http://www.internet-business.com Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:15:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stephen Fung is giving away an ipod nano to one of his lucky readers. You can enter the contest here. Seriously for such a great prize, given the number of likely entrants, these types of contests/giveaways really do have good odds. If you are a tech publisher, I would also ... http://www.internet-business.com/dot-com-pho-giveaway/ CDF Networks are holding a contest sponsored by MarketLeverage. The contest details are located here. I am a bit of a sucker for contests, although I never win anything. I would also recommend subscribing to the cdfnetwork.com blog as they are widely recognised as being one of the best PPC ... http://www.internet-business.com/cdf-networks-marketleverage-contest/ Some very interesting information sourced from the technorati website. The World Live Web is incredibly active, and according to Technorati data, there are over 175,000 new blogs (that’s just blogs) every day. Bloggers update their blogs regularly to the tune of over 1.6 million posts per day, or over 18 updates ... http://www.internet-business.com/number-of-new-blogs-per-day/ John Chow posted an interesting video on his visit to the MSN china office. Whilst the offices looked quite plain and rather boring, I was surprised to see the informal dress code, which I think is quite cool, especially when you associate Microsoft with being a stuffy suits and ties ... http://www.internet-business.com/msn-china-office/ Tim Schroeder from emonetized.com made an interesting post on how he exceeded his goal to make US$7,500 in a month from the affiliate network cxdigital. He made US$15,392.50 which equates to over $550 per day. Hard to say how much of that is actual profit, but not a bad result, ... http://www.internet-business.com/over-500-a-day-from-cxdigital/ One of the sites that I check each morning, after of course, I have checked my stats is 1938media.com Today the Shel Puppet interviews zivity.com founder Cyan Bannister. When they initially raised $1 million in VC funding, I was in awe, it seems they have since raised a further US$7 ... http://www.internet-business.com/loren-interviews-zivitycom-founder-cyan-bannister/ This is a very interesting interview of Rupert Murdoch. It offers an interesting insight on how Newscorp beat Viacom in buying Myspace. Despite all of the media hype now being about facebook these days, he says that Myspace is 2-3 times bigger than facebook. Also when Newscorp bought facebook, they ... http://www.internet-business.com/rupert-murdoch-interview/ I did not make it to Cebit 2008 in Sydney this year, despite being able to walk down there. The only part of the conference that I would like to have seen was the Jason Calanis speech, and today I got to watch it on youtube. Part 1 - Part 2 ... http://www.internet-business.com/jason-calacanis-speech-at-cebit-2008-australia/ Dnjournal reported that jobs.ca sold for US$600,000. Whilst that may sound a lot, it is certainly a domain with a lot of potential. The domain was purchased by ogopogomedia.com I would have thought that a company that could afford US$600,000 for a domain could afford a better branding for their ... http://www.internet-business.com/jobsca-sold-for-us600000/ I read this post over at 1938media today. Now, I am not familiar with the service, in that I have never used it. But here are my thoughts. 1. They really need to find a way to monetize the site. I dont like their prospects as google from what I have ... http://www.internet-business.com/video-comments-and-seesmiccom/