There are many ways to make money online. Some are very difficult such as starting an online business, some are somewhat difficult such as utilizing and marketing affiliate programs and some are just easy such as joining a site that just pays you to click through their website. You may be thinking “I will just do the easy way to make money online, I don’t know much about starting a business or marketing online”. Unfortunately, the amount of money you make online is usually proportionate to the difficulty and work invloved in the money making opportunity. Well let me tell you there is now a website that is not only dedicated to helping you make money online but it is striving to provide you with services that make it easy for you to make money online, Blogitive.com. [more…]

In a not so covert way, Yahoo wants in on the hype that is surrounding the purchase of YouTube by Google. Recently, the company announced that they are planning on holding a video talent show search that will reward the winner with a not so paltry $50,000 an episode contract. The eight week contest begins November 13th and contestants can upload videos that will be voted on by both the public and a highly qualified (snicker) group of judges. [more…]

Think of it as an online version of American Idol as Yahoo unleashes “Yahoo Talent Show,” a publicity push for Yahoo Video. [more…]

Microsoft’s forthcoming digital music player, dubbed Zune, may make some Hebrew speakers gasp. The name for the device — which will take on the Apple iPod when released later this year — sounds like a vulgarity, specifically the “f” word, in Hebrew. [more…]

The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement.

The Japan Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers, found 29,549 video clips such as television shows, music videos and movies posted on YouTube’s site without permission, an official from the group, Fumiyuki Asakura, said Friday. [more…]

Misspelling your search query used to lead to terrible results, but thanks to search engine advancements made over the years, now the majority of misspellings are caught and search engines provide you with a suggested correction. [more…]

So what exactly is NOODP? NOODP is a meta tag initially implemented by MSN and later Google that enables webmasters to opt out from having the search engines display the Open Directory Project (ODP) information in the organic SERPs. Search engines typically display a site’s title tag and a snippet of body content or the meta description to form the listing that is displayed within the SERPs. [more…]

Local companies and businesses are looking to the Internet more and more for ways to increase business. The first logical choice is advertising with local publishers such as your local newspaper. Another common way to promote your website is just getting your URL out to your local community with promotional products such as pens and t-shirts. These are all great ways to increase traffic to your website and ultimately increase your revenue. Some local companies and businesses are discovering the benefit of utilizing Google AdWords to target search engine users that are searching for local products and/or services. I know if I was searching for parking at or near JFK Airport, I would search “JFK Parking” on Google. You can pay for any Keyword you think a user might search for on Google to find your products and/or services. This form of local marketing converts extremely well and should be a part of any online marketing strategy. Although, I still haven’t told you what the most overlooked local marketing opportunity is. [more…]

Google has released it’s online based office programs as a beta and is featuring a link on the home page of google.com.

“The combination of Writely and Google Spreadsheets seeks to solve the problem of how people manage and collaborate information stuck in different word processors and spreadsheets by giving individuals or groups Web access to the same data.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets, as the hybrid service is now known, marks the latest step by the Web search leader to apply consumer Internet logic to standalone computer programs, a market dominated by rival Microsoft Corp. “

Google docs can also be saved on your computer, edited and read in MS word or created in MS-word and uploaded to Google docs for continued editing.

Source: (CNNMoney.com)

An Ohio company’s sales get ‘killed’ as YouTube surfers cripple utube.com, a pipe equipment seller’s web site.

One place where YouTube’s success isn’t being celebrated is in the offices of Universal Tube and Rollerform Equipment Corp. near Toledo, Ohio. [more…]