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How Would You Like To Win An Apple iPad?

Monday, May 31st, 2010 at 8:51 am

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You may well remember the post where I gave MyLikes The Thumbs Up, well it seems that it’s time for a followup post because things are stirring in the world of MyLikes. That post explained how easy it was to make money with MyLikes but it seems that I wasn’t using it to it’s full potential. You see, I was only relying on the money that I could earn by tweeting a link, but as we all know the amount of people who see any particular tweet is limited to those of your followers who are online at the time.

Since then I’ve decided to put a small code in my sidebar, one that is adjustable so that it can fit most themes, which will display my latest MyLikes thereby increasing it’s exposure and consequently their earning potential.

I also found that I got paid for my first referral, a whole $4, which proves that they are true to their word. Although other people may have signed up using my link I didn’t get paid because they did not fulfill all the following requirements.

Detailed Rules: We only payout for influencers who satisfy the following conditions:

They must be from the United States, Great Britian, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia or Canada.
The number of Twitter followers must be more than the number of people they are following.
Their Twitter account must be at least 120 days old.
They complete the influencer profile on MyLikes.
They create at least one Sponsored Like on MyLikes.
Referral bonus reversed if the Influencer is found to be spam/fake twitter account.

The last two months they’ve been giving away an Apple iPad to whoever signed up the most influencers, and silly me never tried for it. Truth be told I don’t really have the time, but perhaps one of you have. Why not give it a shot, especially as how it’s absolutely free to join. Let’s not also forget the potential for adding to your income stream which is a nice little bonus.

Just so you know the team behind MyLikes arn’t your normal backyard newbie who don’t know what they’re doing. The dynamic trio consists of Bindu Reddy;

Before starting MyLikes, Bindu was a Google Apps product lead and was in-charge of various Google products including Blogger, Google Docs, Video and Shopping. Previously at Google, Bindu created Google Base and spearheaded the introduction of Quality Score into the AdWords bidding system. Previous to Google, Bindu was the Director of Product Management at Elance. She has a master’s degree from Dartmouth and an B.Tech degree from IIT, Mumbai.

Arvind Sandararajan;

Before starting MyLikes, Arvind was most recently in-charge of Google AdSense engineering. Previously at Google, Arvind led engineering teams for Gmail and Google Base. He was one of the very few people who received not one, but two prestigious Founders awards for his work on AdSense and Gmail. Previous to Google, Arvind held key engineering roles in BEA and Marimba. Arvind has a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford and an B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai.

And last but not least, David Scacco;

Before joining MyLikes, David was an active angel investor and startup advisor. He worked at Google From 2000 – 2007 and holds the distinction of being the company’s first advertising sales executive. In his role as Director of the Vertical Markets Group David was responsible for building and managing an all-star team, which provided marketers with industry specific expertise. He and his team built successful advertising partnerships with many of the world’s best known brands and advertising agencies, as well as some of the fastest growing medium-sized companies. He also won a Google Founders award. Previous to Google he was a Director of Business Development at Ziff-Davis Media and Vice President of Marketing at Express Direct. He has a B.S. from Northern Illinois University.

Pretty impressive qualifications if you ask me, and with that sort of background you would expect MyLikes to grow as time goes on and as everybody knows, it’s best to hop on early if you want to get the best ride. If you haven’t joined yet it’s not too late to get in on the action.

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The Need For Speed Computer Style

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 at 10:51 am

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In my last post I talked about some measures that I’ve taken to speed up my WordPress blog and while this is something I have to do every now and again I’m lucky enough not to have to worry about my PC. I used to worry about it some time back when I used to take ages deleting old files and stuff in order to get the old gal to go a little faster but now I’ve got a little utility to do it for me.

The program I use is called TuneUp Utilities and I’ve set it up to scan my computer every Friday. So, every Friday at 5.15 pm it searches the hard drive and corrects any registry problems, removes invalid shortcuts, frees up disk space and optimizes hard disk performance. As you can see from the following image of the start page although my PC is fully optimized I have one problem that threatens my overall computer health. Clicking on the link tells me that I haven’t checked the hard drive for errors over the last three months and that I should check it for errors using Tuneup Disk Doctor which it’s now doing as I write this post.

I admit it, I’ve been slack because although it does a rudimentary cleanup of the system during it’s weekly checkup I do need to manually optimize it occasionally just so as to make sure it doesn’t delete files that I still need.

What I like most about it is it’s ease of use as everything works at a click of the mouse and whenever it comes across a problem it tells me clearly what it is and gives me a selection of solutions that will resolve the problem that is easy to follow. Just as an example, as part of the optimization process it presented me with a list of programs that were rarely used and upon my order removed them from the computer. A whole lot easier than going through the ‘Add Remove Programs’ Windows option.

So, just to summarize here are some of the tasks that TuneUp Utilities will do for you.

Secure data protection
Reliable data recovery
Dependable registry cleaning
User friendly controls
Simple and thorough 1-click maintenance
Individual Windows styling

If your computer isn’t running at it’s optimum level perhaps it’s time you tackled the problem by utilizing TuneUp Utilities arsenal and what better way than by making use of their free trial offer.

You Can’t Please Everyone So Stop Trying

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 at 5:50 am

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In my last post about whether or not you’re providing value to your readers I said that the term value would mean “different things for different people and there is no way you can please everybody so there is no use in trying.” I was thinking about that today and I came to the conclusion that particular statement just didn’t cut it, that perhaps it needed a post all of it’s own.

