Aboogy - free bookmark manager and startpage

Aboogy is a free, new, innovative, and fully customizable Internet startpage and personal bookmark manager. So what? There are so many free startpages and bookmark managers, that the service should offer something new to get public attention.

Why do I think, that Aboogy is offering something different?

* You choose yourself what elements should be presented on your bookmarking page. There is set of default preloaded information that you may immediately remove.

* You create a list of links to the Web sites that you like.

* You can create categories of Web sites and group your bookmarks as you wish.

* You can easy manipulate the page elements with drag-and-drop approach.

* You can bring the most frequently used sites on the top of the page with pictures associated.

* You can import bookmarks from your browser for mild start.

* You can install a small widget to add bookmarks from your browser (IE or FireFox) with one click.

If you like the description, just check the site: http://www.aboogy.com/

Aboogy - free bookmark manager and startpage

If you want to continue search for your favorite online bookmarking solution, check the rating list of 62 top social bookmarking sites on RateItAll:

http://www.rateitall.com/t-24375-social-bookmarking-sites--free-online-services.aspx

Charles Aznavour on Internet Radio

In my recent publication, I have presented MediaMaster as an excellent free solution to share your music files with your friends. So, now, I want to offer you the first collection, I have uploaded for your attention.

Legend of French Chanson - Charles Aznavour!

Radio Station includes 141 songs from 9 albums. No player needed to enjoy the music!

Unfortunately, that Radio Station Widget fails once a while (the guys still in Beta), but you can access the collection through my musical portal page:

* Access the page: http://n91.mediamaster.com/player/mediamaster.jsp?uname=Nesher

* Choose Charles Aznavour in the left column.

* After you clicked on the playlist, in the right window you will see the list of songs.

Charles Aznavour is perhaps the best-known French music hall entertainer in the world - renowned the world over for the bittersweet love songs he has written and sung, which seem to embody the essence of French popular song, and also for his appearances on screen in such wildly divergent fare as Shoot the Piano Player, Candy, and The Tin Drum. His status as the quintessential French popular culture icon is something of an irony for a man who identifies himself most closely with his Armenian heritage. More...

To make a video contact with this artist, two video clips, recorded in 60s.

Hier encore (by Charles Aznavour)

Paris au mois d’aoÃ?»t (by Charles Aznavour)

Remove your personal data from public records

Just make an experiment. Type your home phone number in the Google Search Box and hit Google Search Button. What do you see? Surprise! Surprise! Most likely, you got your name, address, and a link to a map of where your house is. It might be handy, if your friends are looking the best way to get to your party, and might not be so convenient if the individuals you do not want to see suddenly appear on your doorstep.

To remove your number from the listing, go to the following page and fill the required information: http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/pbremoval.html. Note, that this operation will not remove your data from other directories. However, because of the highest levels of Google’s popularity, removing it just from Google Phonebook would be already a significant step towards keeping your personal information private.

Google Search Window 2084

Unlimited Free Storage for your Music Collection

If you are a big music fan, I bet, your music collection is already filling all the available space on your internal and external Hard Drives. Some of your composition you do not listen often, but still you are reluctant to completely delete them forever. What if at some point in the future you will have a drive to enjoy them again? Internet, as in many other cases, gives you a nice, free, and convenient solution.

MediaMaster is offering you unlimited network web space, where you can store all you audio tracks and access them from any computer connected to Internet or a streaming player. This solution presents a number of valuable advantages:

* You have access to your music collection from any computer.
* You are able to play your stored music on any smart-phones, based on the Windows Mobile operating system.
* Files relocation will free a significant amount of space on your hard drive. There is currently no restriction on the number and size of downloadable files.
* Security and reliability - your collection will not disappear if your hard drive is damaged by virus or hardware crash.
* You are able to access the collection through some special devices such as Tivo or Roku Soundbridge without need of setting up special servers.
* You can even create your own streaming network radio station on the basis of your collection, and allow visitors of your personal blog or your profile on social networking sites to listen it. You have a complete control over the musical tracks that you would like to share with your virtual friends.

