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e_Marketing Blog SmartyPig Social Saving Here's an interesting idea. SmartyPig.com is like an online piggy bank with a social twist. You create an account where you set a specific savings goal. Say you want to save for a new computer. You need $1,000. You create an account and then let your friends and family know what you're saving for. They can make contributions (or not). You can contribute to their accounts too. SmartyPig also has partnered with "top retailers" to offer you deals and cash incentives. It's free and you can even earn interest on your deposits. What Makes A Good Blog? Since I'm writing a series on "Creating A Successful Blog" I've been looking (not very diligently) for other opinions on what makes for a successful blog. One thing I've discovered is that there is no magic answer to this question. First of all, every blog speaks to a different audience in a different tone of voice. So what one group likes another group will find boring or maybe even overtly aggravating. I stumbled on an instance of this today when I followed a link from Lisa Barone's post called "Six Kickass Writing Resources for Bloggers". First on her list was "What Makes a Good Blog?" by Merlin Mann. Now I must admit there are several things in Merlin's list which I agree with, but I find the overall tone fairly aggravating. For instance, he says, "People start real blogs because they think about something a lot...They make and consume smart forebrain porn. So: where do this person's obsessions take them." Frankly I don't see why "obsession" is a necessary part of blogging. Is it because in order to do real blogging we must express our personality; and expressing our personality necessarily involves creativity; and because creativity is so relatively scarce and difficult that it will not happen without an obsessive focus on something? Or is this just the way an obsessive person looks at it? Of course it takes all types. But there is a certain arrogance and air of superiority about talk of obsession and creativity that I can do without. Free Blog or Your Own Domain? Once you've decided to create your own blog, the first question you have to address is whether you want your blog to be hosted on your own web hosting account or be part of an already established site like wordpress.com, blogger.com, or one of the many other free blogging sites. If you use one of the free "hosted" blogging sites (Wordpress.com, Blogger.com, LiveJournal.com, Blog.com, and many more) you can create a brand new blog in about 15 minutes. When you choose this option you become part of a larger site such as wordpress.com and your address will be something like http://yourtownrealestate.wordpress.com or http://yourtownmoneymanager.blogspot.com The advantage of this approach is that it is fast and cheap. Plus you will get some traction and search engine exposure for your blog because it will be part of a much larger network that gets crawled by the search engines on a regular basis. But in my estimation, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages. |
Ezine-Network.com - This site contains information about getting published — submission of articles, photographs, ebooks, and other special features for a growing number of online publications. It also contains significant amounts of information, resources dealing with, and examples of blogs and blogging. Ezine-Network.com is a member of the sbo-linknet.com network of websites. Will MMS Ever Kill SMS?Feb 23, 2006 - Linknet Tech News Will MMS Ever Kill SMS? Feb 23, 2006 - Linknet Tech News - by Jeremy Maddock - SMS text messaging, which involves the sending of short messages from once cell phone user to another, has been around for a number of years now, and is no longer a "new" technology by any means.== Freesms versenden - kostenlos freesms in deutsche handynetze versenden == MMS on the other hand is a "Multimedia Messaging System" used to send pictures, animations, and even video footage between mobile phones. There has been some speculation that MMS could eventually rise to completely take the place of the original SMS format. Most industry analysts, however, believe this is unlikely, just because SMS is such a simple, easy, and convenient system to make use of. MMS is fun and interactive, but it isn't always necessary for simple communications, and some people prefer the basic text format. Aside from this, the very culture of text messaging was built around the old text-only system with abbreviated words and 160 character limits. Also, the fact that cell phone providers can get away with charging {body}.10 per individual text message sent is an incentive for companies to keep promoting the system. The fact that SMS messaging use so little bandwidth makes them cost almost nothing to transmit, creating a huge cash cow for providers. There's little question that subscribers still desire the simplicity associated with good old plain text messaging, while providers are more than happy to keep making money off it. In short, SMS likely won't be going anywhere anytime soon. About the author - Jeremy Maddock is the webmaster of TeleClick.ca, a trusted source of telecommunications news.
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