Archives: 2009 October

We knew the day would come, even though it arrived with little fanfare, when Twitter would succumb to the advances of Google and Bing or even fall to some real-world pressures to monetize its Online Business. In other announcements, the two primary search engines talked about an agreement with the micro-blogging supergiant, which allows the search engines to reproduce information reflecting real-time “tweets” which are related to specific keyword searches.

In the case of Bing, scoring a touchdown in its much proclaimed war against King Google, its interface went live immediately. Accessible through its own page rather than at the search engine home page, Bing’s interface returns a list of tweets matching the keyword specified, in some cases underneath the webpage the tweets refer to, or in other cases as recently posted tweets. They also have a prominent Twitter trends cloud to give you an idea of what is hot and what is not.

The primary reason that so many individuals are striving to do business from their homes is that there’s no need for any significant cash investment to start up an online business and build an awesome website development for the World to see. There’s also no need to invest in any kind of product development. People who have at least a little expertise in something can start by just writing an e-book and marketing it, or building a website and marketing products that are made by other people. Just think about all the people from around the World who sell products that are developed by other companies. They’re the modern version of the ‘back in the day’ door-to-door salesman, but instead of knocking on just one door at a time, they’re knocking on millions of doors all at once through the Internet.

From just about any point of view, online business is clearly a cut-throat enterprise. You’ve got to invest time into your SEO every single day, pushing your know-how to the limits while using every tool you can get your hands on to make your website a cut above the competition. More and more websites are striving to improve their search engine rankings, and if you drop your guard – even for a few days, you could quickly find yourself at the back of the pack.

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is a term widely used by almost everyone when referencing any kind of online business. For the past few years, and definitely for the next decade or so, search engines will continue to be the most commonly used interfaces for finding information online.

I met a person whose name is Ramona Goeke; I can’t tell you enough how much I’m impressed with her. Whenever I look at Ramona’s material on the game business I’m reminded of the old video game parlors from the eighties. Those places where I used to pass by, I thought about owning a place like that. Ramona has shown me that starting an online business geared toward the web games business can give me the ownership of something a great deal better than what was available twenty years ago. Start Your Own Online Business

For years now, the video store was the way to get movies. Instead of buying or renting the dvd, people now can choose a movie download instead. Following is a list of a few movies that you can get using a movie download site.

Hook, Line & Sinker: Conceivably ludicrous premise about allegedly dying man who runs up one hundred thousand in credit card debt. Even Lewis fans can be bored. Cast includes Jerry Lewis, Peter Lawford, Anne Francis, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Jimmy Miller, and Kathleen Freeman. (91 minutes, 1951)

Most people have learned something about cholesterol, and many of us have been to the doctor for a blood test to learn our cholesterol “number.” Now, however, it turns out that there’s more than one kind of cholesterol, too. Almost every day there are newspaper reports of new studies or recommendations about what to eat or what not to eat: Lard is bad, olive oil is good, margarine is better for you than butter– then again, maybe it’s not. Once upon a time, we didn’t know anything about fat except that it made foods tastier. We cooked our food in lard or shortening. We spread butter on our breakfast toast and plopped sour cream on our baked potatoes. Farmers bred their animals to produce milk with high butterfat content and meat “marbled” with fat because that was what most people wanted to eat.