Lameness? oh..

Is it just me or were Survivor and The Office kind of lame tonight? The Office was funny, of course, but last week really gave me high hopes for the season and tonight let me down.

I can see now why Survivor did the whole race thing to get started - they knew the rest of the show was a snooze-fest! I’ve been saying that it’s hard to connect because there are so many people on the show, but now I’m wondering if it’s something else. Maybe the people just all suck. I’m also getting tired of hearing Jeff scream during the challenges doing a play by play. “The red team is moving to the left! The blue team is slowing down! The red team just took a step to the right! The blue team is all breathing! The red team exhaled!” Gahhhhhh. Okay, maybe I’m just tired of the show, period. Anyone else?

Vonage Forums great example of Customer Interaction

Vonage does a great job of providing an interactive forum for its customers and partners.

To describe their forums as complete is an understatement. They have set up forums that are targeted to general questions, they are targeted to country specific customers and issues, and there are many topics covering a massive amount of issues questions problems and insights into how to utilize the service to maximum advantage.

The best part about a Vonage forum and the aspect that is worthy of emulation (or an attempt to emulate) is the large degree of user participation and posting. This is a community that is very very active. This very high level of activity is a great example of how a forum can suceed to capture users passion and bring customers back for a repeat experience, without losing a customer 20 minutes after a box is opened. Too many people suffering from a Wal-mart like syndrome will purchase a product, misunderstand it and find themselves with no resources to get answers.

Their solution: Return the product.

Vonage on the other hand has a very large amount of information to available to consumers and even technophiles.

Payperpost's big news

Here’s another piece of the puzzle for operation “PayPerPostBlueMonster”. I wonder if this news is going to entice more people to get into the blog marketing?

I have to tell you, the suspense is killing me! I hate waiting. Come on, Ted, Brit and gang - spill the beans already! Patience is not my strong suit.

Apple Fails to run Virus Check?

Apple has been shipping iPods since September 12th that contain the virus RavMonE.

Now there are many interesting aspects of this story. The virus is considered a Windows Worm in general, however this worm appears to be carried by an iPod and thus by extension could be considered an iPod worm now too.

If a human dies of Avian flu, the name implies that the birds are to blame as they were the source of the virus. The thing is the human was susceptible to the virus just as the bird or avian population was susceptible.

Now, Apple may blame Microsoft for not being virulent enough against viruses, but what does it say about Apple products if they are just as susceptible to a virus as a Windows based product. To me it says that both products are susceptible. I don't pretend to live in a fault free world and so I would say they are both to blame.

Finally, the reports are coming out today, October 17/18, about this iPod worm. It seems to me that Apple had two additional failures. They failed to do a virus check on their products when they started shipping over a month ago on September 12th and they failed to make this public once they finally discovered the problem over a week ago.

The Blue Monster of Payperpost

I'm pretty sure everyone already has this payperpostbluemonster puzzle piece. I have seen it on every blog immaginable today. The first person to reassemble all the pieces and post it on their blog will get paid a $500 opportunity fee. This puzzle contains a sneak peak at a super secret PayPerPost program code named Blue Monster. I've already collected 123 of them today and the puzzle is starting to come together nicely.

Chris Gannon & George Lindemann Polo

This contains of the party information and pictures of the party after the Chris Gannon & George Lindemann Polo at the miami beach. Things about the worlds greatest renowed players and their party pics can be seen here.

And a littile bit information about the sport and the score was also given. The most interesting part was the party pics given there. Have a look and i bet it would fascinate you.

Clues to PayPerPosts's newest puzzle

The codename for this puzzle is payperpostbluemonster.not familiar with PayPerPost?, You can make money by blogging for opportunities that you are able to pick up from a list of advertisers/publishers.(blog adsindustry)

What could this new puzzle be about? The name payperpostbluemonster doesn't really give all too much away, unfortunately. I guess we'll just have to wait until more pieces are released.

Japanese Anemones is beaut！！

This is the season for the wonderful perennial known as Japanese Anemones to flower. The long stocks of the flower shoot up to 4 feet tall. They do range in height from 2-4 feet with an incredible flower. They are not a cut flower, but make a wonderful back drop to any partial shade garden. They are one of the best plants for late summer and fall color with their brilliant flowers in colors of dark pinks, pale pinks, and white.

The Japanese Anemones x hybrida originated in China and was found in Japan in the 17th Century giving it its name. Three popular varieties were developed in the 19th Century: Honorine Jobert, Whirlwind, and Konigin Charlotte. These varieties produce the best of the colors and new varieties are gaining notoriety for their even richer color of dark pink and lilac. They are easy to grow and can be slightly evasive in your yard if you let them.
Japanese Anemones grow in sun/partial shade gardens. Grow them in the USDA zones 4 through 8. They work great under trees and as backdrops in the yard. They like to be protected by larger vegetation or by built structures. The leaf of the plant is around all year and is about 1 foot from the ground. It is a large soft petal from 2-5 inches wide. A stem grows from the ground and is tipped with a leaf. In the late summer the stocks of the flower grows from 2 to 5 feet tall. They are topped with multiple flowers and small leafs. The flowers petals are small 1 inch in diameter and there are 5 petals that are fanned out.

A New PayPerPost.com Puzzle

Here’s another piece of the puzzle for operation “payperpostbluemonster”. I wonder if this news is going to entice more people to get paid for blogging?
I love top secret mysteries. Especially when they involve getting paid on the blog marketing!

The future of blogging.

Do you know that there is a trend happening online this very moment?

Let's go back in time and take a look at the past trends that has occured when the Internet became a real place to make money.

