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Share Your Knowledge, Earn Money!
Mar 23rd
Share Your Knowledge, Earn Money. Yes, this is the tagline for Bukisa.
Bukisa derived its name from the Zulu word “Display” is a new content company that pays residual income. You earn money every time someone views one of your articles. Bukisa allows users to post videos, write articles, add slides and audio and get paid for total views. You can publish in any format you want in just about any topic and make money online with Bukisa.
So how much would you be paid? That is depends on the Bukisa index. Bukisa index is reviewed every month and can increase or decrease based on the earning of Bukisa.com. For example if the Bukisa Index is 4.00 that means you will receive 4.00 USD for every 1000 unique views your content receives.
Bukisa is not only meant for US residents but it open to everyone, as long as you can receive money through PAYPAL. The minimum payout is USD$10.00.
This is a great place to share knowledge and get paid for providing quality content. However, if you don’t intend to contribute, this is also another good site for researchers and readers.
You can also use Bukisa to promote your website, as a form of article marketing. Good for SEO too.
www.bukisa.com
My Blog is “Automated” for the past 1 week!
Mar 18th
OMG, I didn’t have time to update my blog and try to automate it using a tricky plugin. That’s why you see my few past blog posts were in Video format, those are automated… not posted by me actually, I just let it grab the videos with the keywords I specified.
It is very simple to use the tool, it only required 10 minutes to setup.
However, you will need to be on Wordpress in order to use this plugin. Read more about it here.
Free Stock Photos
Mar 5th
Either you are building a website or merely creating Power Point presentation, looking for nice and free images always been a big issue as if you don’t know where to get those FREE Photos, you will then need to purchase them and some are real costly.
Thus, I have compiled here a list of sites that you can get some free stock photos or free images :
http://energy.star29.net/store/
http://geekphilosopher.com/MainPage/photos.htm
http://imagebase.davidniblack.com/
http://visipix.dynalias.com/index_hidden.htm
http://www.abstractinfluence.com/forums/gallery/album.php?album_id=2
http://www.burningwell.org/gallery2/main.php
http://www.cepolina.com/freephoto/
http://www.designpacks.com/Image_Catalog/
http://www.everystockphoto.com/
http://www.freedesignphoto.com/
http://www.freephotosbank.com/
http://www.freerangestock.com/
http://www.free-stockphotos.com/
http://www.historicalstockphotos.com/
http://www.highresolutiontextures.com/
http://www.loremipsumblvd.com/
http://www.nationsillustrated.com/
http://www.photoeverywhere.com
http://www.photorack.net/index.php
http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/
http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
http://www.studio25.ro/index.php?option=com_ponygallery&Itemid=27&lang=en
http://www.studio7designs.com/stock-photography/
http://www.sxc.hu/ – Highly Recommended!
http://www.zurb.net/zurbphotos/
Just to add on to the free photo sites, although some may not be stock photos, but those two well known sites have still a lot of cc-by and Public Domain Images :
Wikimedia Commons ( http://commons.wikimedia.org check the “content / By license” sections )
Flickr ( http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/ ) – Make sure you read the Creative Common License.
There’s also a list of Public Domain Images Resources on wikipedia :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources
Some of the photos may require a link back while some of them need no such thing. The policies vary from site to site that offers free stock images. Always read the terms and conditions before using the images. Make sure that the photos you use are legal for your site. For example, some might be free only for non-commercial used or some might not allow you to modify.
Read the Creative Commons license fro each image (should it have) to understand just how much liberty you could take with the image and how you can credit the owner of the image in your post.
By the way, Royalty-Free Images are not FREE. Normally they are sold with extensive licensing rights on a flat rate basis. You can check out the usage of royalty-free photos on www.inmagine.com , a good place to buy photos.
If you know any more good free stock photos sites, feel free to add on at the comments section.
Make Money by Uploading Files
Feb 28th
I found this site that stated:
“Never before has making money been so easy – or payouts so high. Simply upload files and get people to download them, and earn from 30 to 60 cents per download.”
So if you have lots of stuff that you think people would want to download, you may try to upload to this site. There is an ebook on the instructions on how to make use of the site more effectively. I have just uploaded it to the site and you may download it here.
Do let me know if you do earn some extra income from there.
Turning Your Text uʍop ǝpısdn
Feb 26th
uʍop ǝpısdn ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ dılɟ uɐɔ noʎ `ʎuunɟ ʎllɐǝɹ sı sıɥʇ
Just now I saw one of my MSN buddy, Simon Ong place this text “uʍop ǝpısdn” next to his profile name in MSN, he told me that he found a site that can flip the text upside down and you can then paste it into the MSN or blog.
