Amazon has a program called Kindle Publishing for Blogs that allows your blog to be subscribed to and updates to be automatically delivered to subscribed Kindles. While the Kindle subscriptions won't make you rich, the program is a good way of getting your site out there and offers a convenient way for some of your visitors to keep up on your site. Kindle Blogs are … [Read more...]
How Illinois Bloggers Can Still Make Revenue From Recommending Products on Amazon
If you live in Illinois, North Carolina, or Colorado you cannot join Amazon's affiliate program, Amazon Associates. For Illinois residents, after Governor Quinn signed the "Amazon Tax" law in March, Amazon gave Associates until April 15th before it severed all relationships with Illinois-based Amazon Associates. Now that April 15th has come and gone, Illinois residents no … [Read more...]
Flattr Steps Back On Rhetoric To Become More Available
Flattr, the small-donations-add-up-and-drive-content-creation company that I wrote about while it was still in private beta, drives a hard bargain. If you want to receive funds from others, you have to have funds in your account to Flattr others. If you don't use your monthly allotted amount to Flattr others, it will be contributed to charitable causes instead. Starting on May … [Read more...]
CAPTCHAs Become Ads, Block Spam, Make Site Owners Money, Infuriate Site Visitors
CAPTCHAs are those squiggly words or letters that you have to enter on most registration forms. They allow a website to tell if you're human or a bot wanting to spam the system. Unfortunately, bots keep getting smarter and to keep up with them, it seems CAPTCHAs have become more difficult for a human to answer. Another trend seems to be that every square inch of real estate … [Read more...]
Get A Domain And Make The Most Of Your Gmail With Google Apps
Any time I am visiting a website and see an e-mail address listed that has the format YourName@YourISP.net it makes we just want to hit my head against the desk. I'm at YourSite.com, why is your e-mail not YourName@YourSite.com? You get better branding, it provides more identifying information when the communication has aged a little while, and you don't have to worry about … [Read more...]