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MyBlogLog Acquired by Yahoo
2007-01-09 20:26:00
Readwriteweb.com states:"After only 3-4 months of general release, distributed social network MyBlog Log has been bought by Yahoo for an estimated $10-12M. This adds to Yahoo's collection of trendy Web 2.0 apps - they can pop the MyBlogLog folks in with Flickr and del.icio.us. When MyBlogLog initially came out in October 2006, I described it as "a kind of instant social networking system for bloggers". What surprised me was how fast this thing took off. But then after using it on my own blog for the last 2.5 months, I can see the attraction for both users and Yahoo."MyblogLog seems like a pretty cool concept and has obviously achieved a stamp of approval from one of the net giants. I am curious about it, so I think I will add it to this blog later this afternoon when I have some time.Tech Tags: mybloglog yahoo
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Online Banking Report awards five "Best of the Web" winners in 2006
2007-01-09 16:04:00
Check out Online Banking Report 's blog for the 2006 Best of the Web winners:Prosper (March) for its eBay-like take onperson-to-person lending (coverage here)billQ (August) for its Web 2.0 bill paymentreminder service (coverage here)USAA (November) for the first in-home remote deposit capture service (coverage here)Wells Fargo (December) for fully embracingblogging with the launch of four blogs in 2006(coverage here);also a belated award to Verity Credit Union for being the first to blog in December 2004 (coverage here)Bank of America (December) for its Yodlee-powered full featured online personalfinance service, MyPort folio (coverage here)Source: OBRTech Tags: online+banking prosper bank+of+america billQ yodlee
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Guide to Taking Advantage of 0% Balance Transfer Offers
2007-01-09 06:13:00
2millionblog.com has a great article on 0% balance transfers. I thought I would post the link here rather than repeating such a fine effort. I do want to a add a link, however to help you find credit cards with 0% balance transfers. One thing to keep in mind, and this is critical, you must read the terms (a.k.a. the fine print) to ensure that you know what percentage, if any, you will be charged to transfer a balance. Check out bankrate.com for their credit card offer search. Select "Best Deal - Balance Transfer " under "What is your goal?"Also check out an article on Motley Fool regarding 0% credit card balance transfers.Tech Tags: credit+card balance+transfers 0%+balance+transfers credit+card+balance+transfers
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10 Worst Credit Card Mistakes College Students Make
2007-01-09 05:33:00
Don't let the headline from Money Smart Life's article fool you, these 10 rules apply to more than just college students. I have listed the top 10 mistakes below, but please see Money Smart Life for the details:1) Opening a Credit Card for Free Stuf 2) Open Door Policy 3) Speculating on Credit 4) Taking the Card out for Night on the Town 5) Carrying a Balance 6) Opening Store Credit Cards for Discounts 7) Overspending, then Reporting Your Card Stolen 8) Buying an Engagement Ring9) Paying For Friends 10) Forgetting to Pay the BillTech Tags: credit+cards credit+card+debt balance+transfers debt
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Morningstar offers free investment courses
2007-01-08 03:46:00
Morningstar offers free investment courses. Topics include the following stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and portfolios.Tech Tags: courses investing personal+finance
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19" JC-199D Analog Digital LCD Monitor Black - $99.95 AR
2007-01-08 03:35:00
Product Rebates Price: Rebate:(more info) After Rebate: $219.95 -$120.00 $99.95 Status: Will Ship: Item#: In Stock Monday 6732843 Mfr. Part#: JC-199DPB 19" JC-199D Analog Digi tal LCD Monitor Black Hanns-g Mfr. Part #: JC-199DPBItem #: 6732843

2006 Excise Tax Credit for Everyone
2007-01-08 03:31:00
A SPECIAL ONE TIME TAX CREDITON YOUR 2006 TAX RETURN(click here for source) When it comes time to prepare and file your 2006tax return, make sure you don't overlook the federalexcise tax refund credit. You claim the credit online 71 of your form 1040. A similar line will beavailable if you file the short form 1040A. If youhave family or friends who no longer file a taxreturn AND they have their own land phone in theirhome and have been paying a phone bill for years,make sure they know about this form 1040EZ-T.What is this all about? Well the federal excisetax has been charge to you on your phone bill foryears. It is an old tax that was assessed on yourtoll calls based on how far the call was being madeand how much time you talked on that call. Whenphone companies began to offer flat fee phoneservice, challenges to the excise tax ended up infederal courts in several districts of the country.The challenges pointed out that flat fee/rate phoneservice had nothing to do with the ...
