Freebies
June 24th, 2008 at 08:32am
Under Freebies
Apart from John Chow, John Cow is also hosting a contest for Market Leverage.
The difference is that John Cow managed to ask Market Leverage to give out a new iPhone 3G instead of the usual gift bag that the others got.
To gain more tickets to this contest is simple:
- Subscribe to John Cow’s RSS via email - 1 ticket
- Twitter to John Cow’s contest - 2 tickets
- Twitter to John Cow’s Market Leverage post - 2 tickets
- Make a blog post about the contest (like this one) - 5 tickets
- Follow John Cow on Twitter - 1 ticket
- Register for an account at Market Leverage under John Cow’s link - 4 tickets
Easy? Go ahead and good luck.
By Leo
June 11th, 2008 at 01:44pm
Under Freebies
Market Leverage is giving away a bag of freebies to John Chow’s readers. To read more about it, the post is here.
If you won the contest, you will receive a bagful of stuff including cap, t-shirt, golf shirt, cap, and of course, the bag as well. In addition, you will also receive:
- Flip video camera
- $200 Market Leverage American Express card
- USB drive+pen in one
- iPod Nano
The iPod Nano would also have your blog name engraved.
To enter the contest, all you have to do is either:
- Place a comment on this post
- Blog about this contest on your blog and send a trackback to here
Have fun!
By Leo
April 17th, 2008 at 07:12am
Under Email+ Freebies
Email marketing is essential for a business.
However, I am a blogger. Is there any email application that is designed specifically for bloggers?
Now there is one. Zookoda provides email newsletter service for free! Zookoda enables you to send a daily, weekly or monthly summary of your latest blog posts directly into your visitors inbox. And most importantly, it is FREE!
We know how important it is to post regularly in our blog. It is the way to encourage visitors coming back to visit the blog. However, how do we inform people about our posting?
I have both in this blog - RSS feeds and emails. In addition to the usual, Zoodoka provides an alternative way to broadcast your blog post, at a frequency that you specify.
Zookoda also use an auto-opt-in method to save you time. You don’t have to manually accept or decline a subscription. Zookoda does it all for you. You can choose a template design for your email, or customize one.
Traffic tracking is important. By analysing the click, open, and bounce rate, you can unlock a lot of hidden information about your newsletters!
And who hates spam? Everybody does! All emails sent via Zookoda are spam compliant. No worries anymore!
Not a surprise at all, Zookoda enables you to:
- Manage your email list
- Design your own email to match your blog’s design
- View Traffic Report, real time
- Newsletter subscription form for your blog
- Control broadcast frequency
- Email in text format
By Leo
April 11th, 2008 at 12:20pm
Under Freebies+ Newest Technologies+ Web 2.0+ Web Design & CSS+ Web Hosting
Do you want to host a website in Google? Now you got the chance. Google announced the preview release of the new Google App Engine, which allows you to build and run applications in Python in Google’s server infrastructure.
And guess what, it is free!
The Google App Engine applications are easy to build and maintain. You do not need to maintain your own server or hosting, as Google generously provides 500MB space for free. All you have to do is to upload the application, and it would be done. You can use a free domain name from appspot.com, or your own domain. You can also choose to share the finished application with the world or limit it to just yourself.
Did I mention free? Same as most of the other Google applications, having an account is free. The bandwidth should allow you do serve about 5 million page views a month, according to Google.
At this stage only free accounts are available. However, in the near future, you would probably be able to purchase more disk space.
Other features include (but not limited to):
- Sandbox - The sandbox isolates your application in its own secure, reliable environment that is independent of the hardware, operating system and physical location of the web server.
- Python Runtime Environment - The App Engine only supports Python at the moment. It is running Python 2.5.2.
- Datastore - App Engine provides a powerful distributed data storage service that features a query engine and transactions. Just as the distributed web server grows with your traffic, the distributed datastore grows with your data.
- Google Accounts - You can of course associate your application with your Google account.
- URL & Fetch Service - Applications can access resources on the Internet, such as web services or other data, using App Engine’s URL fetch service.
By Leo
March 25th, 2008 at 12:48pm
Under Blogging+ Freebies
WordPress is currently the most popular blogging platform in the blogosphere. It is very easy to install, easy to customize, and plenty of plugins available.
Recently I have read a lot of other blogs because of the nature of my job. And I have come across a couple of plugins that I would like to recommend.
1. Xanga Archive Importer for WordPress
If you were using Xanga before and have changed to WordPress, you may want to import all your previous posts onto the new blog. After all, they are all your hard work! However this could be a very tiring process. With the help of the Xanga Archive Importer for WordPress, you can save the hassle!
2. WP-Amazon
If you are an Amazon affiliate, then you should not miss this. WP-Amazon is built just for you! You can link to your recommended books / movies /products that are related to what you are writing about. Instead of browsing through the Amazon site to locate for what you need, the use of this plugin has made this process a lot faster. View the video to see how it works on the page. (http://manalang.wordpress.com/wp-amazon/)
I am sure you will find these plugins useful. I am going to try installing the Amazon plugin in the near future to test it out!
By Leo
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