WEB DIGGERS

Blogupp easy way to promote your blog

2009-03-22T20:49:00.000-07:00

Do you own a blog? If yes is your answer, then I am sure you want people to visit your blog. Whether your motive is commercial or just wants other people to see your blog. The more people visit your blog the better. Question now is how you get people to notice your blog.
Well you can start with advertising your blog in the internet. Wait a minute; does it take some money to advertise? Not always, you can advertise free on the net. One of the most effective ways of advertising on the internet is through exchanging links. There is so many ways to exchange links. Through article, banners, testimonials are some example of exchanging links. Nevertheless, how we get other website linked to our blog? Do not be afraid, today there is lot of online business that specialized on promoting blogs. Yes, they provide services to exchange links through your blog to another blogs. This links can be in various forms from a simple text link to the colorful animated banner. There are few which are free of charge too. Today we are going to dig one of them. Yes, today we will dig into www.blogupp.com.
While surfing on the internet, I found a website that specialized in blog advertising. There are numerous similar website on the internet. However, this website is nothing like other similar websites. What makes it so special is this website does not require you to sign up first in order to join and using the services. Fantastic is not it? To use services provided by Blogupp all you have to do is write your blog URL address to the input box in their home page. After that just click, the 'Shoot ahead!' button on the left and let the system do the rest. It is so easy that is why I like it.
Not only provide you with blog promotion through link exchange, Blogupp also provide statistics on your blog popularity. Hold down there for a moment. Blogupp does not give you login identity because you never do any sign up process what so ever. How will Blogupp recognize you and your blog? Now I will show you with the magic of open ID, you can access your blog statistics by using your blog's OpenID. Once you provide Blogupp with your OpenID then Blogupp send a notification to your blog hosting provider. Go to your blog account to grant the Blogupp access to your blog. After that, Blogupp will show you the statistics of your blog.
What you have to do if you do not have any OpenID? You must have one if you want to review your blog statistics. Well, if you do not have any yet you can earn one for yourself at Open ID website. On the other hand, you may not realize that you already have one. For you bloggers who use BlogSpot as your domain you automatically have an open ID. Just use your blog URL as your OpenID name. So, are you interested? Just go to Blogupp to promote your website or go to this link for more information about Blogupp from the Blogupp blog.

Gadget Review: Fujitsu Server Go Green

2009-03-15T19:32:00.001-07:00

Energy has been a big issue all over the world lately. Large corporations have begun their campaign to go green. What is Go Green? Go Green is a campaign to preserve the nature. How these campaigns help to preserve the natural resources? Well one thing is to design and produce hardware which more energy efficient. Less energy means less damage to Mother Nature. One company, which already started this campaign, is Fujitsu. One of the big computer producers from Japan has implementing energy friendly on some of their products. One of the products is the new Primergy TX150 S6 server. Let us dig more about this server.
Is it true that the new Primergy TX150 S6 server is so efficient? Well do not just take my word for that. If you want more proof just go to SPEC Power ssj2008 website. SPEC Power ssj2008 is the latest industrial standard benchmark, which measure the server performance developed by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). Primergy TX150 S6 server scores a magnificent performance of 1018 operations/watt. This score breaks the current record of 1000 operations/watt. The number 1018 operations/watt proves that this server is very efficient to use.
Moreover, Primergy TX150 S6 server can run under Windows or Linux operating system, which will increase its flexibility. Included in the sell package is 8 GB of memory and a SATA 500 GB (7200 rpm) hard drive. Primergy TX150 S6 server use Intel XionTM processor in the CPU, which have proven to the best server processor in the world. Intel XionTM gives this server high performance and efficient energy use.
Here are the key features of Primergy TX150 S6 server:
>> ECC, built-in RAID 1 functionality and optional ibutton RAID 5 for SATA or modular RAID for SAS configurations

>>Hot-plug HDD infrastructure (standard)
Hot-plug redundant PSU (optional)

>>ServerView Local Service Panel (LSP) optional for customer`s Service on its own
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor , provides four execution cores in one physical processor with less power consumption, energy efficient Intel Celeron processor even more power saving
Up to 4x SATA or 4 (6)x SAS/SATA 3.5-inch, up to 8x 2.5-inch SAS hard disks, 6 PCI/PCIe slots, (5 with SAS), 1x Gbit LAN plus extra Service LAN for iRMC S2

Therefore, if you search for high performance and efficient server put Primergy TX150 S6 into your consideration and budget list.
Dig more:
Fujitsu’s Primergy TX150 S6 specification
Intel Dual Core Xion

Web Alert: How Viruses Pass the Antivirus

2009-02-25T19:42:00.001-08:00

Howdy, diggers how are you all today? Are you feeling healthy today? Is your PC also feeling healthy as well? Most of you who cares about your PC performance, privacy and cyber security must have installed at least one type of antivirus software in your PC. Most of people feeling save already knowing that in their PC there was program installed called antivirus. Nevertheless, what if there is a way to pass the antivirus protection no matter how often you update the antivirus? Well that will be a big problem. So now, let us dig more into the world of virus, where the power of evil will fight with the knights who defend your PC.

