The Net
My blog is worth $430,744.02.How much is your blog worth? The last time I check the Business Opportunities Weblog calculator, it said my blog was worth $6,209.94. It looks like I’ve gone up quite a bit since then. How did the Business Opportunities Weblog came up with that figure? It was inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of […]
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Investing
This is an update to my post about Making Money Off Citibank MasterCard. The purpose of this post is to show how banks use these 0% balance transfer promotions to put you in the credit card trap. Banks are in the business to make money, not lose money by giving out zero interest loans. They have many tricks up their […]
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Investing
I was over at Stephen Fung’s blog and noticed he posted a story on a promotion from Citibank MasterCard. Right now, Citibank is offering 0% balance transfer until October 2007. Whenever I read about these promotions, I always get an evil smile because it’s a great way to make some money off the bank’s back. To get the promotion offer, […]
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Cars
Normally I don’t like electric cars or hybrids. It’s not that I am environmentally unfriendly, it’s just I find electric cars to be not sporty enough for my taste. Well, it seems that Tesla Motors has the answer to helping the environment and driving around in a cool car. I first read about the Tesla Roadster in Car & Driver […]
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The Net
Come on everybody! Let’s all party like it’s 1999! First AllAdvantage comes back and now Boo.com is following right behind. For those who were not around the first time, Boo.com was to be for cloths what Amazon.com was for books. They were one of the biggest flame out when the Internet crashed. In 1999 Boo.com, a fashion retail site, burnt […]
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The Net
I’ve just found out from HMTKSteve that he tried to submit my Coming Full Circle story to Digg and found that Digg had banned my URL. I sent Digg an email asking for an explanation. Here’s the reply I got: When submitted stories are consistently reported as spam and users complain via our feedback email about submission spam, we ban […]
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Ramblings The Net
This is part 4 of my In The Beginning post, which details how I got started in web publishing. When we last left part 3, Google has launched AdSense and was bringing the Internet back to life. I was starting to make serious money again and things were looking good. December 31 2003 I was at a New Year’s Eve […]
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Ramblings
Man, that’s a big fish! A British angler has landed a European record on his first catfishing expedition. Carl Smith, pictured right with friend Dave Jones, caught the 226lb wels catfish while on holiday in Spain. The two men struggled with the 8-foot monster from the sea for more than 90 minutes. I wonder if they did the catch like […]
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