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Puppy Vs. Robot - Epic Battle For Territorial Domination…

Go puppy…

I just love the instant replays! ;)

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Free MP3 Search Tool From Mixsta.com…

Mixsta is a Free MP3 Search Tool for finding all of your favorite music. You simply enter the artist name and song name and click search.

You can also simply enter an artist to view all the available music from that artist.

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Mixsta will search thousands of audio files for you and return the closest matches. You can then listen or download each song.

Of course you should only listen or download music if it is legal to do so. :)

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Get Inside Digg With Digg Labs…

I think everyone reading this will know exactly what Digg is right? A very popular site combining social bookmarking, blogging and syndication. Unless you’ve been living on the dark side of the moon you’ve probably Dugg plenty of stories.

But what a lot of people aren’t aware of is something called Digg Labs!

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So what exactly is Digg Labs?

The labs provide a broader (and deeper) view of Digg. A lot of stuff gets submitted to Digg every day, so good things can sometimes fly right past you. Labs projects look beneath the surface of the Digg community’s activities.

Stack

Digg Stack shows diggs occurring in real time on up to 100 stories at once. Diggers fall from above and stack up on popular stories. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs.

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Swarm

Digg Swarm draws a circle for stories as they’re dugg. Diggers swarm around stories, and make them grow. Brightly colored stories have more Diggs. This is my personal favourite!

digg-swarm

BigSpy

Digg BigSpy places stories at the top of the screen as they are dugg. As new stories are dugg, older stories move down the list. Bigger stories have more Diggs.

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Arc

Digg Arc displays stories, topics, and containers wrapped around a sphere. Arcs trail people as they Digg stories across topics. Stories with more Diggs make thicker arcs.

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Pics

Digg Pics is a relative newcomer to Digg Labs. It tracks the activity of images on the site. Images slide in from the left as people Digg and submit them. Pretty cool stuff if you ask me!

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You can also download all of the above as screensavers and run them on your PC or Mac!

Check out… Digg Labs now! :)

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Facebook Social Ads - Pay Per Click Has Evolved…

Facebook Social Ads is the key to effective Facebook marketing, but only if used properly.

There are lots of advantages to using Facebook as a marketing tool, but the pitfalls can be tremendous. Remember when you went through the growing pains of setting up your Adwords campaign and how long it took you to see any profit at all, let alone a significant profit? Facebook marketing is the same. Only through trial and error will you learn how to customize Facebook monetization for your particular needs.

If you are serious about slicing off just a small piece of the world’s most popular social networking website, then you need to learn how Facebook Marketing actually works.

Facebook Social Ads - The New Adwords is an extremely helpful guide when trying to understand and setup a Facebook Advertising campaign.

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100 Funnest Web 2.0 Words to Say…

Kevin Nalts delivers the 100 funnest Web 2.0 words to say…

lulu, hulu, twitter, trooker, happyslip, newteevee, flip, boing boing, blip, flickr, skribd, boehm, imeem, zefrank, blufr, skype, dataintright, joopz, gizmo, stickam, micropersuasion, podzinger, magnolia, fotki, quimble, furl, lonelygirl, blummy, doshdosh, beebo, pandora, blinkx ,vodaphone, mugglesam, meebo, dabble, revver, wikipedia, gizmodo, nutcheese, xanga, delicious, stumbleupon, friendster, vimeo, bunns and chouchou, dabble ,jabazaar, mologogo, godaddy, the fizz, zipster, ning, bubblegumtreeshow, zazzle, mikma, strongbad, ysabellabrave, BitTorrent, kudzu, kevjumba, younew, webkinz, mondomedia, technorati ,valleywag, grouper, yeda, whatthebuck, youtorrent, kaboodle, bitbomb, oyogi, paperlillies, competitious, agester, hoooka, clipshack, picturecloud, shazu, jamba, squidoo, mozilla, plaxo, pando, bebo, mixi, crunchyroll, daxflame, dada, senduit, qwerky, mahalo, lockernome, wakoopa, reddit, zazzle, fark, squidoo, yanoodle …. phew!

Kevin WILL video for food… .

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How Much Is Mozilla & Firefox Actually Worth?

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How much is Firefox worth, will it go public and when? The answers are a lot, almost definitely and probably this year or next.

Mozilla’s open source browser, Firefox has done what most people would have considered impossible in the past few years. It has managed to eat away at Microsoft’s domination of the browser market. When you think of the major advantages Microsoft has had in that it’s browser comes pre-installed on just about every new PC, this is even more of an achievement.

Firefox currently has more than a 15% share of the browser market. That equals approximately 100 million or more downloads. So just how much is Firefox worth?

According to the New York Times in May 2007, Firefox has generated more than $100 million in revenue over the past few years. It generated $6 million in 2004 and $52 million in 2005. If revenue continues to grow we could be looking at $100 million to $200 million per year. And that’s before it has really started trying to build a business.

