WhatsApp to give users' phone numbers to Facebook for targeted ads

Messaging service will begin sharing private information with Facebook and is preparing to allow businesses to message users

Mobile messaging service WhatsApp will give its parent company Facebook personal information including users’ phone numbers, as part of plans to allow businesses to send messages to users.

WhatsApp’s billion-plus users will be notified of the change to its privacy policy from 25 August. They will have 30 days to decide whether to opt out of their information being used for ad targeting on Facebook, but will not be able to opt out of their data being sharing with the social network.

The ad targeting will be on Facebook’s platform, which has 1.71 billion monthly active users, with WhatsApp saying it won’t put banner ads or allow spam on its own platform.

A WhatsApp spokesperson said: “We want to explore ways for you to communicate with businesses that matter to you too, while still giving you an experience without third-party banner ads and spam.

“Whether it’s hearing from your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction, or getting notified by an airline about a delayed flight, many of us get this information elsewhere, including in text messages and phone calls.”

The testing of tools designed to allow businesses to contact users was originally announced when WhatsApp dropped its yearly service fee on 18 January this year.

The phone number associated with a user’s WhatsApp account will be used on Facebook to show them ads. This will form part of the targeting the company allows for paying advertisers, who can upload contact databases. Those who use Facebook and are in the contact database uploaded by the advertiser will then be shown the targeted ads.

The information will also be used to show how people interact with a specific ad, but Facebook said that it would not tell advertisers who specifically interacted with the ad.

WhatsApp and Facebook accounts will remain separate. The service will not be merged with Facebook’s other chat-based service Messenger or photo-sharing service Instagram. But all services under Facebook will gain access to WhatsApp users’ phone numbers and other account information, and it can be used to suggest contacts be added as friends.

WhatsApp said: “We won’t post or share your WhatsApp number with others, including on Facebook, and we still won’t sell, share, or give your phone number to advertisers.”

End-to-end encryption

All messages sent using an up-to-date version of WhatsApp are sent encrypted end-to-end from the sender to the recipient preventing WhatsApp or anyone else from reading its contents. As a by-product, it also blocks the company targeting ads against what is said in messages, a common tool used by Facebook, Google and others.

What’s unclear is whether WhatsApp will allow companies to send users marketing messages. The company insists that it will not allow spam and is simply testing systems that replicate the current communications sent to users from banks, airlines and other services that use SMS to notify customers of events such as fraud alerts or travel delays.

However, the company’s updated privacy policy states that “messages you may receive containing marketing could include an offer for something that might interest you”.

Users can block messages being sent to them from numbers or accounts entirely, which should mean they can also block any messages sent from companies, should the function remain unchanged.

The company still insists that it does not sell ads when activating the service, linking to a blog post from 18 June 2012 titled “why we don’t sell ads” that emphatically states that “remember, when advertising is involved you the user are the product”. The post was made before the sale of billion-user messaging service to Facebook, although the company insists that the values still stand.

Multi-pillar approach

Facebook has been making moves to increase its share of user time on mobile devices by pushing services such as Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp that operate in addition to its core social network and Facebook app. In doing so it has added further users, beyond those signed up and using Facebook, to its user base.

But it has yet to fully leverage that non-Facebook userbase for its main revenue generating activity, advertising. Instagram has advertising, but neither WhatsApp nor Facebook Messenger currently does.

Messenger has been used as a test bed by Facebook for interactions with chatbots, brands and businesses, allowing users to book tickets to shows, ask for news and have services delivered to them in text or multimedia form along with their friends’ messages.

Although the crossover between WhatsApp and Facebook’s other services is undoubtedly high in developed nations, WhatsApp’s strength has been in reaching those who would not use or cannot use Facebook in developing nations and areas of poor connectivity.

How Facebook proceeds with revenue generation from the messaging service beyond the obvious customer service activities without spamming users remains to be seen. Many fear the introduction of marketing messages and other ads, despite the assurances of WhatsApp that there will be no spam.

Don’t let WhatsApp coax you into sharing your data with Facebook

When WhatsApp, the messaging app, launched in 2009, it struck me as one of the most interesting innovations I’d seen in ages – for two reasons. The first was that it seemed beautifully designed from the outset: it was clean, minimalist and efficient; and, secondly, it had a business model that did not depend on advertising. Instead, users got a year free, after which they paid a modest annual subscription.

Better still, the co-founder Jan Koum, seemed to have a very healthy aversion to the surveillance capitalism that underpins the vast revenues of Google, Facebook and co, in which they extract users’ personal data without paying for it, and then refine and sell it to advertisers. In a blog post headed “Why We Don’t Sell Ads” written in June 2012, for example, Koum quoted approvingly a memorable line uttered by Tyler Durden (played by Brad Pitt) in the movie Fight Club: “Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.”

