The vast popularity of iPhones all over the world is truly amazing, in fact according to a survey conducted by Gfk Group, one out of five iPhone users would rather switch banks accounts than change their smart phones, a proof that iPhone and its related products and services has truly changed the way people view technology.

According the survey, one out of five iPhone users also own an iPad, which compose around 19% of the total number of consumers, claims that they are already satisfied with what they have and switching phones is harder to deal with than switching bank accounts. read on

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Many people write blogs for a living. It is a relatively new job and is gaining in popularity. For some people it is a very lucrative job while others struggle with it. As time passes the job seems to get more difficult since it is getting harder to find something new to write about. You don’t want the topic to be too similar to other blogs. If you can come up with an interesting hook you will probably do very well at this job.

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One’s annual net income is considered by some as the meter of success. The higher your income is, the more successful you are. So there’s no surprise why many soon-to-be college students choose a career that will land them to one of the highest paying jobs in the technology industry.

Setting what job pays the highest is easy by merely looking at the average annual salary. What puzzles many is why that some tech jobs surprisingly pay better than others? Apparently, there are certain factors that affect how much is earned by what profession.

Money. Specifically, it is the amount of money at stake. People who risk and earn more money tend to get higher pays. Compare the research scientist who gets about $105,000 to a computer support specialist who gets roughly $47,000.

Why the significant difference? Well the former earns and risks millions for his boss with a single correct or wrong analysis while the latter only works as a support and does not risk or earn that much money for his boss.

Supply and Demand. Why does a systems software engineer in Arkansas paid about $130,000 while the same professional in New Jersey gets only about $103,000? They are in the same profession but Arkansas has only 40 of them while New Jersey has 3,500 of them. The former has high demand but few supply while the latter has more than enough to satisfy its demand.

Job Security. It’s a common notion that the higher the risk, the higher the potential income. A computer programmer for local government, earning about $54,000, is fairly safe in his job compared to a programmer working for the mining industry who earns $84,000. The extra thousands of dollars should be worth the risk of being laid off when the mining company closes at anytime.

Getting one of the highest paying jobs almost always starts with the right education. After all, well-educated professionals like those in the medical field are not getting $220,000 out of luck, but because they started their career with the correct college degree.

There are many people around the globe who blog just to share information and to get fame at the same time. However, there are many of them who really want to earn a decent amount of cash through this work, hence making blogging a full time business to earn their livings. In either case every bloggers requires a service that ensures reliable hosting and can providing up to 99.99% up time. If you are a blogger you will always want your blog to be visited by maximum number of people in a day, hence increasing the traffic towards your blog.

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Blogging has become an important part our life, and it is also a simple and faster way for updating everyone about the latest happenings. You can enjoy blogging for a number of reasons, from which one can be helping you for keeping a record of your day-to-day activities in life. There are many interesting things, may be small or large, which you are to be remembered in details and by creating a personal blog update you are able to check and reminisce. This is also a fun way for keeping everyone updated, when you do not have a chance to meet him or her regularly.

You can use your own blogging site for tracking social events, too. You can track other blogs that you follow regularly, and due to this, they are able to read your updates. With using the “following” tools that are inbuilt in most of the free blogs, you are able to track through sites such as Google or Facebook and other social networking sites providing web-hosting services. When one updates some blog, signing up can get you information automatically.

Besides having personal use, the blogging sites come to use for tracking small businesses also. For a business, the benefit you can avail is that the site has free nature providing web-hosting services and you can reach an increased audience. You can carry on your research, surveys at low cost, and find out information about how your product stands in the market.

SEO seems like a big mystery to some, and like the Holy Grail to others. Truly, it’s an important aspect of any website’s organization, especially if the owner of that website aims to monetize their efforts as best as possible. However, many companies can’t afford to perform their own SEO, and web designers are notoriously bad when it comes to applying proper SEO to their own work (for the most part). This gives a perfect opportunity to those of you who think they’re familiar enough with the subject to earn a few extra bucks by providing a service that’s become invaluable. read on

Make love, not war. That’s what I would like to tell the guys at Posterous. Then again, that’s just me. This may be a brilliant tactic to gain more users – who knows?

Anyway, if you haven’t already heard, Posterous recently launched an “attack” on rival Tumblr. It seems that they are taking on a more aggressive stance, and posted something in their blog:

Tumblr is a pretty cool service. They offer easy set up, loads of funky themes and super-simple reblogging.

But blogging on Tumblr is sort of like being in high school. But you know deep-down that you can’t be in high school forever. Eventually, you have to move on.

It’s the same with blogging. After you get your feet wet, you need comments and the ability to moderate them.* You need to add different media types to each post. Your sharing needs are more complex, and your site needs to grow with you.

Face it. You need to leave Tumblr behind and graduate to Posterous.

If those aren’t fighting words, then I don’t know what to say! However, the claims that Posterous is making seem to be unfounded. If Mark Milian of the LA Times is correct, Posterous is NOT ahead of Tumblr in terms of growth. Also, it seems to me that Tumblr has more features that are easily usable as compared to Posterous.

On the other hand, some people think that Posterous really is better than its rival. Nick Saint from SF Gate, for example, thinks that the move is excellent. Then again, he says outright that he favors such tactics.

How about you guys out there? Which platform do you use more? Why? Which is better? And, most importantly, what do you think of Posterous taking this aggressive stance?

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There’s money in micro-blogging. Twitter has made an astounding $25 million (roughly about 15.5 million pounds) just from deals made with Google and Microsoft.

More than half of it is from Google ($15 million), says BusinessWeek, which interviewed two insiders who are familiar with Twitter’s finances — and apparently, the deals made in the boardroom. “The deals were huge,” one says, of the contract signed just two months ago, in October.

And if the numbers are to be believed, he wasn’t exaggerating. With $25 million in just two months it will be interesting how much revenue the company will rake in 2010. Especially since, as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone one said, things are just starting to come together. He’s put a team dedicated to finetuning the site’s “search and discovery perspective.”

The success of Twitter is how it’s turned micro-blogs into an instant feedback system. “Twitter is earning a reputation for delivering real-time results to queries about things that are happening right now.”

Too bad the execs won’t be Twittering if the revenue results are true. The company’s had prior financial struggles, and as recently as November Stone mentioned in his blog that it may use stocks to raise funds.

It was a good idea — but apparently, Yahoo! didn’t think it was worth keeping. The social networking widget My BlogLog will be shutting down by January 2010. The service was actually innovative. It allowed bloggers and readers to “meet” their blog visitors, by letting them view user information and even profile pics. For many bloggers it was a chance to really study their fanbase and even connect to them on a personal level. It also had the potential to be a really powerful marketing and research tool.

Yahoo! first acquired the technology for this 5 years ago, when it bought it for $10 million. Unfortunately it did not invest in MyBlogLog any further, considering the rich potential in it. There’s only one word for that — STUPID. Marketers spend millions trying to get a hold on their consumer’s demographic and psychographic information. The data becomes even more and more crucial now, considering how crowded the market is with websites competing for people’s attention. Be relevant or be forgotten is the blogger’s motto. MyBlogLog helped them stay relevant, without having t spend millions on some nationwide survey.

Yahoo! had a great tool (possibly one ahead of its time) but instead of nurturing its profit potential (we assume that money is the reason for its cancellation) they kill it. DUH. No, double-duh. That’s like slaughtering the golden goose because you don’t have money to buy it food.

The news is bound to have bloggers up in arms, or at least, slapping their foreheads in disgust. Yahoo, what are you thinking?