Antivirus 101, How They Do It

To learn how some viruses pass the antivirus detection we must learn how antivirus recognizes a virus in your PC. Most of the antivirus, especially old ones recognize viruses by its signature. What is signature? Like human beings signature is a unique sign that belong to certain person, as for the viruses the signature can be name or code that only a certain virus type or version have.

How does the antivirus determine the unique signature of a virus? Well when virus makers make new virus the antivirus developer will get the virus analyzed. After they analyze the new virus, they will determine a unique signature for that virus. After that, the antivirus developer will send the new signature data into their users around the world through antivirus updates.

What if there was a virus out there that no antivirus ever known before? If you refer to the principle on how antiviruses detect a virus, you will find the answers. Yes, the antivirus will not recognize the virus and will let the virus get into your computer. That is why the virus makers always try to make their viruses as fast as possible through a fast cycle of works. In the other hand, the antivirus developers are racing to get the latest viruses’ database so they can determine their signature.

How to Pass the Antivirus Detection

When a virus maker want to know if their new virus can be recognize by antivirus or not, they can upload their virus into websites like Jotti (www.jotti.com) or VirusTotal (www.virustotal.com). In those websites, some antivirus will attempt to detect their new virus. When they found the virus the virus maker will use program such as EXE-packer, which will not only make the malicious software smaller but also will change the signature. In the old days, the virus maker can use the “Do not send sample” option in order to prevent the websites from sending the new malicious software program to the antivirus developer before they can make any changes. Now as far as I know this option is no longer exist due to the deal made between the antivirus developer and the Jotti and VirusTotal.

After the Jotti and VirusTotal make deals with antivirus developers, the virus makers turn to certain kind of software, which helps them to make their virus undetected by antivirus. The anti antivirus software like KIMS and AVFixer has the ability to test the new virus against some antivirus in the world. Not only that, the software can perform some necessary modification to the virus so antivirus cannot detect the virus.

How the Antivirus Developers Counteract

For you web diggers who start to lose faith to the antivirus software which currently protecting your PC, don’t you worry, antivirus developers already made some modification to handle the latest virus evolutions.

Nowadays to help enhancing your PC protection against malicious software, the antivirus developers start to make some changes on how their antivirus works. To stay up to date with the virus evolution some antivirus developers add some features on their antivirus software. The new antivirus is not only relying on the signature scanning but also put some new method called heuristic method. The newer method introduced by antivirus developers is the behavior analysis method and sandbox method. The behavior analysis method use some algorithm to recognize if a program running on your PC which can do something harm to your PC based on the program behavior to your PC’s systems. In other words, the virus is recognized not by its outside looks but more from the inside looks, its behavior for more exact.

The sandbox method is not so popular among most of PC users. Nowadays, only experts use the sandbox method due to complexity of operating this method. This method creates a virtual space on your hard drive. If you run a program, this program first will run in this virtual space, if then you decide that the program currently running is a malicious program you can lock and heal or quarantine the program. Every changes made by the program can be reversed to its initial states just by a single click. Well I hope soon every anti malicious program software will include sandbox method as their feature.

Some Word of Wisdom

I do not think it is wrong to install antivirus in your PC but the question now is how good is your antivirus deals with new viruses in the world? Most people were so confident after they install antivirus software in their PC and make them less careful when they connected to the internet, downloading and putting data on their PC. This kind of behavior will result serious problems because you cannot just give the matters of PC securities to your antivirus software, your PC security is your own problem, and if you want to maintain your PC away from viruses, you must start from yourself.

There is no 100% secured PC even you already install every top of the line, state of the art of technology, security software and patches. If you want to keep your PC 100% save just shut it down, unplug every cable connected to it, put it somewhere safe and go to sleep. If you still want to use your PC, please stay wise with everything you do with your PC, stay up to date with the information and check your PC regularly.

Search Engine Digging: How to Put Your URL in the Major Search Engines

2009-02-16T16:46:00.001-08:00

What is search engine? Well most of web diggers must have known this name ever since they start using the internet, because most of the beginners use Google or yahoo to begin their quest in the cyber space. First, because they don't know where to go, and the second reason they were afraid that they would type a wrong address to the browsers and get errors on their browser. Oh, you don't believe in the second reason. Well not for the real newbie in the cyber space, for most newbie it is true when they got the 404 errors which stands out for page not found they will get freak out and panic. So there you go overview why a search engine is an essential part of our internet life. That does also include large number of web surfer looking for specific things in internet.

Therefore, if you have a website or blog and you want to drive traffic on it, the search engine is the perfect tool for that, due to the above reason. This mean you must be friendly with the search engine in order to make the search engine work for you. One thing you can do to be friend with the search engine is introduce your site and blog to the search engine. Make them remember your site and knowing your site, let them learn about your site and in the end, they will bring your site to the right people.