“When we sat down to start our own thing together three years ago,” Koum wrote, “we wanted to make something that wasn’t just another ad clearing house. We wanted to spend our time building a service people wanted to use because it worked and saved them money and made their lives better in a small way. We knew that we could charge people directly if we could do all those things. We knew we could do what most people aim to do every day: avoid ads.”

And Koum was as good as his word. WhatsApp grew and grew, because it did what it said on the tin. Its growth was funded by $58m from Sequoia Capital, the only venture capital firm to invest in it. By February 2013, WhatsApp claimed 200m active users worldwide, and had a valuation of $1.5bn – not huge by Silicon Valley standards but pretty good for an outfit that had an honest business model.

And then, in February 2014, something strange happened. Facebook offered to buy the company – for $19bn – and Koum and co took the bait. Given that Facebook’s business depends on selling ads, most of us wondered what had happened to Koum’s admirable principles and concluded, gloomily, that everyone has a price.

But for a while WhatsApp continued as before within the Facebook stockade. Not only did it not sell ads, but in November 2014 it announced that it was introducing end-to-end encryption for all WhatsApp communications – which meant that nobody, not even Facebook, could read (and thereby monetise) its users’ messages. So the puzzle continued: why on earth had Mark Zuckerberg paid such a whopping price for a service that he couldn’t exploit?

Now we know. On 25 August WhatsApp announced that it was changing its terms and conditions and its privacy policy. In a blog post which is a masterpiece of lawyerly euphemism, it tells us that it is going to “share” with Facebook its users’ phone numbers and details of the last time they signed on to WhatsApp. Every user is asked to click “Agree” to this proposition – although, of course, they can always reverse this agreement if they can find the relevant section of their settings.

Needless to say, this radical change has nothing to do with the needs of WhatsApp’s corporate owners. Perish the thought: it’s to improve things for you, the user. It’s all about using “your WhatsApp account information to improve your Facebook ads and products experience”. And, just to make sure you understand the magnitude of the decision you are about to make, “If you tap ‘Don’t Share’, you won’t be able change this in the future”.

Seasoned observers of the computer industry will recognise this for what it is: just another illustration of the power of the default setting. In marketing-speak, it’s how to “Nudge Your Customers Toward Better Choices” – an implementation of the philosophy set out by Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler in their book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness.

Of course, it’s true – as Sunstein and Thaler argue – that defaults can sometimes be used to ensure that people do things that are good for them, like ensuring that they enrol in a pension scheme. But in the computer industry, defaults are often deployed purely in the interests of corporations.

So if you’re a WhatsApp user, don’t fall for this particular wheeze: go to “Settings”, select “Account”, “Share my account info” and tap on “Don’t Share”. And do it now, because time’s running out.

Facebook Is Partnering With Cool Link To Launch Express Wifi In Lagos

Facebook believes internet connectivity is a fundamental human right and by Jove, they’re doing everything to prove that. Word has it they’re partnering with Cool Link to set up Express Wifi hotspots in various parts of Lagos.

ExpressWifi is a Facebook initiative that gives mobile device owners in underserved communities access to fast and affordable internet service through partnerships with local internet service providers. Facebook is also providing a software that’ll help ISPs and entrepreneurs sell or provide internet with a 15% commission on each data sale. It’s already live in India and seems to be doing better than Free Basics did over there.

Set to launch officially in Lagos some time this week, Express Wifi hotspots will have service speeds of 10Mbps with plans ranging from as low as N40 for 100MB daily to N1,600 for 5GB monthly. The Express Wifi hotspots are already live in some parts of Lagos – Ikota Shopping Complex, for instance – and will be rolled out to other parts of Nigeria as soon as the entire Lagos State is taken care of.

There’s already a site where people can sign up for a 14-day free trial (with up to 100MB per day) but coverage areas haven’t been announced yet. We’ll update this as soon as we find out where these areas are.

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3 Things All Affiliate Marketers Need To Survive Online

Every affiliate marketer is always looking for the successful market that gives the biggest paycheck. Sometimes they think it is a magic formula that is readily available for them. Actually, it is more complicated than that. It is just good marketing practices that have been proven over years of hard work and dedication.
There are tactics that have worked before with online marketing and is continuing to work in the online affiliate marketing world of today. With these top three marketing tips, you will be able to able to increase your sales and survive in the affiliate marketing online.

What are these three tactics?

1. Using unique web pages to promote each separate product you are marketing. Do not lump all of it together just to save some money on web hosting. It is best to have a site focusing on each and every product and nothing more.

Always include product reviews on the website so visitors will have an initial understanding on what the product can do to those who buys them. Also include testimonials from users who have already tried the product. Be sure that these customers are more than willing to allow you to use their names and photos on the site of the specific product you are marketing.

You can also write articles highlighting the uses of the product and include them on the website as an additional page. Make the pages attractive compelling and include calls to act on the information. Each headline should attract the readers to try and read more, even contact you. Highlight your special points. This will help your readers to learn what the page is about and will want to find out more.

