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Whypark Review Day 100 - Final Stats and Thoughts
2007-12-17 03:43:00
About three months ago I started up a test domain on Whypark to try it out. Today will be the last day for my site MoneyNe.ws on Whypark as I will be moving my blog onto the domain. I made a list of all the Whypark posts I made for easy reading:Whypark Review Day 1Whypark Review Day 15Whypark Review Day 19Whypark Review Day 30Whypark Review Day 45Whypark Review Page Rank ReceivedOver all this is a nice program for those people who have some domain names that do not receive any hits while their domain is parked at sites like GoDaddy, NameDrive, Sedo etc. The reason is that Whypark will get your site indexed in Google, and other search engines. Parked domains usually will not get your sites indexed. If your sites already get type in traffic without the use of SEO then you will be better off developing the site or keeping it on the its domain parking host.Overall Traffic Details during the complete Trial period from September to CurrentThe first few weeks after the articles in my ...
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My Top 5 Favorite World of Warcraft Videos
2007-12-15 00:36:00
I was browsing through my the pages in my histories folder, and came across these so I wanted to share them with you. These are my top five favorite World of Warcraft videos that I loved watching. I tried to include the creators of them where possible. If I got the names wrong drop a comment with the original author to link out to them.Illegal Danish - Super Snacks[link] [Tivas and Gobbler]Leeroy Jenkins[link] [Ben Schultz]Frost Shock[link][http://www.craftingworlds.com ]The Internet is for Porn WoW Version[link][Evilhoof and Flayed]World of Warcraft Dancing Origins[link][http://youtube.com/animpina box]Well those are my favorite five. While there are some great machinima out there like the The Tale of the past series these are my personal favorites. Let me know what your favorite Wow videos are, I'd like to see them too.[Have posts e-mailed to you by signing up to Mitch at Money News]
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Happy First 5,000 Page Views - Heres to Many More
2007-12-14 19:56:00
Happy Holidays to you all. Its been a little more than three months that this blog has been up and running. It looks like today I hit the first 5,000 page view mark. More than half of that has been within the last 3 weeks as I started promoting the blog more. I just wanted to say thank you for those of you who stop by regularly to make this a fun blogging journey for me.Also want to note for those of you that check on the ongoing Whypark Review I've been doing. I will be ending that this month with the final cumulative stats. The reason is that I'll be using the domain MoneyNe.ws for this blog sometime in the future. Once I figure out the hosting/template design etc. It would be a good time to sign up to Money News by email so you don't miss any posts when I transition over to wordpress.Now on to the good stuff! For those of you who use Entrecard stay tuned as I'll be putting up a contest of sorts for some Entrecard credits in the coming day or so. If you have an idea ...
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Sweet I Earned Money From Squidoo
2007-12-13 06:22:00
Remember back in October I wrote about making two pages on Squidoo ? Well I just wanted to post an update since I logged in recently just to check how things have been going with those pages.I had a nice big rush of traffic from Google at the beginning since it was a newly created page, and then the SERP went down slowly no visitors a day after about two weeks or so. That's the Google engine for you, giving new engines good ranking for a day or so after release. Then sticking it into the infamous sandbox. I don't blame them though, the site only has nine back links so I'm still surprised that its even getting hits at the moment. Anyways it looks like Yahoo finally indexed the page recently, and I'm seeing a steady steam of visitors daily from that search engine now for the keyword free 3d mmorpg. The other one I have for Team Fortress due to all the clan sites, and gaming site promotions isn't fairing well. This stream of people looks like its also pushing the Squidoo rank...
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Lets Pay Scrapers More - Making Money Online Blogs Just Moved to You Tube
2007-12-11 07:17:00
We all know that people copy videos, and then upload them to You Tube . Why? So they can put a link to their site for some of the traffic. While they(Google) have tried to keep this down to a minimum, it still occurs on a massive level. The last Mr T commercial for example has 400 of them. When a popular video is released, people download them, and then upload them to You Tube to get some hits. While this is great in making some video advertising viral. It does mean it gets abuse with people ripping off other peoples work. Now the people who upload someone else's content will get paid even more.Anyways guess what You Tube just announced a partner program that will let You Tube users get paid for people watching their videos. They haven't yet released how this was going to happen yet though the TechCrunch article seems to mention adsense ads from the You Tube site. I think they will start making the embedded videos more like the video adsense ads or the Metacafe videos th...
