Here is my first posting on this (yet another) new blog! Al always, I barely know what I should wrote here, so for now I'll leave this post as it stands.
Welcome to my new site, which shall undoubtedly be updated soon with fresh new content, and a portfolio of my recent works. Thank you for joining me, and if you're looking for blogging tips, check out my main site at http://www.bloggerbuster.com!
Over at Daily Blog tips, you can read this excellent and informative article which lists 28 different methods of monetizing your blog.
Featuring links, useful resources and examples of how others have successfully used these methods, this article is among the best I have ever seen about making money online!
Featuring links, useful resources and examples of how others have successfully used these methods, this article is among the best I have ever seen about making money online!
For those of you who have just joined us here at Techiboo: Hello and welcome to the site! Today marks the unofficial launch day for Techiboo. After a few weeks of customization, posting and general set-up, the blog is now ready to go public...
Here at Techiboo, you will find interesting content and relevant linkage geared to those who live much of their lives online. Blogging, Social Media, Web Design and Internet lifestyle are the main categories of articles here, with a splattering of news and other features loaded for good measure.
Browse through the categories or take a look at the recent posts to get a taste of the flavor here; savor those posts you find useful and don't forget to send these recipes off to your friends! Your comments are always welcome as I continue to develop a back catalog of useful and inspiring posts which I hope you will come to love.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year, and all the best wishes for the year ahead,
Here at Techiboo, you will find interesting content and relevant linkage geared to those who live much of their lives online. Blogging, Social Media, Web Design and Internet lifestyle are the main categories of articles here, with a splattering of news and other features loaded for good measure.
Browse through the categories or take a look at the recent posts to get a taste of the flavor here; savor those posts you find useful and don't forget to send these recipes off to your friends! Your comments are always welcome as I continue to develop a back catalog of useful and inspiring posts which I hope you will come to love.
Wishing you all a Happy New Year, and all the best wishes for the year ahead,
What better way to interest young people in politics than MySpace, the internationally popular social networking site? MySpace Impact is a new channel which aims to educate it's users and promote interest in the world of politics by encouraging discussion, providing news and interviews, and most importantly allowing members to vote. Launched in March this year, the Impact Channel has grown to include details of volunteer opportunities with non-profit organizations and now has a viral donation facility for users to give money to charities and political parties they support. What started as a channel for influential movers and shakers could has developed into a thriving community.
Strangely enough, I couldn't find an "about" section on the channel at all, so instead I've created this list of opportunities and interesting features you can find on MySpace Impact:
The Impact channel honors MySpace members who have had a positive impact in the community through the MySPace Impact Awards. Each months, awards are given in one of in six different categories: International Development, Poverty Relief, Social Justice, Health and Safety, Environmentalism and Community-building. Candidates for these awards are nominated by MySpace users, and once the month's candidates are selected, users can vote for the organization they believe is most deserving of the award.
Do you support a particular charity, political group or worthy cause? Now you can create a donation badge for your readers to donate to the organizations you actively support using PayPal. Your friends can also collect the code for the badge from your own profile and add it to theirs, in order to generate viral donations for the causes you feel are most worthy.
So far it seems that the Impact Channel has developed a lot of interest amongst it's users, especially in regard to the 2008 presidential elections in America. There are literally thousands of comments and friends attributed to the presidential candidates and 2008 election profile, which suggests a mass social interest in this political stream. In international MySpace sites, there are also localized Impact channels which offer useful information catered to your locality, though as yet I think only the US based MySpace are covering political elections.
Will the channel make an impact of it's own? Well, I think that it already has! I will be very interested to see new developments on this channel, especially if the focus does develop internationally to include elections, campaigns and more charities outside the US which I'm sure would encourage more MySpace users to participate in events.
What can I do on the Impact Channel
Strangely enough, I couldn't find an "about" section on the channel at all, so instead I've created this list of opportunities and interesting features you can find on MySpace Impact:
- Find profiles of Politicians who have registered with MySpace.
