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The birth of KangWeiAng.Com. My first adsense earnings. My first successful affiliate sales. My little accidents and disasters in adwords and yahoo search marketing. More than a hundred books, ebooks and special reports. Hundreds of threads read on Internet marketing singapore, the warrior forum, Wealthy Affiliate. Techniques learnt, implemented, or stored in the memory bank for future use. New friends and acquaintances in the internet marketing world. Mutual admiration for each other. And not forgetting the ugly side I've glimpsed of some less-than-ethical marketers. My realization that there's nothing much I could do about them and I can do is stay on course myself.

Inzwischen zeigt sich: Viele Mitglieder zu haben ist besser als viele Besucher - am Besten ist aber, wenn die Mitglieder auch häufig auf der Mitgliederseite auftauchen - und plötzlich ändern sich die Relationen völlig: In den USA siegte nur Yahoo Personals auf der ganzen Linie, während ebenfalls Yahoo, Singlenet, eHarmony, Match und Plentyoffish den Wettebewerb um die fünf ersten Plätze unter sich ausmachten, wenn es um Mitgliederbesuche ging.

So I did a little googling and guess what... I'm not the first person to think of this. In fact I found several people who had already coded up web services to generate a feed based on a tracking number. I tried several, but finally settled on isnoop.net's rather cool Package Tracking With Google Maps and RSS

Turn Google Earth into Google Moon. This data set contains high resolution (21,833×10,916 pixels) ground textures and placemarks for about 9,000 lunar features.

credit goes to my younger brother. sorry, you can’t rep him because he isn’t a slickdealer — but this is pretty slick for those of us who don’t want to pay for yahoo plus and don’t want to keep checking yahoo mail. it’s not perfect, as only the first few lines are forwarded, but it is free!

You have probably never heard of most of the games on GameJump but the ones I downloaded were of commercial quality - much better than what you typically find on freeware game sites like GetJar.com and Midlet.org. GameJump has games in many genres like sports, action, adventure, casino, puzzle and retro. I'm not much of a gamer but I do like puzzle games and downloaded three, a well done version of the classic Same Game, BubbleTrouble which combines elements of Bejeweled and Same Game and Magic Crystals - a Tetris variant with particularly nice graphics. All three were easy to play, fun "casual" games with no run learning curve - ideal for killing a few minutes while waiting for a bus, atm, meeting to begin, etc. .

CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck to Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN): "OK. No offense, and I know Muslims. I like Muslims. ... With that being said, you are a Democrat. You are saying, 'Let's cut and run.' And I have to tell you, I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " [11/14/06]

Obviously we’re all getting quite old of the YouTube acquisition news of over a billion dollars, but what is worth citing are the sell offs after YouTube.

I had read enough warnings about how hard it is to make HTML email look right that I decided to test the messages my application was producing on various web email clients. I chose Hotmail and Yahoo mail in addition to my Google mail account. I could have chosen AOL but decided against it until I absolutely had to–I did’t want to give them the impression that their advertising actually works, lest they produce more of it.

These are the top searches around the world in top three search engines Google, Yahoo and MSN

A month ago, I created some viral ads for branding purposes. They are suppose to be humorous and maybe land me one or two new gigs. The concept is to show the unrealistic needs of most job / gig postings on craigslist for creative. They are shot like a typical “60 minutes” interview where the talking heads speak over to another person. I took the liberty of removing the person and just having their outline to give it more of an anonymous / “any man” perspective.

China’s interest in it’s own history remains a subject of great debate. Chinese Wikipedia will naturally be a site of contention, and the history of great powers is a natural sell. Rising prosperity in Asia may not have directly contributed to the almost US$20M price tag for a porcelain bowl, but it’s certainly going to play a role in the future.

The founder of the vastly popular Web encyclopedia Wikipedia is planning on developing Wikiasari, an Internet search engine which will compete with Yahoo and Google. In an interview with The Times of London, Jimmy Wales mentioned that his web site search engine will utilize the same user-based technology that Wikipedia uses.

1. I’m going to start with an image that I pulled off of Google Images:

At least for games and other things not needing localization (*) for functional reasons, why not order from the US Amazon? Though I’m not clear how much of that would be lost to shipping.

Earlier this month the company launched a video sharing site similar to YouTube, codenamed Zudeo. The site allows users to upload and view content.

