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Monday, June 25, 2007

Innovation teaching

Conventional teaching can help in training a child to only a certain extent. It cannot help in guaranteeing a perfectly all-round growth of the child. Score is an Innovative Tutor that has a very innovative teaching method where it is ensured that the child enjoys each and every moment of it. Our neighbours have given a really high rating for their training program and we are also planning to send Sakshi for the same program. I believe it really helps..

My Email Service ranking

I have tried most of the best email services. I thought I should make a ranking for the best. Gmail has interface, Yahoo has storage, MSN has nice spam filters..So each of them have something good, and I asked some of my friends to rate it. Here is the result:

1. GMAIL
2. YAHOO
3. MSN

Got a different view?

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Paintball offerings

Ultimate Paintball is a website that offers you a wide range of brands right from Tippman, Spyder Pilot to Draxxus. The nice thing about this particular paintball website is that here, the paintballs are arranged in category, whereas other places it is not so. That means, you can directly browse through the paintball that you specifically are looking for.

This apart, the website also offers Spyder paintball guns, upgrade parts, cleaners and oil and even paintball jersey pants. So, in a word this is one of the most comprehensive websites that I have come across on Paintballs.

To add a final word: Order above $200 and get your shipping free! Isnt that amazing!

Cricket Rain!!!!!!!!!

I hate this rain that props up during cricket matches. Yesterday was one, and today it is raining yet again..well, you just lose interest in the game coz of this..huh..seriously it is pissing me off!

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Nice coupons website


Here is a nice website to find good deals on the internet. I browsed through some of their deals, and it has got quite a cool collection of rebates, deals and coupons. Incidentally, I am looking for a nice bluetooth headset and it was great to find one here, and that too with a deal. This is from the NewEgg.Com coupons and gives me a nice $10 off on my bluetooth headset. The Jabra one is available at around $26 from the original price of $35. A nice deal. I can atleast nullify my transportation charges from this!

UK Top 10

This time around there is a Tamil movie in the UK top 10. This one at number 9 is the new release of South Indian hero Rajnikant. He is supposedly so famous that he has got an unbelievable 63000 fan clubs worldwide including Japan, Netherlands and Germany. This movie, Sivaji is also the costliest Indian movie ever!

Friday, June 22, 2007

Innovative tutors

Last month one of our neighbours children attended a unique Summer camp. It was at Score. The idea is that children lose one month of knowledge gaining during the summer breaks. This should be compensated while maintaining the fun that children are keen to have during the summer vacations. The Summer Camps come handy just here..

The course includes tutoring on writing skills, reading skills and studying skills which are focussed at improving the child's confidence. All this while the child says, 'I'm lovin it!'...

ViralTags - Beware!

These days there is a talk of creating viraltags to improve your Google PR. The idea it to link to create a link farm at the bottom of your post, so that you get so many links that help your PR.

Beware, it is not going to help you as 1) Google is dead against Link farm and 2) Most of you use the same text content which Google can penalize you for duplicate content

Online Sport Betting

In the cricket world cup that was held couple of months back, there were two upsets: India lost to Bangladesh and Pakistan lost to Ireland. But it was said that more than the Bangladeshis or Irish people, it was the guys who had put money on these two minnow teams who laughed all the way to the bank. That is the power of betting, since your tiny insight can help you make a sack of money!

Bet365 is a UK based site for online casino and sports betting. It provides betting opportunities for sporting competitions around the globe though. The site does not stop with this. They also have interactive gaming competitions and online poker. You may have only one interest of these and may others infrequently. To make things easy for you, they have one single manageable account. That's the best part!

How much money can your blog make?

If you have a blog or a website and wonder how much Google Adsense can make for you, then you can check out this website called Adsensemeter. Well, the numbers are not accurate since it is based on the Alexa traffic ratings which in itself is not accurate. But it is a nice way to measure up yourself against others. For example check this:
Myspace.com can make around 16 million USD a month
PayPerPost can make $85365 a month!! wow..

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Event registration software

Regonline is now out with its new product - the Event registration software..I got to know about this product for the first time from a person who conducts 'Motivational Thinking' classes for graduate students. People register online at his website and also pay the amount then and there..I actually got to meet him when he told me about this. The software gives him detailed reports on the number of attendees and other details which makes it extremely easy for him to map the audience before even meeting them.

Recently I came across the original website where you can open your free demo account as well. I think the software is extremely useful for event registration online when it becomes useful if you know the profile of your audience. Also, you need not worry about finance management, as the software takes care of all this by itself..

All time Top three posts till date!

Nice Ideas is nearing 400 posts..This is Post # 388. At this juncture, I tried to figure out which three posts that I have made here have been the top-traffic puller..This is purely based on the traffic statistics..

Most Popular Ever : Mylot.com Ripoff
Second Most Popular : Nostradamus 2007 - 2012
Third Most Popular : Highest Paid Basketball Players

People hate me for the most popular post..I have had so many hate-comments, plus a few threads on Mylot itself calling me names!!heehee..

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Search Engine Optimization contest

In SEO contests typically, the contestants are given some weird keyword to optimize. In one such contest, ambatchmasterpublisher was the keyword and a number of links with keyword ambatchmasterpublisher and ambatchmasterpublisher only were made. We will get to know the results in a couple of weeks time. Hope for the best!

