Google is yet again is trying to dominate the Internet.

On Friday they issued a blog post Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on March 1 2010. Why, you may be asking? They claim security issues and say that they newer version of Google apps and sites will be too much for the older version.

They will support(or at least for now) IE 7+, Firefox 3.0+, Chrome 4.0+ and Safari 3.0+. They did not say if they would or would not support Opera.

In reality, I believe that they are making way for cutting out total support of any 3′rd party browser support for their services. Personally I have tried Chrome and I think that it is deeply lacking the major features that Firefox and IE can offer.

Anyway, if you still are using IE 6 and want to use Google services, you have until March 1st to upgrade to a newer browser.

Feel free to comment about your thoughts and feelings towards Google’s new move.

photo credit-Ambrozjo from Stockxchng

Okay, I know that I haven’t post that many updates which sucks. But I on the other hand have been busy with work and my real personal life. But I am hoping to post here more often again.

But back to my topic! I joined a site called IMshopping.com and I love it. They have asked us members who have been picked as guides to share this info-

“Just wanted to pass on that IMshopping has lowered the hiring age to 16 so if you have teens that are interested in becoming pt paid guides then they can certainly sign up, answer 25 questions minimum and apply for a position. IMshopping is a shopping question and answer site that pays weekly by paypal on a $20 minimum. They can compete to win Best Answers too for $2 each.

Also EVERYONE over 13 years is eligible for the 2 weekly $50 prizes for Most Creative and Most Actively Viewed questions. So be sure to ask questions on the site to win!

Check it out at IMshopping.com”

This is a great way to make extra money even if you do not get to be a shopping gude. Many people have great reviews for them.

Regarding if they hire non-USA based guides, I’m not sure. They most likely don’t, but you can contact them to ask.

It never ends! After two failed attempts last year, Microsoft is once again trying to buy up Yahoo.

Last year, Microsoft placed a $47.5 billion(USD) bid on acquiring Yahoo. The then-Yahoo CEO declined sayting that they had zero in being bought. However, with the new CEO of Yahoo and current CEO of Micrsoft both say that they are willing to get a deal for both sites.

Main reason why? To give Google a run for their money!

I wonder if it indeed will go through? And if so, will Yahoo.com and MSN.com stay as we know them?

Your thoughts?

After a month long waiting, I finally can give you all an update.

You may wonder why I haven’t posted that much about it or maybe you even thought I forgot about it? Well no, I haven’t. I was looking hard for a host that would offer what I am looking for. But I have found it and now working on building it up.

Got any good ideas for free wordpress themes? I am looking for something magazine style!

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Since last month, my top post was about downloading music illegally and the ethics behind it-I figure I would look into free music downloads for my readers and vistors.

Well let me start by saying it isn’t easy. Many claim to be free or legal, but are neither. So my goal to get a list of 100% free and legal music downloads. I will also give a list on what is not legal and also for the paid legal services.

Enjoy and please give feedback.

What Is Illegal?

Torrents

People To People (p2p)

Music Search Engines with links to user uploaded files

What Is Paid Legal?

iTunes

Amazon(though they also offer a few free songs)

MP3.com

Napster(was illegal, now legal)

and many more

Now for a list with free music downloads

E-Zmusic

We7

Amazon

Like I said, not many. They used to have one more, but they shut down their doors recently.

Know any more? Feel free to comment or contact me, via the about me page. Plus if I find anymore, I will post them on this blog.

This is the first guest post in my series of guest post. If you’d like to do a guest post, please feel free to email me(email address can be found on the about page).

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This article assumes that you already have a blog set up and a
reasonable amount of regularly updated content within your blog. If not you need to set
yourself up with a blog site from somewhere like http://missvirtualreality.blogspot.com.

I myself had a blog, in which I was earning with via the following methods
but had to quit blogging due to personal reasons.

So please read this thoroughly only to make a good sum of money:

1)Money4Blogs:
 Money4Blogs pays you to place a static text link on your blog. I
have heard that you can even earn more than $100 on a PR5+ blog.
If you have a PR2 blog chances are that you can make up to $30 to place a link.

Usually you have to submit your blog or blogs to Money4Blogs and
they will check out your blog and if appropriate make you a very
reasonable offer to place a small text link on your site. They accept
only English language blogs and blogs older than 3 months with
regularly updated content. You get paid instantly via Paypal once your
blog is approved.

2)Google Adsense:
 If your site generates a reasonable amount of traffic you can
use adsense for your blogs.

I don’t think I need to explain to you about adsense. The info
is easily available and you can learn about it by googling for it.

3)MyLot:
 MyLot is a forum discussion site, where you create discussions for
other people to join and comment on, as well as comment on discussions
that other people have created.

You can also upload photos and you get paid, both for getting involved in
discussions as well as uploading images.

Although the money paid out is small, you need to think outside the
box, money can be earned via referrals and you can also refer related discussions back
to your own site, so the opportunity to get extra traffic should not be ignored.

They pay monthly, if your balance has reached at least $10 via PayPal.

4)Article Writing and Revenue sharing sites:
To become a problogger and start earning money you need to build a
reputation for your writing in the blogosphere. You can make it by writing articles for
sites like Isnare and ezinearticles.com, where they allow self promotion.

You can get quite a number of interesting visitors to your blog via this method.
 There are many other paid article writing sites and revenue sharing article writing sites,

notably Triond.com, Groundreport.com and Bukisa.com for US as well as
non-US residents, while Helium, AC and Textbroker which are only for US
citizens.

These sites don’t allow self promotion, but you can cunningly do it to get interesting backlinks and readers to your site.

