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Affiliate Summit - Day One : Registration, Introductions, the Party
2008-02-25 21:15:00 Day one of Affiliate Summit West has come and gone, and for me, it brought a lot of new contacts and a long day. I got a late start with the registration, and I was unsure how long it would be before I bumped into someone I’d talked with online. Before the Meet ... More About: Party , Las Vegas , Sale , Share
Heading to Affiliate Summit West Tomorrow
2008-02-24 19:17:00 I arrived in Las Vegas today and got all checked in. They keep building it up out here, and it’s only been about a year since I last drove out. Even Hoover Dam seems to have some additions. In any case, I have my walking shoes, comfortable clothes, and plenty of business ... More About: Affiliate , West , Summit , Tomorrow , Affiliate Summit
Be Unique and Earn Your Readers
2008-02-23 09:02:00 Chungyen Chang is the poet behind An Unsuspecting Notebook. He doesn’t know much about tech but he knows a lot about writing. A couple of days ago, Andy at Station Atomica held his first ever Anti contest…contest. He invited readers to create an MSpaint drawing of either A Magical Unicorn, or Arnold Schwarzenegger from ... More About: Communication , Readers , Earn , Unique
5 Industries That Could Benefit from the 700MHz Auction
2008-02-20 18:51:00 Hey there! My name is Scott Webster and I am one of the guys who run AndroidGuys. We’re a site dedicated to Google Android and the Open Handset Alliance. We offer daily updates of news, opinion, and podcasts about anything and everything related to the 34 members of the OHA. I’m ... More About: Communication , Auction , Industries , Benefit
Domains for the Spendy and Some Budget Deals
2008-02-20 13:40:00 I just got an email inviting me to be a part of then next big Sedo/GreatDomains live domain name auction. Since this is the second domain related email for me today and I’ve been dealing with server moves (I have more sites to move, still), I decided to mention it and I’m going to ... More About: Budget
How to Move a Web Site with Minimal Down Time
2008-02-19 03:55:00 Recently, JoeTech.com had a lot of down time. This was because I’ve been working hard to promote it and apparently, it’s been working. The solution was to move from my older server with very little RAM to a faster one with more RAM and updated software. You can’t just jump into something ... More About: Time , Site , Minimal , Move , Web site
Which Should You Use: NoFollow Or DoFollow ?
2008-02-16 14:59:00 When you set an external link in your blog with the href tag , you can do it with DoFollow or NoFollow with the rel attribute, and both influence in search engines in different ways. What is DoFollow and NoFollow? NoFollow: nofollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a ... More About: Nofollow
A Modern Day DaVinci Genius Creates Self-Propelled Beach Creatures
2008-02-16 10:33:00 When Hack n Mod sent me this link with the message, “Your readers will enjoy this: Absolutely incredible!”, I was apprehensive. After all, I get a lot of links in my email and most of them claim to want to show me something amazing. This one, however, was from a site I recognized ... More About: Beach , Modern , Genius , Creatures , Davinci
5 Geeky Ways to Say ?I Love You? on Valentines Day
2008-02-15 04:36:00 If you’re geeky like me, you already know how to geekily say “I Love You”, but what if you’re not and you want to say “I Love You ” in a geeky way to your geeky loved one? Don’t worry. I’m here to help. 1. Send an e-card Send your loved one an electronic greeting card ... More About: Valentines Day , Geeky , Valentines
XBox Light Gun Fails On My RCA Big Screen
2008-02-14 05:12:00 My wife is not an avid gamer, but she likes her House of the Dead III zombie shoot ‘em up. I’m not either, really, but I have an XBox all the same, and when I play, I’d prefer to play on my 52 inch TV rather than the 27 inch. After all, what’s ... More About: Screen , Xbox , Light
Fire Officer Rivieri TODAY!
2008-02-13 13:29:00 I know it’s not tech (and I have a tech post coming later), but I am fuming. Watch the video: I know there’s kids out there (and some adults) who just need a good beating. I know there’s good police officers out there that deserve all the respect we can give them. So ... More About: Today , Fire , Officer
Server Move This Week - Finally
2008-02-11 18:44:00 JoeTech.com will be getting a shiny new server this week. In the past month, traffic to JoeTech.com has more than doubled. In the first 10 days of this month, the Entrecard Slots and Free Ad Slots widgets have already been displayed on other sites over 120,000 times. That’s a lot for this old creaky ... More About: Server , Week , Finally , Move
January $100 Contest Winner Chosen!