In order to do so you need to register your web site and blog to the search engine. There are large number of search engine operated in the internet, if you never wonder and only know Google, yahoo, AltaVista and Lycos, well they are not the only search engine in the web. Do I have to register to the entire search engine? Well that is will be such a waste of time. Although lot of search engine is operating in the world, most of them are using the search results provided by the major search engine like Google and Yahoo. So all you need to do is register to the major search engine and automatically you will be registered by the major search engine to the rest of the search engine operated in the internet.

Who are the major search engines? Well you may already guest two or three of them. Moreover, I bet on my bottom dollar that the name Google will come up first. So all right then in order to get fair let’s start with Google. Here is how to register your URL to the major search engine, and I will give you short overview about the search engine.

Google the King of Search Engine

Google is the biggest search engine company in the world. No, wonder because from the start Google were made to be a search engine only without any e-mail and advertisement. That's why Google is the most widely used search engine in the world, it fast, rank properly, have good accuracy, dig more from a site you search and a good place to put your advertisement. Every SEO company in the world started with Google to work with their client's websites. So it is clear you must start with this search engine first.

To register your URL you need to dig into http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Have you already got there? Okay let's dig it up!! All you need to do is give the Google your URL address, don’t forget to add http:// in front of your URL address, and a comment about your website or blog and then click the ADD URL button. All done!!!

As addition, Google also have paid listing service that allow users to put their URL listing as a form of ad in the Google Search Engine Results page. This program is widely known as Google AdWords.

Yahoo... From The Biggest E-mail Company to the Respectively Search Engine

Yahoo, well not much to say, this is the biggest e-mail company in the world. The rapid progresses on the e-mail services of yahoo have lead them to be the best on this business. This is true yahoo is my first e-mail when I am started to know internet. Then they provide the users with search engine. The search engine then becoming major business for Yahoo, as they purchase few other search engines like AltaVista and Alltheweb.com.

Let us dig deeper to the URL listing. To get into the URL listing web page, you need to dig this link: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/.

Oops, I almost forget, before you can submit your URL on Yahoo, you need to sign in with your Yahoo ID. If you don’t have any Yahoo ID then you needs to get one from www.yahoo.com.

After all of those preambles done you just pick the standard submission to get your URL listed free to the Yahoo’s crawlers. Put any information required and follow the instructions. Like Google, Yahoo also has a commercial URL listing which you have to pay to get your URL listed into this list. Nevertheless, here I’m only talk about the free of charge one.

Live Search… When Microsoft Get into Search Engine

Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search) is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, successor to MSN Search, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo. The search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on Live.com.

The service was previously powered by LookSmart results and gained top marks for having its own team of editors that monitored the most popular searches being performed to hand-pick sites believed to be the most relevant. The system worked well.

To submit your URL into Live Search URL list just dig this link: http://search.msn.com.sg/docs/submit.aspx.

It’s free, don’t you worry about any fee required to submit your URL. After you get into the submit.aspx webpage just follow the instruction and don’t forget to write the security image before you continue.

All the three search engines mentioned above have free (non-commercial) URL listing. That’s why I put those three in top three search engines. Other than those search engines there are few search engines that require you to pay some money for URL listing.

Ask… All You Have to Do is Ask

Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the "natural language" search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything.

In reality, technology wasn't what made Ask Jeeves perform so well. Behind the scenes, the company at one point had about 100 editors who monitored search logs. They then went out onto the web and located what seemed to be the best sites to match the most popular queries.

In 1999, Ask acquired Direct Hit, which had developed the world's first "click popularity" search technology. Then, in 2001, Ask acquired Teoma's unique index and search relevancy technology. Teoma was based upon the clustering concept of subject-specific popularity.

Today, Ask depends on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma algorithm, now known as ExpertRank.

Ask.com doesn’t provide any free URL listing with their search engine. However, you can use the pay URL listing to register your URL. In order to does that just go to: http://www.ask.com/.

Is That All?

Well there you go. Those search engines are the major search engines. What about other search engines? Well the rest like Alltheweb.com (http://www.alltheweb.com/) and AltaVista.com (http://www.altavista.com/) are already switch owners and now owned by Yahoo. So if you want to get your URL listed in those search engines all you have to do is list your URL in Yahoo.com. In addition Lycos.com (http://www.lycos.com/) use Alltheweb.com as their source but this search engine crawl any web pages that has been listed in those major search engines.

Other search engines such as AOL (http://search.aol.com/) and Netscape (http://search.netscape.com/) use Google as their reference. Therefore, by registering your URL in Google’s listing you automatically listed in those search engines. The last one ask.com used as reference by Direct Hit Search Engine.

The rest search engines use special method to list your URL. Such as HotBot.com (http://www.hotbot.com/) and Gigablast (http://www.gigablast.com/) will automatically get to your URL address when you already listed on minimum of three major search engines.