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World of Warcraft For Russians
2007-12-10 17:40:00
Well good news for all the Russians that are currently playing on European or west coast US servers. World of Warcraft is coming to your home town. Blizzard just released a press located here announces the fifth translated version of the game.Now why is it the the French are involved with this again? First the Van Damme commercial, and now the Russian version press release? Will the Lich King expansion come out for the French first too? What gives Blizzard, I shall fart in your general direction for not even letting putting that info up on the US Wacraft site.Anyways in other WoW News for the US. The first week of contests winners for Warcraft's 3 year anniversary was announced here.
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I Won a Contest From Dax Desai
2007-12-09 11:09:00
Well I won my first contest ever! I didn't win first place, but I got third for a prize of 25 Entrecard credits to use for advertising. My thanks goes out to Dax for holding the contest, and letting me get some more credits to place ads on Entrecard. Also it looks like he's also in the running for the Bloggers Choice Awards under the business blog category. As a thank you please go vote for Dax, and well don't forget to vote for me too.For those of you guys who haven't signed up for Entrecard yet. You should go ahead, and do so now for some nice traffic. Why? Entrecard is holding a contest as well for 2 Free 125 x 125 ad spaces on their blog for a whole month. And all you have to do is write a post about what kind of traffic results you are receiving from them.What kind of traffic have I received from Entrecard so far? This is a pic from my analytics counter. So far I've received 107 visitors from Entrecard over the course of 5 days after joining it. Note this is jus...
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WoW Commercial: Jean-Claude Van Damn Plays a Mage
2007-12-09 09:56:00
Yup first the Mr. T Warcraft commercial, and William Shatner. Now we got Jean -Cleade Van Damme entering the scene. So without much further ado here is the commercial, and oh yea, its in French only. What's he saying? Here's the translated transcript from an ign blog.?My name is Jean-Claude Van Damme? and I am a mage.? ?Hand-to-hand combat for me: it's over!? ?Now I can cast powerful spells!? ?Just try messing with me? I?ll turn you into a sheep.? ?A sheep!? ??Because we all are a bit like sheep, you know...? ?I am Jean-Claude Van Damme, I am a mage. ?And you?? "What?s your game?" Looks like Blizzard is advertising to Europe's World of Warcraft gamers with this one. They also released a Guillermo 'Willy' Toledo Paladin commercial. I've never heard of the guy either, but I guess he's a popular Spaniard romance movie guy. That would explain the night elf wooing him in the commercial.
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Does Starting Out Small Mean You'll Never Grow to be Great?
2007-12-08 01:39:00
I was surfing the net, and stumbled across this page on Doshdosh about a Cash Crate Review. With the check Maki got a whopping $5.28(picture is still hosted on a free image server). This got me thinking that everyone who starts out needs to start from somewhere. Back in 2006, it seems like Maki was doing quite a bit of reviews on Get-Paid-To websites, until moving onto the internet marketing niche which seems to be more of the focus nowadays.What's the point of this post, your probably asking. I was just looking for a little bit of inspiration I guess. Knowing that another person who is currently successful in gathering a large audience also started out by doing programs like CashCrate is always enlightening. Especially if the first CashCrate check I got was bigger. It just means that I need to work harder, try out more programs, and find new things to do.Its also good to know that people can change around or maybe change the focus of what their blog's talk about over the c...
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Still Here in Maui, Though Thoroughly Drenched
2007-12-06 21:39:00
Yep I'm still here. I haven't been able to log on since yesterday since the power went out for most of the day due to heavy rain, and wind. While it wasn't as bad as some other parts of Maui , some people in my neighborhood down the street got flooded like this pic from the Maui News. Note, this is after it dried out as their home got flooded only a few feet away from my house.

