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BlogRush is Shutting Down
Today morning I was checking my email and found that “Blog Rush is shutting down”. I’ve been a fan of blog rush not because it’ll bring visitors to my blog but I can find and collaborate with blogger of same niche.
Blog Rush worked well but they couldn’t monetize from Blog Rush as the predicted, so the CEO John Reese is shutting down the site. All Blog Rush users are requested to remove the Blog Rush code from their sites.
I hardly believe that monetization is the only problem that forced the closing down of Blog Rush. They could have monetized their product by giving Ads in the badge or by adding advertisements in their site. I’m sure there are some other reasons why they brought down the system.
Reese Explains in his web site “I expect that there will be many BlogRush critics that will rejoice in hearing this news and relish in saying, “I told you so” and that’s fine. At least I had the guts to take a risk and to at least give the idea a try. I’ve become a successful entrepreneur (online since 1990) because I am not afraid to fail. I’ve had many ideas that didn’t work, and this one certainly won’t be the last.”.
Check out the email that I received.
After careful consideration, we have decided to shutdown the BlogRush service. If you have the widget code on your blog you will need to remove it.
When BlogRush launched in late-2007 it spread like wildfire all over the Web. Thousands of bloggers were talking about it and the service exploded to become one of the fastest growing free services in the history of the Web. During the first year of the service it successfully served 3.4 Billion blog post headlines and the BlogRush widget could be found on blogs all over the world; even up until the moment we closed down the service.
BlogRush didn’t grow without its fair share of problems — from security issues to abusive users trying to ‘game’ the system to much lower click-rates than expected. We also had some problems with trying to fairly control the quality of the network, and in the process made many mistakes in deciding what blogs should stay or go. All of these issues, ultimately, limited the service’s full potential.
Our team worked very hard to try and build a service that would truly help bloggers of all sizes get free traffic to their blogs. This was our primary focus. Not once did we ever try to monetize the service with ads or anything else. BlogRush never made a single penny in revenue. We wanted to be able to help our users FIRST and then worry about monetizing the service later. Unfortunately, the service didn’t work out like we had hoped. (It happens.)
I want to say “Thank You” to all of the great bloggers that at least gave BlogRush a test to see if it would work for them. We sincerely appreciate you giving the service a try.
We have received several offers & inquiries about acquiring BlogRush, but we are choosing not to go that route. While many might think this is crazy, we truly feel it’s the ‘right’ thing to do for our users. Believe it or not, it’s not always about the money. In fact, BlogRush will have lost a small fortune when it’s all said and done, and it was by choice. There were many things we could have done to monetize the service but we wanted to make sure it was going to benefit our users first.
Last but not least I want to say that I hope the failure of this service doesn’t in any way discourage other entrepreneurs from coming up with crazy ideas at 4AM (like I did with this one) and from “going for it” to just try and see if something will work. Without trying there can be no success. And as we all know, ideas are worthless without action. The Web wouldn’t be what it is today without entrepreneurs trying all sorts of crazy ideas.
On behalf of the entire BlogRush team, we wish the best of luck to everyone with their own blogs, ideas, and crazy ventures.
Sincerely,
John Reese
http://twitter.com/johnreese
Pay Per Post – Make Money Online
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In last post we learned about how to find jobs online from reliable sources. In this post we gonna learn how to make money from Pay Per Post sites.
Have you ever heard of online promotions? Do you really know that there are many products waiting to advertise on your website?
A quote from Wikipedia
PayPerPost (PPP) is a website which helps content creators such as bloggers, videographers, podcasters, and photographers find advertisers willing to sponsor specific content. The advertisers create opportunities (“opps”) that describe the content they are looking for (e.g. feedback, reviews, buzz, creative, video). The bloggers (sometimes referred to as “Posties”) then choose opportunities in their area of interest.
Once the blogger has written a blog post or posted a video that matches the requirements, PPP then reviews the post against its requirements (e.g. topic, tone, length) and PPP terms of service (e.g. disclosure required, no adult content), and h
There are ample of products available in the market looking for a platform to market their products. Sites such as Pay Per Post, Smorty helps bloggers and web site owners to link with advertisers. PayPerPost is an incredible new self-service marketplace that allows you to get paid to blog about the products, services and websites you love. You can easily earn $500 per month or more with your current blog!
Pay Per Post sites needs you to write some Reviews or wants you to make a buzz about a product. When you do so, you’ll get around $5 – $20 in average. Popular sites having high page rank will get even 100$ for a post.
You look for the available opportunity in their site, and take one and make a buzz about that product in your website by making a post. That’s it, you’ll entitled to some money.
For Mayuonline.com I pay for hosting from the money I made from PayPerPost.
Check out following Pay Per Post sites.
Wordpress.com sites can’t take part in this opportunity, because wordpress.com explicitly instructed their users that such activities are not encouraged in wordpress.com.