Go to Directory for Some Alternatives

Directories are search engines powered by human beings. Human editors compile all the listings that directories have. Being listed with the web's key directories is very important because many people will see these listings. In addition, if you are listed with them, then crawler-based search engines are more likely to find your site and add it to their listings for free. You should prepare before submitting to any directory. This preparation means that you have written a 25 word or less description of your entire web site. That description should make use of the two or three key terms that you hope to be found for.

Consider keyword research to help determine the best keyword phrases for your site rather than guessing at what these terms might be. The What People Search For page has a list of resources that will allow you to do such research.

There are few directories recommended to put your URL on their lists. First of all of course Yahoo directory (http://dir.yahoo.com/). Second is Look Smart directory (http://www.looksmart.com/) and the last one is Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org/).

If you already prepare your website description as mentioned above all you have to do is follow the instruction in those directories. First time you may have to choose the webpage categories that most suitable with your URL.

That is all folks. I hope this information will be useful for all web diggers. See you soon!

Main Source Links:

Ø SearchEngineWatch.com (SEW)

Ø Google Help

Site Digging: Buy Sponsored Review to Earn Some Money

2009-02-14T00:58:00.000-08:00

Are you good in writing opinions and reviews? Why don't you use it to earn some money for your self? There are a lot of companies out there who willing to pay just to get your reviews about their services or products. However, the big problem is how you find the company which looking for reviews? Well let me take you to a website that helps bloggers meets the advertisers who want reviews and willing to pay for it. The website is called SponsoredReviews.com, let's digging into the site shall we?

First of all, it's obvious that you will need to sign up in order to take part of this website. But before you do that, there is some check point lists that you must check before you can start this bussiness. Okay first thing first, you must have a blog (off course), but not just a blog, your blog must be at least 3 months old and already contain at least 10 posts, oops not just ordinary post but non-commercial posts. What is non-commercial post? That is a post which you dont get paid to write it, or in other word non-profit posts. In addition, your blog must mantain the ratio of non-profit and profit post at 2:1. Which means, every time yopu write a review from SponsoredReviews.com dont forget to write two additional posts which come from your own sources. Got that all checked? Let's dig more okay?

In order to accept payments, the bloggers must have a PayPal account. If you don't have one yet, get one right now. It is mandatory for you to have a PayPal account because SponsoredReviews.com only send payments via PayPal. Well web diggers that's all the basic check list you need to fulfill right now. Actually there are more but I think if you already meet the above qualifications you can start to earn some money right now.

In order to get a job from the advertiser you can just wait until an advertiser ask you for your reviews or you can be pro active and offer your service to them. The jobs list is presented on SponsoredReviews.com, you can easily choose which one is the most suitable for you. After you got the review job you will get a deadline on when the assignment must be deliver to the SponsoredReviews.com, please don't be late because it will automatically cancel your assignment. After you deliver your review then the team from SponsoredReviews.com will check on your reviews to make sure the grammar and structure is all right, there is no offended words and all the content is suitable to the product you review. So please check your english writing skill right now. After your review pass all the test all you need to do is wait for your payment to be delivered. Wait a minute, how much I'll get pay for a review? Well the answer is depend on the bid and your offer to the advertisers. It range from $5 to $1000 per review. But if you are such a big marketing expert you may get more, especially when you gain enough reputation as a dependable, honest and proffesional reviewer. So do your job proffesionally then you will gain reputation to earn much more money.

So how about it web diggers, are you all interested joining the website? Just Click here to register.

Site Digging : Hack This Site Please

2009-02-12T19:09:00.001-08:00

Do you Web Diggers want to learn hacking? Do you need a legally online website for you to hack just to train and practice your hacking ability? Well let’s take a ride and dig to the digging tunnel that leads us to the HackThisSite website. HackThisSite? Well the name of the site speaks for itself; this website designed to be hacked by the visitors. Therefore, in other word you can go there and legally hack the website.

HackThisSite also known as HTS is a free training ground for users to test and expand their hacking skills. The organization is currently the largest online hacking community in the world with a user base of well over 350,000.[1] It aims to provide users and teams with a way to learn and practice basic and advanced "hacking" skills through a series of challenges, in a safe and legal environment. Per its size, many HTS users have begun their own HTS-based local hacker groups.

HackThisSite involves a small, loose team of developers and moderators who maintain its network of websites, IRC server, and related projects. It produces an e-zine, which it releases at various hacker conventions and through its hackbloc portal. Microcosm and Quimbys publish hard copies of the zine. It also has a short news/blog section run by devs.

For you diggers who may seek for place to learn and practice your hacking skill please try this website. Most important section on this website is the challenge. What do you mean with challenge? As you may have guessed, the challenge is the proving ground, place for you diggers to test your skill. The challenges in HackThissite.org are grouped into nine different levels based on the difficulty of the challenge.