These sites pay you for pageviews and also share part of revenue
generated. by ads on your articles.

There are also a few revenue sharing sites notably Hubpages.com
which pays 60% of adsense revenue, you can also add your eBay affiliate codes as well as Amazon
affiliate codes too.

5)Pay Per Post sites:
 Once your blog gets a good PR(usually PR2+) you can get paid to post
for companies like PayPerPost, Blogvertise, Blogitive, Smorty, etc.

You normally have to write 200 words with mostly 2 links in your post. Due to changes in Search engine
algorithms and many alterations in the search engines, nowadays its really hard to get opportunities,
but if you get one don’t miss it. Its surely going to make you easy money.

6)Money4banners:
 If your blog is among the following niche: health, insurance,
finance, then you should give Money4banners a shot.

They pay you sign up bonus of $10 and pay you a
fixed money every month to place 3 banners on three different pages of your site.

They pay $5 every month via Paypal.

These are some of the methods by which you can earn a definitive income via
your blog provided your blog is regularly updated and has UNIQUE CONTENT.

I thank Sarah for this opportunity to increase my audience and I am looking forward to more such stuff.

Please leave some feedback.

About The Author-Boney Sharaon is  a Indian geek blogger trying to make some money via blogging. He had a blog  called I Seek Dollars with a good following which he abandoned later(for which he  regrets now).

You can read more of his articles at his new blog JUNKAMANIA!

If you are paid to test products, to place links or given freebies-you may need to place a disclaimer by the end of the summer!

The FTC are in the talks about how to regulate bloggers and what they earn or get for their blogs. While the rules have not been set yet, they will be voted on by the end of summer.

How do you feel about this? Will it effect you?

 You can read the whole article here.

Well I found a forum post about creating a blog for free and turning it into a money maker. So I am going to try it! I will cover it both here and my other tech blog, so stay tuned to this fun and exciting new project!

BTW-I will be putting my steps here for anyone and also feel free to give tips. I look forward to doing this and please feel free to join in this fun.

Rules-
1:I will not spend a dime on a thing! No paying to promote,domains or hosting(I will use a free domain and hosting plan, I’ll give you the links tomorrow). If this doesn’t work, then I won’t feel bad about spending money!

2:Must be WordPress, easy to use and expand the site.

I might add rules as time goes and be sure to come back for updates.

Will you join?

If this story doesn’t make you quit, then I don’t know what will!

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A single mother has been sued by the RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America) for downloading 24 songs illegally using KaZZA file sharing software.

The price for each song $80,000.00 per track.

And this isn’t the first case or likely the last  to be made about downloading music illegally. So if you don’t want to risk it, don’t download illegally!

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Source

Some of you may or may not know that I am a freelance writer and pro-blogger. So many times I get asked for advice or tips, so what is better than to post them right here on my blog?

So enjoy, comment, subscribe, bookmark, and whatever else you want to do. I always love feedback!

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Freelance writers are in more demand now, than ever before in history. Why?  Because the internet is growing-the need for fresh, new content is consistent for any blog/site or business to survive. But with all this being in such a  huge demand, it’s easy for freelancers to accept jobs that are not worth their time for the little pay they offer in return. Most “gigs” that are post posted are not real jobs, they are ad revenue sharing sites that you may or may not earn anything from. Basically that means you will only earn a percentage of the ad revenue that the site makes-if you make anything at all based upon page views. You will not be able to live off that at first if you even make anything off it. So I will am giving you some basic tips in order to help freelancers who are just starting up in this type of work.

1-Create a blog, yes a free and simple blog about the topic you are passionate about and want to write about. You can create one for free via Blogger or WordPress, that can be customized. You can buy a domain for them, they can be cheap and you pay only once a year or for even up to 10 years. Start writing content for it and promoting your site. This blog will help you build your portfolio and for you be have some published works.  Also you can place ads on it, so you can start making a little bit of money prior to getting paid gigs. But be warned, it does take time to build up a readership and good amount of traffic for your blog to become a big money maker.

2-Write for Helium, Associated Content,  and other paid content sites. While they don’t pay much, it does give you some leverage in job search.

3-Once you have enough content saved(that takes about two months), you can start applying for writing gigs at last. Start your search with Craigslist.org writing ads, then work your way to writers communities that post job leads. Apply and look every week day as you would for a outside the home type job, for the best chance.

4-Also check out sites like Media Bistro and Performancing.com, they also have listings with that type of work.

After you start applying for these gigs, you will start getting emails back from the ads you responded too, respond back to them as soon as you can for the best shot. At first you will get for some not so hot gigs, but don’t get burned by that. You will get some better paying jobs and as you build up your work experience up more, you should be able to earn more over time.

Good luck and keep trying. It is a rewarding career to work in.

Please feel free to ask questions, email me at s_peel00(at)yahoo(dot)com.

Some of you may know that I tried to blog with Today.com, but that failed(more on that in another post!). Well I have been thinking and thought I’d give it another try.

So I joined Orble.com, at first I didn’t have much hopes for it because I just don’t see how you can make money via that. Though the network did look active, I just didn’t have much hope. But I quickly learned that if you do well enough, they will promote your blog to take over a older one with it’s own domain! So I followed the rules and just didn’t think much about it.

Next day, I found out that I was promoted and took over Techielady.com!

It’s been a little over a week now and I am already bringing in some money. Not much, but it is a start. And I am hopeful.

What’s your luck with revenue sharing sites? Any tips or sites I should check out? What about upfront payment sites?

xoxo-

mvr