I know if I was to look at my own life I could safely say that I’m the type of guy that is always trying to please everyone around me. Business wise it makes sense as you want to make sure that your customers are always satisfied and personal wise it also makes perfect sense because you also want to make your loved ones are happy. But at what cost?

Let’s not kid ourselves, keeping others happy always comes at a cost and we’re the ones that are paying for it. The problem is that for some people they don’t know when to say no and they are so busy trying to keep others happy that it affects their own quality of life. This is not a good thing and learning to say no once in awhile won’t make you a bad person. Even when it comes to business there are times when the customer has to realize that you can’t just drop everything for something that can wait until tomorrow.

I used to have the tendency to let this infect my blogging life. I used to worry about every post. Was it up to scratch? Will people like it? Will someone leave a comment and if they do will I be able to respond in kind, and you know what, it didn’t make my posts any better, in fact it made them worse and it almost ended my blogging career.

That’s when I decided I wasn’t going to worry about trying to please everyone. I decided it was an impossible task and rather than let it ruin my blogging experience I decided to throw the idea of pleasing everyone out the cyber window. Almost immediately blogging became enjoyable again, I felt one with the blogging world and it showed it my posts. No longer strained and withdrawn they jumped to life and my witty lovable self started to shine through.

Truth be told no matter how much you worry about stuff it’s not going to change the state of the way things are. Just do your best enjoying the process and bask in the knowledge that you just can’t please everyone but at least those few you did please were nice enough to leave a comment. What’s that, they only wanted a link back to their site? Well tough titties, it’s still a damn comment.

Being Real BloggerLuv And Huge Breasts

Saturday, May 8th, 2010 at 9:00 am

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Man, my weeks been pretty crappy, I’ve had so much on that I haven’t had the time to do what I love best, blogging. It’s probably going to take a while before things get to normal so until that happens I may not be able to reciprocate all the comments left on the blog, but I still gonna do my best to reply to those that need my interaction.

Even though I’ve been flat chat I’ve still had to time to do some reflection and one that came my way was what it was to be real. I reckon one of the reasons I don’t like reality TV is because it’s so false. I mean come on, if Survivor was supposed to be Reality TV they would dump on an island full of cameras for a couple of months and then come back to see what was left of them and who actually survived.

To me being real means not being false. You guys know how I like to use visual aids to to make a point so I want you all to have a close look at this video. I know you guys are going to focus on the tits and I apologize for putting you ladies through this but it’s important as it highlights my point. Oh, and you may want to turn your sound up a little.

So, what did that video demonstrate? It shows how being false isn’t a trait that one should strive for and yet there are many people in this world who wear it like a glove. Yet this post isn’t about being false, it’s about being real, and to demonstrate that aspect of it I want to recommend a particular blogger who I consider to be very real. That blogger is John Sullivan of PotPolitics fame, a person who I’ve known has always been known to tell it just as it is. A person who is in it to help others wherever he can, whether it’s through one of his blog posts, through promoting a blog by a subtle Tweet or Digg or even by giving helpful advice.

Well John has developed a very special site with bloggers in mind, a site aptly named BloggerLuv! As a member you get your very own profile page, and as you can see by mine it is very versatile. OK, maybe I shouldn’t have used mine as an example as it still has a long way to go, but then like I said at the beginning of the post I haven’t had all that much time to get it looking the way I want.

Anyway, you can personalize this page by adding blocks and modules that will display almost anything including your very own adsense ads or affiliates of your choice. You see John has been very kind to do what you like with this page but I strongly suggest you don’t overdo the ads as it would be better to use it to let people know a little more about you by letting them sample the things that you like from photos to videos as well as your favorites that includes stuff like songs, movies, actors books and the like.

Honestly there is so much I haven’t discovered yet on BloggerLuv and I’m looking forward to the adventure of discovery. I reckon it would be so much more fun is you all came and joined me. Remember as a member not only do you get to promote yourself and your blog, you also get to interact with other bloggers around you.

One last thing, John is looking for people to nominate The Coolest Blogger On The Planet and I’ve nominated my mate Mitch and not just because he uses tantalizing photos in his post either LOL. Why not pop in and nominate the blogger that you look up to.

Is Disqus Costing You Comments?

Friday, April 23rd, 2010 at 7:26 am

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Let’s face it, if you want more people commenting on your blog it sometimes takes more than a good post to get it out of them. AS s a blogger you want to make it as easy as possible for people to comment on your blog. Even though there are so many spam comments floating around many bloggers have decided not to use captchas, moderating comments manually, because they don’t want to present hurdles to their commentators.

I remember awhile back when Mitch wrote a post having a go at Disqus and other third party commenting systems, and then not so long ago reading a post comparing Commentluv with Disqus, although I don’t think you could call commentluv a commenting system, where the blogger is trying to work out which one to go for.

Personally I don’t like blogs using Disqus and it’s gotten so that I now finding myself scrolling down to see whether the blogger is using Disqus and if they are I don’t even bother reading the post. The only time I will comment on a Disqus blog these days is if I’m reciprocating a comment left on this blog.

I just don’t see the advantage to the commentator for having it installed and if it’s not making life easier for them then as far as I’m concerned it’s a waste of CPU.

Still, that’s just my opinion but I am really interested in what others have to say on the matter and so I’ve decided to run a little poll. It’s a simple yes or no answer but I would really love for you to leave a comment as to why you voted that way. I would also appreciate you Tweeting the post so as to get as many people involved in the poll as possible.