· Basic Mission

· Realistic Mission

· Application Mission

· Programming Mission

· IRC Mission

Basic Mission…. Mommy can I hack this site?

Yes, for you script kiddies this is your chance to start paying attention to source code interpretation. Don’t expect too much challenge on this level. HTS made this mission to be an appetizer before the main hacking course arrived for you to eat.

Realistic Mission…. Oh is that real?

When it comes to realistic mission, it means you will deal with real website. Of course the website is flaw that why you were here to hack it. This mission will gives you the big picture that hacking start from the flaw on the website code. You play the role of a freelance hacker who is contracted by several individuals and organizations to hack for social justice causes. You are given objectives and left to explore the site on your own, trying to discover and exploit the vulnerabilities. The web hacking skills taught on this series of challenges can be directly applied to systems in the real world. There are sixteen Realistic Missions, which attempt to mimic real, moderate to difficult hacking, in real life situations. Each mission is a complete web site featuring multiple pages and scripts. Users must successfully exploit one or more of the web sites pages to gain access to required data or to produce changes.

Application Mission… Wouldn’t do any good till you apply it

This test requires more operating system / programming specific skills. These test the manipulation of applications on your own machine. The goal of application challenges is generally to extract a key from an application, usually involving some form of reverse engineering. Nevertheless, other challenges involve program manipulation.

Programming Mission… Make it work boys

A Programming Challenges section also exists. This section currently consists of ten challenges charging the user to write a program, which will perform a specified function within a certain amount of seconds after activation. These programming challenges range from simple missions such as parsing the contents, to reverse engineering an encryption algorithm. These help users develop and practice on-the-go programming skills.

Logic Mission… A little brain exercise

Every hacker needs to learn to think outside the box. This includes thinking unrelated to programming or even computers. Logic challenges encourage abstract thinking and unusual behaviors which can help a clever hacker to think his or her way out of a problem.

Extbasic mission…. Read it carefully

Reading codes is the basic of all hacking. This challenge will teach hackers to read codes and make it a deadly weapon to exploit a website.

JavaScript Mission… Using the script as you like

JavaScript is becoming more and more popular as a web component. Not only useful to make a website beautiful and interactive nowadays JavaScript also used as application script which is good because it can be a back door for a hacker to penetrate the website.

Stego Mission… Playing with puzzle

Everyone has a need to hide something. Encryption is useful for this purpose. However then everone knows you are hiding something. Hiding in plain site is much harder to do discretely.

IRC Mission… Ultimate mission

The final challenge is literally Hack This Site. This mission challenge the users to find a hole in the real HTS website and share it with the others to gain recognition and enter the HTS hall of fame.

Before you take a tour on the website, it is better if you learn the concepts of hacking presented on this site. Because this website has take a lot of criticism hat HackThisSite's self-description as a "hacker training ground" encourages people to break the law. Many people related to the site state that although some of the skills taught can be used for illegal activities, HTS does not participate in or support such activities. Well eventually it is all come back to us, we can learn hacking, everyone have the right to learn it. But how you use those knowledge is what matters.

Dig more from source links:

· Hack This Site (http://www.hackthissite.org)

· Wikipedia : Hack This Site

Site Digging: Earn Money Just By Clicking From Your Finger Tips

2009-02-11T19:35:00.001-08:00

Overview
Do you want to earn money on easy way? Are you bored with your ad program on your website or blog? Oh one more thing are you bored to write review and getting paid? Well now here is a website that will pay you just by clicking on the advertisement they presented on their own website. Yup, that means you can earn money just by clicking your mouse on the advertisement. If you interested just go to the neobux.com. There you can register for free and start clicking o earn money.

When you click the advertisement you must pay attention to few details. First of all after you click an advertisement you must at least look at it for maybe 10 to 20 seconds after you click another advertisement. You don't have to read about it, just keep the window active among that period of time and you will get pay. That also mean you can not open multiple window to open another advertisement before the last advertisement opened for 10 to 20 seconds.

Inside the Site
Oh before I forget this website also have tools to prevent their user from using automatic clicking machine. This method is simple though don't worry about it, it's simply after you click the ad you want to view a red dot appears. You must click it in order to view the ad. The red dot will come up in random location to prohibit the clicking machine to predict where it will come up next. The web page is using https protocol means its using a secure portal for their operation.

Now we get to the payroll part. The neobux will pay you $0.02 per click and view and if you can get refferals,every time your referrals click on an advertisement you will earn $0.02 for every click and view they make. The payment will be send via PayPal or PayAlert. So make sure you have PayPal or PayAlert account to recive your payment. You can collect your payment after it reaches $2.

For The Advertisers
Neobux also open an opportunity for the advertisers to advertise with them. Advertisers can choose the design, the payment and how long the ad need to be viewed by the users. It's easy and it's profitable because the essence of advertisement is how you get other people to read it right?

