Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Making Money Internet

Google has announced a donation of $5 million for innovation in digital journalism — $2 million will go to the Knight Foundation and $3 million will go toward international news efforts.

Though the details of class='blippr-nobr'>Google’sclass="blippr-nobr">Google international news donation are to be announced early next year, the $2 million for the Knight Foundation — an organization that focuses on advancing and funding journalism in the digital age — will be broken up by $1 million to help fund the Knight News Challenge and another $1 million for general grant-making for journalism innovation.

The Knight News Challenge is a worldwide news innovation competition that will be distributing $6 million in awards to contest winners. It’s currently looking for submissions with a focus on mobile, sustainability, authenticity and community, and one of the requirements is that they have to be open source, which aligns nicely with Google’s goals in the space. Last year, the Foundation awarded $2.74 million in grants that ranged from real-time ads, to crowd-funding, to reporting using social media. It’s also supported the likes of DocumentCloud, Spot.Us and Everyblock.

“This is an enormously important vote of confidence by the industry leader. We welcome Google’s support,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president of the Knight Foundation in a statement. “Already, more Americans get their information from the class='blippr-nobr'>Internetclass="blippr-nobr">Internet than from newspapers. That trend will only intensify, making it imperative for our democracy that we find ways to effectively deliver the news and information people require on the new, digital platforms.”

As media companies struggle to find a sustainable model while more news consumption takes place on the web (with much through the social web), there’s a great need for innovative ideas and approaches to news. So why donate the money? In part, it is policy for Google to donate 1% of profits toward charity, but it’s also a peace offering of sorts to news organizations that have often blamed their woes on the technology giant.

As Megan Garber of Nieman Journalism Lab points out, despite years of having a dysfunctional relationship with news organizations, Google’s donation comes as a “multi-million dollar olive branch.” For years, some news organizations accused Google of stealing their news, but recently Google has been reaching out to news organizations for partnerships on projects like Living Stories, which it collaborated on with The New York Times and The Washington Post. Despite working on such partnerships recently, Chris Gaither told Garber the donation is an effort to “encourage innovation at a more grassroots level.”

Going forward, with major news organizations cutting back on international resources to produce news, it will be crucial to help fill in a gap.

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To summarize an hour of dialogue, you should at some point have a product that your readers will want. You should give a lot of free content away, but even when it comes to content, you can charge for some amount, and if your content is good enough, people will pay for the premium stuff. "You can tell them about ninety percent, and they'll pay money just to get the final ten percent," so they know they have the whole picture, Clark says.



Making money blogging will not happen overnight. Sometimes it may seem like this is possible, but in reality, it takes a lot of work. "Build something that is real and something that matters to people," Rowse advises. He shared a story about how he launched a product one day and literally watched the sales roll in. It was as if he had hit a button, and the cash just started flowing, but then he realized he had been working hard up to that point for over two years, promoting the blog, writing two posts a day, doing SEO, press releases, etc. It wasn't overnight. 



You're not scalable, meaning that as your audience grows and more people want to connect with you, there will be a point where it just becomes too much. You have to set boundaries, otherwise you will have no time for yourself and your family. 



Eventually, you're going to have to "get real" about how many meaningful connections you can make in a day, Simone says, adding, "That's part of growing up in social media.”



When they say "no one actually wants that much authenticity," they mean that nobody cares about what you did last night, who you were with, what you had for breakfast, etc. In other words, don't show everybody everything about yourself, because you're not writing for you. You're writing for them. Be who you want to be for your audience. 



Ultimately, you're blogging and using social media to sell, but you can't just go around selling to people, because they won't have it. It just doesn't work. You have to make them want to buy. "You're selling yourself," says Clark. If you provide enough value to your audience, they will want to buy what you have to offer if it expands upon the value you're already giving them. "The content is the marketing," he says. 



Just having a blog is not a business. If you want it to be a business you have to treat it like one, Rowse says. This is basically an extension of number 2. 



The most important of the seven points is that no one is reading your blog. As Simone says, there are hundreds of millions of blogs, and that includes blogs on your topic. You have to write it in a way that is fresh, and either entertaining or informative. The good news is that you don't need "monster traffic". You just need a good, steady core audience for advertising to do well. 


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Google has announced a donation of $5 million for innovation in digital journalism — $2 million will go to the Knight Foundation and $3 million will go toward international news efforts.

Though the details of class='blippr-nobr'>Google’sclass="blippr-nobr">Google international news donation are to be announced early next year, the $2 million for the Knight Foundation — an organization that focuses on advancing and funding journalism in the digital age — will be broken up by $1 million to help fund the Knight News Challenge and another $1 million for general grant-making for journalism innovation.

