Here’s an easy way to win $500 cold cash. The Marketing Pilgrim is holding a contest until November 15. All you have to do is do a blog post about the reasons why you like reading the Marketing Pilgrim.  No required back links and no required number of words per post. All that Andy wants to know is why you, or we like to read his blog- the Marketing Pilgrim. So here are my reasons for reading the Marketing Pilgrim: (more…)

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Doof is the gaming world’s Facebook. It is a vibrant community of gamers with all sorts of games in an colorful and interactive environment. From the Doff blog:

doof is all about playing games and meeting people, we like to call it Social Gaming.

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Here’s another one of ‘em blog contest with cool freebies to be given away. However, this time its from everybody’s favorite problogger Darren Rowse. Darren’s very popular problogger site is celebrating its birthday (i wonder how old?) and to celebrate this event, problogger is giving away tons of freebies and cool to its loyal readers and followers. (more…)

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According to this AP report, there are already more than 5.5 million Filipinos who are using their mobile phone as mobile wallets transmitting money, mostly from overseas contract workers or from parents in the province to their children studying in Manila. Wow! I didn’t know that mobile banking is already a big thing here in the Philippines. I must have been sleeping all along, or is this just an exaggerated report. (more…)

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The good news is that PayPal account holders in the Philippines can now receive money into their PayPal account. But the bad news is there is not Philippine local banks where those money can be withdrawn from. PayPal account holders in the Philippines can only have their money debited into a U.S. based credit card (visa), debit cards and U.S. based bank accounts. So what is the alternative for us Filipinos whose been clamoring for the activation of this PayPal facility then? (more…)

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I successfully upgraded 3 of my blogs which are running the 2.2 WordPress installation into WordPress 2.3. The upgrade process took a bit longer than usual since my ISP at home was slow as always. I’ve checked out all my installed plugins and everything is working out fine. I also sent an email to TLA before installing WP 2.3 to check whether their plugin would work with 2.3 and they immediately replied with an affirmative.

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I gave up on my Associates a long time ago because it never gave me a good amount of revenue. The Amazon links that use to propagate on Associates blogs cluttered blog spaces and slows down loading time so I decided to take it out on this blog. Since then, there has not been too much happenings on the technical side of Amazon Associates. Until now, when I got received an email from Amazon Associates announcing about the new Amazon Widgets. Welcome to the 2.0 era Amazon. What took you so long? (more…)

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A lot of bloggers who signed up for a BlogRush account are writing their impressions so far about the first few days of implementing the BlogRush widget on their blogs. Darren of Problogger found that despite having 75,000 page impressions, there were only 35 clicks on his blog posts, a mere .05%. Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim  Beal finally saw some stats for his blog although similarly with problogger, Andy’s CTR is also very low at .017% despite having earned that much. (more…)

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I wrote about BlogRush over at Search Engine Journal and got a few comments on why I wouldn’t advise bloggers to get into the BlogRush. Actually, I didn’t mention any reasons on why and let the post hanging for people to contradict my claim. But personally I really have some reservations about BlogRush, the traffic it promises to bring to members’ blogs and the way it is going to give those traffic. (more…)

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Shortly after being rumored that a Yahoo staff has accidentally spilled out Yahoo’s new social networking site, Yahoo! Mash goes public on a per-invite-beta version. I got my invitation via Mashable and immediately got inside the Yahoo! Mash. I thought at first that access to the Yahoo Mash would be a tough, but then getting access into it is as easy as creating a profile for anybody who wants to try it out. So, if you want me to create a profile for you at Yahoo Mash, you have to read on until the end of this post. (more…)

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Got the link from John Chow who is the 48th most influential blogger in the list. Heads up to Leo  Babauta (47th) for coming up with such a great list. Must have been a pretty tough work. What I like about the list is the picture of bloggers if available. It puts a face on the bloggers whose writing we read religiously. (more…)

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Here’s a great opportunity for all Pinoy web applications developer to not only win a whooping $100,000 ($50,000 in cold cash) and $50,000 credit toward Amazon Web Service. Amazon Web Service is conducting the AWS Start-Up Challenge, open to all developers, entrepreneurs and existing start-ups.

The AWS Start-Up Challenge promises big opportunities for chosen finalists topped by a free ticket to Amazon.com office where they will present their entries to the AWS contest’ panel of judges. I’m guessing that this is an all expense paid trip. So, you not only get the chance to have a crack on winning the prize pot but you also get an instant trip to Seattle. How’s that for an incentive? (more…)

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