Interested to Join? Click here>>

MONEY DIGGING: SELLING WITH AMAZON

2009-02-03T19:07:00.001-08:00

Digging Tunnel :

I bet all of you ever heard Amazon. Yes, Amazon is one of the biggest online merchant on the internet. Amazon.com, Inc. is an American electronic commerce (e-commerce) company in Seattle, Washington. It is America's largest online retailer, with nearly three times the internet sales revenue of runner up Staples, Inc.

Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com, Inc. in 1994 and launched it online in 1995. It started as an on-line bookstore but soon diversified to product lines of VHS, DVD, music CDs and MP3s, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, etc. After getting bigger and bigger Amazon decided to established separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China, and Japan. It also provides global shipping to certain countries for some of its products.

One year later Amazon launched their new affiliate program called Amazon Associates. Amazon Associates give opportunity to bloggers and website owners to be one of the merchant of Amazon. The Amazon Associates program has a more than 12 years record of accomplishment of developing solutions to help website owners, Web developers, and Amazon sellers make money by advertising millions of new and used products from Amazon.com and Endless.com. When website owners and bloggers who are Associates create links and customers click through those links and buy products from Amazon.com or Endless.com, they earn referral fees. It’s free to join and easy to use.

As Amazon Associates, Amazon will provide you with tools such as Banners, Links and Widgets to attract your audiences to go and shop at amazon.com. When they do this then you as the person refers them to the amazon.com will earn referral fee. Provide customers the convenience of referring them to a trusted site where they can immediately purchase the products you advertise on your site. In addition, when they do, you can earn up to 15% in referral fees.

Build Links & Banners

Whether your goal is to maximize earnings, or delight your visitors with a unique presentation of Amazon content, it's easy to build links to Amazon.com and Endless.com. You decide how much control you want over the products displayed in each set of links.

Site Stripe

Our new Site Stripe feature allows you to build your Associates links right from the Amazon.com or Endless.com page itself. While browsing the site as a customer yourself, you can easily build links with this short cut.

Text and Product Links

Link to a specific product on Amazon.com or Endless.com and show some information about that product. The Product Links tool lets you build customized Text Links, Text and Image links, and Image only links to Amazon.com or Endless.com products.

Your links will include your Associate tag and you will be paid for qualifying sales coming through this link.
Use Product Previews to enhance your Product Links.

Banners

Link to Amazon.com or Endless.com categories or promotions using our stylish graphical banners.

Many standard banner sizes and shapes available.
Show special graphics for special Amazon promotions such as Back to School or Mothers Day.
Easy to add.
Earn referrals of up to 15% of sales.

Dig this web tunnel to see:

Widget Gallery (Widget design collection from Amazon)

A Store

However, I think the best part of this program is you can build A Store. What is A Store? The simplest way to describe it is A Store is your own online store featuring Amazon’s merchandises. A Store gives you the power to create a professional online store, in minutes and without the need for programming skills, that can be embedded within or linked to from your website:

Feature Amazon.com and Endless.com Products
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When you join this program, Amazon will assist you to survey your customer to optimize your referral performance. This is included in the monthly report along with your payroll.

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What they have to say about Amazon Associates? Well if you don’t trust what I have to say because I’m new on this business, maybe some of this links can help to convince you to join this program. Here is the links from the Dig Tunnels:

9 Reason Why I Am An Amazon Affiliate (www.problogger.net)

How To How to Really Make Money on the Internet With an Amazon.com Affiliate Site (www.about.com)

Amazon Associates also provide blog to put their news, feeds and feedback from the viewers. Here is the link to that blog

WELL THAT’S ALL FOLKS! ARE YOU DIGGERS INTERESTED WITH THIS PROGGRAME?JOIN NOW>>

For Indonesian Diggers there's also blog from Indonesia that take serious focus on amazon affiliate: www.waroengbetawi.com/

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Gadget Digging: Nokia N97 New Way to Reach Gadget Perfection

2009-01-29T15:11:00.001-08:00

Digging Location: Nokia N97 Review at GSM ARENA

When I launched my Google Chrome and browse to the www.gsmarena.com I stumbled to an interesting gadget identified as Nokia N97. Before this, I just read the review of the newest Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 then I can’t help thinking that Nokia N97 is build to challenge the XPERIA. Is it? Well let’s find out shall we?

Nokia is the most improved mobile phone company in the world. Nokia is market leader, which make him dominant in this business. In order to maintain the leader status Nokia keep improving its production quality through innovations and improvements. N97 is Nokia way of proofing to the market that the innovation has take place. But the competitors has arrived four months earlier than N97 (Please note XPERIA already hit the market now and N97 will be launch around 2 quarter of 2009), what can this gadget do to regain the market of the high end mobile phone?

