Archive for December, 2007

Sivatar – Share Your Site Avatar With The World!

December 12, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

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Running a blog or website for monetary gains can be a rollercoaster of ups and downs. You crank out new and interesting content for the world to hear frequently if not daily – yet it all too often falls on deaf ears! Then you turn to the latest social networking and book marking sites like: Digg, StumbleUpon, and MyBlogLog to get exposure. But creating and maintaining THOSE profiles can sometimes be more work than updating your own blog! Furthermore just making an account on a popular social networking a site in no way insures you traffic…

That’s where Sivatar comes in…

Sivatar is a new and exciting social network that I happened to find that allows webmasters to quickly and easily share their content with the world through their avatars.

Avatars (aka small pictures) are everywhere – Blogs, Social Networks, Forums, etc. They’re a way to …

AGLOCO - Another One Bites the Dust!

December 11, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Working at Home

If you have not heard already; AGLOCO aka “A Global Company that is Owned by It’s Members” is basically dead. It’s a shame as I’m sure many thought this was the ideal work at home program.

I first heard about this company in earlier this year and immediately thought to myself this is just too good to be true. It’s one of those schemes that sounds really good but the practicality of it just lacks something.

Sure enough they no longer have the funding to pay the development team let alone its members. They aren’t totally dead but they are essentially dead stating that if they don’t find some new financiers they will have to close down operation.

This is a bullet I dodged as I was tempted to get in on this. I remember those paid to surf programs that came out around 1997.  G something World was a big one. …

Smallest Laptop Computer Ever by ASUS

December 10, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: Technology

Along comes the Asus EEE PC 4G it’s only 7″ wide and weighs less than 1kg! It also comes preloaded with many practical everyday applications. A friend of mine Mike Saf bought it and blogged about it and I’ve had my eye on it since. The beauty of it is according to him that it can fit in the cargo pocket of his pants. The portability is amazing if you were say traveling the world or just bringing it back and forth from school or work.

The standard model comes with 512MB of RAM and has an attractive price tag at ~$399US+tax. If you live in Canada it will be available through The Source by order as of December 12th. You can of course upgrade it to meet your specs if you demand more power. Click here to view a youtube video showing you what this …

Back From Rehab aka Physiotherapy!

December 10, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: What I am Doing

Seriously, I’ve been in Rehab for my hands for the last week or so. Going to Physio often and doing a wide array of stretches. Basically I simply overdid it with my excessive computing lifestyle and was suffering from severe repetitive stress injuries It got so bad that I couldn’t even hold my mouse. This has been an ongoing thing for years but it finally came to a critical mass recently.

Now with the use of stretching and regular physio I’m back. I’d say “better than ever” but that would be a lie. It has taught me more about cause and effect and that caused me to analyze my computing habits. What I realized is I have lot’s of wasted time.

Now I’m using the computer more as a tool. Before each session I have a specific goal or a plan of what I plan on writing about. This makes …

What You NEED to Know About Alexa

December 3, 2007 | Author: Rob | Filed under: SEO and Marketing

Alexa is a web information company and the Web’s most popular method of measuring web traffic. Albeit the best measure the Internet currently has it is far from perfect and easily manipulated / biased toward webmaster related niches. When you first find out about Alexa, and especially YOUR alexa rank it is easy become obsessed with it. You look at sites in the 100-500,000 range and think wow… These people are the 100-500,000’s most popular sites on the web. They MUST be getting TONES of traffic. Sadly it’s usually not the case.

The way Alexa works is you download a toolbar which was once only available for Internet Explorer and recently has become available for Mozilla Firefox. Downloading that toolbar only takes a few minutes and once installed it begins tracking the web site you …