The Knight News Challenge is a worldwide news innovation competition that will be distributing $6 million in awards to contest winners. It’s currently looking for submissions with a focus on mobile, sustainability, authenticity and community, and one of the requirements is that they have to be open source, which aligns nicely with Google’s goals in the space. Last year, the Foundation awarded $2.74 million in grants that ranged from real-time ads, to crowd-funding, to reporting using social media. It’s also supported the likes of DocumentCloud, Spot.Us and Everyblock.

“This is an enormously important vote of confidence by the industry leader. We welcome Google’s support,” said Alberto Ibargüen, president of the Knight Foundation in a statement. “Already, more Americans get their information from the class='blippr-nobr'>Internetclass="blippr-nobr">Internet than from newspapers. That trend will only intensify, making it imperative for our democracy that we find ways to effectively deliver the news and information people require on the new, digital platforms.”

As media companies struggle to find a sustainable model while more news consumption takes place on the web (with much through the social web), there’s a great need for innovative ideas and approaches to news. So why donate the money? In part, it is policy for Google to donate 1% of profits toward charity, but it’s also a peace offering of sorts to news organizations that have often blamed their woes on the technology giant.

As Megan Garber of Nieman Journalism Lab points out, despite years of having a dysfunctional relationship with news organizations, Google’s donation comes as a “multi-million dollar olive branch.” For years, some news organizations accused Google of stealing their news, but recently Google has been reaching out to news organizations for partnerships on projects like Living Stories, which it collaborated on with The New York Times and The Washington Post. Despite working on such partnerships recently, Chris Gaither told Garber the donation is an effort to “encourage innovation at a more grassroots level.”

Going forward, with major news organizations cutting back on international resources to produce news, it will be crucial to help fill in a gap.

Thumbnail courtesy of iStockphotoclass="blippr-nobr">iStockphoto, fotosipsak

For more Social Media coverage:

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To summarize an hour of dialogue, you should at some point have a product that your readers will want. You should give a lot of free content away, but even when it comes to content, you can charge for some amount, and if your content is good enough, people will pay for the premium stuff. "You can tell them about ninety percent, and they'll pay money just to get the final ten percent," so they know they have the whole picture, Clark says.



Making money blogging will not happen overnight. Sometimes it may seem like this is possible, but in reality, it takes a lot of work. "Build something that is real and something that matters to people," Rowse advises. He shared a story about how he launched a product one day and literally watched the sales roll in. It was as if he had hit a button, and the cash just started flowing, but then he realized he had been working hard up to that point for over two years, promoting the blog, writing two posts a day, doing SEO, press releases, etc. It wasn't overnight. 



You're not scalable, meaning that as your audience grows and more people want to connect with you, there will be a point where it just becomes too much. You have to set boundaries, otherwise you will have no time for yourself and your family. 



Eventually, you're going to have to "get real" about how many meaningful connections you can make in a day, Simone says, adding, "That's part of growing up in social media.”



When they say "no one actually wants that much authenticity," they mean that nobody cares about what you did last night, who you were with, what you had for breakfast, etc. In other words, don't show everybody everything about yourself, because you're not writing for you. You're writing for them. Be who you want to be for your audience. 



Ultimately, you're blogging and using social media to sell, but you can't just go around selling to people, because they won't have it. It just doesn't work. You have to make them want to buy. "You're selling yourself," says Clark. If you provide enough value to your audience, they will want to buy what you have to offer if it expands upon the value you're already giving them. "The content is the marketing," he says. 



Just having a blog is not a business. If you want it to be a business you have to treat it like one, Rowse says. This is basically an extension of number 2. 



The most important of the seven points is that no one is reading your blog. As Simone says, there are hundreds of millions of blogs, and that includes blogs on your topic. You have to write it in a way that is fresh, and either entertaining or informative. The good news is that you don't need "monster traffic". You just need a good, steady core audience for advertising to do well. 


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Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls - Las Vegas <b>News</b> Story <b>...</b>

LAS VEGAS -- Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines. Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

<b>News</b> - Rep: Blake Lively, Penn Badgley Split! - Celebrity <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

"They're still good friends," an insider tells the new Us Weekly.

Fox <b>News</b> Crew Gets Scolded At Democratic Meeting (VIDEO)

A Fox News camera crew showed up unannounced at a Democratic meeting in Wisconsin Monday, prompting a confrontation that eventually forced the show's producer into a rather startling admission: he understands why Democrats are wary of ...


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LAS VEGAS -- Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines. Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

<b>News</b> - Rep: Blake Lively, Penn Badgley Split! - Celebrity <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

"They're still good friends," an insider tells the new Us Weekly.