First there was the Search Engine's, with Alta Vista, Yahoo and now Google coming onto the scene and taking a fast first place in the hard drive of the world making webmasters want to conform their pages for high ranking on these search engines, which means more traffic and more traffic means more revenue.

Then there was the email campaign (spamming), when people discovered the use of email as a means for follow up promotions and is still being widely used today.

Finally, there was the affiliate programs distributing and selling products to customized lists and pin pointed markets for a percentage of the profits.

We now have blogs being used as a new form of Internet marketing for businesses.

Blogs appeared few years back, and are similar to a forum, except that with blogs, you can write about anything and everything..and not have other people calling the shots. When it first appeared, blogs were thought of nothing more than just a tool for people to express their rants, feelings, emotions and so forth.
Smart marketers are now recognizing the use of blogs as another channel of business - be it branding, selling, promotion are taking the reigns and running with it.

Blogs have taken on a whole new meaning and become sophisticated in look and content to the extent that it has become a powerful way to market products and services. There are so many ways you can earn money with blogs and get your presence felt on the net.

Are your words worth something? Have you tried blogging?

Zwok - The best flash multiplayer game!

Zwok is a turn-based online multiplayer flash game very similar to Worms.Except that you don't control worms but only one funny guy, Flash Gaming Blog you don't have so many weapons to choose from and you can only play in multiplayer. Go ahead and try it out, it's totally enjoying!

Blog Marketing

It is a lot more fun to market a blog than a regular website. Bloggers seem to be more willing to share great resources as well as communicate a lot better. Blogging is all about communication anyways. If you want to submit your blog to some good directories, ping it to the blog search engines and comment on other people's blogs, go for it. It's easy and actually fun. Blogging is such a natural and simple way to get your business seen. Indirect advertising, but a lot more effective than the uphill battle many are losing in the world of marketing their web sites to the search engines.

If you are not able time wise to run your own weblog as successfully as you would like to, you can always hire a Blog Design Firm to professionally manage your blog. Design it, write articles on an ongoing basis and get it ranked in the search engines. An investment you guys won't regret :)

Blue Monster

WOW!PayPerPost have released some more puzzle pieces for the PayPerPostBlueMonster

campaign today.here is a piece of the puzzle for it.
What could this puzzle be about? PayPerPost always make money for me.

The Best Kind of Site for Success

What a coincidence — I had just been thinking about writing an article about the best kind of site for someone just starting out in internet marketing, when I read Jenn’s post comparing her earnings and sites from a year ago to now.
Consider this statement she makes:
Maybe I need to get back to the basics, maybe updating a few sites on a regular basis is necessary, at least in this stage of my sites.
This really struck me as true.
I have been blogging for money for a year now. Looking at the various kinds of sites that I have, my best-performing site has a lot of original content, and it has a “voice” — you can see my personality in it.
It started out as a blog about an interest of mine. I wrote some original articles, and I linked to a lot of fun and interesting sites related to the topic. When I linked out to a site, I added my own comments to it.
Later on, I did add some content written by others, but I did it in such as way that this content is “reference material”, while the fun part of the blog is my own posts.
This site has done so much better than any of my other sites. It gets lots of inbound links because people like it. I really don’t have to work too hard on getting links for it any more. Some major sites in my subject area have linked to it, without my asking.
I have some sites that are based solely on free articles. They are not doing well, and they are hardly getting any links. Who wants to link to a boring site like that?
I think if you do create a site of all free articles, you have to somehow add value of your own. I am working on this now, but it is hard.
For the beginning blogger / internet marketer, you will have a lot easier time if you write your own content about something that interests you. You still won’t have too many readers at first, but with time, you will get more and more traffic as people find out about you and become interested.
And not only for beginners - even those that have been working at it for a while might consider giving this method a try. It is slower going at first, because you have to create your own content, but in the end it really pays off.

Brand new PPP puzzle

PayPerPost has just posted a new puzzle piece for their latest puzzle called

"payperpostbluemonster." or "BlueMonster".Maybe PayPerPostblog want to making another

huge announcement right.
Anyone want to ponder any ideas? I have no idea about it.Does anyone else see this?

Free Blogger Templates

If you are just starting out with blogging, you might not want to spend a lot of money. You can get a free blog at blogger.com.
One problem with blogger.com is that the templates they give you are hard to work with if you want to have Adsense on your blog. Plus they are so well-known now, that they seem really boring.
So where can you go to get better Blogger templates? I really like the Gecko & Fly Blogger Templates site. They have some great templates there.
I also like the fact that they have taken each template and set up a blog at Blogspot to demo the template. You can see exactly what it would look like.
They even have a few templates by Andreas Viklund. So far he is my favorite template designer. I am using his 1024px WordPress template (I use the 800px version) for this site.
Although I would really recommend having your own domain name, Blogger is not a bad place to start if you just want to practice blogging and see if you like it. It is very easy to add Adsense code to your Blogger template too.

PayPerPost's BlueMonster

PayPerPost's BlueMonster
"payperpostbluemonster",anyone knows that? Apparently Blue Monster is a super secret

PayPerPost blog program that will be launched

soon .
What could this new puzzle be about? I guess we'll just have to wait until more

pieces are released.Intriguing!

PS3 poster

exercise in the heat

In some parts of the States right now (hello California!), citizens are dealing with record high temperatures. How do you fit in your daily dose of exercise in extreme heat? eHow has a few ideas:
Drink lots and lots of water. Drink water before, during and after you exercise. For every 15 minutes you exercise, drink at least 8 oz. of water.
Cover your head. Wear a loose, billed hat and pour water over your head periodically.
Listen to your body. The first stages of heat stress are muscle cramps, nausea, headaches, goose bumps on the upper body and unsteady footing. Stop exercising if you experience any of these symptoms.

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