- Read about the 2008 Presidential election in the United States, including video interviews with the primary candidates
- Get the latest news in international politics
- Discover non-profit organizations
- Find events which have an impact for charitable causes
- Look for opportunities of charitable work or employment in your area of residence
- Find political forums to air your views on subjects close to your heart
- US citizens can even register to vote in the 2008 elections through the Impact Channel!
Participate in the monthly Impact Awards
The Impact channel honors MySpace members who have had a positive impact in the community through the MySPace Impact Awards. Each months, awards are given in one of in six different categories: International Development, Poverty Relief, Social Justice, Health and Safety, Environmentalism and Community-building. Candidates for these awards are nominated by MySpace users, and once the month's candidates are selected, users can vote for the organization they believe is most deserving of the award.
Create a donation badge for your profile
Do you support a particular charity, political group or worthy cause? Now you can create a donation badge for your readers to donate to the organizations you actively support using PayPal. Your friends can also collect the code for the badge from your own profile and add it to theirs, in order to generate viral donations for the causes you feel are most worthy.
Will it really encourage younger users to be interested in politics?
So far it seems that the Impact Channel has developed a lot of interest amongst it's users, especially in regard to the 2008 presidential elections in America. There are literally thousands of comments and friends attributed to the presidential candidates and 2008 election profile, which suggests a mass social interest in this political stream. In international MySpace sites, there are also localized Impact channels which offer useful information catered to your locality, though as yet I think only the US based MySpace are covering political elections.
Will the channel make an impact of it's own? Well, I think that it already has! I will be very interested to see new developments on this channel, especially if the focus does develop internationally to include elections, campaigns and more charities outside the US which I'm sure would encourage more MySpace users to participate in events.
How many of you have ever Googled yourself to discover what is being said about you (and by whom)? How many of you have searched for information about a prospective employee, or researched a date before a big night? Many of you will also have looked up information about a prospective new home, school or college before reaching an informed decision.
We all have an online status, whether we have created this ourselves in a blog, website or social network community, or even just by shopping online. But how can we get an accurate measure of our digital status? For that matter, how can we positively influence the way we are perceived online?
Qdos is a new free service provided by online identity experts, Garlik. Currently in the beta stage of testing, Qdos aspires to provide a useful, informative and influential authority of our digital status by assigning each registered member with a Qdos score which consists of four different components:
Put simply, the more you are out there surfing, buying, selling and socialising online, the higher your QDOS score.
Initially I was somewhat concerned about privacy when I first read about this service, especially as having so much of one's online presence focused in one place may well attract unwanted attention from identity theives. Having read the terms and conditions of the QDOS service, I am fairly satisfied that personal information held by Garlik would not be passed on to third parties without consent (although details of websites you are associated with would be available for the public to read and use).
I'm quite interested to see how QDOS develops, especially as interest in this service grows and social networkers begin using this as a method of determining each other's status. At present I'm awaiting an invite to become a member of the program, and would recommend you also register your interest if you plan on using this service once it comes out of the beta stage.
Could our digital status become a tool which prospective employees, landlords and even banks use to make decisions about us in the future? Well, I would certainly not be surprised!
We all have an online status, whether we have created this ourselves in a blog, website or social network community, or even just by shopping online. But how can we get an accurate measure of our digital status? For that matter, how can we positively influence the way we are perceived online?
Qdos is a new free service provided by online identity experts, Garlik. Currently in the beta stage of testing, Qdos aspires to provide a useful, informative and influential authority of our digital status by assigning each registered member with a Qdos score which consists of four different components:
- Popularity
Who you know and the extent of your online network.
- Impact
How much people listen to what you say online.
- Activity
What you do online e.g. shop, chat, blog.
- Individuality
How easy you are to find online according to your name, your age etc
Put simply, the more you are out there surfing, buying, selling and socialising online, the higher your QDOS score.
Initially I was somewhat concerned about privacy when I first read about this service, especially as having so much of one's online presence focused in one place may well attract unwanted attention from identity theives. Having read the terms and conditions of the QDOS service, I am fairly satisfied that personal information held by Garlik would not be passed on to third parties without consent (although details of websites you are associated with would be available for the public to read and use).
