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SocialSpark.com is a new phenomenon in advertising, blogging & social networking.
It brings together the best of all three waves into a single platform. It is a beginning that gives you the feel and touch of a connected world at community & business level.

It is not new in concept, it is new in the internet context where it can connect business, experts & users for getting information on new products, review of products by users.

Social networking online as offered by SocialSpark.com has a win-win formula built into it. Advertisers build buzz, word of mouth advertising to promote their new or existing products and bloggers get paid. The users get to know about the new products they are interested in. Users also have access to bloggers opinnions & users experience before buying. Thus there is a value for everyone, everyone wins.

So anyone in business needing to promote business is now able to promote products & services with lower budgets at socialpark.com.

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The internet is evolving with a new dimension & force with the arrival of web2.0 sites
Web 2.0, has been around for almost 2 years. Inspite of the fast growth, it is yet to reach its full promising potential media in business world.
For example, YouTube (www.youtube.com), a video uploading website, created in February 2005, and in less than two years after launch, Google bought YouTube for a unimaginable price tag of $1.64 billion.

The potential of Web 2.0 sites such as that of blogpico.com a new wave in free bloggers community is recognized by global internet marketers & users communities

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Life is like a tree with roots, ever expanding. Needs of life & business are always growing.
From toys to education, wife to home, or search for new business, online business or a virtual home, everyone is searching for the ‘most beautiful & most reliable’.
The moment you add an adjective like beautiful, you need to go for a tireless search with specialists & online.

So let us start with an example, you are searching, say a ‘beautiful wife’ & decide to start the search expedition at google with a keyword , the google answers your query by giving a link to a book on Amazon. So if you were looking for a book to give it as a gift, you hit the target, but if you were looking for a real life beautiful wife, you know well now where will the search engines take you.

So Google or yahoo is not the place for vertical searches. Vertical search resources have now been created to make specific searche easy and fast. So if you need beautiful home or a beautiful virtual home go to a vertical web resource managed and supported by an expert/pro who will help you (with fees in some cases), to find whatever you are searching.

As the parameters of beauty differ for each one of us, the ever expanding & never ending search of the beautiful has created the new beauties like Google Search, yahoo search, MSN search and 100s more verticals yet to come.

Now the newest & the fastest growing need for individuals, pros or businesses is to create a beautiful web presence.

So if you are looking for a beautiful virtual home (web hosting), do not go to Google.com or Yahoo.com, go and search and read the web hosting reviews. Read the users experiences with the web hosting companies and you will know where to buy space for your virtual home.

While you are at webhostinggeeks.com, do not forget to read some of the informative web hosting articles

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If Industry & Trade are vehicles of history, Advertising has been the wheel that has moved the history of industry & trade.

Today all three, Industry, Trade & Advertising are in a mode of transformation. As new technologies create new products at a faster pace, new advertising media are needed to match the pace of new products & services. Conventional media have limitations which are being overcome by the new media like Blogging, Video Blogging, Mobile Marketing, Podcasting, IPTV etc.

I have been a member at a many social networking web sites, but socialspark.com redefines & refreshes social networking. It has many features that drove me to signup and explore the earning opportunities, advertising opportunities (free & paid).

As a member you can scan many paid and free blogging opportunities and exchange posts with other members to increase back links & traffic to the blog. After exploring socialspark.com features and using it for a week, I am sure it is an important landmark in the word of blogging, advertising & consumer generated blogging. So if you are already blogging or plan to setup a blog, signup & submit your blog details when you qualify.

SocialSpark offers the perfect platform as it connects advertisers & blogging communities & customers.

Socialspark.com offers bloggers the opportunities to build communities, increase subscribers & increase traffic & offers get paid opportunities to monetise their blogs.

Blog Advertising is more interactive & verifiable media and socialspark.com has designed policies to make the media 100% auditable, verfiable with real opinions from bloggers & consumers. Further all links are 100% nofollow so the bloggers & adverisiers are not adversely affected in search engine rankings due to paid links.

SocialSpark.com is a land mark in commercial blogging evolution
& offers better connectivity between advertisers, bloggers & consumers. The lower costs of sending the product information with the help of interactive blogs is proving to be very effective.

As blog advertising establishes as the preferred media of advertising, it definitely offers a win-win situation for everyone. Lower cost of advertising, reliable information and interacting with the existing users of the product presents the true picture required for buying decisions.