2. Offer free reports to your readers. If possible position them at the very top side of your page so it they simply cannot be missed. Try to create autoresponder messages that will be mailed to those who input their personal information into your sign up box. According to research, a sale is closed usually on the seventh contact with a prospect.

Only two things can possibly happen with the web page alone: closed sale or the prospect leaving the page and never return again. By placing useful information into their inboxes at certain specified period, you will remind them of the product they thought they want later and will find out that the sale is closed. Be sure that the content is directed toward specific reasons to buy the product. Do not make it sound like a sales pitch.

Focus on important points like how your product can make life and things easier and more enjoyable. Include compelling subject lines in the email. As much as possible, avoid using the word “free” because there are still older spam filters that dumps those kind of contents into the junk before even anyone reading them first. Convince those who signed up for your free reports that they will be missing something big if they do not avail of your products and services.

3. Get the kind of traffic that is targeted to your product. Just think, if the person who visited your website has no interest whatsoever in what you are offering, they will be among those who move on and never come back. Write articles for publication in e-zines and e-reports. This way you can locate publications that is focusing on your target customers and what you have put up might just grab their interest.

Try to write a minimum of 2 articles per week, with at least 300-600 words in length. By continuously writing and maintaining these articles you can generate as many as 100 targeted readers to your site in a day.
Always remember that only 1 out of 100 people are likely to buy your product or get your services. If you can generate as much as 1,000 targeted hits for your website in a day, that means you can made 10 sales based on the average statistic.

The tactics given above does not really sound very difficult to do, if you think about it. It just requires a little time and an action plan on your part.

Try to use these tips for several affiliate marketing programs. You can end maintaining a good source of income and surviving in this business that not all marketers can do.
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hoosing a Credit Card In the UK

Credit card companies are all over the world and so are credit cards.  Some of the credit card companies only offer cards to a specific country or region that they are in.  If you live in the UK, then you might need some information about credit cards that are available for you.

Credit cards that you get in the UK are not any different from any other credit cards.  The credit card companies offer special incentives to get customers like 0% APR for a specific time period, no annual fees, and you may even be able to apply for the credit cards online.  Many credit card companies based in the UK do not give their cards to consumers in other countries due to security reasons.  However, if you live in the UK, then there are many companies that are sure to let you fill out an application to receive their specific credit card.

There are many companies that encourage you to apply online.  They overwhelm you with ads, promising a 60 second approval.

Credit card use in the UK can cause financial problems just as it does all over the world.  People in the UK owe tens of billions of pounds in credit card debt at an interest rate of over 16% and this figure keeps getting higher and higher.  Debts over 2500 pounds are common to ten percent of the people in UK and combined with high interest rates, this figure is near impossible to get to come down.

There are some benefits to having a credit card that a great many UK consumers find appealing.  Some of the credit card companies offer cash back with purchases, air miles, travel insurance, and insurance for your purchases.  A credit card looks good to many UK consumers, especially when you add in the discount vouchers.  

When you decide to apply for a credit card, you should research all of your choices to find the one that is best for you.  Once you receive it, you need to be careful in using it or you could find yourself in a financial mess.  If you use your credit card wisely, then you will find that it will make your life easier, no matter what country you live in.

Learning About Cash Back Credit Cards: Good or Bad Idea?

Getting a credit card that offers cash back always sounds like a good idea.  What could be better than getting cash back on all the purchases that you make with your credit card?  It sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?  

Well, there are cards that give you free cash, but it is usually only around 1% cash back.  However, free money is free money, right?  Well, sometimes.

If you like to buy a lot of things in one month, this kind of credit card probably sounds great to you.  However, you need to keep in mind that they are not going to give you cash back on every purchase that you make.  Even if they claim to give you cash back on every purchase, they will only give you up to a certain amount per transaction.  The company also has a strict limit on the amount that they will give back to their customers.  If you read the little, bitty print on the form that you signed, you will see a paragraph with their limits in the terms and agreements.

This is another way to try to draw in new customers for these companies.  It is a good credit card to have and sounds great in theory, but they will have to check your credit rating before they will give you their card.

Research different credit card companies to see what they are offering.  You may be surprised to find a cash back credit card that offers you just what you need and want with a high cash back percentage, few limits on the amount they will give you back, and instant cash deposits when you make each purchase with their card.

Although these credit cards seem like a great thing to have, some companies will need your credit rating to be great too.  However, there are credit card companies that offer these cards to people with a low credit rating to help them rebuild their credit.  Research all of your options.

What should your decision be?  If you have a good credit rating, then this card is a great option for you.  Research different card companies – there are cards out there that offer you up to 3% cash back and impose very few limits.  If, however, you have a bad credit rating, you may want to find a credit card that will help you rebuild your credit.  

Mobile Communication A Cutting Edge Technology

Wireless communication has diffused faster than any other communication technology in history. To begin with, the most pervasive technology in this field has been Mobile Phone which brought a wave of variations in the mode of communication.