Fox <b>News</b> Crew Gets Scolded At Democratic Meeting (VIDEO)

A Fox News camera crew showed up unannounced at a Democratic meeting in Wisconsin Monday, prompting a confrontation that eventually forced the show's producer into a rather startling admission: he understands why Democrats are wary of ...


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Nevada Voters Complain Of Problems At Polls - Las Vegas <b>News</b> Story <b>...</b>

LAS VEGAS -- Some voters in Boulder City complained on Monday that their ballot had been cast before they went to the polls, raising questions about Clark County's electronic voting machines. Tuesday, October 26, 2010.

<b>News</b> - Rep: Blake Lively, Penn Badgley Split! - Celebrity <b>News</b> <b>...</b>

"They're still good friends," an insider tells the new Us Weekly.

Fox <b>News</b> Crew Gets Scolded At Democratic Meeting (VIDEO)

A Fox News camera crew showed up unannounced at a Democratic meeting in Wisconsin Monday, prompting a confrontation that eventually forced the show's producer into a rather startling admission: he understands why Democrats are wary of ...


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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Making Money With Options



 

While the Palm Pre 2 might be eliciting less-than-impressed responses from Palm fans, we can’t help but wonder what Palm might come out with next. It’s all but assumed that the Pre 2 was the phone Palm had in the pipeline and that it was supposed to be out several months ago, but what’s not all that clear is what’s due next.

According to Chinese trade paper CENS.com's "industry sources," Foxconn Technology and Compal Communications have landed contracts with Palm to produces several new devices. Foxconn is said to have secured the contract for four or five devices, including the PalmPad, while Compal has picked up the contract for one more device. Additionally, all five (or six) devices are due for production and presumably sale in 2011.

If this is true, consider our minds scrambled. That leaves us wondering just what devices we could see if up to six different form factors hit the shelves next year. There’s obviously the tablet, but what else there might be is unclear. Options include portrait and landscape sliders, a keyboard-less slate device, the candy bar Pixi form factor, and... something else to make six? Here's hoping Palm can take some inspiration from our amazingly talented members.

HP has made it clear that they’re intending to invest major dollars into making Palm a successful company, and when you spend $1.2 billion on something, you generally want to make sure you get your money’s worth. Multiple devices hitting the market in the span of a year is one way to get attention, and hopefully rake in some profits.

We’re also taking some comfort from CENS.com’s use of Palm as the contracting company, not HP. It’s a comforting notion that these would be Palm handsets (or tablets (or toasters)) and not HP branded, calming our fears of the Palm brand fading away anytime soon.

Source: CENS.com; Via: Telcompaper; Thanks to everybody that sent this in!


(Editor’s note: Patrick Driessen is the CEO of Seed Accelerator, an Asian-Pacific technology startup & business accelerator. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)


Having spent more than 20 years as an entrepreneur, I’ve seen a lot of theories, philosophies and truisms come and go. Success in the startup world starts long before your company is underway, though. It begins when you’re making the decision on whether the entrepreneurial life is for you.


Last week, I ran down 8 questions people making the leap should ask themselves. Today, I have seven more…


Can you create enough sources of funding? – Startups cost money – and odds are you don’t have enough in your bank account. You may not need a lot of cash on day one, but you need to start planning for it from the outset. In some cases, trustworthy friends and/or family members might be willing to lend you money or take an equity stake in your business. But if not, you’ll need to get access to angel investors and actively build a relationship with them or personally get to know the loan and/or branch manager at your bank.


Other options (perhaps less likely) include arranging an introduction to an outstanding venture capitalist or building up a relationship with clients that are willing to fund some of growth without requiring an equity stake.


Are you a people leader? – Once you start growing, you’ll need a team. To build one, you’ll need to be able to select, hire, retain and utilize the best people. It helps to have experience, but it’s not essential. And keep in mind that even rusty leadership skills can be improved.


Can you deal with failure? – Not every startup succeeds. And even those that do sometimes face many difficult and unexpected challenges. To survive this, you must learn to accept and overcome failure, forgive others and believe in yourself and your business.


Can you evolve? – As the founder of a fast growing business you will have to be multi-functional. While growing your business you will need to develop new skills and strengthen existing ones. If you’re the proverbial old dog who won’t learn new tricks, you’re not going to make it.


What’s your exit strategy? – You’re responsible for your business from start to finish – so where is the finish line? When and how do you want to exit your company? Do you want to sell it? Merge? Go public? Hand it over to your children?


It’s hard to see the end of the path when you’re just getting started – and this may be one of those issues you’ll have to pivot on, but by thinking about how you’d like things to end, it gives you a purpose and motivation. And it could help as you set plans for your company’s future.


