TheAnand

This is a paid review, but it is my uninfluenced review and suggestions on the site.

I never looked into Blog Aggregators before I got this review request as I always thought they never provided any real value to the users except post content from other blogs. But when I got a request to review this Indian Blog Aggregator called enewss, I had to revisit my own prejudice about blog aggregators just being scraper sites.

If you have been to the DigitalPoint Forums in the past few months, you might have noticed the new player in the link sales area – TNX.Net. They are one player who got my attention by promoting themselves extensively on the blogs I read and on DigitalPoint.

I never really gave my time to link sales on any of my sites though a lot of webmasters use it to make a couple of hundreds and more each month. I recently had the chance to try out TNX through a friend of mine who was looking for some exposure for his site.

Recently I won a contest from a fellow blogger Andreas Bard in a contest hosted by him. I promised to give away the prize money to another blogger in a contest. I won $30 cash from him, but due to credit card payment, paypal took a commision off it. So I am giving away 27.93, what I got from Andreas.

The rules are simple since the prize is not something to write home about. To enter the contest make a post about this blog linking to a inner post tell everyone about the contest and where the money came from. Here is a sample.

If you have been reading my blog for over a month now, you might remember how my computer ran into trouble in April, erasing all the files in my PC and then I had to start everything afresh right from the scratch. Was I frustrated? Yes, and yes a million times! Everyone hates having their PC run into problems and having all their data erased.

Surfing the web looking for new sources to monetize your site? I found a new way to make money just by placing a video mash on your site and letting people watch it and make money on a CPM basis, which is basically cost per 1000 impressions. The News Room will pay you 1$ per 1000 impressions, is that not cool? For your information, the industry average for this is way too less!

Most companies have difficult and useless software that they spend a fortune on, and in return all it gives them is trouble, useless data and more trouble when you want that data for the meeting in the evening! I have been a victim of many useless softwares claiming to give you all info at the touch of a button, but all I ever got from a single touch has been a computer reset from hanging! Fun intended!

If you have been a trainer, you must know the difficulty of having to get the whole team up and running with the knowledge to push sales and other critical departments. I used to have a heck of a time running around having to educate my team members traveling one day, training the next day and traveling again and so on. I always preferred to use the custom computer based training courses if it was available for me then. It would have helped me reduce all those traveling and support costs and its very easy to train a lot of people from a single location. I will prefer it to traditional training schedules any day of the year!

Within hours of its launch, the whole blogosphere is divided on whether this was the right thing to be do by PPP. I decided to leave my ripples on this.

The new tool by PPP allows advertisers to approach you from your site itself and hire bloggers to post about them. Unlike other popular pay per post sites like reviewme and sponsored reviews, PPP takes only a 2% per post. and this amount is taken from the advertiser, meaning that you will get your full share and the advertiser will pay PPP the 10%. This should be fine with most bloggers and advertisers also, since they are effectively paying less commision.

ItsMyMarket.com is an interesting site with free classifieds ads in your local area. Good for those looking for trading things in your locality. You simply register and place an ad for you what need, and you will surely be checked my a large number of existing members and many new members joining in each day. The point here is community interaction in your local area.

The site also provides you other services like blogs, weather reports and even cinema listings. Very useful if you are my kind, the type of people who hardly leave the computer and think the net can provide you with any information you need. The concept of the site is very good and its pretty much bustling with activity right now. I am in, are you

Since my computer was into a lot of trouble last month, I had decided to move all my data online, the first thing I tried was to use the vacant and plenty of space available on Gmail. But the programs for that dint seem to work out for me. I needed some space for storing my essential web development data and other files. I managed to get my bookmarks and other stuff online using Netvibes. But data was still a problem.