Get Free Traffic From EntreCard
2007-12-05 19:01:00
Well I first heard about this program from Shoemoney's post a while back when I was off visiting Mexico, and I promptly forgot about it. Recently there has been a few posts up about it which reminded me that I was looking to install the widget back then. So I went ahead and put the widget up on Monday. If you already use Entrecard feel free to drop off your card. I'm kind of bummed that Shoemoney already took it off his site though, but other high traffic sites like Problogger, and John Chow still have it on their sites.Here is a quick 30 second YouTube video from Shoemoney about the program:Its pretty easy to sign up for it, and the widget is javascript so you won't have to worry about Google getting on your case.Now the first thing that needs to be done after you get your widget up is to go out can drop your Entrecard off to other people with the widget. The Entrecard website has a nice little directory to browse through. This way you can gain credits by dropping off your ...
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ScratchBack - Tip The Blogger, Get a Link Back
2007-12-04 18:34:00
Back at the beginning of October after I read a TechCrunch article about it, I had put up a widget on my side back called Scratchback. Since at the time I was preparing for my Cozumel trip, I had completely forgotten to write up a post about it. Better late than never I guess eh?What is Scratchback?Its an online tipping system that gives back to the tippers by allowing a publisher to ?give back? links or images in return.Isn't selling links bad? Won't I get penalized by Google?Notably, the system has been approved by Google (they checked) as every link is ?nofollow? and the widgets are built in javascript; this is a product that provides an alternative advertising model that won?t see publishers punished in future Google crackdowns.What kind of templates are available?There are quite a few different colors, but it seems like you can't customize them fully by setting your own bgcolor.Does it cost me anything to sign-up?No it doesn't, and you can actually make some money if s...
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Blogger Choice Awards Nominations
2007-12-04 17:35:00
Its one more month till 2008, and the Blogger 's Choice Awards are starting up their nominations. The 2007 winners are announced here. If you know of a good blog that you think should win, use this page to nominate someone. If you are already nominated you can get one of these nifty little badges for your site, as well as a nice free PR 6 link back to your blog. There are different categories that you can enter, and it seems like you can enter in more than one category at once, so if your site is a humor/celebrity blog you can get nominated for both. Now while some people have no qualms about people nominating themselves. It might seem weird to others so if you have a blog that you want nominated, drop me a note in my comments, and I'll volunteer to nominate your sites for you. Don't worry, it seems like many of last year's winners were nominated by themselves. Oh yea, don't forget to vote for me too, I'm currently at #11 out of the three thousand entrants so far for Bes...

WhyPark Update - Paying $100 For Templates
2007-12-03 20:55:00
Some news from the WhyPark Creator Craig this month. Also if you are a website developer here is an opportunity for you too. We Want to Buy Your Temp lates A common request from WhyPark users is "add more templates!" We are planning on continually adding more templates, but would like to reach out to our user base first. If you've developed or would like to develop new templates for WhyPark and we think your template will be a good fit for other WhyPark users, we'll pay you $100 for each template we use. To submit your template for consideration, please do the following: Reply to this message or email craig @ whypark.net with the links to your custom templates in action on WhyPark Your template must be unique that you developed and have the right to use and sell (you will be required to sign a short release form) We are looking for templates that can be used across a wide variety of domains and subjects.If your template is accepted, we will pay you $100 by PayPal and will add y...
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Activision Blizzard Merger Announced
2007-12-02 22:12:00
Well there was a post up on Slashdot about Blizzard and Activision merging so is this good news? Activision has a big presence in console platforms from games like, Guitar Hero, Tony Hawk, and do first person shooters such as Call of Duty 4, Doom 3, and Quake 4. Blizzard is carrying titles like Diable II, Warcraft 3, Starcraft 2, and World of Warcraft. Here is Activision Blizzards official press release.What do I hope comes out of this?What about a World of Warcraft for console games that operates in similar fashion to Final Fantasy XI. How about a Starcraft Universe that has first person shooter like Quake, but on a massive online server. Now that would be different, and interesting.Call of Duty 4Tony Hawk Proving GroundGuitar Hero 3Starcraft 2 All pictures from Activision Blizzard multimedia section.