I'm quite interested to see how QDOS develops, especially as interest in this service grows and social networkers begin using this as a method of determining each other's status. At present I'm awaiting an invite to become a member of the program, and would recommend you also register your interest if you plan on using this service once it comes out of the beta stage.
Could our digital status become a tool which prospective employees, landlords and even banks use to make decisions about us in the future? Well, I would certainly not be surprised!
AskEraser is a new feature offered to users of the search engine, Ask.com, which allows you to erase your search activity. Featuring in a prominent spot in the upper right-hand corner of Ask.com pages, users have the option to turn the function on and off, thus enabling them to delete sensitive privacy data from Ask's servers.
How personal data is used is becoming more of an issue as people live more of their lives online. Some are concerned about possible deals between search engines and ad firms, especially as sites such as Google use data about a browser's IP address and recent history to serve relevant advertisements.
In August 2006 AOL was forced to apologize after it released the search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers to help in academic research. User's names were not associated with the search terms, though fears were raised that the queries contained personally identifiable data. It was not clear which researchers were given the data and how they intended to use it (source: BBC News). Perhaps then the AskErase feature will help overcome the negative impact of last year's blunder?
Either way, as the search engine market is dominated by Google, smaller search sites find the need to focus on new and innovative methods of attracting users. Privacy is an overwhelming issue to many web-users, especially in this time when identity theft and online fraud are rife. Most search engines will store data of searches for up to 18 months, and indeed Ask will continue to do so for users who do not use the AskErase feature. Perhaps this is a step in the right direction to assuring web-users that their privacy is safe, though as yet I'm not sure that Ask's attempt is a strong enough selling point to make it a true competitor for Google.
How personal data is used is becoming more of an issue as people live more of their lives online. Some are concerned about possible deals between search engines and ad firms, especially as sites such as Google use data about a browser's IP address and recent history to serve relevant advertisements.
In August 2006 AOL was forced to apologize after it released the search queries of more than 650,000 of its US subscribers to help in academic research. User's names were not associated with the search terms, though fears were raised that the queries contained personally identifiable data. It was not clear which researchers were given the data and how they intended to use it (source: BBC News). Perhaps then the AskErase feature will help overcome the negative impact of last year's blunder?
Either way, as the search engine market is dominated by Google, smaller search sites find the need to focus on new and innovative methods of attracting users. Privacy is an overwhelming issue to many web-users, especially in this time when identity theft and online fraud are rife. Most search engines will store data of searches for up to 18 months, and indeed Ask will continue to do so for users who do not use the AskErase feature. Perhaps this is a step in the right direction to assuring web-users that their privacy is safe, though as yet I'm not sure that Ask's attempt is a strong enough selling point to make it a true competitor for Google.
Keep replaying this video to hear the music magically creep up each time you listen. Strange and creepy!
Bango Button helps its users to push digital content to mobile phones from their social site (eg: Facebook, MySpace), media site or blog. Using Bango Button, you can easily share your images, content and poscasts with mobile users as well as regular web users with the simple click of a button!This is great news for webmasters, and even more so for social networkers who would love to share photos and other community memorabilia with their friends and family. Best of all, Bango Buttons are completely free to install in your site, and free for users to download content to their handsets (unless you decide to charge them for this service, that is!).
Anyone can create their own "Get On My Mobile" Bango Button. To do it, visit www.bango.com/button, and insert the generated code into your site, next to a piece of content you want to share. When users click on your button, they get a unique short URL which they can enter into their phone browser to get the content on their mobile. Optionally, a charge can be assigned to a piece of content to create a revenue stream for the content creator.
Get started with Bango Buttons now and mobilize your web sontent on your social networking sites, blogs and media websites. Share the content you like with family, friends and readers from all over the world with ease, while at the same time increasing the incentive for readers to return for more. I love this idea and as this blog develops will probably make much content available to mobile phone users for free downloads, including a variety of wallpapers, ringtones and backgrounds I already have on my computer. This is the kind of technology currently adopted by premium mobile phone content sites, though in the near future I do expect to see many more free GSM sites appearing to offer such downloads gratis to their readership.
Bravo Bango for making mobile content sharing a more free and sociable place!
