ReviewMe Goes Live

Well Here is a chance for many bloggers like me who hardly make anything in return to their blogging efforts.. I recently found this site called ReviewMe. Its basically an improvement of sorts over PayPerPost. It pays out much better because you get paid about $20 to $1000. My blogs price Has been set to $60 but they take up half of it, So I get only $30 for every review I write.. This could well turn out to be a residual income for me..

On the other hand ReviewMe requires you to disclose that this is paid review.. Also the price for your blog is set based on factors such as technorati rank, alexa rank, subscribers etc.. ReviewMe is also offering a huge sum of $25,000 for bloggers who actually try and write a review about ReviewMe itself.

I think ReviewMe is worth a try for most of the small bloggers and is 10 times better than PayPerPost. ReviewMe is a step ahead for bloggers and to many other people.. I will be writing about 5 reviews every month to make some reasonable cash.. For all those 33′Rockers fans I will be getting back to regular blogging pretty soon..

P.S : This is a paid Review

Get Visitors Returning To Your Site Again & Again

One of the driving forces of entrepreneurs is the insatiable need for traffic. Do you stay awake at night wondering how you can get more traffic to your website? Most online business owners do!

Who can blame you? After all, the “great and mighty” Google.com can make a simple statement and suddenly millions of web sites are redesigned in a flurry of activity to comply! Consider, for example, how many times you’ve run your web content through a keyword analyzer! Or how often you’ve wondered exactly what an “authoritative” site is.

One SEO strategy that many people know to be a valuable is the call for fresh content. And although we can be critical of Google’s all-powerful hand making sweeping decisions about web sites, we can understand why they would rate fresh sites higher than stale sites.
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Full Feeds or Partial Feeds ??

One topic of debate that has gained attention in the blogging community is the choice between using full or partial RSS feeds. For the uninitiated, RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication) is a set of web feed configurations that are spelled out in XML code. It is utilized in web syndication, often used by online news groups, blogs, podcast services, and online education systems, among others.

RSS provides the user the choice between full feed and partial feed. Full feed means that the RSS feed will provide the entries in their full length to RSS users. Partial feed, on the other hand, means that the user’s blog entries appear as preview versions of the actual entries, wherein only the first few sentences are readily available. Readers of that particular blog using partial feed will need to visit the actual site through a link-back to view the entire blog.

The choice between the two, as one might predict, is highly dependent on the personal preferences of the blog author. However, through time, questions have come up on which type of feed is more efficient, say, in terms of how the blog readers prefer to view the different sites’ content, or in the way the blog is presented to serve the purpose of the reader subscribed to the blog. For instance, some blogging enthusiasts might be more appreciative of a blog using partial feed, touching on how full-feed blogs have the tendency to overwhelm its reader with the amount of information that is presented to the him or her, all at the same time.

Meanwhile, others may prefer the full feed approach because it makes the blog site’s content readily available in one viewing. Thus, it eliminates the need to go through the actual blog site for a subscriber to be able to read all recent blog entries, for example. However, full feeds seem more appropriate to those whose blogs feature short posts, in that the reader will not take too long just to read the whole RSS feed, or worse, be put off by the length of articles that may even take a while to load completely.

The following are other argument points that are worth considering in choosing between full or partial feed.

The Case of Ads

A considerable number of blogs or sites are supported by ads, and income for the owner of such site depends on the amount of people who actually see the blog or website. Subscribers of this specific site through RSS will then be alerted on the new additions on the site, and potentially increase the number of readers who view the ads that back the material. In this situation, partial feeds are helpful since those hooked by the partial feed enough to follow the actual site for the full content will see the ads, and in effect add to the site’s revenue.

Whereas, if the sponsored site runs a full feed, most likely without the ad, that’s one (or a hundred) less potential reader who didn’t get to see the ads on the actual site. That means less revenue for the site owner. Moreover, with full feeds, it would be more difficult for a site owner to measure how many people actually access the site’s content, or if the content is of any relevance to the subscriber. Then again, subscribers may prefer to receive full feeds of their favorite site reads, as they are able to avoid the annoying ads, if any, that support the source site.