Within a span of about 10 years Mobile telephony has moved from being the technology of a privileged few to an essentially main stream technology. It actually began to take off world wide in mid 90s when the ratio of mobile to land line phone went up from 1:34(1991) to about 1:8(1998). By 2000 the ratio of mobile phone to land line phone rose to 1:2 and by 2003, mobile phone subscriptions had overtaken mainline subscription for the first time. Since then mobile phone subscriptions have continued to rise effectively at a fast rate. With the passage of time mobile phones have not only become substitutes for wired phones but have overshadowed them.

There has been a significant increase in mobile phone subscription in the past decade and mobile phones have outstripped fixed lines in most countries. The main reason being that the mobile phones come with a wealth of features like text messaging, email, internet access, games, music playback, personal organizer, etc. The mobile phone technology is getting more and more advanced with each passing day.

Considering the importance of WIRELESS INTERNET --Although there are a variety of ways to access the internet wirelessly( for example mobile phones, pagers, laptops, PDAs) access via mobile phone has received the most kind attention in the past few years , probably because mobile phone is the primary mode used to remain connected with information and resources.

It has been rightly quoted "With mobile phone in your hands the world is at your finger tips."

Further emphasizing on the future of internet and communication it has been rightly said "The future of the internet and computing application is not going be in the home or at the office ; its going to be MOBILE" ----Nigel Clifford, Sybian Secondly preference for asynchronous communication method suits the fast & modern lifestyle. As we all know email is considered more efficient, faster, cost effective and secured means of communication. Today's global workforce demands "anywhere, anytime" technology. Information on the move is a necessity as well as an advantage.

Emails brought us the freedom to communicate quickly with anyone anywhere over the internet. Being the most cost effective and efficient method to transmit all kinds of electronic data, it has become indispensable for professionals, students and probably for everybody who has the need to access emails while on the move.

 For modern enterprises, the benefits of accessing emails on mobile are clear: its convenient and provides for new opportunities, and they are an exceptionally effective way for workers to stay connected with both colleagues and back-office information It provides

1. Increased employee productivity while away from the office.

Mobile Communication Technology Felon Jobs - Big Money Felon Job

With the economy being as bad as it is its hard for anyone to get jobs. It's even harder to find jobs for felons. Many felons have found that even if they have paid their debt to society, and have completely rehabilitated themselves, no one wants to take a risk on them. But, there are ways to find a job for felons. One way is to get more education. If you have more education, and are qualified to do a useful job, then you are much more likely to find a company that is willing to take a chance on hiring you.

 One of these fields is mobile communication technology. These days, more and more people are accessing the Internet anywhere but home. There is a wealth of wireless devices that can access the 'net. Everything from mp3 players to wireless appliances can go online, to be more functional, and make lives easier. An entry-level job for felons in the field is an excellent idea.

 Support positions in mobile technology are in growing demand, because as more people use those wireless systems, they are going to need maintenance. Maintenance includes making sure that servers work, and repairing any problems with those servers. Without the servers, there is no connecting ability to the internet. A different job for felons would be field tech. With this job, you would go out and directly with customers, giving them support and troubleshooting as needed.

 If you need a job for a felon, and are interested in working in the IT field, especially mobile communications, you need to get some training. it is recommended to get at least an associates degree. There are schools that offer specialized programs throughout the country. Some of the classes include basic electronics, introduction into mobile communication technology, and Linux networking. This last one is important because many servers use Linux based operating systems. You will also learn IP, as well as taking classes in mobile communication devices, so that you are familiar with devices of all kinds. If you are good with computers, and interested in finding a good job for felons with heavy potential for advancement, this is the field for you.

Mobile Phones - A Result of an Improved Technology

Gone are the days when people were not able to communicate with their loved ones if they are sitting far away from them. They had to catch them to inform about any good or bad information or to share their dreadful and pleasing moments with their friends. With the advent of technology, the time has come when people became more advanced and they got an opportunity to talk with their friends and family members sitting at a place. This all could be possible with the betterment of technology which had introduced an advanced electronic device known today mobile phone using it people could performed the task of communicating very easily. Today, with the help of this device, a plenty of tasks can be done.

These days, among the gadgets mobile communication products are responsible to generate almost half of the revenue. A huge number of research workers and scientists belong from well renowned companies are continuously working towards developing new mobile services every day. This has come into the form of boom in the technology. When people think of buying mobile phones, the first thing that they consider is portability combined with utilities.

In earlier days, when people had limited resources, the mobile phones came in the market in relatively large size in comparison to today's mobile phones. One of the first portable mobile phones seemed to be about a foot long and had nothing but telecommunication services. But nowadays you can call most of the modern mobile phones a miniature computer. Before there were very few mobile companies and hence the business was almost monopolistic. That is why the speed of the development was very less.

After nearly a quarter century of pocket mobile research the market has become very competitive.A plenty of reputed mobile phones' brands you can find in the market today. Now mobile phone companies do their own deep research before launching a product in the market due to the more demand of today's people. Undoubtedly, the competition has revolutionized the mobile cell phone technology to a very large extent.