What’s your company worth? -A successful entrepreneur knows the value of his or her company at any point in time. He or she also knows what kind of unique value he or she wants to create, which is often based on their exit strategy.


Knowing your company’s worth (and having an ideal exit strategy) will help determine if the time is right when you have an opportunity presents itself. If you know there’s still growth potential to create more unique value, it could affect your decision.


Who’s your coach and mentor? – The startup path is a long, often lonely, one. Many successful leaders have a coach and mentor to help them along the way. They not only help increase your performance, they can offer sage advice that can enhance your quality of life.


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While the Palm Pre 2 might be eliciting less-than-impressed responses from Palm fans, we can’t help but wonder what Palm might come out with next. It’s all but assumed that the Pre 2 was the phone Palm had in the pipeline and that it was supposed to be out several months ago, but what’s not all that clear is what’s due next.

According to Chinese trade paper CENS.com's "industry sources," Foxconn Technology and Compal Communications have landed contracts with Palm to produces several new devices. Foxconn is said to have secured the contract for four or five devices, including the PalmPad, while Compal has picked up the contract for one more device. Additionally, all five (or six) devices are due for production and presumably sale in 2011.

If this is true, consider our minds scrambled. That leaves us wondering just what devices we could see if up to six different form factors hit the shelves next year. There’s obviously the tablet, but what else there might be is unclear. Options include portrait and landscape sliders, a keyboard-less slate device, the candy bar Pixi form factor, and... something else to make six? Here's hoping Palm can take some inspiration from our amazingly talented members.

HP has made it clear that they’re intending to invest major dollars into making Palm a successful company, and when you spend $1.2 billion on something, you generally want to make sure you get your money’s worth. Multiple devices hitting the market in the span of a year is one way to get attention, and hopefully rake in some profits.

We’re also taking some comfort from CENS.com’s use of Palm as the contracting company, not HP. It’s a comforting notion that these would be Palm handsets (or tablets (or toasters)) and not HP branded, calming our fears of the Palm brand fading away anytime soon.

Source: CENS.com; Via: Telcompaper; Thanks to everybody that sent this in!


(Editor’s note: Patrick Driessen is the CEO of Seed Accelerator, an Asian-Pacific technology startup & business accelerator. He submitted this story to VentureBeat.)


Having spent more than 20 years as an entrepreneur, I’ve seen a lot of theories, philosophies and truisms come and go. Success in the startup world starts long before your company is underway, though. It begins when you’re making the decision on whether the entrepreneurial life is for you.


Last week, I ran down 8 questions people making the leap should ask themselves. Today, I have seven more…


Can you create enough sources of funding? – Startups cost money – and odds are you don’t have enough in your bank account. You may not need a lot of cash on day one, but you need to start planning for it from the outset. In some cases, trustworthy friends and/or family members might be willing to lend you money or take an equity stake in your business. But if not, you’ll need to get access to angel investors and actively build a relationship with them or personally get to know the loan and/or branch manager at your bank.


Other options (perhaps less likely) include arranging an introduction to an outstanding venture capitalist or building up a relationship with clients that are willing to fund some of growth without requiring an equity stake.


Are you a people leader? – Once you start growing, you’ll need a team. To build one, you’ll need to be able to select, hire, retain and utilize the best people. It helps to have experience, but it’s not essential. And keep in mind that even rusty leadership skills can be improved.


Can you deal with failure? – Not every startup succeeds. And even those that do sometimes face many difficult and unexpected challenges. To survive this, you must learn to accept and overcome failure, forgive others and believe in yourself and your business.


Can you evolve? – As the founder of a fast growing business you will have to be multi-functional. While growing your business you will need to develop new skills and strengthen existing ones. If you’re the proverbial old dog who won’t learn new tricks, you’re not going to make it.


What’s your exit strategy? – You’re responsible for your business from start to finish – so where is the finish line? When and how do you want to exit your company? Do you want to sell it? Merge? Go public? Hand it over to your children?


It’s hard to see the end of the path when you’re just getting started – and this may be one of those issues you’ll have to pivot on, but by thinking about how you’d like things to end, it gives you a purpose and motivation. And it could help as you set plans for your company’s future.


What’s your company worth? -A successful entrepreneur knows the value of his or her company at any point in time. He or she also knows what kind of unique value he or she wants to create, which is often based on their exit strategy.


Knowing your company’s worth (and having an ideal exit strategy) will help determine if the time is right when you have an opportunity presents itself. If you know there’s still growth potential to create more unique value, it could affect your decision.


Who’s your coach and mentor? – The startup path is a long, often lonely, one. Many successful leaders have a coach and mentor to help them along the way. They not only help increase your performance, they can offer sage advice that can enhance your quality of life.


