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SO, this is my first actual blog post in over 2 months, and I just wanted to say that I have missed this good addiction. … That’s all for now:-)
yep, that’s the coolest homework ever! 
Diggers will love the new options coming soon to Digg.com. My trusted source gave me some of the new options that Digg users will have available very soon. Long story short, here are the options: Save to Read Later: Allows you to flag story headlines you find interesting, and Digg will keep a list that you can easily access later, so you can read the articles at your leisure. Digg Verticals: Allows you to discover the most popular content by thousands of areas of interest, from broad topics such as Technology, Sports and Entertainment to niche topics such as iPhone News, Nintendo and Surfing. You can choose to be notified when stories in your favorite verticals become popular. Anonymous Digging: You can Digg and bury stories without logging in to a Digg account, so that it’s as easy as 1-click to tell us when you like or dislike a story. (Don’t worry, Digg has mechanisms in place to prevent a user from Digging the same story multiple times.) You can log in or create an account to save your Diggs. Digg Breaking News: presents “hot off the press” news topics on the home page based on a rapid rise in interest by the Digg community. See the most talked-about topics at a glance, and browse and read related stories. Hot topics will remain on the home page for as long as they’re newsworthy — as determined by the Digg community. Digg Groups (best one I like): Allow you to create, subscribe to or browse groups so you can discover and share content with people who share your interests. By connecting you with similar Diggers, you can discover great content on specific topics that may never hit the homepage. Customized Digg: Gives you the latest popular stories tailored to your interests on the Digg homepage, based on what you’re reading and Digging. You can also easily customize your likes and dislikes with a few simple clicks, or opt to look at the traditional Digg home page of the most popular stories.
That’s all for now, I have to go Digg some more stories
3 Years ago I predicted that Google will create a Google OS (Android is out for mobile devices and netbooks, Google Chrome OS is coming in late 2010). 2 Years ago, I predicted that Facebook will be huge. A year and a half ago, I predicted that Twitter will be huge. A year ago I predicted that FriendFeed will be very big! (Facebook bought it recently for a large 7 figure number). 2 Months ago I was thrilled to hear about (and get a developer account to review it) Google Wave. Today I heard that Google is opening wave to non-developers users (power users that is) to give it a play ground review. Today, I also predict that Google Wave will be the new big thing for the next 2 years at least. Today, I had many friends asking me for a Google Wave invites, to them, I say: Sorry guys, I have zero invites to give, but just wait a week or 2 and you will get your own. Just make sure you have a Google account (and who doesn’t nowadays?!) What is Google Wave? In short: Google Wave is an open source server-side software platform for real-time collaboration and communication between any number of individuals. Utilizing the latest HTML 5 standard, Wave runs in any current compliant browser. (Watch the very long video above) (or watch the very short video preview below). Many of you asked what happened to the Twitter addict I once was. The answer is: Wave, new Wahol, and project ‘W’ took all my time for the last 2 months! Once you have Wave, send me a “wave” P.S.: Reason I had Wave as a developer, is that it’s open source, and I am working with a team on an eBay/Paypal app to be used in Wave Enjoy Google Wave!
Yep, you read it right. Wahol 2.0 is on the countdown I have decided to re-open Wahol (The Work At Home OnLine course) to the public again. This time it will re-open along side with project W at the same time. When will I launch both? It’s a secret for now, but you can get the inside scoop by subscribing by email (on the top right corner of this email), and I will send you some info that will not be available to the public. And a bonus in advance for the W project, Want to find out more about both Wahol 2.0 and project W? Just use the search option (also on the top right corner). P.S. I have 2 hints only for email subscribers: 1. You will get 50% off of anything (or 50% more of anything) if you subscribe now. 2. You will enter the contest of a lifetime to win $50,000 in cash (not PayPal) cold hard $50,000 cash from my sponsors. Only if you subscribe now!