Nokia N97 Apperiance

The full QWERTY keyboard and the 3.5’’ touch screen indicate this mobile phone designed to compete with the smart phone and PDA class, an indication that N97 will be XPERIA's hardest competitor to beat. The keyboard slides through the body of the mobile phone just like XPERIA X1. However, it is the size of this gadget, which attracts my attention most. To make the large size touch screen fit the body of the phone Nokia make a large dimension for a mobile phone. The dimension of the phone is 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9-18.3 mm. What a giant mobile phone it is. Well they can't help it. The 3.5’’ display is the biggest among other competitors. Wait until you discover the weight of this mobile phone. This baby is so heavy yes; it weighs about 150 grams, and it will make it a big, heavy thing to stick in your pocket.

The touch screen offers more than it was expected, the 16 million colors and 360 x 640 pixels resolution. This specification is the highest among the competitors. Big screen with big resolution and superb color display quality, this baby is every gadget freaks dream.

For the sound enthusiast Nokia N97 provide the stereo headset through its 3.5 mm jack, make it easy for the users to select from various headset product in the market for the best sound quality. In addition, Nokia gives you more with the A2DP Bluetooth technology. For you who like to listen to the music via your mobile phone, as always, the N series provide you with the best tool to use. To store applications, peripherals, documents and music Nokia N97 is equipped with microSD (TransFlash), up to 16GB and 32 GB internal memory. I don’t know if this is true but if it is the truth then it will be the biggest among other N-series.

The N-series always put extra attention on its camera performances; the Nokia N97 is not an exception. The camera used is superb, it uses 5 MP, 2584x1938 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; and secondary video call camera. You can always count on this gadget to make high quality images and video recording. Well we still have to wait to see it ourselves.

Under the Hood

Enough about the outside let’s take our next step and walk into the deep inside of Nokia N97. The touch screen user interface used by Nokia N97 requires a new Operating System. Rumor has it that this gadget will use the same kind Operating System as Nokia 5800, which is the new Symbian S60 5^th edition. The new Operating System will make some disadvantages for Nokia N97 because the third party application suitable for this OS is still rare. Nevertheless, that is not a big problem, I’m sure Nokia will increase the amount and type of the application for the new OS. Nokia will use their programmers’ network to develop applications for Nokia N97.

The phone operates on GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 for the 2G network and HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 for the 3G network. For the 3G network, N97 uses HSDPA 3.6Mbps and wireless LAN technology with Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, UPnP technology to browse the internet and send data.

The facility is a mainly standard N-series mobile phone. However, the most interesting part is the usage of the new Nokia Maps 2.0 touch due to the implementation of the touch screen.

To provide power for N97, Nokia use the big Li-Ion 1500 mAh (BL-4L) battery, which gives up to 430 hours stand by time and up to 6 hours and 40 minutes talk time give and take depends on the condition. How much you need to spend for this gadget. Well the answer has to wait until the release of this gadget, but I think this gadget will be very expensive.

Digg more at : www.gsmarena.com

News Digging : Obama the 44th US President

2009-01-20T19:05:00.000-08:00

Digged from :

BBC (http://www.bbc.com)

CNN (http://cnn.com)

Reuters(http://reuters.com)

A l Jazeera (http://english.aljazeera.net/)

WIRED blog network(http://blog.wired.com/)

Yup this is the headline in most of the news network on the internet. Even beat every news coming from the Gaza Strip. Well yes of course Barrack Obama is sentational. Not only he is the first US president who is not white but also he is the icon of changes. But the challenge lies in front of him is not an easy thing to deal with. The fall of the United States of America's credibility and economy has become his major problem need to be solved immidiately.

People in the world have various opinion on Obama, some optimistic some not. Let's just wait what can the new US President can do about it shall we? Now let's take a look what tne news network around the world has to say about Barrack Obama's Inaguration and vision.

News Websites

BBC :

Obama 'set to close Guantanamo'

US President Barack Obama is expected to sign an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison within a year. Well it is some improvement. We all know that the Guantanamo Bay is one of the factor why US credibility decrease over these past years, looks like Obama's first step is to restore US credibility in the world. read more>>

CNN:

Obama retakes oath of office after Roberts' mistake

President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday's inauguration.

The second oath -- also administered by Roberts -- took place at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday in the White House's Map Room. Roberts asked Obama whether he was ready.

"We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the president was sworn in appropriately yesterday," White House counsel Greg Craig said Wednesday in a written statement.

"But the oath appears in the Constitution itself. And out of an abundance of caution, because there was one word out of sequence, Chief Justice Roberts administered the oath a second time," the statement read.

Well maybe he was just nervous....

Website Review: Livemocha the Social Way to Learn a Language.

2009-01-14T18:30:00.001-08:00

main click :

http://www.livemocha.com/

Livemocha.com Preview

Hello clickers what’s up today? Some of you might have a great desire in studying some foreign language but doesn’t have money and time to spend. Now there’s a site in the web where you can learn some language in the world. Yup, you may wonder is learning language in internet is a good choice? Is it effective? Well seek yourself as you open the livemocha.com the language learning website.