Next Story: DiscoveryBeat 2010’s latest speakers: Kleiner Perkins’ Bing Gordon and more Previous Story: Nimbuzz clocks up 3.65 billion mobile VOIP minutes in a year




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Friday, October 22, 2010

Making Money Fast


Today I wrote an open letter to the incoming House Republicans at The Daily Caller. It’s posted below.


An open letter to the gathering wave of new House Republicans:


In a turbulent campaign year, you are winning because you were honest with voters and you cut through the smog of media skepticism and Democrats’ acrimony. Those who win the trust of voters on election night will do so because you are the people in touch with America. I hope and expect that you will bring to Washington a perspective that’s been absent for too long, plus the determination to make it stick.


When you get here, there’s a fictional character that William Faulkner invented whom you’ll meet every day. He said, “Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they ain’t brave enough to cure.” Lots of people here think like that.


They’re the ones who walk the yellow lines in the middle of the highway and will tell you it’s okay to accept 8 percent unemployment because it beats 10 percent.  They will urge you to embrace tax hikes that are only moderately destructive. They will advise government spending that only grows twice as fast, and explain patiently that a deficit that swells by a trillion dollars is okay because, after all, it could be worse. It’s insidious, and I hope you will reject the philosophy that tells us to forget what we “ain’t brave enough to cure.” Now is no time to compromise with failure.



I’m sure the people of your district aren’t terribly different from those in mine. They tell me in the plainest possible way that they want less government and more freedom.  What that means to me is lower taxes, a lot less waste, greater energy security, and enhanced worldwide competitiveness. By electing you, I think the people will be taking a big step at a crucial moment toward remaking their Congress into something that finally represents them and their neighbors.


We’ve had some modest success against very long odds in Democrat-dominated Congresses over the last four years. Radical cap-and-trade legislation was shelved because the more people heard about it, the more they disliked it. The objections to the vast new entitlements and health care mandates weren’t enough to stop ObamaCare altogether, but they did chase universal health care off the table. The fight has been uphill all the way, so I’m especially glad that because of the people of your districts, the cavalry is riding to the rescue.


With your help, the House will launch the new year by making it clear that we’re here to serve the people who work and pay taxes, and who expect us to deliver on our commitment to their agenda. Government runs on the money taken from their pockets, and I hope you agree with me that issue No. 1 should be sticking with the tax cuts so that working families are able to decide how to spend more of their own money.


Ending the president’s spending extravaganza in short order is a close second, and a fine place to start is through real entitlement reform. Entitlement spending amounts to $1.4 trillion and is now more than half the federal budget. Thanks to ObamaCare, entitlement programs are growing like crazy. They were costing each American taxpayer $7,698 a year even before the president decided that many more people needed a much larger share of other people’s earnings. I think the wage earners need some help, too, and that Washington can get along on a smaller share of their money. Those who believe in the sunrise also believe in the sunset, and it seems clear that the sun must set on some government spending.


The candidates I’ve talked with tell me that their successes so far prove how much Americans want real leadership, and that they’re fed up with liberal causes and with the sort of politics in which congressmen quietly trade freedom for bureaucracy one deal at a time.


When I look toward the 112th Congress, I see what the man who first brought me to Washington, Ronald Reagan, called “morning in America.” It can be that all over again if you reinvigorate our policymaking with an application of old values and new thinking.


Nearly every analyst in the country now says that the people are about to go to the polls and invest their trust in us. If they do decide to give us the chance, it will be because while Democrats were talking about the people, you were listening to the people. It’s not over until it’s over, but it sure looks like we Republicans are about to be afforded a unique opportunity to lead, and that’s because America wants you and me to succeed where the Democrats have failed.


Sincerely,


Joe Barton, Texas

Ranking Republican

House Energy and Commerce Committee


Crossposted at The Daily Caller.



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Today I wrote an open letter to the incoming House Republicans at The Daily Caller. It’s posted below.


An open letter to the gathering wave of new House Republicans:


In a turbulent campaign year, you are winning because you were honest with voters and you cut through the smog of media skepticism and Democrats’ acrimony. Those who win the trust of voters on election night will do so because you are the people in touch with America. I hope and expect that you will bring to Washington a perspective that’s been absent for too long, plus the determination to make it stick.


When you get here, there’s a fictional character that William Faulkner invented whom you’ll meet every day. He said, “Only thank God men have done learned how to forget quick what they ain’t brave enough to cure.” Lots of people here think like that.