These days, a mobile can be used for various purposes. Apart from using as a communication device, some people use it as a business devise making transactions and storing business data while others use it for entertainment purposes. Some phones are equipped with modern high resolution gaming facilities while others can be used as a portable mp3 player. In addition to that, some also have integrated high megapixel digital cameras with inbuilt flash.

Without any doubt, mobile phones have truly given a new meaning to communication. People can connect to their friends in any part of the world with just a click. They can not only talk to them but also can send them mails, files and videos using this unique device. A wide selection of models with advanced features and applications can be found in the market form where people can choose their desired cell phone. All the credit goes to the technological development and research which has made this possible.

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Using A Free Blogging Web Site

For first time bloggers, a free blogging web site is a
great way to get started in the blogosphere. Popular
blogging web sites like blogger and eponym allow users
to set up and host a blog without paying any fees at all.
This encourages people to start blogging, because the
fact that one of these sites can provide you with all of
the tools that you need to get your blog up and running
without spending any money means that you have
nothing to lose by starting a blog. The fact that it is so
easy to find a way to blog for free is one of the reasons
why so many people who have never had any other kind
of web presence before find themselves drawn to
blogging.

By signing up with a free blogging web site, you may
find it easier to get listed in search engines that you
would if you were starting your own blog from scratch.
For example, google runs the free blog hosting site
blogspot and crawls its pages very often looking for
updates, so if you have your site hosted by blogspot you
are almost guaranteed to be listed on google's blog
search engine. This easy access to search engines can
take some of the work out of promoting your blog, and
can help you gain a following with a minimum of
marketing effort.

If your blog attracts a large readership, you may want to
consider moving your site. Many people feel that being
hosted by a free blogging web site gives a blog a kind of
amateur flavor that is fine for a new member of the
blogosphere, but is not appropriate for a high-profile
blog. Having your own domain can help you make your
blog feel professional, and finding a company that will
host your domain is not difficult or expensive. Once
your blog takes off, you will probably be able to sell
enough advertising space to be able to afford to buy a
domain and pay for a hosting package, and still have
money left over. However, it does not make sense in
most cases to invest in these glossy luxuries before you
have a sizable readership.

Starting your blog on a free blogging web site is a great
way to build a following before you spend any money
on your blog. If and when your blog becomes popular
and you are ready to take the next step and purchase
your own domain, your readers will follow you to your
new home. The fact that it is possible to use a free blog
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How To Get Your Money Back Via PayPal

Receive money through PayPal ? PayPal is run just like a regular person would run a payment processing company. I assume the payments that you will be using this information for will be payments for intangible items, which is what PayPal HATES. Here’s why. Think about it this way. Person A is selling a program that he will give a download link to person B. Person B sends person A $50 for the program as a gift and a note saying it’s an intangible software. A week later, person B calls PayPal and claims he got scammed and that the program didn’t work. Legally, if PayPal refunds the money to person B, and person A has proof that he did send person B the program, he can take PayPal to court. If PayPal does nothing about it, person B, according the law, has the right to take PayPal to court for not having essential tools to figure out transactions. 99% of people will just say “Well, I got scammed, I learned my lesson. Nothing I can do now.” And that’s EXACTLY what PayPal wants you to think. It is absolute HELL for them to deal with “scams”, gift payments, intangible items, and “unauthorized transactions”. Here are a few tips before we start off. Be VERY nice to PayPal on the phone. I’ve read numerous eBooks about PayPal and they all say “be mad!” and “be aggressive!” Which is not going to work. Be nice to them, make their lives easier and they will make yours easier. Simple as that. Also, DON’T give up. That’s key. Remember, PayPal HATES to deal with things like this, so if you don’t quit, they’ll realize that they have to do something about it.

A Great Idea For a Blogging Web Site is No Longer Enough

Because there are so many blogs and web sites about
blogs on the internet, it can be tough to distinguish your
blogging web site from all of the others. Whether you
are starting up a new web site aimed at bloggers or
whether you are looking to make your existing blogging
site more distinctive, the key to building and
maintaining a site that will capture the interest and
attention of the blogging community is finding your
niche. If you can fill a unique need in a way that no
other web site does, you'll be able to build a lasting
readership among web surfers. Once you have
discovered a niche, you will still have a lot to do, but
finding your place in the blogosphere is the place to
begin.

Every great blogging web site starts with a great idea,
and you can't build a successful site that will last
without one. There are many great sites aimed at
today's bloggers, and competition for the attention of
this growing demographic is fierce. To make your
blogging web site stand out from the pack, you will
need to offer something that no other site is currently
offering, or you will need to do the same thing that an
already popular site does but in a more impressive or
valuable way.