I find this is kinda funny so I decide to share with every one here:
http://www.sherv.net/flip.html
¡ʎsɐǝ sıɥʇ uǝǝq ɹǝʌǝu sɐɥ uʍop ǝpısdn ƃuıʇıɹʍ
Sharing Is Rewarding…
Feb 12th
Do you know that you can earn some income while sharing pictures? That’s fun and rewarding right? I found this service via a forum and decide to share it here.
The steps are:
1. Go and register at Shareapic.net.
2. Uploading your pictures and create unlimited galleries of yourself, your families, your friends, pets, cars, etc etc. You can upload as many pictures as you like and there is no limit in file size.
3. The next step is sharing. The more you share, the more money you can earn. You can link your pictures to MySpace, Facebook, Hi5, Blogger, etc. You can share your pics everywhere you like!
4. Once your account reach USD$20, they will pay you by PayPal.
For further details, you may now log in to Shareapic.net.
Let me know if you do earn any cash from here ya…. Good Luck!
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
-- Hegel
I know guys can't learn from yesterday ... Hegel must be taking the long view.
-- John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"
-- Hegel
I know guys can't learn from yesterday ... Hegel must be taking the long view.
-- John Brunner, "Stand on Zanzibar"
FREE Listening Tools to Monitor Your Online Buzz
Jul 21st
Posted by vanda in Resources
3 comments
Nowadays, managing online reputation has become part and parcel of online marketing, thus you will need to have some good online listening and monitoring tools. There are many tools out there and some are costly tools (such as Radian6 and Scoutlabs), not forgetting some of those greedy agencies and consultants that will charge you a bomb by doing the service for you.
I have compiled here some good tools that you can use to monitor online buzz for your brands and the best thing is these are all FREE tools.
1. Google Alerts
This is the most important and basic automated tool that can help people and businesses monitor the Internet for developments and activities that could concern them. Google currently offers six types of alert searches: “News”, “Web”, “Blogs”, “Comprehensive”, “Video” and “Groups” and results are sent to subscribers daily by e-mail or via RSS feeds.
2. Addictomatic
Addictomatic searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog posts, videos and images. It’s the perfect tool to keep up with the hottest topics, perform ego searches and feed your addiction for what’s up, what’s now or what other people are feeding on. Addictomatic shows you results from Twitter, Friendfeed, Bing News, Google blog search, Digg, Delicious, Technorati, Twingly, etc. You do not even need to register on the site!
3. BlogPulse
BlogPulse is an automated trend discovery system for blogs, a free service by Nielsen Buzzmetric. It is actually a blog search engine that also analyzes and reports on daily activity in the blogosphere.
4. Boardtracker
This tool specializes in monitoring forums. Boardtracker is currently following more than 66 million topics on more than 37,000 forums.
5. Bloglines
Bloglines is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. Bloglines can be used to start monitoring the sources you are interested in.
6. Commentful
Commentful is a service that watches comments/follow-ups on Blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. When ever there is an update, i.e a new follow-up, Commentful notifies you instantly.
7. Ice Rocket
IceRocket is an Internet search engine specialized in searching blogs. It also offers a search module for Myspace, and this makes it the only tool of these that does so.
8. HowSociable
HowSociable provides a simple way for you to begin measuring your brand’s visibility on the social web. You can have your Google Blog Posts score, Twitter score, Flickr score, Youtube, Myspace, etc, on the same page. This tool can be very useful to measure the impact of your actions across the social networks.
9. Facebook Lexicon
Lexicon is a tool to understand what Facebook’s users are talking about on Walls. Use the tabs at the top to explore different trends in the topics listed in the drop-down menu. Lexicon never looks at messages, Chat, searches, or other private data.
10. Keotag
Keotag allows you to search content tags. Once you have picked a tag, Keotag lets you choose the sites you want to it search for you. Of course, the classics among the choices are: Google, Twitter, Technorati, Reddit, Digg and others.
11. Social Mention
Social Mention is a social media search platform that allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. It monitors 80+ social media properties directly including: Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, YouTube, Digg, Google etc.
12. BackType
BackType is a conversational search engine that index and connect millions of conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media so people can find, follow and share comments.
Of course there are a lots more listening tools available, especially for social media e.g. twitter which I will need to talk about twitter monitoring tools in my next blog. But I think the above tools would be a good start.
Last but not least, you can also use Yahoo! Pipes to create your own online buzz monitoring tool. Yahoo! Pipes is a web application from Yahoo! that provides a graphical user interface for building data mashups that aggregate web feeds,web pages, and other services, creating Web-based apps from various sources, and publishing those apps.
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