Calling all men!To all of my readers, If you would like to attend the Dr. Oz first taping of the “All Men” show, I have made a special arrangement with friends from NBC so you can attend for free. On top of that, you will also get 2 free tickets of a future taping for you and a friend, or to give it to your family. To get you free invite you will have to follow the steps below. Remember that this is the all male show, to all females, you can send your spouse or your friends to this page or even finish the steps for them below and have it as a surprise for them See you all at the Rockefeller Center
For more information on the series #WIWG, please click here. I have to admit, although I love everything that Gmail have to offer, but personally my Hotmail account is doing just as well and getting better too, so far about 88% of my emails and contacts are on Gmail (Mostly thanks to my G1 Android phone that auto syncs with my Google account and therefore my Gmail account) Towards the end of May 2009, Gmail did what was inevitable, aside from every cool new feature from Gmail labs, this one is the coolest, it just made millions of lives much easier You can now easily migrate existing (email and contacts) from Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL Mail and other webmail providers into Gmail. Imported emails will be appropriately sorted by date, and existing folders will become labels (Another cool feature in Gmail). And you can have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days, giving you time to take Gmail for a test drive, and I guarantee you that you will love it, I know that 70+ of my students at Wahol.com moved to and upgraded to Gmail, and I know that every single one of them loved it for all that it has to offer. BTW this new feature is available in all newly-created Gmail accounts, and it is slowly being rolled out to all existing accounts. You’ll know it’s available in your account when you see the “Accounts and Import” tab under Settings. For more and to get a free account go to: For more info on the #WIWG series, please click here
Have you every wanted to see your grandmother online through video? Unless you live with her, you probably did! Did you want to setup a video conference call but wasn’t sure which software the other party is using? I can tell you exactly how long it will take you to setup everything so you can chat using video online with any person. 63 minutes! That’s how long it took me on the phone (My call duration was 1:03:22) to a friend in another state just to start the video chat, download and setup skype, install the new driver for your cam because it didn’t support MAC computers, setup your mic (Her mic was muted the entire time!) setup your speakers source… ETC. Sounds familiar? What if I told you that on June 13th of 2009 while I was waiting patiently to snag my Facebook username (facebook.com/GuruOfSales) Pete Cashmore of Mashable.com along with 2 friends of his (one of which was actually in facebook’s HQ for the event) were all doing a video chat room on mashable, and you know how long it took them to set it up? 22 seconds! Not because they all had their cams already setup, not because they all knew how to use skype, but simply they created the chat room using the service that I heard of that night: TinyChat At TinyChat.com all you need is just a twitter account, name your room, login to twitter and you have a high quality video audio and text chat, it took me 22 seconds to setup the entire room, didn’t even have to promote it, people just jumped in, how did they know? A tweet and a facebook status update was sent instantly to my friends and followers with the link to the room, even more, I had the option of tweeting every chat line I enter, which I think is a neat feature. However, the coolness doesn’t stop there, many readers of this blog will love the next option: Screencast your desktop, NICE! With one click you can record or live stream (screencast) your desktop or website tuturial in a very high video quality, but for this option you will have to pay for the pro membership, and you will not believe this, it’s only $14.95 to get pro, Holly Cow! An entire $14.95 (Just being sarcastic), a screen cast or recording software like Camtasia will cost you $100’s of dollars, mean while this cool service will do almost the same job with the addition of live casting chat voice and text, I mean… come on, my Flickr pro Cost the double of that! Anyways, check it out here: TinyChat.com P.S. This was not a paid review nor I am an affiliate for the service, I just simply liked it and wanted to share it with you guys. Enjoy
This post is the third of a short series of articles, for more info on the series, please click here. On May 29th, Google announced the latest addition to their search tools, Search Options. This is a brand new feature in Google Web Search. Now You can slice and dice your search results using a variety of filters, which generate different views of your results page to more easily and quickly find what you need. And I really like this feature especially the wonder wheel option that will find towards the end of the options, I think it’s a powerful tools for bloggers to choose specific topics when you run out of topics and hit what we call the writers ‘block’ I would show you more on each of the new options but there is nothing better than for you to go and try it out, go to Google and perform a search then click the “Show options…” link on top of your search results to display the Search Options panel. Also this great video was made by Google, it sure helps learning more about it:
Formally known as the eBay affiliate program, that was once ran by affiliate giant CJ.com, The (relatively new) eBay Partner Network program is a way for affiliates to make commission by driving traffic into non other than, eBay. Towards the end of April 2009, the program introduced many new tools making life much easier on the eBay Partner Network site. When eBay first started their in-house affiliate program, I was lucky to be part of the eBay developer community, I understood RSS linking (and made tons of easy cash integrating it with Twitter and TwitterFeeds as I explained in a 4 hours class on my online school of making money at wahol.com), I also knew flash, AJAX and PHP, therefore, I didn’t have to wait for the support team to fix bugs or any programing issues from their side, instead, I fixed it my self and started making money instantly. Some of you guys will remember seeing the biggest banner I had on this same blog for eBay shopping. That was a big part of my income from this blog. Now with the totally renovated user interface on the eBay Partner Network site, links, banners, RSS feeds, flash and other apps (Like the facebook app) is much easier, in fact it’s so easy, you will be done setting it up in seconds (Also tested with an 11 years old kid by his mom to see how easy it is) Thank you Ashley from wahol.com for this info Here are the recent changes in the program or as they call it (upgrades):
The upgrades were released on May 1st. However, there was some bad news for some partners. They have also announced that as of July 1st, there will no longer accept 3 business models in the programs, that includes: tier-2 paid search, ad networks, and sub-affiliates. For that, I will say: BOOO to the network, this means that some third party apps (facebook or mobile apps) will not have the benefit of making a commission based on second tier, and that really sucks in my opinion, but, after all, it is eBay playground, and to be honest, I don’t think eBay needs affiliates to drive traffic to the site any more, but… That’s only my opinion If you like to sign up and make some cash go ahead and sign up at: www.ebaypartnernetworkblog.com tier-2 paid search, ad networks, and sub-affiliates
Around this time last year I ‘Updated’ my old twitter account saying the following: Prediction: “What Are You Doing?” will be the most asked question of the year in Times magazine. Thanks to Twitter! It did happen, the question is asked millions of times every day on Twitter web, then I listened to a podcast with @EV from Twitter and when he was asked what it’s called to update your twitter feed? is it ‘to tweet’? He said I guess that’s what’s everyone calling it I guess. But secretly and behind the scene he went on and trademarked the verb ‘Tweet’ to be used ‘to tweet’ my status instead of ‘to update my status on twitter’. Cool As of today, if you look on the top right corner of your twitter page (Twitter Web) you will see that your ‘updates’ are now your ‘Tweets’ as in the photo above. I also heard that twitter will be integrating the term ‘tweet’ throughout the site and some API apps. Also interesting to know is that the AP Stylebook has declared ‘to tweet’ as legitimate grammar. After today, I no longer have to correct peeps when they say: I will twitter you back! it is now official ;-p |
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