Have fun and Make some money online.
Part 1 (How to find Jobs online)
Find online Jobs from Realiable Sources
Part 1 going to focus on how to fine part-time or full-time jobs from reliable sources.
There are many websites which will promise you some home based job, but don’t fall for them. Most of the sites are cheap cheaters and they’ll try get some upfront payment from you and will vanish.
If you’re a person who is really wanna work online and have some free time then you can check out some sites such as Get A Freelancer, Odesk, guru, Elance etc.
All you need to do is simply visit one of the web sites I mentioned above and register for an account. Then look for some jobs in the site.
Get a freelancer is the most popular and highly competitive site at the moment. Currently wide rage of jobs available at Get a freelancer site. From article writing to programming you’ll fine hell of part-time jobs in get a freelancer site.
There are hundreds of jobs available on the site. You need to bid on jobs and compete with other service providers. Service buyer will choose a service provider based on the cost, experience, skills etc.
Last month, I have earned around 100$ from get a freelancer site. My first job is to install a WordPress blog for a client. It’s a very easy job and he payed me $30 for this job. Then I got another job to write articles on a Game website. I have to gather information on Game industry and need to re-write articles for the site. Third job that I have taken recently is populating a brand new forum with posts.
I think everyone can easily earn some money for their living by doing some jobs online. Never ever fall for web sites which will get some money from you and will not respond you forever. Sri Lankan may still remember scams like Sea Gull, who ran away with the money of poor Sri Lankans.
So good luck and make some money. When you make money don’t forget to send me a small portion (kidding 
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Dialog unlimited mobile broadband – A Cheat
Finally I got my hands on Dialog Mobile Broadband. As many people complained the actual speed is much slower than the promised speed.
When I try to download I found that download speed goes up to 1.28 Kbps per second (160 KBps) but the promised speed is 7.2 Mbps down link. Even though I have full HSPDA coverage in our home.
I called Dialog Mobile Broadband hot line and they don’t have an answer for it. They want me to try in a different location and check.
As far as I hear from my friends M3 download speed also the same much slower than the promised speed.
I’m just curios to know, is there anyone who reached beyond 160 KBps downlink?
Don’t even think of downloading from rapid share while browsing in Dialog Mobile Broad band. As users are sharing same IP address, only one person online can download from Rapid Share. Meanwhile if others try to download they’ll get an error message saying “Currently you’re downloading a file. Please try again”. Others have to wait till the user finishes the download. It’s so annoying.
All I can say is, it’s a pure cheat. Since the downlink speed is low, will dialog change the fair user policy??? Never… They’ll never do it.
Beware of Edna and Manchee Products
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Update (2/11/2008):The Munchee Lemon Puff brand of Ceylon Biscuits Limited was exempted from the recent melamine controversy on receipt of negative results by Ministry of Health. In sequence the product has now been removed from the list of prohibited items.
The Swiss authorities have ordered the withdrawal from shops of biscuits from Thailand and Sri Lanka tainted with the toxic chemical, melamine.
They say traces of the chemical were found in LomonPuff Munchee biscuits imported from Sri Lanka. They’ve urged other European countries to follow them.
In Sri Lanka Dr. Ajith Mendis, Director General of Health, told that Swiss authorities are yet to inform them on the withdrawal of Sri Lankan products.
“Now that we were told, of course I would be taking measures to get these buiscuits tested,” he said.
The judiciary has issued an interim order against the distribution and selling of Edna chocolate products. The order was issued after considering a petition by the Consumer Affair Authority (CAA) which said it is suspicious whether the company has used milk tainted with the toxic chemical.
Colombo Additional Magistrate ordered the CAA to produce a report on its investigations on 28 October.
Test results on the leading milk powder brands Nespray, Anchor, Kotmale, Maliban and Diamond have proven to be free of Melamine, Minister of Consumer Affairs Bandula Gunawardena said.
With more and more milk products from China and Taiwan having problem. We really have to check where the things are produced. Here is a way to differentiate Taiwan made products and China made products: by looking at first three digits of its Bar Code.
If the first three digits are 690, 691 or 692 – China made
If the first three digits are 471 – Taiwan made
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IPTV in Sri Lanka from SLT
Sri Lanka Telecom recently introduced IPTV in Sri Lanka. IPTV is simply a TV broadcast over the copper telephone line. To have this IPTV in your home you must have ADSL.
I was watching a demo of IPTV and it was very interesting. Especially the VOD (Video on Demand) is an very interesting feature. Say you have a favorite show at 7 PM but when you come home it almost 8 PM and you missed your favorite show. If you have an IPTV in your home you don’t have to worry. You can simply browse and see your favorite show at your convenient time. Also note you can forward and rewind your favorite shows. Damn cool isn’t it? Read more
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