Content Content Content - Nov 20. 2006

Content, it's what we website owners want and we seek it for varied reasons, but one of the foremost reasons for content is that it means opportunity. Community built websites can provide lots of content for you. Oh, you didn't realize you could easily host your own community? Well, that's turning into a possibility that new website owners and novice programmers can build into a website fairly easy. With new website and web-hosted capabilities, an individual might put up some of their content under your domain and advertising format. You and that community member or any of your members might easily share a little bit of advertising revenue amongst yourselves.

Realistically, any one who has a website can get it up to you in a RSS feed and you have the option of transforming the incoming feeds into separate and complete web pages, right down to an article by article basis.

RSS means a great opportunity for a website owner to have timely and current content and a sub-domained communities content. Every member can share access to personally suitable content and the automatic update of their selected sources.

Put off by the idea of your own domain community and want to do it all yourself, I mean provide manually selected articles, what you want and when you want? Want to have all that ad generation working for you and you alone? You could go that way if you desire. It doesn't have to be any one way and the variation of methods has simply gotten easier to implement.

You can find free article submission sites or be more risk taking and adventurous and even pay authors for their content. I like finding any kind of visually appealing material that exists in combination with helpful information. I kind of plug along looking for that sort of thing. The most thrilling part of having a presence on the internet(for me) is the opportunity to reach a lot of eyes and maybe enjoy a little bit of an artistic expression as well.

If you want to experiment with article submission, I like this one site for which I will provide a link. It appears to have plenty of articles, on many subjects and it allows you to have each one of them on your site in full page splendor, to add your adsense to as you see fit.

Because I've spoken of a few different things, not the least of which is RSS, I will leave some links to help with the use of that and some of the other ideas I may have mentioned.

http://www.feedforall.com/index.htm

http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2155721

http://www.mamboserver.com/

Extreme RSS Content

Web management aid

Topic specific web pages

It's ALIVE and it's LIVE!!! - Nov 20, 2006

I made a bit of a goof the other day when proclaiming that ANYwebcam had stopped operation.
Nothing could be further from the truth. ANYwebcam is very much alive and boasts a community of over 3 million.

On top of that, I re-discovered the personable nature of their top people, having text messaged the owner a few times as a result of my mistake. That's one mistake I'm kind of glad I made.

ANY-WAY, I'll give you the first name of the owner, it's David and you can read more about ANYwebcam at his own blog. I'll have the link for David's blog and the ANYwebcam site following the article.

It's interesting, relative to the timing of my first mention of ANYwebcam, that they just happen to be launching a new widget, to be used on the social networking sites.

It may very well be the first instance of a LIVE broadcast widget. Either way, it should prove very exciting and with that new development, I heartily recommend that you check out these links...

http://www.anywebcam.com

http://anywebcam.wordpress.com

How to make a special CSS Stylesheet for print

Learn how you make a special CSS Stylesheet for your users when they print out your homepage. It isn’t hard, in fact it is really easy!

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It was Already Here! - Nov 18, 2006

It appears that a few new sites, in particular, "MySpace" and "YouTube" have recently grabbed a great deal of attention, among the social element of the internet. In my rather lengthy look back at internet developments, it seems that not much new in the way of social capabilities really exists. People appear to simply want to 'see' things differently. I believe the internet is a haven for the artist and seeks change on that level as opposed to achieving any real improvement in socializing ability.

Internet innovation continues to come from new and independent sources. Big players like Yahoo, MSN, Google and a few other notables have great stuff, but I've noticed they continually feel threatened by the new developments. They respond quickly with an answer of their own or purchase one. For several years now, I have felt that those giants had some mighty powerful social tools. They've allowed people to meet and make new friends and to be able to do so along compatible interests. Along comes MySpace and the blogging concept and for that reason, Yahoo suddenly had to have its 360 answer and MSN and other players had to make adaptive moves as well.

What I notice about this latest change is that it allows a person to have a much larger mix of all the types of sound and visualization toys we like, in a primary page, a single page presentation. The tools that have allowed people to speak, view, and chat with each other change very little, only being different in the variations or combinations of these things. You'll still have to click around a bit to take advantage of all that a single site has to offer.

I want to recognize a couple of sites that really gave us a nice experience with video, long before YouTube appeared to be the only site providing video abilities. I thought Camarades, Webcamnow and Pluscams were really pioneers in giving us superb video broadcast possibilities. I know many internet socialites really like the video tools they are playing with today, but they've been here for quite a while. Camarades and Webcamnow are still around and can be found by typing in their URL with the follow-up com domain. Pluscams I've recently typed in and to tell you the truth, I'm not to certain at this time about their status. I want to mention a couple other video sites that are no longer with us (a fact I bemoan) or perhaps they have just taken on a new manifestation. Those sites are CitizenX and Anywebcam and they get my honorable mention. If I could, I would commend the designers or innovators of those sites, because what they developed was rather nice and inspirational.

ICQ as a messaging platform continues to flourish and probably has been blended more repeatedly or more often with other applications than any other program around. ICQ and other popular messaging programs have been here for some time and most have had video as part of the their offerings for quite a while now. Who should forget Netmeeting? That was the program that I most remember as I began my internet surfing. It always made me excited about what was to come.

I guess my point is that it has ALL been here for a while. Thanks to those sites I've mentioned and their developers, because they were and in some cases remain outstanding pioneers. Some time ago they gave us good examples of what is about to become a lot more commonplace!

Empower your artful creativity, compliments of Cafepress - Nov 13,2006

A thought, an idea, an expression or something else that exists in your mind, can serve as a moment of humor or enlightenment and in its best form as a work of art. You need to find the method to package it and give it a viable form. 'Just do it' is an expression that led to one of the most successful ad campaigns of all time and has certainly contributed to increased sales for Nike.

Who doesn't recognize or know Nike better than ever, thanks to that famous slogan. It takes its form in media of all kinds, allowing the popular Nike corporation to generate those higher unit/volume sales they aspire to, but most significant is that the slogan itself becomes one of the best sources of revenue, in and of itself, for Nike.

There are plenty of people who recognize the value of putting interesting or better yet amazing words in product form. They realize they make nice income with their ideas.

Cafepress recognizes the value of a slogan and in fact recognizes many other forms of intellectual expression. As usual, the internet is a haven for new business models. Cafepress combines processes, getting your thoughts on products, then making it relatively simple and painless to have a web store presence and therefore your own retail existence.
Inventory, shipping and purchasing processes are handled at their end and as you can readily can appreciate, this means quick and easy deployment of your favorite expressions with practically no effort on your part.

Check out Cafepress and give your best intellectual property a presence on the net.

http://www.cafepress.com

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Batteries powered by a single drop of water!

A Japanese inventor unveils batteries powered by a single drop of water. Susumu Suzuki, the president of Tokyo-based building material maker TSC, has invented water-powered batteries, which have an electric current as powerful as that of a standard battery. Check out the video!

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