Mozilla hasn’t made much effort yet to actually build a business. Their main revenue stream is derived from per browser carriage revenue for the little Google search box you see in the top right corner of your toolbar. This is equates to approximately $1 a download according to some estimates, so there is clearly a lot more money to be made.

Even if you allow $50 million a year for costs that still would leave Mozilla with annual profit of $50 million to $150 million.

So when will Mozilla/Firefox go public? Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker says “never!”. But why would the Mozilla Foundation not want several billion dollars worth of public company stock?

Let’s face it… an IPO is inevitable.

And here’s a thought… what if Mozilla bought Netscape from Time Warner and renamed the company Netscape Firefox! ;)

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Is Your Site In The Google Sandbox?

Are you wondering why your website isn’t being returned in Google search results?

The Google Sandbox Checker Tool available for free at SearchEngineGenie.com is the perfect way to check if your site has been sandboxed.

search-engine-genie

There are also many more cool tools including…

  • Google Position Checker Tool
  • Yahoo Position Checker Tool
  • MSN Position Checker Tool
  • Backlink Finder Tool
  • Search Engine Indexed Page Checker Tool
  • Link Popularity Checking Tool
  • Google Backlink Checker
  • Yahoo Backlink Checker Tool
  • MSN Backlink Checker Tool
  • Future Pagerank Checker
  • Google Pagerank Checker Tool
  • Competition Finder Tool
  • Google Suggest Scraper Tool
  • Keyword Density Analysis Tool
  • Yahoo-Google Keyword Suggestion Tool
  • Keyword List Generator Tool
  • Page Comparison Tool
  • Search Engine Saturation Tool
  • Spider Test Tool
  • Link Popularity Comparison Tool
  • Link Suggest Tool
  • Google Banned Site Checker Tool
  • Yahoo Banned Site Checker Tool
  • MSN Banned Site Checker Tool
  • Meta Tags Generator Tool
  • Google Map Tool
  • Google IP Checker Tool
  • Reverse IP Tool
  • Google Datacenter Checker Tool
  • Yahoo Crawled Date Checker Tool
  • Mod Rewrite Rule Generator Tool
  • Password Encryptor Tool
  • Robot File Code Generator Tool
  • Return Of Investment Calculator Tool
  • Java Script Pop-up Window Generator Tool
  • Google Yahoo MSN Position Comparison Tool

They also offer many useful services! ;)

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Everything You Need To Make Money In 2008…

If you want to make some SERIOUS money online in 2008 you should check out the BuyNowDeal.com New Year Firesale!

You get 30 hot products with Master Resell Rights/Private Label Rights that you can resell right away.

But the real value is in actually reading them and applying some of the techniques to your own sites. The Tag & Ping guide is VERY helpful. :)


The starting price is just $7 for all 30 products but will increase every seven days throughout January…

  • Week 1 - 1st Jan - 7th Jan - $7
  • Week 2 - 8th Jan - 14th Jan - $12
  • Week 3 - 15th Jan - 21st Jan - $17
  • Week 4 - 22nd Jan - 28th Jan - $22
  • 29th Jan Onwards - Normal Price - $27

Here is a list of the products (with the rights included)…

  1. Super SEO Guidebook (MRR)
  2. Freelance Riches (MRR)
  3. A Beginners Guide To Web 2.0 (PLR)
  4. The Expert Guide To Opt In List Building (PLR)
  5. Squidoo Basics (PLR)
  6. Secrets of High Profit Websites (PLR)
  7. The Expert Guide To Article Marketing (PLR)
  8. Craigslist Exposed (PLR)
  9. Video Marketing Profits (PLR)
  10. Making Sense Of Google Adsense (MRR)
  11. 101 Basics to Search Engine Optimization (MRR)
  12. Become An Affiliate Marketing Master (PLR)
  13. The Expert Guide To Cashing In On eBay (PLR)
  14. Squidoo Profits (MRR)
  15. The YouTube Revolution (PLR)
  16. Tag and Ping Basics (PLR)
  17. List Building Explained (PLR)
  18. Buying Websites on eBay (MRR)
  19. Advanced SEO Techniques (PLR)
  20. MySpace Profit Strategies (PLR)
  21. Change Your Mind Change Your Life (PLR)
  22. The Expert Guide To Affiliate Marketing (PLR)
  23. E-mail Marketing Riches (PLR)
  24. How To Uncover Red Hot Niches In Minutes (PLR)
  25. Virtual Real Estate Tycoon (MRR)
  26. Learn The Secret Marketing Mindset (MRR)
  27. Craigslist Advertising Revealed (PLR)
  28. The Expert Guide To Pay Per Click Marketing (PLR)
  29. Blogging On Steroids (MRR)
  30. Traffic 2.0 (PLR)

The price is currently $7 but will increase each week throughout January. ;)

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