MediaMaster

If the proposal sounds interesting, sign in: http://www.mediamaster.com/

For those who prefer a visual presentation, I attach a small clip:

MediaMaster

SharedReviews is sharing its revenues with members

Today, I was shopping online for the Portable Multimedia Player with Camcorder. Actually, I knew exactly what I want, as I owned one before, and I had on my mind a preferred set of features I am looking for. Where can user go to get an idea, how the product, so nicely described on the manufacturer’s Web Site, behaves in the real life? Is this gadget indeed represents a best value for the money spent? What are the hidden drawbacks, and pleasant surprises? Manufacturer or Distributor Web Sites will not share with you all the secrets, serial problems, and possible reliability issues. To give a hand to the confused buyers, making an informative choice, several online Web Sites stepped in, offering consumer products reviews on their pages.

Most product review sites fall in two general categories: professional or community driven. Sites like CNET Reviews and blogs like CrunchGear pay their professional staff to review the latest Hi Tech gadgets and give reader a trustworthy and hopefully unprejudiced, opinion on tech toys, their positive and negative features, and overall gadgets rating. Community driven sites like Epinions and Amazon encourage their visitors to post individual reviews, based on their personal experience and private opinion on the products they own or have an informative knowledge.

Since usefulness of the product reviews site strongly depends on the amount of the content and areas of coverage, there are quite a few online communities that decided to share their revenues generated by advertising on the site with the community members: reviewers and, in some cases, with readers, evaluating reviews.

One of the new communities on the market, successfully utilizing this approach, is SharedReviews.Com. They define their social purpose as “a social network that allows you to connect with other consumers to share and learn about real consumer product experiences”. Any product review, generating ads income, is split between earnings going to the review author, and some earnings to those, who spent their time to read, comment, and rate the review. This way, active participation of both authors and commenters is monetary encouraged.

SharedReviews.com is fresh and full of energy. If you are looking for some online supplementary income opportunities, it might be a good choice to start with.

Web Site: http://sharedreviews.com/

Based on the feedback of the community members, I am changing the company rating from 3 to 4 on the list of the Revenue Sharing Opportunities. You are welcome to access the full listing (84, at the moment):

http://www.rateitall.com/t-24229-revenue-sharing-web-sites.aspx

Adsense tips and tricks - April 11, 2008 - 2nd Ed.

Welcome to the Second, April 11, 2008 edition of "AdSense tips and tricks" Blog Carnival. Some statistics: Submitted Articles - 52. Published Articles - 25. I want to thank all the authors contributing to the issue. Some articles were excluded from the review, since their topic of discussion did not match the main target of the carnival. I am sorry, that not all submissions were accepted, as some of the excluded articles carried a significant value.

Sagar presents The Credit Card Affiliate Site Setup Toolbox: 70+ Essential Tools posted at Smart Shopper: Personal Finance Advisor.

Rebecca Suzanne Dean presents When To Write A Headline? Before Or After? posted at Rebecca Dean.

Woody Maxim presents The Fear of Loss posted at Woody Maxim.

Fred Black presents Search Engine Optimization - A Reader Asks My Opinion of Rasof posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Susan Velez presents High Paying Adsense List posted at High Paying Adsense List.

Fred Black presents Test, Test, Test posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Robert Phillips presents How to Use Blog Carnivals to Increase Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Mattg presents Do You Get Twitter? posted at Matt Garrett, saying, "Twitter is really a fast growing community site and providing a good environemnt to interacting with people of same thinking or business line. So, go and get a twitter, now."

Praveen presents Importance of Testing Websites posted at My Simple Trading System.

Sabrina Jefferson presents Internet Marketing Newbie Action Plan posted at Sabrina Jefferson.

Adie Dornom presents Introducing The Wordpress Post Timestamp Feature posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Adie Dornom presents 7 Easy Steps to Build Your List For Free posted at Lee McIntyre’s Honest Marketing Blog.

Cindy King presents International Internet Marketing & Keyword Placement posted at Get International Clients.

Christine presents » Incorporating a Blog on My Website posted at Me, My Kid and Life: An American Single Mom Living in France.

Fred Black presents Google WebMaster Tools posted at Fred Black: Internet Business Blog..

Brian Terry presents What are the top 17 sources of affiliate traffic? posted at Big Selling Affiliates Blog.

Bill Mcintosh presents Google AdManager: The First Product From Buying DoubleClick posted at Bill McIntosh.

Mattg presents » Blog Archive » 7 Day No Website Cash Plan posted at Matt Garrett, saying, "Read about a quick and simple plan for making some cash in just 7 days (or less) without needing a website."

