Tuesday, May 6, 2008

I met a coins expert.


An email contact turned up at my house a few days before. The person is from Hong Kong but basically he is from India.

It is very pleasing to meet face to face a person who I know thus far only digitally. He did not have any business purpose to come to my home town; it was only a visit to just meet me. How kind of him to have come all the way from Hong Kong!

While we were discussing myriad things, he informed that he is an expert in evaluating old silver and bronze coins and it is just a hobby for him.

Though I could not utilize his expertise as I don’t have anything ancient to get evaluated I did show him some of the silver ingots and gold coins that I purchased from Monex, America’s silver and precious metals investment leader of repute.

Of course I knew their value fully; I showed them to him just to satisfy his vanity. He was impressed by the quality of the silver ingot and gold coins. Then I told him that Monex Precious Metals is home to a large and dedicated staff of hard asset professionals committed to serving your precious metals investment needs.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Guaranteed lowest priced computer parts.


Studying during this hot summer is the biggest punishment one can experience. Indian education system is still following the age old establishment set up by the English rulers.

All the exams are conducted when temperature hovers above 40 degree C. Gritting our teeth and cursing the bureaucracy, we silently endure and go through the process.

In the middle of compiling my papers online, my PC got stuck up and I noticed that more than 32 processes were going on and the CPU sagged under the weight.

The only solution is to enhance my computer memory or buy a new computer with at least 1GB RAM.

I wish some hardware engineer come up a computer memory that can temporarily run on human memory at times of these breakdowns. (Smile)

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Introducing linkworth jobs.


I received a blogging assignment from Link Worth today. This is my second assignment.

After reporting my completed work, I was just browsing their web site when I noticed their blog post about LinkWorth jobs.

Till now, bloggers will be notified by email by LinkWorth if they are given a blogging assignment. Their process is a bit long like many such players in the same field. Their advertisers will browse through the database of registered and approved blogs, select a blog that match their industry, consider that blogs traffic and PR parameters and then award the work.

With the introduction of LinkWorth jobs, a market place is created where advertisers and bloggers can choose each others' services more transparently.

As a publisher, we can view the available jobs by just logging in to our control center.

I am waiting eagerly for the launch.

Engraved gold anklets.

It is our custom to present the first time lady visitors to our house with a sari. This tradition is being followed by all the Indian families that can afford it.

And none will refuse the gift; their pride will not come in the way. It is considered rude to refuse to accept the sari.

Yesterday, I had the shock of my life when my gift was refused however politely. The guest apologetically asked if she can get another dress that is not a sari; she wanted something short.




Noticing my odd look, she shyly showed her legs that are adorned by a pair of beautiful new gold anklets. So, that’s it! She did not prefer a sari because that will conceal the gold anklet.

I thought gold is not worn on legs!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Triggit: Add Content and Monetize your Blog with Ease

Triggit offers an interesting approach to enhance the ways of your site monetization. It is a web based application that matches your site content to multiple ad opportunities, through a meta-ad network, having access to millions of ads from numerous networks and allowing to receive one aggregate earnings check.

The biggest advantage of Triggit is a nice ability to drag and drop fitting ads directly into your site from your web browser. No hassle embedding HTML, PHP or CSS code on you site. This drag and drop feature works through JavaScript. If your publishing platform accepts JavaScript, you are in the game. So far the accepted platforms are Blogger, TypePad, and WordPress. The application works as a simple widget, but you can also manually insert the code snipper if you like the certain ad to
appear on your site.

Triggit is also lets a blogger adding YouTube videos and Flickr images to the page easily and in no time without editing HTML or even launching your blog post editor

The bigger issue with this service is related to the browser limitation. Currently, Triggit only works with Flock and FireFox. This leaves all other browser of the page or blog owners out of the picture.

A little video from DownloadSquade shows how the service works.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Get paid to post.

I was enthusiastically browsing a forum for bloggers a few minutes ago when I learnt about a new get paid to post website. It offers bloggers an opportunity to earn a few extra dollars a month by taking up various assignments.

The assignments include a post in your blog or a post in forum. There is no need to submit your blog and wait anxiously for it to get approved.

Advertisers also stand to get benefited by participating in this program to spread the word about their products or services.

I read that there is a lot of buzz about this website in the Internet. Another forum post I read somewhere says that the response among the advertisers is tremendous.

I wish the advertisers get an increase in their sales.

Friday, May 2, 2008

Want to earn by blogging?

Three days before, I found another paid to blog opportunity accidentally. I think I read a banner on a blog that I don't remember.

Bloggers Review is a new kid on the field of hiring bloggers and matching their services with the advertisers who are looking for exposure of their website through blogs.

I registered, submitted one of my blogs and they approved it in a day.

Yesterday I logged in and was shocked to find that my login details are wrong. The next page after that also showed another facility to key in the login info. I obliged and it also accepted me in.
A bug that is not yet detected.

I see there are two opportunities but for both of them, it says my blog is not eligible.Hmmm..., ok, let me take it in my stride.

In the members area, there is a tab 'My Blogs' which when clicked won't show my approved blogs. I again had to click on 'Edit blog' to see my approved blog. A clear confusion in the navigation.

They have a page dedicated to tips on avoiding a drop in page rank. I am sorry I found nothing useful there.