Affiliate Marketing Tools

• http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex
  Search Engine Marketing Tools
• http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/
  Web Master Tools
• http://googlerankings.com/positiontracking/
  Free GoogleRankings Account
• SEO According to Google
  Free Google Guide to SEO
• Free SEO Tools
  From SEOMoz.org

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• http://xheader.com/
  NEW: Xheader: Free Header Graphic Creator
• http://animoto.com
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• http://www.odiogo.com
  Odigo: Convert Your Dynamic Webpages Into Audios.
• http://www.socialtwist.com
  Tell-A-Friend – Free Web 2.0 application.
• http://www.logomaker.com/
  Logomaker
• http://www.opendesigns.org
  Free CSS website templates
• http://www.oswd.org/
  Free website templates
• http://www.widgetbox.com
  Free widgets for your blog

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• http://www.pdf995.com/
  Free PDFmaker (great for making newsletters or eBooks that you can imbed your affiliate link into).
• http://www.cli.gs/
  Cligs (great for making shorter affiliate links and it includes analytics!).
• http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/
  Great webmaster tool collection.
• http://www.marketleap.com/siteindex
  Easy, free online search engine marketing tools.

Internet Marketing and/or Affiliate Marketing Resources

• http://blog.affiliatetip.com
  Affiliate marketing news and opinion from Shawn Collins
• http://www.wickedfire.com
  Wicked Fire – SEO & Affiliate Talk
• http://www.aBestWeb.com
  aBestWeb.com – Trusted Affiliate Forum
• http://www.affiliatetip.com/affiliate_newsletter.php
  AffiliateTip.com – From affiliate marketer Shawn Collins
• http://www.revenews.com/newsletter.html
  ReveNews – Affiliate portal and newsletter
• http://www.marketingsherpa.com/newsletters.html
  MarketingSherpa.com – Premium Internet Marketing studies and research
• http://www.free-seo-news.com/index.php
  SEO news – Weekly search engine optimization news
• http://www.marketingnewz.com
  Marketingnewz – Assorted marketing headlines
• http://www.searchenginewatch.com
  Searchenginewatch – Top search engine news
• http://www.mediapost.com
  MediaPost – Professional online marketers news and resources
• http://www.WebmasterWorld.com
  WebmasterWorld.com – Developer Topics
• Digital Web Magazine
  Web Development Topics

Did I miss something? Please let me know in the comments!

The likelihood that Live Search will soon be renamed has been given more credit due to a Twitter update by a Microsoft executive. The update, seen by blog LiveSide, has since been taken down. The Microsoft exec’s Twitter feed read, “Played today with Live search upcoming (to be rebranded) launch pre-beta. I like the new features and UX so far.”

Microsoft executives have been leaking information about the rebrand to the press since early last year, with the number of reports particularly high before Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo’s search business. Potential names circulating for the offering have included Bing, Hook and Kumo, with the latter being mentioned the most. According to reports, Microsoft is looking for a more user friendly name and wants a name that will take into account Live’s services other than search, such as its social network. Kumo means “cloud” and “spider” in Japanese.

It seems like Microsoft is rebranding their search engine when ever they acquire a new domain name. We’ll wait and watch for their next brand after Kumo.

Source: VNU

A U.N. report published today states that six in ten people (60%) of the world’s population has a cell phone subscription. The driving growth trend is coming from poor, developing countries. This 60% figure is up from just under 15% in 2002.

Internet use has more than doubled to 23% in 2008 up from 11% in 2002. Only 1 in 20 people in the same poor countries have Internet access, however in rich countries the fixed broadband services increased to almost 20% market penetration, while on average only 1 in 20 worldwide have high speed Internet. Mobile broadband has also shown its fastest increase, with 3% of people worldwide having it on average, compared to 14% in rich countries. Fixed line subscriptions (home phones) have increased at a slower rate, from 1 billion in 2002 to 1.27 billion in 2009, meaning cellular phones outnumber direct-wired phones in excess of 3:1.

The 106-page U.N. report also ranked countries by how advanced their information and communications technology (ICT) is. The order went as follows:

1) Sweden
2) South Korea (getting nation-wide Gigabit broadband by 2012)
3) Denmark
4) Netherlands
5) Iceland
6) Norway

The United States came in at #17, with Hong Kong at #11, China at #73 and India at #118, both of which have a high technology base but whose ranking was affected by their large populations and poor, rural areas. Myanmar’s militaristic government gave that country the only cited decline over the same period, with Internet bandwidth dropping 90%. This came following the Internet being shut down at times, along with several bloggers being jailed for published content.

Source: TG Daily

Up until today, it’s been a little tedious to send large or multiple attachments with an email. You had to select each attachment individually and you never knew how long it would be before those bigger files were ready to send.  Uploading multiple attachments at the same time just got enabled. Gmail has warded off the tedious job of uploading files one at a time. Now Gmail will let uploading multiple files at a time, albeit, the maximum limit of attachments remains 20MB only. If you want to send a few files from the same folder, simply hold down the Ctrl key (Cmd on OS X) and click on each file you want to attach to your message. You can also hold down the Shift key to select a continuous list of files. A definite time saver.

You’ll not only save a few mouse clicks selecting files, but you’ll also see progress bars on each file as it uploads.

Source: Gmail Blog

Despite the fact that Alexa is a pretty much controversial web tool to analyze the site popularity yet many people and some ad networks do consider it to determine or get a rough idea about the popularity of any website. Yahoo the 2nd most popular search engine had maintained 1st position in Alexa Global Ranking for long time. Google officially dethroned Yahoo from the top spot on Jan 5 this year.

However since then Yahoo managed to get back to top Spot on two days 10th and 17^th (both weekends). This shift can be attributed to fall in number of unique visitors on Google on Weekends. While we all know that Google already dominates the search market by vast margin however it’s primary domain ‘Google.com’ was ranked No.2 by Alexa it could be mainly because Google.com is mostly used by US visitors as Google has more country based domains than Yahoo! for instance Pakistani visitors see  ‘ Google.com.pk’  and while Pakistani  visitors are directed to Yahoo.com the primary domain for Yahoo since Yahoo don’t have country based domain for Pakistan. so there is no question that Google is way popular than all other search engines, but I am talking about it’s primary domain ‘Google.com’ in particular which has also been elevated to No.1 position previously held by Yahoo.com for long time. Which again demonstrates that Google is getting even more popular in the US market.

Its seems like the financial crisis over the world really has not affected to the Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson,because he created a record for himself by designing the world’s most expensive phone Apple iPhone 3G Kings Button.

The Apple iPhone 3G Kings Button’s main operating button is integrated with high quality 6.6 carat diamonds, this impression itself of the phone is very attractive. This exquisite phone is made of solid 18-carat yellow gold, white gold and rose gold. It flaunts a white gold line encrusted with a total of 138 brilliant cut diamonds of the best quality.

The new Apple iPhone 3G ‘Kings Button’ is the most luxurious phone to date. The phone is definitely for those who dare to defy the current credit crunch. The Apple iPhone 3G ‘Kings Button’ for 1,636,000 ($2,517,345) (approx. Rs 12 crore). I’m going to start saving up right now. ;)