Matg presents More Stumbleupon Ads Results posted at IM & Affiliate Marketing Product Testing, saying, "You should test out Stumbleupon ads for non “make money/internet marketing” niche’s, but without paying for any more visitors to the “IM” based sites."

cryton presents Adsense Ads Relevancy and Content Matching a Problem? You Have No Idea posted at Welcome Back Rosenthal, saying, "Adsense can be great, provided you can get it to work."

Robert Phillips presents 3 Simple Ways to Increase Blog Traffic posted at How to Create a DVD without Spending a Dime.

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, "SEO and Meta Tags - Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website."

Stephen Dean presents How I’ve Boosted My Announcement List Sign Up Rate posted at Stephen Dean’s Copywriting And Internet Advertising Blog - Copywriter.

Tracy Coenen presents Sequence Inc. Fraud Files by Tracy Coenen » Blog Archive » Working with the Google Ad Review Center posted at FRAUDfiles.

Sam Carrara presents My Six Figure Affiliate Check posted at Sam Carrara’s Marketing Education.

Bill Mcintosh presents $3.5 Million From AdSense Response posted at Bill McIntosh.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Adsense tips and tricks using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Saving on phone bills with VoIP: 15 best service offerings

VoIP is an acronym for Voice over Internet Protocol, or in more common terms phone service over the Internet. If you have a reasonable quality Internet connection you can get phone service delivered through your Internet connection instead of from your local phone company, or in addition to your traditional phone service. VoIP service providers usually offer better rates than traditional phone companies, but sometimes do not offer common phone services as 911 services, phone directory listings, or 411 services.

If you think about free VoIP services, you realize that none of them are actually completely free. Even in the best hypothetical case in which the VoIP provider does not charge you at all, you still pay for your broadband Internet connection. So, the goal is not to achieve completely free calls to all destinations, but to use the VoIP operator that suits your needs best. Most VoIP companies will let you talk for free in their own network but will charge you for making any outside calls.

The main way for free VoIP calls companies is to offer free calls inside their own network and also towards other specially selected destinations. Using this tactic users are drawn to make calls to free destinations and afterwards purchase credits to make calls towards paid destinations.
If you take Skype for example, one of the most popular VoIP services on the market, you will see that you can initiate conversations with other PC users of Skype free of charge. Of course, this is an advantage for long distance calls, as there is no fee for calls inside the Skype network. But if you want to make calls to regular landlines, you will have to pay. You can make free phone calls on a PC to PC basis using the Skype software, and the number of users on the Skype network is continuously growing. On the other hand if you want to reach someone that doesn’t have a PC or an Internet connection, you’ll have to pay the required fees.

Raketu applied a different approach, offering free phone calls to landlines in 42 countries and live video television. But, you have to pay $9.95 up front in order to use their free services. This security deposit is used as a credit if you happen to call destinations that are not on the free call list.

If you are in the pursuit of a real cost free VoIP service you can use something like voipCheap that allows you to make free calls to PC’s and regular phone lines. It also includes many destinations outside USA and Canada that can be called without paying a cent. The downside is that you have a limited number of 300 minutes that you can use each week, per IP Address. If you talk more than the included 300, you are required to pay for further calls. And, you are also required to pay for calls outside of the destinations listed on the free call list.

I have prepared the Rating List with 15 best VoIP service offerings on the market with brief description, access links, and rating:
http://www.rateitall.com/t-26054-voip-communication--free-services.aspx

Sources and Additional Reading:
http://www.tech-faq.com/free-voip.shtml
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/

Let your Gadgets feel your pain - make photos

The High Tech Gadgets became part of our life. How secure you feel without cellular phone, PDA, GPS, etc.? Like my friend said, GPS does not have a brain, but using it, individual looses his own brain. Indeed, in many cases, we rely completely on our assistants, and feel completely helpless, when something is wrong. What do you want to do, when at the middle of the very important phone interview your battery dies? Correct, smash the phone on the floor.

These are the moments when you wish that your cellphone - an otherwise helpful gadget - had nerves and self-awareness so that you could cause it pain. Now is your chance to get even.

Wired.com is offering you to “take revenge on all the old electronic equipment that has bumped you into a higher health-risk bracket from increased blood pressure. Gadgets only get away with these sick head games because they think they can. It’s time to show them otherwise. This aggression will not stand, dude”.