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Drug Rehab

What is it like being addicted with drugs? You never realize that you are into it bigtime, and you are getting into trouble until you somehow actually manage to come out. And this is the irony of drug addiction - People who get into it never manage to come out to actually realize the perils of drug addiction.

Stone Hawk is a program that defies this very story that is synonymous with drug addiction. The people behind the program were themselves addicted at one point, and have managed to pull themselves out of the pit. Now, these guys have taken up the task for drug detox of the patients. They seem to know best because they had undergone failed medications before learning the right techniques. Start a new life at Stone Hawk!

Need info on CPMs

I am looking for the best CPM advertising programs. CPM if you did not know stands for Cost-Per-100 Impressions. It is not for my blog; it is for a friend of mine who has a huge traffic but little Adsense clicks, so I suggested he take the CPM ads.

If you have nice experience with one of the CPM networks, please comment here..

Draper Fisher Jurvetson leads round and joins Board of Directors

PayPerPost the most wonderful way for bloggers to make money on the internet has got its second round of approval of its success and blog ethics - A huge 7 million USD. Here is the press release:

ORLANDO, FL – (June 12, 2007) – PayPerPost, the leading marketplace for advertisers to reach bloggers and other consumer content creators, today announced it has completed a $7 million second round investment led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an investor in the company's Series A and one of the world’s leading high-technology venture capital firms. The financing brings the total amount of capital raised by PayPerPost to over $10 million, giving the company considerable resources for further development as the industry’s leading Consumer Generated Advertising marketplace. Additional participants in the round include existing investors Inflexion Partners and Village Ventures as well as new investor DFJ Gotham. With this investment, DFJ Managing Director Josh Stein also joins PayPerPost’s Board of Directors.

“PayPerPost created this exciting new advertising space and has established itself as the industry leader,” said Ted Murphy, chief executive officer of PayPerPost. “Although we’ve only used a portion of our first round capital, this added support from investors unlocks significant growth potential. Our content creator and advertiser ROI metrics clearly demonstrate the upside for PayPerPost’s model. We intend to use this capital to build the infrastructure, visibility and professional expertise necessary to reach and retain a greater network of advertisers and content creators than ever before.”

Since its founding in June of 2006, PayPerPost has signed more than 6,500 advertisers to its groundbreaking service, which has enabled Consumer Content Creators to be compensated for their efforts discussing specific companies, products or services via blogs, videos or other media. The content creators are required to disclose relationships with advertisers on their blog, providing transparency for the end reader. Over 125,000 Internet postings, most in the form of blogs, have already earned money for their creators through PayPerPost’s innovative marketplace. PayPerPost recently released PayPerPost Direct, a disruptive new service that allows advertisers to contract and negotiate directly with individual bloggers they identify through a safe, managed system.

“PayPerPost has laid a strong foundation for the future,” noted Tim Draper, founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. “It continues to attract a critical mass of participants from both the advertising and blogging communities. Analogous to Overture’s sponsored search model, we believe PayPerPost’s business model holds disruptive potential and will enable the company to thrive in the evolving paid-content arena.”

To mark the $7 million dollar funding, PayPerPost has launched a new website detailing the company’s service offering at http://www.payperpost.com. Bloggers and advertisers can easily sign up at the site and begin leveraging the self service marketplace.


What do you think PPP can do with this money? I suggest them to open a new section for Podcasters and Vloggers. After they are also bloggers in the end. I bet podcasting is really gonna take off all over the world once this happens!

kNOw English in UK

There are a lot of Asians I know who travel to Europe,to UK atleast. But the sad part is most of these people stammer and stutter when it comes to English. Believe me, it is a huge embarassment when there are other people from your country who are so fluent, but you find it difficult to speak.

One of my friend from the rural parts of India was just here some time back, and only then I started searching for an English Course in England. There was one English School London that also has a lot of free English courses online, which you can use to learn english.

I know it souds weird when you need to learn English in England, but that's how it is, right!

Monday, June 11, 2007

Perez Hilton watch out!!!!!

Yahoo is now out with its new Hollywood gossip website, OMG.Yahoo.com. I am sure PerezHilton will for sure feel threatened. Or probably that is what Yahoo wanted to point out when they put up a wailing Paris Hilton on their front page! Time will tell..

Online Coupons update

I am back with my online coupon code update. I had been recently involved with a small business entrepreneur and incidentally found an online coupon for small business owners as well. These Dell coupons are offering a cute 35 percent off on their PowerEdge 840 servers with Windows. This comes pre-installed with Small Business Server 2003.

By the bye, CouponChief.com have recently added a 'how to' screencast for some of your favorite shops like Target and Best Buy. Don't forget to check that one out.

Sunday, June 10, 2007

On Mac? Now Poker!

I was not a great user of Macs and did not follow them quite seriously until one of my close friends recently brought one. I realized that while it is definitely cool, and so exciting to work on, there are some problems in that you have to look for mac compatible software anywhere you go. Because most softwares are made for the PC and not for Mac

Now, how will you play Poker online? Not every online poker website will let you play on a Mac. You will have to find them through trial and error. But here is a website just for Mac Poker. The website offers a list of websites that let you play poker online on your Mac.

It also has a blog that discusses the latest news from these Mac Poker websites, like extra bonuses being offered or other info lest you miss them out. A real cool site if you are looking to play Poker on Mac.