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Personal finance blogs
2007-01-08 02:39:00
Personal Finance Blog s Beach Girl's Budget BlogCalifornia Money MusingsDimes to DollarsGetting to EnoughMoney & ValuesMoney Smart LifeThe Simple DollarThe Sun's Financial DiaryGet Rich SlowlyNot Made of MoneyMighty Bargain Hunter"Ai ya!"2millionAllFinancialMattersBinary DollarBlueprint for Financial ProsperityDimes to DollarsEbatesExperiments in FinanceThe Financial LadderFrugal For LifeHighest EchelonHustler $$$ BlogJersey Jen's Money CrunchThe Journey To Success - My Finance and Accounting BlogLazy Man and MoneyMoney for MilitaryThe Money TortoiseMoney, Matter, and More MusingsmoneymonkMy Money BlogMy Wealth BuilderPenny Foolishsavvy saverThe Simple Dollarstlplace.com saint louis
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10 Useful Firefox Extensions That Don’t Get Glamorised
2007-01-07 00:28:00
List of uselful, yet under advertised Firefox extensions.Source: connectedinternet.infoColorful Tabs - May sound really boring, but this extension makes it a hell of a lot easier to distinguish between multiple tabsGoogle Reader Notifier - will popup “unread” Google Reader items from the statusbar, so you can keep on top of your feeds before you end up with more unread items than are manageable in one sessionFaviconizeTab - This extension adds a new “FaviconizeTab” option to the context menu of the tab. When it is clicked, The width of the tab becomes small up to the size of favicon. Great if you keep a lot of tabs open like meWebmailCompose Fantastic extension that opens your chosen webmail compose window if any email addresses are clicked onAdd Bookmark Here - Allows you to add bookmarks to any folder in the bookmarks menu like in Opera. Makes adding bookmarks to Firefox so much easierOptimoz Tweaks - If you a heavy user of sidebars this great extension makes it easier to...
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10 best places to own real estate
2006-12-21 15:28:00
Many Americans looking at the values of their homes are asking not whether it will fall, but how much. But in fact, more than half of the 100 top markets in the U.S. are slated to rise next year. Forecasts for 100 real estate markets 10 housing markets projected to rise Metro area 2007 projected price change 2008 projected price change Median home price McAllen-Mission, Texas 8.50% 9.80% $69,660 El Paso 7.10% 4.40% $124,410 Albuquerque 5.90% 0.60% $179,620 Salt Lake City 5.40% 1.90% $186,230 Syracuse, N.Y. 4.80% 3.60% $117,540 San Antonio 4.80% 3.50% $139,830 Rochester, N.Y. 4.50% 4.20% $116,090 Baton Rouge 4.50% 2.80% $170,240 Fort Worth-Arlington 4.40% 3.50% $127,470 Birmingham, Ala. 4.40% 3.50% $165,740
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Wii Wants You - Nintendo is looking to harness non-gamers with its new cons
2006-12-21 12:16:00
Nintendo has repeatedly stated that it's attempting to reach outside of the normal market for games, and expand game playing to everyone. But how exactly are they going to do that?Article Source: Business Weekbusiness, nintendo, wii, gamers, game-consoles
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If US boosts troop levels in Iraq, then for how long?