One way to discover an ideal model for your blogging
web site is to look at the sites that have successfully
captured a blogging audience already to determine if
you can appropriate some of their strategies to help
realize your vision. Of course, you will also need to add
a unique flair to your project in order to stand apart
from your competition. Many people agree that the web
sites that do the best in today's market are the sites that
have the most personality. The fiercely individual
surfers who are bloggers are a demographic that
responds especially strongly to personality, so consider
how you can give your site a unique and attractive
feeling by lending your own voice and sensibility to
your site's design and content.

Once you have a great idea for your site, have
pinpointed a special niche that you are well equipped to
fill, and have infused the site with personality, the next
step is figuring out how to get the word out to bloggers.
In the long run, a great idea just isn't enough to propel
your blogging web site to success. You will need to
draft a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to
draw readers to your site. Once you hook a blogger,
your great content will keep them coming back, but it is
vital to get that first glance or your site won't have a
chance to shine. 

Blogging 101

Blogging 101 is mostly about the blogging
  vocabulary. To understand blogs, you need to know
  the terms blog, platform, domain, and web host.
  Once you have mastered these key elements of
  blogging, you can enter any conversation about
  blogging with confidence. After you know what
  exactly a blog is, you will be on your way to
  passing the final exam of blogging 101.
 
  Blog is short for weblog, which simply means a
  series of online posts presented in reverse
  chronological order. That's all! Most blogs are text,
  but there are also photo blogs and video blogs. The
  rest of blogging 101 has to do with the technical
  side of things. If you are setting up a blog, you will
  need a platform, a web host, and a domain. A
  blogging platform is a computer software program
  that allows you to write posts and to update your
  blog. Your platform is also what you use to design
  the look of your blog, from color scheme to font
  size. The web host is sort of like the virtual file
  cabinet where your blog is stored. Your computer
  communicates with the host when you upload or
  edit a post. The domain is the online address of
  your blog, and usually ends in ‘dot com'. Now that
  you know what a blog is, what a platform is, and
  what domains and hosts are, congratulate yourself!
  You have passed blogging 101.         

10 Online Careers You Can Start Today With Basically No Money

Does working from home or any remote location of your choice, while dictating your schedule and having complete control over your career sound good?

If so, you should consider starting an online career. It’s a lot easier than you might think -- thanks to the internet, it’s actually quite simple, requiring much less startup capital than you might imagine.

With a combination of drive, determination and skill, your online career can start almost immediately. Here are ten that you could literally start today.

1. Virtual assistant.

With so many companies operating these days without a physical office location, it has opened up multiple remote opportunities for virtual assistants to handle a wide range of tasks. These include customer service duties, answering phones, setting appointments and screening emails.

You can start small with a single client and then once you identify your specialty or an area you want to focus on -- social media customer service, for example -- you can then begin to take on more clients, thus increasing your earning potential.

2. Business coach.

If you are an expert in a particular field, leverage your knowledge and become a coach, teaching students form all over the world. The internet allows you to reach anyone that is interested, regardless of their geographical location.

Take fellow Entrepreneur contributor Timothy Sykes for example. He is a very successful penny stock trader that used his knowledge and expertise to create a program that teaches his strategies to students that sign up for his challenge program.

Related: Need a Business Idea? Here are 55

3. Freelance content creator.

Virtually every business is doing some form of content marketing these days -- it’s been the buzzword for the past several years, but for good reason -- it works. With everyone trying to capture attention, demand for excellent writers is at an all time high.

Anyone can publish content, but very few businesses are creating compelling content that commands attention and converts their audience into revenue. If you are a skilled writer there is plenty of lucrative opportunities waiting for you.

4. eBay store owner.

Gary Vaynerchuk is a huge fan of garage sales, saying, “The garage sale eBay conversion has some of the biggest margins in the world.” The concept is very simple: buy low and sell high.

This is also a very viable option if you’re looking to raise startup funds. It’s a great bridge for those looking to start an online career but don’t want to abandon the security and paycheck of a 9 to 5 job, because you can hit garage sales on the weekend and handle your auction listings in the evening.

5. T-shirt ecommerce store.

With several print on demand solutions available, it makes starting a t-shirt company much more affordable than it was years ago. In the past, you would have to order large quantities of shirts, in multiple colors and sizes, forcing you to guess what was going to sell.

Now, creative designs and the power of social media can get a t-shirt brand up and running -- and generating revenue -- almost overnight.Chummy Tees is a great example of how you can turn catchy tag-lines and creative designs into a profitable online business.

Related: Getting Fired Was Step 1 to Increasing My Pay 1,000% in 3 Months

6. Consultant.

Consulting can prove to be a very lucrative business, granted the person offering their service knows what he or she is talking about. Everyone seems to be a consultant these days, and not only do you have to be able to actually provide value and deliver results, but you need a way to stand out and separate yourself from all of the mediocrity out there.

Over the past year I have transitioned my company from a service provider to a consulting firm. It took over five years of brand building to get to the point we are at now, where companies want to hire us to guide and advise their in-house marketing teams.

