Technology The Net
If I learned one thing from the Facebook Developer Garage, it would be Facebook developers are great at making applications but they suck at make money online. There were nine groups showing off their Facebook apps. Of the nine, only one, Facebook Scratch and Win was making money with it, if you call it making money. The application receives over […]
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The Net
The Internet is a buzz today with Google PageRank downgrades. speculation on the reasons for the downgrade range from an attack on blog link farms, the end of PageRank, removing AdSense ads, it’s all John Chow’s fault, etc. You can see a list of new PageRank for well known blogs at DailyBlogTips. The most popular reason given for the first […]
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The Net
This is a question that I often ask myself and other bloggers. How long does it take you to write an average blog post? For me, it varies greatly. My last post about the Facebook Garage took just 10 minutes. However, I have spent as much as 3 hours on a post. Generally, the most time consuming posts are the […]
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Technology
In a few hours I will be heading to downtown Vancouver to attend the Facebook Developer Garage. The organizers of this event completely underestimated the number of people attending. They’ve booked theatre 1 of the Vancouver Film School at 420 Homer Street. The venue seats 100. However, they have 186 confirmed guests and 55 maybes. They tried to get the […]
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Ramblings The Net
*Update – We have passed Shoemoney in total RSS readers!!! Here are the newest winners of the RSS by Email contest. The prizes up for grabs were two $25 New Egg Gift card from Team Tutorials, two $25 Barnes & Noble gift cards by Shaun Carter, a 300×250 ad spot on John Cow, and $300 of promotional pens from 1234.pens. […]
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Business The Net
I received an interesting email the other day. It was from a reader who has been blogging for a about eight months and haven’t seen any results. He asked at what point should he throw in the towel and quit. While I would love to say you should never quit and give a nice pep talk about why winners never […]
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The Net
John Chow dot Com has hit another blogging milestone. The blog broke 12,000 RSS readers for the first ever. Right now, the counter stands at 12,140. What’s more, we are now just 279 readers away from having more total RSS readers than Shoemoney! This competition started off to see who can get the most new readers but my margin of […]
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Ramblings
Many people ask me how much I make on the Internet. My blog income recap is always one of the most popular posts of the month. I guess I can’t really blame people for asking. Most of us equate success with how much money you make. However, I think the true measure of success is not how much you make, […]
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