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A mashup is a web application that combines data
from more than one applications/source into a single integrated service,
giving more value to the user (not provided by either of the applications individually).

Mashups are a new phenomenon offering new opportunities to developers & a better value to the users.

Examples of Mashups are Facebook applications. More than 3000 mashups exist and more are being added by the day.
Creating & monetising the opportunities offered by the mashups is a big opportunity both for IT industry, Developers Community & users adapting new web2.0 & converging technologies for business.

Learn & adopt mashups as ignoring the mashups will result in losing on the benefits of the low cost integration offered by mashups.

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Of the hundreds of winning styles, sending a gift and sending an invitation to a party is the starting point & central to winning hearts. It is eternal & universal. Only the script of the language changes. From Hong Kong to USA & Japan to UK, everything else remains the same. Winning of hearts is central to winning in game of life & business.
So next time I am in Newyork or anywhere for special business promotions of a product and am sending invitations to a business party, my first choice for invitation cards and for personal stationary for promotions is personal stationery from cadeauonline.com.

The mathematics of winning hearts works by multiplication so just don’t be worried about a few extra pennies when you send these special gifts or party invitation cards.

Cadeauonline.com remains my favorite for online ordering of personal stationery, party invitations & gifts for personal communications & product promotions.

All the designs are lively & catchy, setting up the your special personal tone to the invitation.

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Flexibility and adaptability in a product or service has a premium attached to it. A premium is also attached to flexible loans in financial services market.

Here is a quick recap on flexible loans I made while trying to understand how flexible loans work.

Flexible rate equity loans are loans that offer homebuyers the ability to overpay their mortgage. If the homebuyer is repaying the loan and applying the overpayments, he can reduce the rates of interest and pay off the property sooner. The advantage to this type of loan is that you can pay less once month if you have made ongoing overpayments. The interest on flex rate loans changes, since the lender will factor in the interest rates on a daily scale. This makes room for the homebuyer to get max overpayment, since the interest changes monthly.

The homebuyer can also “underpay” toward mortgage, providing he has made the allowed amount of payments. The loans also provide “holiday packages” for underpayments, which means if you pay enough overpayments, you can stop payments for a month to take a vacation. There are other benefits of the flexible rate equity loans, which we will learn later, but for the most part, these loans are the leading loans available on the market.

More on flexible loans inn the next post…………………….

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Thousand of years back, Asoka the great, realized the follies of war. He won the war but he lost his inner connection with himeself, God & the people. So he gathered wise men and sent them on missions of spreading his message of universal oneness.

How did they do it? The teachers spreadout worldwide in cities & villages & connected with people to spread the new teachings of life. They inscribed their messages on iron pillars & stones. That was ancient blogging. Festivals were organized around the pillars where people gathered for shopping & meeting and discussed the text written on the pillars.

The endless passion for expression inscribed in our hearts is now being nurtured & cultured by social networking & blogging for connecting people miles away. The SocialSpark generated by blogging revolution is just the beginning of new opportunities in the new connected world.

The run down (or the drop down) on google page rank of blogs for paid posts worked as a barrier in the free expression. These are the days of evolution of blogging, differing opinions must co-exist and rightly so.

As a result, new form of blogging (noindex) is established that connects advertisers & blogging communities & customers. Socialspark.com is a land mark in commercial blogging evolution & offers better connectivity between advertisers, bloggers & consumers. The quality of connectivity within the market community at socialspark.com, lower costs of sending the product information to the consumer is definitely a win-win situation for everyone.

So if you have a new product launch or want to create a buzz around your product or service, socialspark.com offers the platform for promotions at the best of cost per customer acquisition. A marketing campaign in the social marketing media is a new evolving media, but social marketing will always be a better value promotion.

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I have this incorrigible habit of experimentation. The month of April 08 took me to some experiments in blogging. While experimenting takes me away from posting, it adds to the functionality of the blog. I added the post rating feature. This has yet to pick up.

Back on the rails of blogging and following my blogging blue print 2008. If you did not read that go for a quick read - here is the link to blue print 2008.

I plan to write a detailed audit on blue print 2008 by the week end. So please be tuned in. While you are on the post, look for the grey rating stars that will turn yellow when you rate the post.

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