Archive for November, 2006

You’ve heard/seen/used those surf for cash bars before I’m sure, they always try to get you into the motion that you can earn so much money just by surfing the internet.  This usually isn’t the case, and can be a harsh reality for most.

Although I feel the same way and have better things to do with my time I did come accross this really interesting company called Agloco which essentially allow it’s member’s to own the company.  The idea behind Agloco is very simple, you download the surf bar, or atleast you will be able to because it’s currently in beta but should be released soon.

The way that Agloco works is that the more referrels you have, the more stocks in the company you actually own, and this is completely legit and outright.  They are working on being listed on the London Stock Exchange and will allow that to determine how much each share is worth.  This is definitely a good idea and I think I’ll keep checking in to see how this is going.

Another interesting development to Agloco is that they distribute their own profits amongst their member’s, from this such as advertising and what it’s partners may provide.

This is definitely an interesting new company and really hope that everything works out for them. You can signup here if you want to check it out.

I stumbled upon this site called http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com, the idea behind the site is to provide different color schemes for your own use that can be easily download and imported into your chosen design program.

DCS offers many options for formats including Photoshop, Illustrator, ColorShemer Studio, CSS, HTML, and Zipped.

It looks like it hasn’t been updated in a little while, but hopefully with some increased traffic he will.

Wellm I’d like to start off by wishing a very Happy Birthday to Email!  That’s right Email is now 35 years old and going pretty darn strong.  The first email was sent out in late 1971, but unfortunately no one remembers what it was about.  I’m sure it wasn’t anything important, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was spam :).

The Wii was released last Monday so it’s been 8 days for people around the world to test out the next-gen system that really made Nintendo a front runner for console sales atop Microsoft and Sony.  It’s only been 8 days with the new Wii-mote and people are already complaining about how out of shape they are :).

According to some people that have been enjoying the gameplay of the Wii and the action packed games that require to physical activity, they have been experiencing muscle aches, well, because they are so gosh darn out of shape.

This just goes to show how North American’s are so out of shape.  But this also brings up another point.  Will the Wii help most people as it does seem to provide some Cardiovascular activity?  This would be an interesting thought and we’ll have to wait to see what type of physical gain one can expect from the Wii.

DropBoks is very simple, straight-forward uploading tool that allows you to store up to 1GB of files for instant download.  The maximum size per file is only 50MB so this comes no where close to the service that I previously noted about, Files Upload. 

But DropBoks makes storing files a very simple task.  The login, as well as the upload/download interface is all located on the same page, and uses some Ajaxy like effects to upload and control the files.

One thing I enjoy about this service is that it’s completely user-driven and doesn’t rely on ads to pay the monthly hosting bill.  Which is quite refreshing in today’s world where ads rule all :).

Check it out, share it with your friends, and if you like it, donate a buck or two.

Microsoft has released a preview for it’s new photosynth technology.  Due to the fact that it’s only a technical preview, not even in beta yet, some computers might not run it properly as some hardware may not be supported yet.  The site itself only works in Internet Explorer after a certain point…go figure.

The idea behind photosynth is quite ingenious and my hats off to Microsoft on this one, although I’m sure the idea has been introduced and implemented before, this is Microsoft we’re talking about here so it’s probably either gonna really suck, or be really awesome.  I’m hoping the latter.  Back to the idea, basically it’s taking a large collection of images of a place or an object and finding the similarities between each one,  then it reconstructs the image into a three-dimensional space…How F’ing cool is that.

This is taken directly from the Photosynth site:

With Photosynth you can:

• Walk or fly through a scene to see photos from any angle.
• Seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo whether it’s megapixels or gigapixels in size.
• See where pictures were taken in relation to one another.
• Find similar photos to the one you’re currently viewing.
• Send a collection - or a particular view of one - to a friend.

Alright so as most of you already know the Playstation 3 was officially released yesterday all accross North America. 

My apartment just happens to be located right behind the local Walmart, so as you can imagine there was a lineup outside on Thursday night to be the first in on Friday morning.  The funny thing was that they only had 2 for the release!  I live in PEI, Canada so the demand got pushed back a bit and most stores only had about 2 - 3 in stock for the release.

I can just imagine what it was like Friday morning with everyone running to try to get one and only 2 being available, I giggled a little bit inside when I found out

Did any of you pick one up?  How is the gameplay?

Yesterday the big 3, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, have announced that they will begin using the same SiteMap protocol to index sites all around the web.  Sitemaps.org gives you full instructions on how to install an XML on your servers that all three search engines will be able to keep track of and keep updated from.

For those of you that use Google Sitemaps already you don’t need to worry about changing anything, as Google is already using these standards, but it is convenient that the other search engines will be able to index the same sitemap.xml.

The same protocol can, and probably is, be used by any other search engine under the Creative Commons License. It’s really nice to see everyone getting along

I came accross this while going through Digg today, and what OctaGate SiteTimer is, is a site timer that shows you each part of your webpage and how fast it loads.  This can be extremely helpful when you notice your site loading slowly and want to know exactly what might be causing it.

It’s very important to have your website load at a decent speed because if not people just aren’t going to stay and wait around.  The internet is becoming a very fast-paced environment, and if your website can’t live up to the needs of it’s visitor’s/customer’s than they aren’t going to want to come back.

Essentially this can sometimes go all the way back to the Hosting company.  My website is hosting on a Dual-Core Xeon Processor with 2GB of Ram, and in a load-balanced environment, my site might have issues maybe once a day from high load on the NetApps and/or Network traffic.

A new startup called Files Upload allows unlimited file storage with a maximum of 1GB per file.   With unlimited download, your own subdomain, and FTP access, this is definitely the best file storage site that I have seen. 

Another awesome feature of this site is that the files stay alive for 6 months from the last download, so there really isn’t any worry of you losing actively downloaded files.

Sign up for an account and test it out.

I stumbled upon ReviewMe which is reviews site that allows Bloggers and Advertisers to help each other out.  Let me explain how it works:  Advertisers sign up for the service looking to have someone review there product/service, so after they sign up they go through the large database of blogs and choose the one that they want to write a review on there site.  Advertisers can really find the proper blog to go well with their particular Niche.

When a Blogger gets a notice that someone wishes for them to review the product/service, they can sign up for whatever they need to and then write a review on his / her blog.  Whether the review be good, or bad, you’ll still get paid, as the advertiser gets ‘true’ feedback and exposure.

After accepting a review the Blogger gets 48 hours to write the review, and certain content guidelines need to be followed in order to get paid.

1.  The post must in some way display that it’s an advertisement, such as putting ‘Sponsored By:’ or ‘Advertisement:’.
2.  The post must be a minimum of 200 words.  This sounds reasonable considering that they’d like to have a little but of content in there reviews.

Once the Blogger has written the review they simply need to login to their ReviewMe account and provide the link to the reviewed post.  Sounds pretty easy.

When I first saw this it kind of reminded me of PayPerPost, but with some major and better differences.  Users of PayPerPost can write about as many services/products as they want, as you can go through there entire database of advertisers.  This leads to people writing random posts about services they probably haven’t really tried, and most reviews range from $2.00 - $10.00.  With ReviewMe the advertiser picks the blog so the reviews don’t look out of place on some random subject blogs, also ReviewMe payments range from $20.00 - $200.00, which isn’t too bad at all.

Note:  This post IS a sponsored post by ReviewMe.

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