Archive for June, 2009

Twitter for Busy People

by Ades on June 30, 2009 in Social Networking with 24 Comments

twitterbusy.pngIf you thought twitter was simple enough tool to use, here is a great tool that will simplify your twitter usage even more. It’s called Twitter for Busy People.

It displays the twitter updates of your friends according to the Last Hour, Last Day and More than 1 Day (ago) messages.

Time difference is a major issue in Twitter, most of the time you will miss the tweets of the people you are following who are on the other side of the globe, this is especially true when you are following many people. With this above mentioned tool, it almost solves this problem.

Website: http://www.twitterforbusypeople.com

WordPress as Newsletter Script and FAQ Management System – part5

by Ades on June 27, 2009 in WordPress with 20 Comments

This is a continuation of series on “Different Uses of WordPress”. Previously I have covered:

In this post we will be looking at two more uses of WordPress.

WordPress as Newsletter Mailing System

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    MailPress is a WP plugin that will add Newsletter Mailing functionality to your blog. It can send text or HTML based emails. It supports custom themes as well. If you were looking for a simple mailing list script for your blog, this is the plugin for you!
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    Price: Free
    URL: http://www.mailpress.org

WordPress as FAQ Management System

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    FAQ Tastic is a free WordPress plugin to create and manage FAQs on your site. With multiple FAQs for various sections, this plugin is a great way of giving your users the answers to the most common questions that have been asked while allowing them to submit new ones. Users can also be notified automatically by email when their question has been approved or rejected.
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    Price: Free (seems like the author is developing a pro version at the moment)
    Old Site: http://knowledgeconstructs.com/wordpress-plugins/faq-tastic/
    New Site: http://faq-tastic.com/faqtastic-lite-free/

michael jackson is rich again

by Ades on June 27, 2009 in miniblog with 18 Comments

following mj’s death, his album sales soared again. on Amazon it filled every spot on top10 bestselling music list (actually it filled all the way to 15th spot). it was the same on iTunes store (filling all the way to 9th spot). unfortunately all these money is of no benefit to him anymore, if not to his children.

mj

by Ades on June 27, 2009 in miniblog with 5 Comments

as you have already heard michael jackson has passed away from cardiac arrest at the age of 50. so far, funeral details are not known. indeed we never know when the ajal (the appointed time) will come after us.

Some stats about Twitter’s users

by Ades on June 22, 2009 in Social Networking with 32 Comments

Here is some stats about Twitter users:

  • 79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL
  • 75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile
  • 68.68% have not specified a location
  • 55.50% are not following anyone
  • 54.88% have never tweeted
  • 52.71% have no followers

Seems like half of twitter-nation is inactive, 54.88% have never tweeted. And half of them has no followers (52.71%).

Read the full report by HubSpot here (PDF file, 9 pages).

Free Book: Go it alone, The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own

by Ades on June 21, 2009 in Book Review, e-books with 12 Comments

goitalone.gifHere is a free book on entrepreneurship.

Go it Alone: The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce Judson costs $14.95 at Amazon.

However you can read the whole book online for free at http://www.brucejudson.com. Judging by the reviews at Amazon it seems a good book. Perhaps it can give you some idea or motivation to start your own business.

Global Recession Status, Visualized

by Ades on June 21, 2009 in General with 13 Comments

recession_map.pngClick the image for an interactive map showing each country’s economic condition. Countries that are in recession are in red color. Even the growing economies (green color) like China and India have been hit hard by this crisis.

Lets hope that the global economy will start to recover by the end of this year, and hopefully see a steady growth in 2010.

how much your biz worth?

by Ades on June 19, 2009 in miniblog with 4 Comments

here is a great tool to find out how much your business worths http://www.inc.com/valuation it’s a serious tool, not one of those how much your blog worths stuff…

MIT goes Open Source

by Ades on June 17, 2009 in General, Research with 16 Comments

mitcoursesfree.pngMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is one of the top academic institutions in the world. How about learning what MIT students are learning but for free?

MIT’s open source project called OpenCourseWare was setup to provide MIT’s lectures for free. Currently there are about 1,900 courses available on the portal. Lectures contain all the necessary files and some of the lectures include audio and video content. It will be like distance learning, you just sit at home and watch the lectures of MIT on your PC. If you are a good self-learner, you can benefit a lot from this portal.

I am particularly interested in the Sloan School of Managment section which covers topics like Management, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Strategy etc.

There are many other universities that have similar programs like MIT’s OCW; Yale, Berkeley, Tufts, Stanford etc. But I see that MIT has the most complete archive of their lectures online.

So, enjoy the free education!

Website: http://ocw.mit.edu

Software: Cut mp3 (freeware)

by Ades on June 13, 2009 in Software with 21 Comments

Need to cut MP3′s? Use this simple free software called Split MP3:

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Website: http://www.prvsoft.com/split-mp3-download.html

via techblisonline

Chance for you to make money with Facebook usernames

by Ades on June 12, 2009 in Make Money, Social Networking with 19 Comments

If you login to your facebook now, it will show you a notice at the top of the page which reads:

Soon you will be able to have a username
Starting on Saturday, June 13th, at 12:01pm, you’ll be able to choose a username for your Facebook account to easily direct friends, family, and coworkers to your profile…

That means you will be able to choose any keyword for your account, for most it would be their names but for many others who want to make money that would mean registering new dummy accounts and getting like these keywords below:

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Obviously you won’t be able to get keywords like facebook.com/google or any other keyword that is copyrighted, trademarked or infringes someone else’s Intellectual Property. Facebook says regarding this: Continue reading →

h1n1 is now level 6

by Ades on June 12, 2009 in miniblog with 6 Comments

WHO declared h1n1 (swine flu) pandemic. currently 74 countries had reported 27,737 cases of the disease. so far 141 people have died from h1n1. please take precautions .

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