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Sparter CEO Dan Kelly Interview
2007-11-30 03:39:00
Sparter doesn't usually put up blog posts so when this one came through I thought it was an interesting read. Its an interview of CEO Dan Kell y of Sparter done by Usable Markets Alex Kirtland.Some interesting information from the interview for me was these points from Dan Kelly:Globally there is a 2 billion dollar per year business for digital items in all the online games, from World of Warcraft to Maple Story, mainly centered on games in the Korean, North American and European markets.Imagine that, a whole economy worth 2 billion dollars that could basically be erased if someone formatted each game company's hard drive.A typical seller makes enough to play World of Warcraft for free - about $200 a year - but some make a lot more than that.I chuckled at this one since I find making gold fairly easily. Why would someone just make a few hundred, and leave? I guess the answer to that is that I know a lot of people who stop playing wow, and just sell off their gold/characters neve...
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WoW Season 3 Brings Great Gold News
2007-11-29 04:31:00
Today and yesterday was a good day for many people in World of Warcraft. While people were hoarding arena points to get their new Season 3 pvp gear. The smart ones were hoarding materials to sell for today. Here's the WoW Professions thread in which some people claim to have made up to 58k gold. Many Miners, Jewelcrafters, Enchanters and even some Tailors/Leatherworkers were marking up their goods. While I thought I did well cashing in at 1,600 gold today, I guess I was beat by those people who prepared in advance for this. I apparently didn't follow my own WoW Auction House Gold Tips regarding preparing for Tuesdays. Don't mind the Earned/hr part of the screen shot since I only logged in to check my mail so not very accurate on that part. Also my Titan Bar money mod is a little screwed up ever since Patch 2.3 came out, and I haven't bothered to fix it since I only look at it when I log in/out.Anyways I want to know if anyone of you readers were able to cash in on this las...
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Contest - Would You Do With $25?
2007-11-27 20:45:00
$25 dollars doesn't do much now a days. It can't get you a pizza delivered to your house in Maui. It can't buy you a full tank of gas (unless your driving a moped). So why am I asking this question? Shai at JMMO is running a contest for $25. So this post is my entry ticket to the contest. By the way if you haven't read my free blog traffic tips, you'll find that holding contests are a great linkbaiting method to gain back links as well as exposure for your blog.Anyways back to the subject matter on what I would do with $25. Since my blog is still rather new, I would use it to gather some exposure. What would be the best way to get some exposure for $25 though. I could:Purchase a link for this websiteWith all the Google Page Rank penalties being sent out recently about paid links though I don't think I'll go with this one. Also sidebar or sponsored posts don't really do great for traffic unless its from a very high traffic source anyways. I wouldn't be able to pur...
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RssHugger Some Lovin For Your Feed
2007-11-27 02:19:00
Last month I mentioned that I was going to try to add myself to more directories to generate visitors for this blog. On my list was to submit my blog to directories which bring me back to the subject of this post. RssHugger. What is RssHugger? Lets take a look at their about page."rssHugger is a unique website that aims to bring bloggers and readers together. rssHugger aims to provide blog owners with a unique easy-to-use way to promote their blogs by sending them traffic, building backlinks for search engine optimization, as well as attracting new rss subscribers if the content is interesting to the reader."Why should I join now?Its FREE now, previously rssHugger was a pay to join directory. (you may still join by paying $20 if you wish to skip the write a post about rssHugger part of application, and receive a manual review).What are the benefits to me as a blogger?Raise awareness of your blog Send tons of visitors to your blog Share traffic with the community Be part of a vira...
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Cyber Monday Myth or Now Internet Genre?
2007-11-26 09:27:00
Happy Cyber Monday to you all. What is it? In 2005 Shop.org coined a new marketing phrase called "Cyber Monday", based on some data in 2004 about the Monday following "Black Friday" being the biggest online shopping day of the year. Shortly afterwards, and after some actual research they found that it in fact didn't measure up to the hype. The term came under some harsh criticism, and even Rob Hoff posted a retraction of sorts to his article in Business Week. However as most advertiser's know there is no such thing as bad advertising, and many people follow the ideology of bad press is better than no press. Fast forward another year to 2006. Again more people downplayed the term Cyber Monday. However with each article posted, each comment created the term spread throughout the internet. Shop.org persisted in marketing the term as well as their website CyberMonday.com was launched. Even though many people said that the day was just hype, there were still a few companies th...