7. Affiliate marketer.

There is a wide range of affiliate offers to promote, each paying you for every lead or sale you are responsible for generating. You can promote these offers to an email list that you build, via a blog that you operate or across social media.

This will require more startup capital than the other suggestions on this list, because to really be successful you will need to do a lot of split-testing across multiple paid channels. The really successful affiliates aren’t afraid to spend money on testing and optimization.

8. Social-media influencer.

Yes, this is a real career in 2016. If you have a large and loyal following on social media, you could be earning money promoting products. A lot of money, in fact. Some social media influencers with high engagement are earning thousands of dollars per post, but for good reason: it works. Brands wouldn’t be shelling out that kind of money if they weren’t seeing a return.

Related: 5 Steps to Creating a Killer Marketing Strategy

9. Vlogger.

YouTube creators who crush it can make millions of dollars a year in advertising revenue. Now, these are few and far between, but there is also a healthy population of creators that are making a comfortable living vlogging.

You have to have an interesting concept or story -- people subscribe to channels that they can relate to. Just like a company needs a unique selling point to push a product, you need a have unique angle if you want to gain traction and attract a vlog following.

10. Graphic designer/web developer.

If you are a graphic designer or know how to write code, then there is a massive audience just waiting to hire you. As a freelancer, you control your hours and you get to pick and choose who you work for. You set your price, pick your projects and end up doing what you love while earning a comfortable living. 

Just like in every industry, there are good freelancers and there are bad ones. Take a look at these tips on hiring a freelancer to see what people are looking for when seeking to hire.

HOW TO DETECT A HIDDEN CAMERA IN A ROOM

When you stay in a hotel, how do you know there is no room pinhole camera?

When travel or take a business trip, you will stay at a hotel, but you do not know that you could unknowingly be photographed or monitored
Remember when staying in a hotel, you can use
this method to check your room :

When you have entered into your room, turn off the lights, and close the curtains,open your phone camera, do not turn the flash light on.

Turn around the room with your cell phone,
when a red dot is found, that means that a hidden web camera is installed.

If no red dots, the room is ok.

Please forward this message to your friends who travel a lot or take a business trip.....

3D Printing applications

3D printing is considered to be a great invention of human as it brings about a wide range of applications for us. While at first 3D printing was only a technology for prototyping, this is quickly changing.

Its first application is in medicine field. 3D printed models of human organs have been a frequent tool for surgeons since the last two or three years as they provide a more real view in the issues at hand. Instead of depending on 2D and 3D images on a computer screen, surgeons now can actually touch and feel physical models of the patient’s organs and bone or vein structure or whatever else they are about to work on then they can do their studies and research more easily.

Another application of 3D printing is for aerospace. Due to the unique geometries which are offered by additive manufacturing, agencies such as NASA and the ESA, and numerous aircraft manufacturers are taking use of 3D printing in order to make their aircraft lighter. Complicated geometries and new materials offer superior strength with less mass so that they can save organizations such as NASA boatloads of fuel and obviously money, during the launching of spacecraft or rockets out of our atmosphere. Simultaneously, companies such as Boeing and Airbus are taking advantage of 3D printing to reduce the overall weight of their aircraft, allowing them to cut fuel costs for every flight.

What is more, producing facilities across the globe are using 3D printing as a method to reduce costs, save time and produce better products. Without having to outsource the prototyping of parts, companies are now able to iterate quickly upon designs on the fly, saving weeks of waiting for third parties to return molds or prototypes.

The last application to be mentioned is in Art and Education. 3D printing is capable of bringing the imagination to our life. Artists are not only able to jot their ideas down on a computer screen but also bring those ideas into reality through digital models. Children and young adults are as well. They can visualize concepts, create functional products and learn via hands-on experience.

And in the future, we will see an incredible expansion of the number of primary, secondary and high schools putting 3D printing into their education program. This will support to set these students up for careers which will require 3D printing.

What is 3D printing?

The creation of a 3D printed object is reached by using additive processes. In an additive process, an object is made by laying down continuous layers of material until the object is created. Each of these layers can be seen as a thinly slice horizontal cross-section of the final object.

3d printing starts with making a virtual design of the object you want to create. For instance, this virtual design is a CAD file which stands for Computer Aided Design. This file is made by using a 3D modeling application or with a 3D scanner. A 3D scanner can make a 3D digital copy of an object.

The next term is 3D scanners. They are used to generate a 3D model by using different technologies such as time-of-flight, structured light, volumetric scanning and many others.

Recently, a few companies such as Microsoft and Google activated their hardware to perform 3D scanning. Microsoft’s Kinect is an example. In the future, making real objects to 3D models will become as easy as turning your hand. Furthermore, future versions of smartphones will probably have integrated with 3D scanners.

In terms of 3D modeling software, it also comes in various forms. There is industrial grade software which costs thousands a year per license, but also free open source 3D modeling software. When you are a starter and the amount of choices are too much, which may make you feel confused, it is recommended to begin with Tinkercad. This has a free version and it works in browsers which support WebGL. Google Chrome is an example. They offer starters lessons and has a built in option to get your object printed through various 3D printing services.

