The Net
TextMark is offering a new monetization service for bloggers that delivers their posts via SMS text message to the subscriber’s cellphone. The service will be announced tomorrow but you can sign up today. TechCrunch has the scoop. To use this, a publisher signs up for a TextMarks account and chooses a price to subscribers (either $4.99 or $9.99 per month). […]
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Ramblings
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Today is the year of the pig and I took the family down to Chinatown to take in all the festivities. Chinese New Year is a big deal in Vancouver because a large percentage of the population is Asian. Vancouver’s Chinatown is the second biggest in North America and there were many non Asian groups […]
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Today, I took the family to Chinatown for the Chinese New Year celebration. Vancouver’s Chinatown is home to the world’s thinnest building. It is so thin, I can stretch out my arms and reach either ends of the building. The world’s thinnest building is home to Jack Chow Insurance. Jack (no relation to me as far as I know) uses […]
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The Net
This morning, while I was checking my MyBlogLog community, I noticed that another site has mysteriously appeared on the list of sites and blog I author. I don’t know what site that is or how it got there but it seems someone has figured out a way to get their blog listed in the Sites and Blogs I Author section […]
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Videos
You know those “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” commercials running all over the TV? What would it be like, if instead using two guys nobody knows, we use Bill Gates for the PC and Steve Jobs for the Mac? This video answers that question. Source: Geeks Are Sexy
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The Net
Ian from Internet Business made a comment in the Showing Some Community Love post that my RSS readership went from 2000+ to 3000+ virtually overnight. This is highly unusually because RSS readership normally goes down during the weekend. I know the reason why it went up but I forgot to write about it until the The Daily Kimchi reminded me. […]
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Ramblings The Net
I’ve been having a great time exploring the member blogs in my MyBlogLog Community. Currently, the community has 581 members and counting. I encourage all readers to check out the blogs of our community members. I discovered many great blogs this way. To further reward members for joining my little community, I’ve decided to spread some link love around. I’m […]
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Congrats goes out to ilkeryoldas of The Thinking Blog for winning the John Chow dot Com MyBlogLog community contest! ilkeryoldas is the proud owner of a new Kingston 1GB Lego flash drive. In addition, ilkeryoldas also wins a set of John Chow dot Com and 1234.Pens.com pens! Look for another contest sometime soon. In the mean time there’s still a […]
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