They’re the ones who walk the yellow lines in the middle of the highway and will tell you it’s okay to accept 8 percent unemployment because it beats 10 percent.  They will urge you to embrace tax hikes that are only moderately destructive. They will advise government spending that only grows twice as fast, and explain patiently that a deficit that swells by a trillion dollars is okay because, after all, it could be worse. It’s insidious, and I hope you will reject the philosophy that tells us to forget what we “ain’t brave enough to cure.” Now is no time to compromise with failure.



I’m sure the people of your district aren’t terribly different from those in mine. They tell me in the plainest possible way that they want less government and more freedom.  What that means to me is lower taxes, a lot less waste, greater energy security, and enhanced worldwide competitiveness. By electing you, I think the people will be taking a big step at a crucial moment toward remaking their Congress into something that finally represents them and their neighbors.


We’ve had some modest success against very long odds in Democrat-dominated Congresses over the last four years. Radical cap-and-trade legislation was shelved because the more people heard about it, the more they disliked it. The objections to the vast new entitlements and health care mandates weren’t enough to stop ObamaCare altogether, but they did chase universal health care off the table. The fight has been uphill all the way, so I’m especially glad that because of the people of your districts, the cavalry is riding to the rescue.


With your help, the House will launch the new year by making it clear that we’re here to serve the people who work and pay taxes, and who expect us to deliver on our commitment to their agenda. Government runs on the money taken from their pockets, and I hope you agree with me that issue No. 1 should be sticking with the tax cuts so that working families are able to decide how to spend more of their own money.


Ending the president’s spending extravaganza in short order is a close second, and a fine place to start is through real entitlement reform. Entitlement spending amounts to $1.4 trillion and is now more than half the federal budget. Thanks to ObamaCare, entitlement programs are growing like crazy. They were costing each American taxpayer $7,698 a year even before the president decided that many more people needed a much larger share of other people’s earnings. I think the wage earners need some help, too, and that Washington can get along on a smaller share of their money. Those who believe in the sunrise also believe in the sunset, and it seems clear that the sun must set on some government spending.


The candidates I’ve talked with tell me that their successes so far prove how much Americans want real leadership, and that they’re fed up with liberal causes and with the sort of politics in which congressmen quietly trade freedom for bureaucracy one deal at a time.


When I look toward the 112th Congress, I see what the man who first brought me to Washington, Ronald Reagan, called “morning in America.” It can be that all over again if you reinvigorate our policymaking with an application of old values and new thinking.


Nearly every analyst in the country now says that the people are about to go to the polls and invest their trust in us. If they do decide to give us the chance, it will be because while Democrats were talking about the people, you were listening to the people. It’s not over until it’s over, but it sure looks like we Republicans are about to be afforded a unique opportunity to lead, and that’s because America wants you and me to succeed where the Democrats have failed.


Sincerely,


Joe Barton, Texas

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House Energy and Commerce Committee


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Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of Total Recall, Minority Report, and Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why?


Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.


That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?


The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”


We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.


But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.


If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.


That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.



Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.


And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?


It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.


Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:


According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.


That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.


And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.


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Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

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Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.


That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?


The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”


We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.


But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.


If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.


That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.



Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.


And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?


It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.


Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:


According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.


That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.


And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.


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[images: Dreamworks and TriStar Entertainment]


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Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]

Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.

Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

Sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark

BizSpark is a startup program that gives you three-year access to the latest Microsoft development tools, as well as connecting you to a nationwide network of investors and incubators. There are no upfront costs, so if your business is privately owned, less than three years old, and generates less than U.S. $1 million in annual revenue, you can sign up today./> /> Image Courtesy of class='blippr-nobr'>Flickrclass="blippr-nobr">Flickr, pfly

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Google made a stunning revelation this morning: the existence of a secret self-driving car project. Even more amazing: it has been in testing for months, on actual roads across California, and things seem to be running smoothly. Fans of Total Recall, Minority Report, and Knight Rider are hyperventilating at the prospects. And while the technology is likely still a long way from being widely implemented (The New York Times piece on it suggests eight years), there is one big question: why?


Google’s answer seems to be a “betterment of society” one. “We’ve always been optimistic about technology’s ability to advance society, which is why we have pushed so hard to improve the capabilities of self-driving cars beyond where they are today,” Google engineer Sebastian Thrun, who spearheaded the project (and also runs Stanford’s AI Labs, and co-invented Street View), writes today.


That’s great. But Google is still a public company in the business of making money for its shareholders. So one can’t help but wonder what, if any, money-making prospects there are here?


The Google researchers said the company did not yet have a clear plan to create a business from the experiments,” according to the NYT. Further, they quote Thrun as saying that this project is an example of Google’s “willingness to gamble on technology that may not pay off for years.”