Livemocha is a website specialized in language training and social networking all in one site. Using its social network the site give more benefit to the user because we can learn directly from the native speaker. You can test your capability after learning the basics. The test is quite comprehensive and most of all it got good sound quality to test your listening capabilities.

Looks and Appearances

The website is very catchy on the eye. With brownish color as main color of the website, you just cannot miss it! The illustrations is so bright and the link well it’s not much but adequate for users who want to login. Many pictures and artistic looks all over the home page make it more and more interesting. Nevertheless, home page like this means big file size and big money, it take some time for browsers to access it.

However, for marketing use this kind of appearance on your home page will ensure your popularity on the web. The funky color and artistic illustrations make the visitors want to come back. The idea is good, not many sites in the web provide good language training complete with native speakers. Nevertheless, to find this website is not as easy as you think, the name Livemocha are, although it’s unique, it’s rarely have any connection with the word language training. Means the web master must’ve put site description that so well for search engine to find.

Under the Hood

To join the website you must go to www.livemocha.com, and then you must register yourself by submitting your personal data. Most important when you register to the livemocha.com is to submit your native language (it could be any language in the world) and the language you want to learn. By submitting this data, livemocha.com will search for other member of livemocha.com, which speaks the language you want to learn. Question is which people will come to the top of the list presented by livemocha.com to help you learn the language? The member is chosen by ranks based on something called mocha point. What is mocha point? Mocha point is number of points rewarded to the member as result of his or her efforts as student or teacher in live mocha. When you become the member of the livemocha.com, you will earn mocha points. When you start to learn a language, you will earn mocha point as a student, also when you do test and speak with other member or teacher in language you currently learning. When you help other member learn a language you have mastered you will earn mocha point also. The higher the point you have the higher the position you have in the website’s rank.

When you learn the language through live mocha, you can have learning module, comprehensive test and speaking natives. Definitely, a complete way of learning a new language and it's now online on the web. Wait a minute I haven’t told you the best part yet, that’s right there is one more thing I must say about this site. Yup, it’s free of charge. Anyone can be the member, learn language and speak to a native speaker free of charge.

Conclusions

You can learn many languages and you can help other people learn the language you have mastered, what can be more fun than that? You have great website with great designs to ease your way in learning a new language. The web gives you links to thousands of native speakers all around the world. Well I have to say that this web site earn a five star as a language website. So are you interested to join…? Check this link..

Green Peace for you who cares

2008-12-30T20:44:00.001-08:00

Main Qlique: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/

Earth has suffered in increasingly rate of pollutant in over last decade. We've already aware of it. However, sometimes our good intention is burdened by the luxurious live we’ve been living in this past years. When we going to say that the Mother Nature has suffered enough? When we going to start paying attention to the natural conservation efforts?

Sometimes what we need is just a little push to transform ourselves into a new person. New person with new attitude, attitude that will help saving the planet we live in. A lot of non-governmental and non-profit organization in the world will help you to develop the attitude to save the earth. Green Peace is one of the organization devoted themselves trying to save our earth. A lot effort this organization conducted to fight the natural destruction. Some of the efforts make headlines on the news all over the world. Through these actions Green Peace, gain popularity then in the end gain followers and contributors.

Green Peace never took donation from any government and corporation in the whole world. To fund the program Green Peace only accept donation from individual benefactor and member all over the world. This rules applied in order to ensure that no action by Green Peace could be interfered by any government or any corporation around the world. So any government and corporation in the world which endangering the nature will get Green Peace actions.

Green Peace Website

When you sign up as a member of the Green Peace the organization will automatically redraw some money from your account. This way you will be automatically become a benefactor of Green Peace. You will get monthly newsletter about Green Peace effort all over the world.

If you interested on find out more about green peace just click www.greenpeace.org/international and read more about the organization. In the website, you can see latest news about Green Peace efforts to save the nature. One of the most interesting news I read recently is how some hackers help destroy the Amazon’s rain forests. How could this happen? How does a hacker make destruction on Amazon rain forests? If you want to know just click this link

Let us look at the Green Peace homepage. As you can see, the website is a standard three-div website. The scheme of the website is okay but the most interesting part of the website is the map that you can enlarged to view the world. Every important access displayed very well so that the user can see them easily. You can search for the link to the Green Peace home page in your country or at least the nearest to your location. You can sign up to be Green Peace member and donate for green peace from this home page. You can look at every effort by Green Peace to save the earth through this website.

Green Peace also has blog in the web. The blog known as Makin Waves consist of posting from all over the world. The language used in the blog is easy to understand and the illustration used in the post of the blog makes it more interesting. This blog use the feedburner RSS which can deliver newsletter directly to your e-mail account. From the archive list looks like the blog administrator updating the blog, content quite often. To go to the blog just click the link:

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/index.html

Then you will see the blog consist of a lot of articles and post. You can leave comment if you want and you can also put comment to the leader of the country to give your voice to the safety of our nature.