27. so it goes. . . 28. Hailey’s Beats and Bits 29. Hailey’s Beats and Bits.com 30. Etc Atbp 31. Banco de Reyna 32. YOU’RE NEXT

~~End Copy~~

I am tagging:

Kotsengkuba : Kengkay : Dakilang Tambay : Ely : Miss Pink Biik

Popularity: 30% [?]