We know Google has a history of idealism — co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, in particular — but this project cannot come cheap. And the fact is that Google remains basically a one-trick-pony when it comes to making money. They are so reliant on search advertising revenues, that if something suddenly happened to the market, they’d be totally screwed. Android may prove to be their second trick, but it’s not there yet.


But there may be more to these automated cars than just an awesomely cool concept. At our TechCrunch Disrupt event a couple weeks ago, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech about “an augmented version of humanity.” He noted that the future is about getting computers to do the things we’re not good at. One of those things is driving cars, Schmidt slyly said at the time. “Your car should drive itself. It just makes sense,” he noted. “It’s a bug that cars were invented before computers.


If your car can drive itself, a lot of commuters would be freed up to do other things in the car — such as surf the web. One of Google’s stated goals for this project is to “free up people’s time”. That matched with Schmidt’s vision of mobile devices being with us all the time every day, likely will translate into more usage of Google.


That may sound silly and not worth all the R&D an undertaking as huge as this will require, but don’t underestimate Google. This is a company who cares deeply about shaving fractions of a second off of each search query so that you can do more of them in your waking hours. Imagine if you suddenly had an hour or more a day in your car to do whatever you wanted because you no longer had to focus on driving? Yeah. Cha-ching.



Or imagine if your on-board maps where showing you Google ads. Or you were watching Google TV in your car since you didn’t have to drive. Or you were listening to Google Music with Google ads. It’s all the same. This automated driving technology would free you up to use more Google products — which in turn make them more money. Make no mistake, Google will enter your car in a big way. And automated driving would up their return in a big way.


And, of course, none of this speaks to what, if anything, Google would actually charge for such technology implementation. You would have to believe that if and when it’s available, this automated driving tech would be built-in to cars. Would car manufacturers pay Google for it and pass off some of the costs to customers? Or would this all be subsidized by the above ideas?


It’s way too early to get into that, I’m sure. And in 8 years, there will be things out there that we can’t even imagine right now. But it’s interesting to think about. The Google Car.


Now, don’t get me wrong, I have little doubt Google is being sincere in their broader hopes for such a technology. Here’s their key blurb on that:


According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.2 million lives are lost every year in road traffic accidents. We believe our technology has the potential to cut that number, perhaps by as much as half. We’re also confident that self-driving cars will transform car sharing, significantly reducing car usage, as well as help create the new “highway trains of tomorrow.” These highway trains should cut energy consumption while also increasing the number of people that can be transported on our major roads. In terms of time efficiency, the U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that people spend on average 52 minutes each working day commuting. Imagine being able to spend that time more productively.


That first part is awesome. If we could halve the number of traffic deaths each year, it would be world-changing. And if energy consumption could be cut, it could re-shape economies and save our future. But again, don’t gloss over the last part. Freeing up those 52 minutes a day to be productive — that’s a lot of potential money for Google.


And that’s great too. If Google can spend the time and money working on such amazing technology they should be rewarded for it. There’s no rule that says you shouldn’t be able to make money by changing the world. And Google can’t be praised enough for trying.


More:



  • Google Has A Secret Fleet Of Automated Toyota Priuses; 140,000 Miles Logged So Far.

  • Google’s Self-Driving Car Spotted On The Highway Almost A Year Ago 



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This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here.

Name: The Jingle Player iPad app [iTunes link]

Quick Pitch: Find pre-licensed, musical content from up-and-coming bands on-the-go with a music discovery app specifically aimed toward business-to-business clients.

Genius Idea: Jingle Punks really tackles two arenas: 1) It provides filmmakers, TV networks, media companies and ad companies with an easy way to find music. Basically, it’s class='blippr-nobr'>Pandoraclass="blippr-nobr">Pandora for businesses, allowing one to simply type in a band, film title, etc. for a list of recommended jams available for license and easy download; 2) It provides bands with an answer to that all-important question: “How do I make money on my music if I’m not Lady Gaga?”

Jingle Punks launched about two years ago, the brainchild of musician Jared Gutstadt and developer Dan Demole. The two drunkenly conceptualized the idea at a Black Keys concert in Brooklyn (in case you doubt the rock ‘n’ roll-ability of the pair). Basically, the two wanted to provide companies with new and dynamic music and bands with a way to get their songs out there.

Before last week, the service was limited to the web, where it lived as a tool called The Jingle Player. It basically let registered users (it’s only open to businesses at the moment, but Demole and Gutstadt plan to expand to consumers in later iterations in which music will be available for purchase via PayPal or credit card) discover and download music for project use by searching based on factors like band name, film title, mood, etc. The player also lets users tweak choices by narrowing according to genre and drilling into keywords.