Suprnova.org launched in the fall of 2002. At that time it was one of the few BitTorrent sites on the Internet. Suprnova was founded by Andrej Preston, a Slovenian teenager better known as Sloncek. Initially he wanted to name the site Supernova, but that name was already taken.

If there’s one author I have consistently thought to be one of the finest examples of humanity, it has to be Carl Sagan. Educator, scientist, populariser of science, no one has quite made the subject to approachable to so many people. His books and TV series (some freely available on Google Video) remain some of the most enlightening and engaging material, beloved by people the world over.

Via Xark comes this enjoyable story about a meeting between Jim Buckmaster of Craigslist and some investment bankers. “What are your plans to maximize profits?” “We have no such plans.” Wow.

I went ahead and checked some of the last minute travel sites for airfare quotes. This is what I got:

I decided to investigate further. After all, as an Engineering student, I recall drinking caffeinated beverages until Physics started to make sense, just in time for exams. Wikipedia paints a scary picture:

So, the first thing that makes this worthwhile is the huge library. Blockbuster’s got nothing on these guys. Lots of kids stuff, lots of current stuff, more TV series than you could possible fathom. We even have some UK series on our list (Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie) that we’d never be able to get from the local store, or at any sort of quality from any of the Torrent sites.

If you’re someone that travels a lot or you’re planning on doing so, there is a website that features 50 travel related websites that can help you on your trips. It’s refreshing to see such a definitive list of travel sites that aren’t just the standard ones that you find when searching for travel information. The site breaks the links down down in to 9 categories to further help you quickly find the information you’re looking for.

Rabid neocon and quasi-fascist Glenn Beck as it again. As usual he spends a good amount of time on his CNN Headline News program to harp about “Islamofascism” and other related nonsense. He loves to moan and wale that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a new “Hitler” and that we are in the midst of World War III, and as such have to blindly support Bush.

The mobile application will be the next step amd will probably just involve pulling down the address and contact information for fields. So many times I've been driving out in the countryside for hours because I couldn't find the field. Sadly, CPX doesn't provide its real address on its website- only a mailing address,-which is a few miles away from the field and between an apparent junk yard and active railroad tracks. At least Yahoo Maps allows a user to hand-select a location if an address is unknown or can't be found. Who knew that they'd have a leg up on Google? Anyway, even having the field phone number would have been helpful during the wandering period.

One of the best sites to use to find out your keyword’s competition is Google. If you type your keyword phrase ‘corporate gift ideas’ into Google search you will see there are 7,660,000 pages/listings returned. To get the number of pages that have your exact keyword phrase, you need to search your phrase within quotation marks “corporate gift ideas” and you will see it has around 275,000 pages featuring your keyword phrase.

The total is 7 feeds out of 59 MMO game sites. Not very good, in my opinion. I will check back in a few months and see if this changes. Corrections and comments are always welcome.

When using the Yahoo Maps, MapQuest and Google Maps online services to plot directions from Grants Pass to Gold Beach, Yahoo and MapQuest both recommend taking the same, safer highway route, while Google suggests a shortcut through roads that become dangerous in winter.

Google has changed the game in consumer software and it has shown that the first-mover advantage can be negated by a smart, motivated company, no matter how deeply entrenched its competitors are. Using Microsoft and Yahoo’s products often leads to frustration and frequent anguished exclamations of “What were they thinking?”, while it is mostly a delight to use Google’s products. The recent updates to Hotmail and Yahoo mail only serve to illustrate how big the gap is between Google’s and its competitor’s products. While Hotmail and Yahoo are just content to replicate MS Outlook’s interface in a web-based product, it is Google that is doing true out of the box thinking and redefining how we interact with computers. And for this, we love Google.

13.) Use Groups (Usenet). Find a relevant group on Google groups, Yahoo groups, MSN groups or any of the thousands of other FREE group services and find like minded people and talk with them. Make sure your use your blog URL like it is your name.

A collection of Google Images that show the path James Kim on his quest to get help. The view from various vantage points shows the terrain and change in elevation he encountered.

So, I’m a professional computer person or something like that so I figured I’d take advantage of Google Images and it’s ridiculous search engine. I typed in “People in Maine”. It brought back 12,400 results!!!!

