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Welcome to the September 3, 2007 edition of best of web 2.0. Barbra Sundquist presents Sample Template for Your MySpace About Me Section posted at MySpace About Me.
insomniamg presents Lending Club Secures Funding posted at Crenk.
insomniamg presents Box.net Updates Facebook App posted at Crenk.
Phil B. presents Blog Carnivals « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity, saying, “Do you want to drive more traffic to your blog? Well, I have a really.. REALLY easy way. And no, this is not a gimmick.”
insomniamg presents The Internets Biggest Google Whores posted at Crenk.
Kevin Bedell presents How Social Media Sites Expand Reader Comments on your Site posted at 21st Century Citizen.
Cade Krueger presents 10 Important Steps To Marketing Your Website posted at Write To Right.
Gley Yahya presents Valuable Strategies For Web Site Traffic Promotion posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, “Web site traffic promotion is the science of driving visitors to a specific blog or web site using a system. Sure website traffic promotion can be boring, but when you know how it is easy to do. To increase web site traffic, you have to create an effective website marketing strategy, web site promotion strategy, and more Internet marketing strategies for driving laser-targeted traffic to your website and/or blog.”
Laura presents Top 20 Facebook Apps for Entrepreneurs posted at Online University Lowdown.
The Free Geek presents Top 25 Ubuntu Blogs (By the Numbers) posted at Free Geekery.
Ian Welsh presents Why Japan Is Eating America’s Lunch On Broadband posted at The Agonist, saying, “We need better broadband access to drive web2.0 innovation.”
Scott H presents 15 Web Sites College Students Can’t Live Without posted at College and Finance, saying, “A great list of the best the web has to offer for college students.”
Craig Andrews presents 3 Key Ways To Increase Your Internet Business Income - part 2 of a 2 part series posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “For excellent results, one the best ways to drive a lot of traffic to your blog or Website is through effective and unique article version submissions. Using a highly effective article submission software is key to your Internet success, visit: http://www.articleprosoftware.com. Please visit my blog for “Real Internet Business Solutions” and more! Thank you, Craig Andrews”
Alex Sysoef presents Web 2.0 – Social Networks As Targeted Traffic Source | Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er posted at WordPress Web 2.0 How-To Spot-er, saying, “If you followed my previous directions and installed social bookmarking plugins you are providing an easy way for people to share your information once they read it but first we need to bring them in. And we will do it by sharing first and let the snowball roll from there. Power of the word of mouth is still unprecedented and assuming your content is as good as you think it is – that snowball will quickly turn into avalanche!”
Baz L presents Moving Wordpress To A Different Domain | Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Javascript posted at Web Development 2.0: Web Design, CakePHP, Web 2.0.
Aruni Gunasegaram presents Babble Soft’s Blog » Blog Archive » Baby Manager User Story - Erika’s Family posted at Babble Soft’s Blog, saying, “A set of new parents have learned that some web and mobile software help make their lives (and their baby’s) a little easier and happier.”
Samir Bharadwaj presents Websites vs Blogs & Storing Content For Your Mental Winters posted at SamirBharadwaj.com, saying, “Websites seem old fashioned in the Web 2.0 world of blogs, but is one necessarily better than the other?”
Ted Reimers presents Where to Buy, Sell and Trade Textbooks posted at CampusGrotto.
Gley Yahya presents Home Business Traffic Made Easy posted at Work At Home Start Up Guide, saying, “Any home based business owner can use simple online videos for based business generation home internet traffic. You don’t have to be a major player to get in this marketing game. Everyone and I mean everyone can use and benefit from using their own videos to get free home business traffic. You won’t need to be a tech guy. You don’t need a whole room full of video device and you won’t need to spend thousands of dollars either. With your digital camera, camcorder or even the video from your cell phone and some free software you can produce videos within minutes for your web site traffic promotion.”
Craig Andrews presents 14 Sources To Make Money Online posted at Craig S. Andrews.com, saying, “For excellent results, one the best ways to drive a lot of traffic to your blog or Website is through effective and unique article version submissions. Using a highly effective article submission software is key to your Internet success, visit: http://www.articleprosoftware.com. Please visit my blog for “Real Internet Business Solutions” and more! Thank you, Craig Andrews.”