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Update For World of Warcraft Tip For Leatherworkers
2007-11-24 20:55:00
I just wanted to update my free tips for the poor WoW leatherworker post. Seems like there are many people wanting to know more about a particular product called Heavy Knothide Armor Kit that was released with the recent WoW patch 2.3.Heavy Knothide Armor KitWhat is it?Permanently increase the Stamina of an item worn on the head, chest, shoulders, legs, hands or feet by 10. Only usable on items level 60 and above.Where can Leatherworkers learn it?In Lower City Shattrah, from the Master Leatherworking Trainer Damari at location 67, 67(The southeast part of the city map near the exit into Terrokar Forest.Who makes it?Leatherworkers with 350 or greater skill.What does it take to make one?It takes three Heavy Knothide Leathers.How many skills ups can I get from it?Heavy Knothide Armor kits are Yellow from 350-354, Green 355-364, and go Grey at 365.Can I make gold selling it?Definitely, I make more gold selling these than selling the Heavy Knothide Leather on the auction house by thems...
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Happy Birthday World of Warcraft! 3 Years Old
2007-11-24 19:10:00
Yup the title says it all, Happy Birthday World of Warcraft . WoW is celebrating the third year after its North American launch. During that three year period Blizzard has somehow managed to accumulate more than 9 million subscribers world wide. Very impressive numbers so in thanks they are holding a sweepstakes to give out some prizes.Sweepstakes terms rules are posted here, and yes you need to be 18 or over to qualify as well as being in the United States (sorry Florida you don't qualify either). You will be entered automatically as long as your account was in active, and in good standing before November 19th, 2007.Now the good stuff - Prizes!During the week of November 26, we'll award 10 J!nx gift certificates valued at $100.00 each. During the week of December 3, we'll give away 20 sets of four World of Warcraft action figures. During the week of December 10, we'll provide 5 lucky players with an Apple iPod Touch and a two-year World of Warcraft subscription.Good luck to...
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Mr. T Hacks World of Warcraft
2007-11-23 19:13:00
I just have to say why a bloody night elf. He should have rerolled horde. Anyways this is just one of the recent commercials for their popular World of Warcraft games with the catch phrase, "What's your game?".The other celebrity that was used was William Shatner playing a Tauren Shaman. I don't know, I would have cast him as a Draenai Paladin or something. I mean he was wearing Jedi robes in the commercial. Both commercials can be found here in the World of Warcraft movies download section.Personally I'm waiting on the next commercial which is supposed to use Verne Troyer the Mini-Me from Austin Powers.
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What Type of Salesperson Are You?
2007-11-21 18:47:00
Its nice to be home after a trip out of the country, even if it was only for a brief period of time. I learned quite a bit visiting the tourist town of Cozumel. The atmosphere, and weather is almost identical to that of Maui where I live. Nice cool breeze, beautiful water, sunshine, and even the slight drizzles in the morning. The people were a little different. Back here on Maui we don't have very many shop owners out on the street hawking their wares. The idea of haggling over a price also isn't something that we're not really used to.It struck me then that there were a lot different types of people about in the streets, and I couldn't help but to start grouping them into categories while dodging them in the side streets.The go getters - These were the almost too friendly salesperson that would always walk up to each, and every passerby with a smile, and warm welcome. Announcing clearly what they had in the stores for sale, or what were the unique items that were avail...
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And Away We Go - I'll Be Back
2007-11-08 20:20:00
I head out to Texas, and Mexico today so I won't be posting anything for a little while. I will be back home before Thanksgiving though so stop on by or subscribe to my feed so you know when I'm back. Have a safe and happy Veteran's day weekend while I'm out.While I'm not trying to sound like a certain governor, I have just to say it. "I'll be back".