自从Google收购了Youtube之后，Google Video的定位发生了重大改变。如果说Youtube类似中文网站中的猫扑（80后、搞笑、有趣、沾黄），那么如今的Google Video就像和菜头的博客（成熟、生动、趣味、有用）。

I will also bring fun tips and recipes for you to try at home. As I find cool websites I will post their links here so that you can check them out. Everything from eco-shopping, where to buy biodiesel, to the daunting statistical data and news headlines, in case you decide you want to check them out.

Nilesh “Nick” Govind posted a message on Craigslist for “Carlmont/Notre Dame girls” who wanted “extra income” and began chatting with who he believed to be a 15-year-old girl named Amber. She was actually a Belmont police detective who responded to Govind after a parent alerted them to the Craigslist posting. Govind offered “Amber” $200 to be his girlfriend for an hour, according to police, and arranged to meet. Belmont police arrested Govind and reported finding $700 cash on him.

So, I watched the final two scenes on YouTube; especially the last scene, known as the chocolate milk scene, is the best piece of film ever made. You have to watch the whole film to understand how much is said when Agnes laughs at the seemingly irrelevant story Elin is telling about how she usually puts too much powder in the glass when making the chocolate milk so that she needs to pour it into a bigger glas or into two glasses when there’s no big glass… It’s just all so… Disarming.

I’m planning for an adventurous backpacking trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah next year. Other than being able to enjoy myself there my main agenda is to travel light and cheap. Have you heard of this cool website called ’50 Travel Sites You’ve Probably Never Heard Off’ (courtesy of Luggage Online)? You must absolutely check it out.

I quite understand that local maps need to be in the local language and so if I visit Google Maps NL page, it shows me everything in Dutch. And I was having a hard time (in following instructions in Dutch). I would go to the main Google Maps page (typically showing United States and would then navigate to Holland). That was until I realized that I could just load up the Holland map in English.

“Is there a bigger scandal than this? The public security forces stopped me from taking a photograph of my country’s flag today! However, Google Earth can take pictures of whatever it wants,” he wrote sarcastically, while uploading an image of the flag from Google Earth.

I love YouTube. It is very handy when you have a digital camera that takes movies, because it makes them available for everyone! And their embedding system is actually quite easy to use, and versatile. Here’s Deyen’s second ever video. Why this video? Well, he sneezes and lets a brief fart out as well. So, enjoy his spastic arm movements and listen carefully!

The latest fad to hit my office is this online riddle game called P4X The Riddle. You're given a webpage and a picture, and they contain clues. The clues are used to to figure out how to get to the next webpage. Sounds easy, but it's not. The tools you'll need to get through this challenge is a decent graphics program like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP, a web browser, a text editor, and the Google search engine. Make sure you read the instructions first, it'll save you a lot of frustration.

It’s a shrewd move on the creators side, riding the free publicity YouTube has generated for them. For Revver, it’s a much-needed PR boost in the “land grab” war among video blog sites. It will be interesting to see whether the devoted fans will follow “Bree” to her new home.

The Top 100 Websites in Kuwait (or any other country you might want to look at) are listed at www.alexa.com. The site also includes plenty of stats about any sites you might care to name. Your blog might even be there (but you’ll have to be in the Top 100,000 to get a mention).

According to Alexa’s website traffic rankings, These are the top 100 websites visited by Jordanians, ranked by most hits:

2 weeks, 0 posts, £0.15 in AdSense and 98 visitors looking for ‘naked men’ on MSN Search arriving to Fidel Gastro’s (at least when I started writing this) - therefore if it’s naked men you want then it’s tales of naked men you’ll get.

The feud starts when Ashley and Emily suggest to Buddy that their new home cannot be viewed from MyEarth (a fictional Google Earth clone), and to Buddy, one way to do that is to light up his home so that it could be seen from outer space. That's the primary premise, and naturally, by doing that, you disturb the neighbours, the Finches. So begins the one-up-manship between the two guys, egos bursting and all, as they outwit and try to outlast each other, much to the disapproval of their wives and kids.

However, recently I found out a backdoor method to peep into other people’s plugins of top ranking sites. Although, you can’t download their plugins directly, it gives clues to what plugins are driving their sites and the name of the plugins. Keying the names of these plugins into google search pages could easily bring you to the download page of the plugin.

Watching the traffic on the site, it seems that people spend their weekends playing, but when they get to work on Monday they want to surf game sites. Traffic here spikes on Monday, settles down Tuesday and Wednesday, picks up on Thursday and Friday, and then there is a big valley over the weekend.