Finally, you will have to prepare a 3D model before it is ready to be 3D printed. This is what they often call slicing. Slicing is dividing a 3D model into hundreds or thousands of horizontal layers and needs to be done with software. As soon as the 3D model is sliced, you are ready to feed it to your 3D printer. This can be done by USB, SD or Wi-Fi connection. It also depends on what brand and type 3D Printer you have. As a file is uploaded in a 3D printer, the object is ready to be 3D printed layer by layer. The 3D printer reads every slice and creates a three-dimension object.

Internet Bingo Technology Evolving

The internet bingo industry continues to flourish in the UK and Europe and has attracted millions of players from around the globe. In the UK internet bingo is second only to poker in popularity and internet bingo websites are licensed by the government to assure player safety. Internet bingo has evolved from a relatively primitive online game with crude graphics to one of the most entertaining games available online using the latest technology and sophisticated software. Many internet bingo sites now offer mobile applications and bingo players can now enjoy their favorite game from anywhere with cell phone reception.

Technology is constantly changing and one of the more recent advances has been the switch from downloadable games to those using state of the art flash technologies. Players no longer have to take the time to download games and can now simply log on to their favorite bingo site and play. Many players did not like the old fashioned downloads and switched to sites using flash games. Now almost all internet bingo websites use the latest flash technology. In the UK and Europe competition is fierce and sites that do not keep up with the latest gaming developments are bound to lose players.

Technological innovations allowed bingo sites to introduce side games such as roulette, video poker, slot games and pull tab games. Side games have been well received and are a huge moneymaker for internet bingo websites. A recent survey showed that online roulette is almost as popular as bingo among female players.

The introduction of chat rooms made internet bingo even more popular. The social aspect of bingo was added to internet bingo and provides employment for several chat monitors and hosts. Sites that introduced chat rooms experienced an immediate increase in players proving that talk is profitable! Some sites are expected to introduce video streaming to give their bingo games a more lifelike feel.

Software is being introduced in the UK that protects players from online fraud. Featurespace, a company founded by several members of the engineering department at Cambridge University has developed software that uses behavioural analysis to protect casinos, players and stock trading websites from fraudulent activities. The software protects players from computer bots that can compete with live players for cash prizes. The company has signed contracts with several reputable gaming companies. It is no wonder that so many people are attracted to internet bingo. Bingo bonuses have never been better and with all the new technology being introduced internet bingo can only get better for players!

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Uses of GPS Technology for Consumers

GPS Technology is now widely used in consumer devices. The technology allows us to pinpoint the exact location of anything that it is attached to. The biggest use for this is technology is assets that move or tracking people (for legitimate reasons of course!)

More consumers are using GPS Tracking Devices each and every day. The range of applications that the devices are used in seems to be growing, although the general trend is that it is attached to non static objects, generally of value.

Here are 5 different consumer uses for GPS Tracking Technology :

1.Cars and Vehicles

One of the most common uses of GPS Technology is vehicle tracking. With a small device fitted to any vehicle it is easy to monitor the exact location of the asset. This means that if you vehicle is lost or stolen you can easily retrieve it. In some circumstances it may even help you locate your parked car if you have forgotten where you left it - it does happen!

2.Tracking Loved Ones

Kids out playing around the estate or at the local playground? With a discrete GPS Tracking device you can monitor the location of their whereabouts which keeps your peace of mind at rest. WIth certain GPS Tracking systems you can also set up boundaries so if the GPS Tracking devices passes the boundary it signals an alarm or alert.

3.Tracking Pets

GPS Technology can be used both on dogs and cats. How often have you wondered where your cat gets to at night? With a GPS Tracking device you can monitor its exact location and map out its nightly route. If you have a dog that you often let off the lead, you know how quickly they can react to a scent and often forget about who they are with or where they are. Its easy for them to get lost quickly. With a GPS Tracking device fitted to the collar of the dog you can easily locate and retrieve your best friend!

4.Remote Assets

Remote Assets are ideal candidates for GPS Tracking devices. Do you own a boat or a Caravan that is often left unoccupied for large parts of the year? With a GPS Tracking device fitted you can keep a third eye on any unexpected movement of the asset which helps to you to react quickly and track down the exact location of its whereabouts.

5.Sports Events

OK, not all sports events benefit from the use of GPS Tracking devices, but remote sports such as orienteering or mountain trekking certainly can! If your loved one or family member is taking part in a remote trek around a mountain range what better way to keep in touch than knowing exactly where they are. Whats more, some GPS devices also come with the ability to communicate with each other, although these are generally more expensive than standard tracking devices.

All in all, GPS Tracking technology can be used to trace anything that moves. Usually consumers will attach the technology to something of value. There are many more potential uses than the 5 mentioned above, but these are generally the most common.