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Tag Your It - 7 Things About Me Meme
2007-11-07 19:15:00
Just when I thought I had everything ready for my trip I get tagged by a meme from Shai @ Just Make Money Online. Well if its one thing I can resist its games so here we go, and the game name is "7 Things About Me That You Might not Know". I haven't done one of these before, and I'm a little late on sending out some link love this month so I'll mix the two together! Ha the lazy game-a-holic procrastinator still wins! I also need to make a mental note to add meme to the list of things to do to increase traffic to your website. Also just because your blog is - for business only, doesn't mean that you can't change it topic around a little to fit the blog like Shai did in her meme. I don't have a very descriptive about me section so maybe this info will fill in some gaps for some people.7 Things About Me That You Might not Know - Well here goes nothing.I play video games ALOT - While you probably know that I play video games, you don't know to what extent I do so. Xfire ke...
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World of Warcraft Gold Tip for The Poor Leatherworker
2007-11-03 06:44:00
So you wanna be a leatherworker in World of Warcraft ? This isn't the guide for you then, the leatherworker power-leveling guide is located here along with all the other professions. This quick tip is for those poor leatherworkers who finally got the nice shiny Epic leather gear. Now the only problem is once you made your gear what else can I do with the skill? I know, I can sell various armor kits to make money like that expensive Nethercobra Leg Armor! I'm sorry to say it'll be a slow going process for you unless your running heroics day in and out for those Primal Nethers.Well this quick tip won't make you rich fast, but it can put an extra 50-100g a day for a few minutes work.Here is what you'll need:Minimum LW Skill: 325 (yep fund your 300-375 training with this)About 100g to start off if you have no materials. Skinning - Not required, but usefulAuctioneer - Not required, but makes things go a lot faster. Check my post on Auctioneer Guide.First thing first - check for...
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October Income Totals - Happy Halloween
2007-10-31 20:39:00
Well first off I would like to say Happy Halloween to all of you. May you have a safe Trick or Treating. Without much further ado here are my totals for the month of October , and I think I did a little bit better this month. Which by the way marks Money News's 2 month Anniversary.October Totals - $199.29Sparter - $133.65ClickBank - $49.32CashCrate - $11.38Adsense - $4.94 (blog/Whypark test combined)Well I guess I did a lot better than last month, but I didn't hit my goal of 20k gold like I was planning to. Mainly due to lack of diligence since I was tired after coming home from my job, and not logging into WoW to check the Auction House. I was only able to hit 14k gold before I decided to sell some off before the commission rates jumped in November. Also to get some extra spending money since Sparter will start paying out bi-monthly instead of nightly starting November. It looks like that there are many people cashing out now as the prices for WoW gold has dropped another $10/1k ...
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Show Me the Moolah - Play Free Games For Cash
2007-10-30 07:43:00
Of all the things I didn't need to get addicted to. I really didn't need another browser game to play. Now I'm sitting here writing a post about the game , and waiting to hear the ding of the opponent ready chime. What is this semi-addicting cash game I'm toting about? Its called Moolah. With a giant tower of prize money reminiscent of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Grand Prize is roughly $10,000,000, and is free to play.The game is currently in its beta form with the only way to play is to get an invite. Invites are easy enough to get though as you can go to the Moolah forums, and request an invite. Members can also refer a limited amount of people over a period of time. I was going to release more information about the game here, but reading their terms and conditions I found that I may not do so. So you'll just have to take my word for it about how addicting the game is. =)If you would like to receive an invite to Moolah you can follow the link below. Also if you...
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My CashCrate Check Arrived - And My Camera Broke
2007-10-29 06:26:00
It seems like lately every time I have good news, I also have bad news to share. I should rename my blog the yin/yang effect or something. Anyways my first check from Cash Crate has just arrived so I WAS going to take a picture of it. Until I found out that my camera no longer works. So I'm sending a picture that I took from my camera phone, which btw is also on its last leg.I'll just be borrowing the camera from work to take a full size picture of the check next time. The total check amount was for 20.25, which was about the same as the total on my September Earnings. I guess this will going towards my buying another @%!% camera fund. Anyways if your new to CashCrate, you can check out my other CashCrate review posts.
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