Showing posts with label how-to. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how-to. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

10 cool tricks for creative Facebook Status Updates

Amplify’d from mashable.com

10 Cool Facebook Status Tips and Tricks

1. HOW TO: Add a Dislike Option to Your Status Update

“Like” buttons are everywhere on Facebook, and they’re everywhere on the web. But what if you want to update your status or share something that your friends can “dislike?” We know, your friends can choose to “comment” on your post, but where’s the fun in that?

The clever Status Magic Facebook app can add a dislike button to any status updates posted via the app. And if you wanted to really mix it up you can actually customize the second emotion to anything, such as “love,” “hate,” “disagree” or even “LOLs.”

2. HOW TO: Hide Status Updates From Certain People

3. HOW TO: Pre-Schedule Status Updates

4. HOW TO: Tag People in Your Status Updates

5. HOW TO: Add Symbols to Your Facebook Status

6. HOW TO: Turn Your Status Updates Into a Word Cloud

7. HOW TO: Have Fun With Facebook’s Humorous Language Options

8. HOW TO: See Status Updates From Around the World

9. HOW TO: See Your Status Update Stats

10. HOW TO: Play a Trick On Your Friends in Your Status Update

See more at mashable.com

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Buy stocks in your friends, Increase your online network and have loads of fun with #EmpireAvenue

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HOW TO: Buy and Sell Shares of Your Friends

Quick Pitch: Buy and sell virtual shares in people and brands, with stock prices determined by influence and activity on blogs, Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), etc.

Genius Idea: Empire Avenue is a virtual online influence stock exchange game that uses people or websites as sticker symbols. Yes, that means you can buy and sell shares in your friends and they can buy and sell shares in you!

Purely as a game, Empire Avenue is incredibly addictive. Within a few minutes of signing up, filling out my profile, connecting my profile links and creating my own stock symbol (FILM), I was already getting notifications that people were buying shares of me, and subsequently I started looking at ways to buy shares in others. Obviously the goal is to be able to amass not only a valuable portfolio of people you follow and invest in, but to also build value in your own personal stock.

Read more at mashable.com

Monday, December 13, 2010

Make some HOLIDAY Cha-Ching writing How-To Articles

Amplify’d from www.labnol.org

Make Some Money by Writing How-To Articles

How-To Articles on Google

There are couple of ways by which you can make money on the web by writing how-to tips, useful advice and even opinions.

Then you have a bunch of popular sites like eHow, Hubpages, Squidoo, Associated Content, Examiner and even Google Knol that work on a similar model – you can write content on almost any topic and get paid on a revenue share basis.  A big advantage with writing on such sites is that you only need to focus on creating great content and rest everything – including the article’s layout, SEO, hosting, etc. – is taken care of by the service.

Videojug, one of the most popular how-to websites on the web known for high-quality , is also getting into the game of “user generated content” with the launch of Videojug Pages – it’s a place where anyone can write how-to articles on their favorite topics and get paid per impression.

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The kind of money that you can make by writing articles on these sites may not be enough for you to even consider quitting your day job but if your writings invite decent number of eyeballs, you can probably pay some of your utility bills from the online earnings.

Read more at www.labnol.org