2006-12-20 02:02:00
For the next several years, active duty ground forces must accept longer tours in Iraq - perhaps 15 months, instead of the current 12 - and National Guard units will have to accept increased deployments. Spending 12 months in Iraq is a long time, but 15 months would be unbearable.Article Source: Christian Science Monitorus-news, iraq, iraq-war, troops, deployment, iraq-troop-levelsSeeded by mikealao
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Lemmings
2006-12-12 14:04:00
This is a lemming. It is actually a myth that they mindlessly follow the crowd. It is not however, a myth that humans and wildebeest do.
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Economic storm brewing in America
2006-12-11 07:47:00
I have pulled all of my money out of the US stock market. Originally I did this because of the annual slump that occurs in the early part of December. Now I am beginning to think that I will sit out the market for just a little while longer to see what happens.America ns extracted 6 per cent of GDP from their homes last year in equity withdrawals (ie, more debt), mostly to subsidise their lifestyles. This game is up. Professor Nouriel Roubini from New York University says recession is inevitable. "People have been using their homes as their ATM machine, but many are now facing negative equity so there will be a lot of foreclosures. As the housing recession spreads to manufacturing, this is going to lead to a much harder landing than people think."Tech Tags: us+economy recession housing stock+market
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Don't Buy if it is Cheaper to Rent - A simple rule
2006-12-07 04:39:00
This is a very simple economic rule:Do not buy a property if it is less expensive to rent that property.Many of you can relate to the experiences of recent years when house prices were just going insane. If you bought a home prior to 2003, the price increases made you feel like you made the investment of your life. Some of you might have even made the mistake of dipping into that equity through a line of home equity credit. I hope that you didn't.I remember colleagues at that Fat 4 Accounting Firm were I worked in 2004 that would show up in the office in tears because they were outbid on a house that they didn't even have the opportunity to see before making an offer on it. I thought to myself, why would I want to buy a home in a market where I was expected to offer more than the asking price without even having the chance to see the place? Is that the way a market is supposed to work? The simple answer is, no.People speak of "sellers' markets" and "buyers' markets", but ...
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The big Digg rig
2006-12-06 14:38:00
Could this be the end of Digg , Reddit, and our other social bookmarking friends? The interesting thing I picked up from this article is that there is a site out there that is paying $0.50 for every 3 diggs. That seems like quite a bit of money, and I wonder what effect marketing sites like these will have.The link to the site is www.usersubmitter.com.Tech Tags: digg reddit social+bookmarking

The Dollar Melts as Iraq Burns
2006-12-05 13:08:00
James K. Galbraith says in the Guardian on December 4, 2006 that as "far back as 2002, we understood - as the economically illiterate neo-imperialists did not - that a world system very favourable to America was on the line. And it was not, as they seemed to think, just a matter of military might. We knew that if the war undermined confidence in the power, good faith and common sense of the United States, that could lead toward disastrous changes on the financial front. Four years in and with no end in sight, that risk may finally be catching up to the almighty dollar."No doubt Mr. Galbraith is correct, the global economy and interdependence is America's Achilles Heel. What was, and still is, the Bush administration thinking when it comes to financing these huge budget deficits that according to them don't matter very much? Someone has to finance those deficits, and the countries doing so in large part are not exactly America's best friends, or to say the least, they certainly...
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Free tool rates how well designed, popular, and accessible your website is
2006-12-04 02:21:00
Sitescore allows users to submit their web page url and have the page scored according to several factors. The final score, based on a scale of 1 -10 with 10 being the best, is then given to the user along with individual scoring and advice for each specific website attribute tested. Once your site has been reviewed, it is added to the list of sites maintained on the Sitescore website.Sites are scored in the following areas:MarketingDesign AccessibilityExperie nceUser Feedback (from users scoring site)This is how they describe their site:"Sitescore is a free tool which rates how well designed, popular and accessible your website is."Tech Tags: sitescore site score websites rankings
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