Warren Wong presents Video Games And The Human Race posted at Personal Development for INTJs, saying, “A simple improvement in video games like the Wii can have a dramatic impact on the human race as a whole.”
Jay Deragon presents Profound Knowledge of a Networked World posted at A Relationship Economy….. With WHom & What, saying, “The Relationship Economy will require transformation of knowledge, management, media, technology and individual participation.The prevailing cultures that are driving all business must undergo transformation. The “system” of relationship networks can not understand itself. The transformation to the Relationship Economy requires a view from outside.”
GrrlScientist presents Mama’s Little Helpers Ease Her Burden posted at Living the Scientific Life, saying, “Here’s a question for you: whose offspring would do better; those raised only by their parents, or those raised by their parents in addition to an extended family group? This story of cooperative breeding in the superb fairy-wren yields surprising results.”
Renata Vincoletto presents Thoof - Digg Enhanced posted at A geek Family, saying, “It’s a feature that I always missed on Digg, after all, what to do with a great link, but with a bad description?”
Charles H. Green presents Trust Networks vs. Search Engines posted at Trust Matters, saying, “Trusted networks, rather than networks of strangers, the Google Search model, are suited to solving a different range of reccomendation and search problems.”
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Ok, lately I’ve been playing around a LOT with Linux. I have a Gateway MX7118 that I use as my main computer. In the past few weeks I have reloaded it several times going back and forth between Linux and Windows Media Center. I have also used VMWARE to run a virtual version of both. I have really settled with UBUNTU. It’s easy to load and there is a lot of documentation available on their forums.
Linux isn’t always the easiest OS to work with. It really stinks in the area of wireless networking, but that is coming along too though. But, it is an amazing OS. It’s ultra stable. There are thousands of free apps available. Overall, this has been a great experience for me.
I’ll be blogging about my experience in the near future.
It had to happen. I’ve watched over the past few years as the young in China have made a living, earned enough money to have free time, and had money left over for spending on stuff. Now it seems those circumstances have grown into a full blown Web 2.0 craze! Read this article from ZDnet to find out more:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6189238.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Out for now….
Randy
In case you haven’t heard, Joost.com is a new, Internet based, TV of sorts. It is basically a free, video-on-demand service. A lot of major networks are coming on board. If they are able to convince a few more networks to come on board, it just might be the next big thing.
They recently went to "Joost Beta - Now for Friends." That means, you can get in their beta program if a friend invites you.
Ok, so here’s the deal. Post a comment to this site and I will invite you to Joost as a friend. A positive comment would be nice! It might even get you a quicker invite! Don’t forget to add me to Del.icio.us or Stumbleupon! Thanks!
Randy
Google does it again! Maybe I need to go to work for them or something. Last week, I found an AWESOME extension for Firefox, "Google Send to Phone." It allows you to send text that you find while browsing to any US based mobile phone! The possibilities are endless. I have already used it to send myself a link to a download. I’ve also used it to send contact info from an email on my desktop to my phone. Pretty sweet.
You must use Firefox browser to use this. Use the link near the top of this page to download it. You can download "Google Send to Phone" here.
I found an AMAZING service this week. It allows anyone to bring their SMS, Email, Voicemail all together. You can access your voicemail from your desktop! It’s called CALLWAVE. Here is how it works:
Welcome to the home page of the “Best of Web 2.0” blog carnival. Each week, I will publish articles that showcase the best of Web 2.0… Gmail, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Ajax… you name it! Submit your articles now and share your best insights. Plus, you should see increased traffic to your blog! You can submit your article at blogcarnival.com using this link.
Ok, so I’ve talked a lot about Gmail. I have switched completely to it. I never open Thunderbird anymore. I only open Outlook for its PIM features (Actually, I stopped using Outlook for email about 2 years ago. It was just too dang bulky!) So what did it take to complete the switch? It took the Gmail Notifier by Google.