The Search Factor

Search services and so-called aggregators also have a use for RSS feeds; the feeds notify the said sites through ping services when new content is uploaded. This means the sites that turn up on search service sites and aggregators are exposed to more potential readers, who might find use for the said sites’ content. Newer versions of such services, however, only scan the information within the feed to consider the entire updated content, thus the rest of the content of a particular site remain undetected and unavailable to search engine users.

As such, these services will only be able to make a partial assessment of a site that runs a partial feed, and leave out other content found in the site that may be quite relevant to the search. Thus, the dilemma is remedied by running a full feed so that there’s an increased chance a search engine user will find relevant info from the site. Then again, with a full feed, an ad-supported site will run the risk of not getting enough hits for the ads to make good money.

The Issue of IP and Link-backs

Many a blogger have complained about getting their full blog content published thru RSS without a mention of the author or a link-back to notify the blog owner that it has been published. In this sense, partial feeds have an advantage, since the subscriber’s access will become limited, and to find the full content, they will have to visit the actual source blog site and get a chance to know the author whose voice they’re reading. This may also help eliminate RSS users who might use the feed as a resource material for their own blogs but may be too reckless to consider proper citing of sources, and thus confuse honest readers as to the real content source.

Your Choice

It may seem that either approach is the more advantageous for different types of blogs or sites. In any case, a blog or site owner may make use of one or both types of feed, depending on his or her preference or goal for a particular site. A blog author still looking to build readership, for instance, may opt for a full feed and stick to it until to goal is achieved, and more people actually visit his or her blog. Amassing a good following will prove useful later on when he or she decides to advertise on his or her blog, and then a partial feed will do.

10 Keywords that Will Propel you to Digg Homepage

Oflate I Have been seeing many stories hitting the digg frontpage that have something in common in between them. To tell you have what they are the keywords. The keywords down here are the keywords that diggers digg most often. All this means is that your story has more chance of making it to the frontpage.

The 10 deadly keywords :

• 1) Digg

All you need to do is to write about digg, its effects and everything that happens when you get dugg.

• 2) Firefox

Did you know that 80% of Digg users use Firefox. By Taking advantage of this you could easily have a frontpage story within moments. Write about anything ranging from plugins, themes, new releases or security holes.

• 3) Microsoft

Diggers hate microsoft and its services. If you can lash out stories against Microsoft it becomes more easier for you to make it to digg homepage.

• 4) Google

Diggers love Google and its services. After the redesign of Google reader there were atleast 6 stories that reached the frontapage with the word Google reader in it.

• 5) How to’s

A very popular frontpage story. Almost every other day a How to makes it to the homepage. If you can write something useful you can easily make it to the front.

• 6) Launch

Seems bit weird huh?? This is particularly easy. If you see that a new service has been launched and is pretty useful then write a story and you can make it to the homepage.

• 7) Linux

Diggers are basically nerds. They fight for Open source software and Linux is their leaderboard. Why? Diggers despise Microsoft.

• Apple

Once again Diggers despise Microsoft!!

• 9) Hacked

Found your way through some geeky shit like myspace or blogger. Mention it and you are on the digg homepage.

• 10) Environment

Can’t help but I had to mention this one. Diggers are really worried about Global Warming and stuff like that and I bet they will digg your story simply because they think they are helping the environment..

Dress your stories with these keywords and see if you can make it to the frontpage and then do remember to thank me after you make it..

33′Rockers V2 is now Live

This post made by the previous owner of 33rockers.com. In fact, as maxpower.ca points out, the “V2 design” (now in transition to a new design by me), was actually an uncredited template: Utom - U4 Theme

-Warren Cardinal, new owner

So many of you have might noticed that I have got a new design up and running on 33′rockers. Past few days I have spent on debugging and optimizing the code for faster load times and cross broswer rendering. I think for the first time in my life I have got a design that looks perfect in both IE and Firefox. I am also updating Fauxed and Crystal and you might see them pretty soon.

Here are some salient features of the 33rockers V2

• 1) Faster Load Times

Earlier it was about 120-130k per page on an average and now I have managed to squeeze it to 30-40k. I am also planning to shift the shelf effect in moo.fx to make the average page size under 20k. Look out for some more performance tweaks in the near future.