Now, the duo have brought the experience into the class='blippr-nobr'>App Storeclass="blippr-nobr">App Store with a portable version of the player. The interface of the app is pretty easy to navigate and the functionality is basically the same as the in-browser iteration — although it does lack some of the specialization of the former.

You can search for a band — say, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti — and check out related songs. You can then make a playlist based on your project — perhaps for your breakout film, Zombified Subway Ride to Hell — and add relevant songs to said list by simply clicking lists.

If you want to send this playlist to your team members for approval — or so they can get started scoring your flick — simply click “Wrap list,” which lets you bundle all your songs in either MP3 or WAV format for later download, or “Share list,” which allows you to share jams in webpage form. Gutstadt made us a vid explaining the process if you require further explication.

Yes, there are a ton of music discovery apps on the market, but according to the dudes over at Jingle Punks, this is the first-ever mobile music supervision application for the iPad, making businesses privy to the 20,000 song library wherever they happen to be. We can see this app being extremely useful to folks who are always traveling to meetings, etc., and can’t be tied down to a PC. It could also be pretty useful during business meetings/brainstorming sessions.

Furthermore, the whole service is also a boon to musicians. Like we hinted at in the intro, making money in the music industry right now is a bit more complicated than it was in the past — album sales and constant touring don’t cut it anymore. Getting a song in a commercial, a TV show or a film can be a great source of income — and exposure.

As Gutstadt tells us, “In the past, the way people used to pitch music for media placements is that they would mail CDs off to as many music supes or producers they could. Once CDs were on someone’s desk, there were still obstacles to prevent an artist from actually getting listened to. In theory, we have removed the giant pile of CDs on peoples’ desks and aggregated them into a user-friendly database organized in a dynamic way.”

There’s a lot more to say on the subject of how artists can use tools such as these to make money/get exposure, but that’s a post for another day — so keep an eye for that. In the meantime, if you’re looking for a most detailed view of the app, take a look at the video below.

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What is Squidoo and how can it help you make money on the Internet? If you have been on the Internet for any period of time during the last few years you probably know about blogging. Squidoo can be likened to your own personal blog with a dose of something extra. Using Squidoo is very easy and quick to use. It is a social site that you can use for free to get your message out to the world without having to know anything about building websites. You can use the lenses that you build to socialize and send your message to the Internet. You can also use Squidoo lenses to help you make money and get visitors to your website.

Squidoo could be described as being a My Space for people past their teen years. Adults are using Squidoo as their own personal portal on the web. Some folks use this site for personal and informational uses. Others use this site as an extension of their business presence. One benefit for Internet marketing users is that Google sends its search spiders to Squidoo frequently. If you are just getting started with a website Squidoo can help send visitors that you ordinarily wouldn't get. You can put in a quick few paragraphs about your site and use a hyperlink (link) back to your website. Theoretically, you don't need a website. Just use Squidoo.

Obviously, Squidoo has a profit motive in mind for offering people a free Web presence. Each little Web space(lens) that you get from Squidoo will feature advertisements that may be of interest to people looking at your particular Squidoo topic. These small sites are called Lenses. A squid has a large pair of eyes. So let's just assume that is why Squidoo uses the term Lenses to describe these web spaces. You look through a lens. No matter, it's free and free is terrific these days.

So how could you use a Squidoo lens in your Internet marketing efforts? If you are at all familiar with article marketing then you know that people use this strategy to make money. You promote an affiliate product like an e-book or physical product like automobile tires. You write a small article of interest and insert specific keywords that perspective buyers might search for on the Internet search engines. By using specific keywords in you're article, you might attract the interest of a consumer looking for such a product. The prospect visits your site or lens to get more information. Squidoo allows you to use a link that will send a customer to a sales page of the product or service that you are promoting. If someone buys you get a commission. So using Squidoo can help you sell products and make money on the Internet with little outlay.

The trend of the various e-zines that allow people to write articles for free is to ban direct links to affiliate sales pages. They have you send the article reader to a website. At present, Squidoo has no ban on linking to affiliate sales pages. Using a Squidoo lens and placing links to affiliate sites is a great free way to make some money for a person just starting out.

Not only does Squidoo give you a free place to advertise your business, but they also give you the option of sharing in some of the revenue. If you get enough visits to your particular lens, and people click on the ads you can share in the revenue. Squidoo offers people to opt in to this revenue-sharing arrangement. For getting a start to making money on the Internet a Squidoo lens is awesome. Some people are developing hundreds of lenses on various topics for free.

We have just covered just a little about the way that you can use Squidoo and combine it in your Internet money making strategy. You can find a lot more information by searching on Squidoo itself. Some of the lens-masters give tutorials to newbies on how to build moneymaking lenses. So do yourself a favor and check out how to build a lens on Squidoo.


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