Submit your best gadget-abuse photo and vote for your favorite among the other submissions. The 10 most highly ranked photos will appear in a gallery on the Wired.com homepage. Show them your most gleefully destructive photos of computers, fax machines, cellphones, whatever has haunted your nightmares over the years. Just keep your activities within the realms of safety and good sense.

The photo must be your own, and by submitting it you are giving Wired.com permission to use it online and in Wired magazine. It is recommended to submit pictures as large as possible for the better resolution, at least 800 pixels or larger on the longest side. Include a description of your photo, which may contain exposure information, equipment used, etc. As site does not offer images hosting, you need to use your own host and provide a direct link to the image.

Samples of the submitted photos:

Gadgets Abused

Gadgets Abused

Gadgets Abused

Gadgets Abused

Gadgets Abused

Gadgets Abused

Source:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/04/submissions_gadget_abuse

Fight Identity Theft - Better Prevent than Fix Consequences

One of my blog readers asked for my opinion on the danger of being a subject of identity theft in the modern society. My initial position on the topic (before I started Internet digging) was complete problem rejection. I considered the related noise as a one more syndrome of the modern world paranoia. However, to my surprise, the Internet delivered significant amount of factual and statistical data proving the validation of the problem reality.

Identity Theft

Just two shocking cases:

1. A young teenager daughter is asking for mommy’s credit card information to order pizza for the party. Mommy posts this information on the social networking site, including expiration date and pin code verification number. Result is known - next day this data is used for purchasing food and gas in Australia.
2. On one of the employment related social networking sites, the guy has been offered a nice employment opportunity. To submit the application, he had to fill the very detailed form, where his social security number, credit card numbers, and bank account number were among the data supplied. The filled form was sent by email to the person, who promised to assist in getting the position, and submitter never asked, why employer needs information on his banking assets.

Identity Theft

There are clear cut issues that with high probability, will lead to the problems. But, before posting any personal information at all on the sites, where you cannot verify the security level, think twice. "Young people are not always aware of the risks when they post their detailed life history. Everyone using these sites should be careful to protect their identity and personal information," said Chris Ferguson, Director of Ontario’s Consumer Protection Branch. There are quick recommendations for the “virtual socializers”:

• Limit the personal information you give out online. Never share your passwords with anyone.
• Understand that information exchanged in chat rooms, bulletin boards and social network sites is not private.
• Before giving out your credit card number or other financial information, make sure the Internet browser is protected and secure.
• Install fire-wall, anti-virus, anti-spyware and security software, and keep it up to date.

"The Illinois Attorney General’s office released the top 10 consumer complaints of last year, and the top one was identity theft," said communications Professor Steve Jones. "Sites like MySpace and Facebook can be used to steal your identity if you use accurate information about yourself. It’s become commonplace for people who have been committing identity theft to look at MySpace and Facebook to get information."

The best way to keep away from troubles is to avoid giving any information at the non-certified places in terms of the data security. However, it might not be always possible. The method of not purchasing online or not using credit cards is quite effective, but it is so inconvenient that I would not even consider that as solution.

As always, Internet will assist us in the troubles prevention. FreeIDENTITYprotect (http://www.freeidentityprotect.com/free.php) provides registered users with the ability to proactively protect them from identity theft. The project puts together at one place all identity management tools, freely available online for your use and does not charge for that. This service provides access to the leading protection services from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, the Direct Marketing Association, and the National Credit Reporting Agencies. It includes contact to free credit reports from all three credit bureaus, credit bureau fraud alerts, credit card offer reduction, National Do-Not-Call List access and a junk email reduction service. Consumers are provided with step-by-step instructions, instructional videos, and alerts for obtaining their next free credit report and for re-registering for a fraud alert.

The reason for the free assistance is to promote the premium and billable advanced security solution on their site. The premium upgrade monitors the Internet black market for compromised personal information, and alerts the consumer if their personal information such as credit card and social security numbers are found. This will enable consumers to proactively take action and help prevent an identity thief from using their good credit. It also provides a $1 million service guarantee, $25,000 of identity theft insurance, and access to identity theft specialists to help consumers restore their good credit and name should an identity theft occur.

Sources and Additional Reading:

http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/April2008/02/c9416.html

http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2008/03/31/Features/Identity.Theft.On.Networking.Sites-3290744.shtml

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/04/prweb825384.htm