• 2) Well Laid out Navigation

Browsing 33rockers is now a breeze because you can easily find the stuff you are looking for. You also see a fauxed footer in action that display’s the latest posts throughout the site. Very soon you will have integrating bookmarking (del.icio.us) and other nifty features.

• 3) Valid CSS and XHTML

33rockers now spits out valid CSS and XHTML (most of the times). It wasn’t so before and now it is. I know this can be hard at times..

• 4) Better Search Engine Optimization

The new look of 33rockers is also better optimized for search engines. With Search Engine friendly titles and well laid out internal linking structure the job is more easier for the search engines. To tell you onething the indexing activity has picked up in the last couple of days.

• 5) Better Content Presentation

I felt that the old design had a pretty bland content presentation. Its not so anymore. I can assure you that now on you will like visiting 33rockers more often for new content and ideas.

This was it. If you have any suggestions and ideas then please let me know. I would be glad to get things done. Hopefully blooging becomes more of a pleasure rather than an activity from now on.. Starting next month 33rockers will be holding two projects, one of which is a Campaign. So stay tuned to 33rockers and I bet 33rockers is going to be all the more rocking from today.

On an other note I have also submitted 33rockers for round 5 of 9rules submissions. I think I will be just praying that I somehow make it to 9rules simply because I LOVE IT…

20 Must Have Firefox Addons

If you are a Firefox freak then these are the addons you must posses on your favourite browser…

• Answers

1-Click Answersâ„¢ saves you time by instantly delivering the information you are looking for. Press Alt (or Option on a Mac) and click any word to get a quick, relevant definition or explanation, drawn from a collection of over 100 reference titles. You don’t even need to highlight the word!

• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer

If you use Firefox on more than one computer, you’ll want Foxmarks. Install Foxmarks on each computer, and it will work silently in the background to keep your bookmarks synchronized. As a bonus, log in to my.foxcloud.com from any computer anywhere to access your bookmarks.

• Performancing

Performancing is a full-featured blog editor that sits right in your Firefox browser and lets you post to your blog easily. You can drag and drop formatted content, including images, from the page you are browsing and take notes as well as post to your blog.

• JAJAH

JAJAH lets you make free or very low cost global telephone calls directly from Firefox using your regular mobile or landline phone. No headsets, microphones, special equipment, or fees are required.

• StumbleUpon

StumbleUpon allows you to discover and share great Web content matched to your personal preferences. Whether it’s a website, video, picture, game, blog, or wiki, StumbleUpon helps you find interesting pages recommended by like-minded people with a single click of the Stumble! button

• FoxyTunes

Do you listen to music while surfing the Web? FoxyTunes places remote controls for the media player of your choice within Firefox so you can control your music without leaving the browser. Also explore the Web while listening to music—and more.

• Sage

Sage helps you discover and read RSS and Atom feeds from your favorite websites. Watch your friends’ blogs, or stay on top of hundreds of online publications with notification of new content and easy-to-read newspaper-like rendering.

• Forecastfox

Forecastfox displays current conditions, radar, severe weather alerts, and up to a week of forecasts as customizable icons and text descriptions. Mousing over the icons brings up additional details, also fully customizable. Users can define profiles to track multiple locations all around the world.

• Delicious Bookmarks

This extension provides an alternative to the Firefox bookmarks experience by integrating your browser with del.icio.us, the leading social bookmarking service on the Web. This makes it much easier to access your bookmarks wherever you go and keep them organized no matter how many you have.

• Map+

Map+ enables you to quickly view a map of a selected address in Firefox without changing windows or tabs. An entry to the context menu renders a quick, embedded Yahoo! map of your highlighted address. You can also customize aspects of the map display, including window location, height, and width.

• FireBug

FireBug lets you explore the inner workings of Web pages. All of the tools you need to debug and perfect your JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and Ajax are brought together into one seamless experience, including HTML and CSS inspectors, a debugger, error console, and command line.

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Wordpress Now Supports User Domains

Every Blogger wants his blog to look more professional by having a domain name rather than a subdomain like (username.wordpress.com) and that was the main reason why I moved to a self hosted platform. Folk at Wordpress.com realized this need and now they give you a option to choose your own domain name.

Simply go to Options > Domains in your WP Admin Panel and enter your domain name in the box. If you registering a new domain, they charge you 15$ per year (all inclusive), else if you already own a domain name, you can map it for 10$ per year and update your nameservers.