2008-02-08 17:39:00 After gathering up all 2,045 January $100 Contest entries, picking our random number, and digging through all the entries for the winner, I am happy to announce that we’re giving a hundred bucks to Mark at 45n5.com. As soon as Mark replies to the email I sent him, we’ll send $100 his way via ... More About: Winner
Calling Geek and Techie Writers
2008-02-07 04:03:00 From time to time, I will be too busy to post or out of town (or country), so I’m looking for guest writers with talent. What’s in it for you? Exposure. JoeTech.com gets a lot of daily traffic, has 101 RSS subscribers (and rising), and continues to drop on Alexa (this is ... More About: Techie , Geek , Writers , Calling
Business Cards Arrived and Look Great
2008-02-05 18:56:00 I just wanted to make another quick post that many of you might not care about, but I’m kind of excited about. Last week, I asked for opinions, and some of you added some great thoughts to my business card design. I made a few changes, took some advice on a print shop to try, ... More About: Business , Great , Cards
Fun with Entrecard Baseball
2008-02-05 01:20:00 I know some of you are all like “Joe Tech, post more TECH and less marketing junks, yo”, to which I say, “you talk weird.” Seriously, this is just a quick post because I thought this was funny. On Entrecard, a thread was started about me taking the #1 “Most Popular” position on the site out of ... More About: Baseball
Another Hundred Dollars - Come Get it
2008-02-02 07:03:00 To gain entries into the contest, just do any of the following: - Make a comment of value (not just “i agree”, etc.) on a post = 1 entry (remember to comment on all blogs) - Subscribe to RSS via email = 2 entries (per blog you subscribe to!) - Write a post about the contest on your ... More About: Dollars
Hacking Cube World : Part 1 - Discovery
2008-02-01 22:49:00 The other day, I decided to bust open one of my Cube World cubes to see what’s inside and to begin a plan to hack it. For those who don’t know, they’re little cubes with digital stick men living in them. They come in different characters and you can put a couple cubes ... More About: Gaming , Computers , Discovery , Part
6,489 Contest Entries: 1 Winner
2008-02-01 08:54:00 It’s time to draw the winner for the free 125×125 ad and 2,000 Entrecard Credits. It was 1,000 credits, but I raised it on a whim. I do that sometimes, so you should subscribe to my feed and join all my contests. This is NOT the drawing for the $100. That ... More About: Contest , Winner
White Label the Deli.cio.us MP3 Player in Just 4 Easy Steps
2008-01-30 20:46:00 Suppose you want to not just link to MP3 files on your site, but you want to also show a tiny flash player next to the link. I needed to do just that, so I modified some code for a brilliant little player called “playtagger” that Deli .cio.us came up with a while back. I ... More About: Player , White , Label , Easy
All Your Base Are Belong To LiveJournal
2008-01-29 17:57:00 Has anyone else noticed this on LiveJournal.com? Those funny guys and gals have this for their 404 (Page Not Found) message: More About: Base
New Business Cards : Opinions Wanted
2008-01-29 02:41:00 As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ll be heading out to Affiliate Summit West next month, and I realized that I have NO business cards. How can I mingle with the blogging elite and not carry business cards to hand out? Clearly, this needs a remedy, so I just whipped up this ... More About: Business , Opinions , Cards , Wanted
Confirmed: Going to Affiliate Summit West 2008
2008-01-28 15:28:00 My press credentials for Affiliate Summit West 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada have been confirmed. I guess it took so long because my spam filter or something caught the original confirmation. In any case, I will be in Las Vegas from 2-23 through 2-26. My wife’s parents will be visiting with us ... More About: Affiliate Summit
$100, Free Ad Spot, and 1,000 Entrecard Credits Up for Grabs
2008-01-27 10:46:00 This month has already been exciting. I have two contests coming to an end and developed three free tools for you to play with. Here’s the total of what I’m giving away as detailed below: - $100 cold hard cashola - 1,000 Entrecard credits. What the hell… 2,000! - 125×125 ad spot ... More About: Free , Spot , Credits
Virgin Galactic Unveils SpaceShip Two : First Commercial Passenger Space Sh
2008-01-24 15:42:00 Back in September, two things happened relating to space travel for the private sector. First, I posted about the proposed 2010 opening of Space port America in New Mexico. Then, I promised my wife that we would be on a flight into outer space on September 17, 2017. This week, Virgin Galactic ... More About: Commercial
How to Hack a Person
2008-01-24 02:21:00 Most people are a familiar with the term “hacking“. In general, it refers to gaining unauthorized access to a computer. One definition from m-w.com is “to gain access to a computer illegally”. To me, hacking refers to gaining unauthorized access to information. I’m not going to explain how to hack a ... More About: Computers , Communication , Hack , Person
Free Ad Space and on JoeTech.com and 1,000 Entrecard Credits
2008-01-21 01:59:00 I have decided to give away a free 1 month ad block and Entrecard credits every month. So not only can you enter to win $100 every month of 2008, but if you have your own blog (or just about anything else) to promote, you can now win that 125 by 125 pixel ad ... More About: Space , Free , Credits
Sun Drops $1 Billion for Open Source Developer MySQL AB
2008-01-18 00:00:00 As a developer, this is huge. Depending on what Sun does with MySQL in regards to its open source-ness, this could change the way I do business to some extent. Channel Insider says: Sun Microsystems Inc said on Wednesday it will buy open source developer MySQL AB for about $1 billion, allowing it to expand into ... More About: Open Source , Developer , Open , Source , Open-Source
The Undeniable Truth : I Suck
2008-01-17 21:00:00 I suck. Not generally, just at making money from sites with good traffic. I’m an affiliate marketing idiot and I need help. I have several sites that total about 1.8 million page views per month, yet I’m not making cash like this. Clearly, I need some kind of kick start. Luckily, there’s ... More About: Truth , Suck , Ruth
Display Your IZEA Rank with a Badge
More articles from this author:2008-01-16 23:09:00 After writing the article about IZEA Rank launching, I decided to play with the API key they gave me and see if I could make an IZEA Rank badge maker and guess what. I created it. That’s my rank. It shows as a zero right now, because I’m so new in their system, but ... More About: Display , Badge 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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