Any visitors to your blog’s old URL will be automatically redirected to its appropriate new URL. If you don’t like the domain name, you can always revert back to your same old subdomain. Pricing seems to be pretty reasonable to me. What’s your opinion ?

Although I don’t have a blog at Wordpress.com, I really welcome this new feature and I hope Wordpress.com allows bloggers to place ads on their blogs in future (Consider this as my Wishlist)

P.S Some Users have randomly been given a free domains for a year. A Handful of them rather. If you have a blog at wordpress.com check out your dashboard and if you don’t have one register yourself and you might be lucky enough to free domain..

See Domain Registration and Mapping and Trick Or Treat: Domains for More Details..

Firefox 2 is Live!!

Finally the long wait is over !!, Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Final is now officially released and can be downloaded from GetFirefox.com. Now rediscover the Web again with a new Visual Looks, Built-in phising Protection, Inline Spell Checking, Enhanced Search capabilities and lots more. Read the release notes for more details

They have completely redesigned their website, it looks pretty neat and eye pleasing. New referral banners are up at SpreadFirefox.com, Go get it now !

Firefox 2 is Out

Although scheduled for a public release on Tuesday, Mozilla has uploaded Firefox 2.0 to their FTP site Sunday night, you can get it now! Download Firefox 2.0

Click Here to Download the English (U.S) Edition.

Firefox 2.0, the free 5-megabyte browser now available in 39 languages, is set for a release on Tuesday, October 24th, 2006. The fox will be showing off a new interface that improves usability, and will still support existing themes. Built-in phishing protection is nice addition to the package as it will protect users from web forgeries. This list will be automatically updated regularly.

iPod Turns 5ive Today

TODAY, OCTOBER 23, is the fifth birthday of the Apple iPod, the iconic device that defines our era as distinctively as the Sony Walkman defined the 1980s. One sign of an iconic product is that an entire ecosystem of goods and services evolves around it. This happened with the walkman, and it is happening now with the tiny Apple music player.

You can buy all kinds of holders and ’skins’ to protect it from damage; minispeakers that plug into it; microphones that turn it into a digital audio recorder; small radio transmitters that beam songs to the nearest FM radio; attachments that turn it into a breathalyser; underpants
with special iPod-sized pockets and — I kid you not — a customised toilet-roll holder with a charging dock for your precious device while you are, um, otherwise engaged. (Only $99.95 from www.old-fashioned-values.com.)

To mark the anniversary, Steve Jobs, Apple’s mercurial CEO, gave an interview to Newsweek. He said two interesting things. The first came when he was asked why Apple had succeeded with a music player when many other more experienced consumer-electronics companies had failed. “We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes,” replied Mr. Jobs. “We decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.”

That’s spot on. Before iTunes evolved, there had been lots of other CD-ripping MP3 management programmes, many of which were technically adequate but disastrous in terms of aesthetics and user-friendliness. The iTunes software was lovely to look at, slickly efficient in operation, and intuitively obvious in use. And the iPod hooked seamlessly to the programme. Suddenly, updating your mobile player became a doddle, rather than a demonstration of technical virtuosity.

The thing just worked. Without iTunes, the iPod would have been just another gadget — nice to look at and handle, maybe, but in the end just as useless as the average discarded PDA. As a system, iPod plus iTunes turned out to be greater than the sum of its parts. This echoes some advice given recently by Forrester Research, a consultancy, which advised companies to “sell experiences, not gadgets.” This insight came from the discovery that most people who have been sold HDTV sets don’t realise that to get the benefit of the new technology they also have to subscribe to a high-definition TV channel. Mr. Jobs spoke about how he persuaded the record companies to allow him to sell tracks on the iTunes store. He waged an 18-month campaign in which he pestered the companies while they experimented with their own disastrous download sites.

“Remember,” he continued, “it was initially just on the Mac, so one of the arguments that we used was: if we’re completely wrong and you completely screw up the entire music market for Mac owners, the sandbox is small enough that you really won’t damage the overall music industry very much.” This must be one of the few cases in business history where having a small market share gave a decisive advantage. ‘

The Apple iPod turns five today

The little white box has come to define our social age