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An interesting review today because it covers a topic that’s quite relevant to us with the startup of our own little Moo Forum. KC Tan, owner of KCHut.com approached us and asked for a review and gave us a free (Its awesome to get free stuff when your an Internet celeb!) copy of his professional e-book: “The Essential Guide For Forum Entrepreneurs“. From the cover of the book: “Earn money passively just by posting in forums.” and “Outsource the right services and earn $180 in just 2 hours.” Oh, he’s also giving away a free tip to get a permanent PR6 for free from Yahoo! That alone is definitely worth the $30 on which the book is currently valued!

Experience matters.

Throughout the book, KC has little boxes with his quick tips on certain subjects. He’s been actively participating in several bigger forums. One of them is Digital Point, a well known hangout spot for anyone that’s even remotely interested in the Internet. Judging by his post count, we are assured he’s not a newbie. All the tips he’s giving are from years of experience, hanging out on forums. We believe KC.

Pimp yourself to the highest bidder.

One of the things many of us don’t realize, is that there’s really some nice money to be made on forums. The more you post, the hotter you become for some people that would love to stuff you with their money. All you do is put up their links in your signature, change your avatar to what they want or you can even sell a spot that’s used for recent RSS lines from your blog for example. It all depends on how much you want to get your hands on some extra cash. Pimp yourself out to the highest bidder. KC tells you what to look for and how much you can get for your spots.

Now for the best part!

Obviously we can’t just copy and paste the whole book here since the book doesn’t come for free for the rest of you The e-book’s value has been set to $30 which is a reasonable price for 43 pages of useful information for those that’d like to see how much money they can make in the wonderful land of foruming. Especially with the added bonus chapters that will tell you how to obtain a permanent PR6 from Yahoo, and how anyone can make $180 in 2 hours. It requires some work but if you spend 8 hours doing this, you’re looking at $720 per day. Not many of us are making that in our day jobs!

This e-book is a recommended read for anyone that wants to make some extra money and learn how to use a forum to its full potential. Thanks for the free copy KC!

(PS KC too has an affiliate program in place. You buy the book and get an affiliate link. You’ll earn back the investment you made in just two sales! Other people love the book)

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21 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

Have you ever noticed that whenever someone asks you what movies you’ve seen recently, or which one’s on TV right now, nine out of ten times you will answer the question, and add your personal opinion about the movie to it? Without the other person even asking, you’ll tell them if the movie is great, not bad or just a load of bull-crap. We are all born critics.
But a critic without an audience is like a cow without milk, nobody cares. Enter Criticker dot Com. Probably one of the coolest movie review sites we’ve come across in a long time, with a great community and loads of nifty user-interaction. Lets do a movie review site site review!

The first impression we got when we clicked over was the clean look. With the column of movies to vote on, we were hooked in a matter of seconds, rating all the movies we had seen. Didn’t even have to register or anything! Obviously, after we did register, the site had a few more tricks up it’s sleeve to entertain us critics. All you need to do is give your rating to ten other movies and a little something called TCI kicks in. Yeah yeah, we’ll explain exactly what a TCI is!

TCI: The Taste Compatibility Index
The TCI is a measure of the similarity between two people’s taste in films. The lower the TCI, the greater the tendency to agree on which movies ruled and which sucked.

Once you’ve ranked a handful of movies at Criticker, you can generate TCIs with everyone in the community — both normal users and published critics. It’s better than just finding a few people with whom you generally agree — Criticker will show you the exact people whose tastes are the most similar to your own. It’s scientific (kind of)!

So that’s it. The TCI system will tell you who’s cool and who’s off their head when it comes to movie taste. If you’ve found a like minded movie buff or buffete, you could add them to your Kumpel list. (kumpel (koo·mpel) - German for ‘buddy’, ‘comrade’, ‘chum’). Never know, you might end up meeting your dreamdate, going to the movies together and live happily ever after! If not from your Kumpel list, you’ll surely make some new friends in the Criticker dot Com forums.

What else makes the whole system great is that it will index what you like and don’t like so that after a certain point it will open up the option to give you movie recommendations, based on ratings of others in your TCI area. This way you’ll be able to explore more movies of your taste and spend even more time as a couch potato! We love Criticker and we’ve replaced the old fashioned IMDB.Com bookmark with these guys. They’re so hip, they’ve even got their own movie blog full of funny stuff like crazy Jacky Chan stunts gone wrong and a real life Simpsons house!

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22 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

We’re probably starting to bore you guys with all our free give-aways but we can’t help ourselves so here’s another one. Who wants to win a brand new in the box Nintendo Wii and a $50 free game voucher to top it off? You do! (because we’ve already got one).

Obviously we’re doing what we do best, giving away other people’s stuff! This competition is fully sponsored by Cellforcash dot Com who are also giving away a Wii on their own website. You could enter both competitions and take home two of those awesome game consoles!

The rules to enter the draw are very simple again:

• You need to write a post that’s dedicated to this contest which needs to be about 150-200 words.
• We’d like a link in that post to our fantastic Wii sponsor, CellforCash.com.
• Sign up with their affiliate program so you too can start earning cash for other people’s old cell phones.
• A link to this post so everyone can join in the fun!
• Bookmarking this post on Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us etc will get you extra kudos

Just in case you’re not one of the lucky ones that’s gonna win a wii, you still could get paid by the folks over at Cellforcash dot Com because they will pay you for your old cell phone! How many of you have 1 or more old phones stashed away in cupboards, boxes and desks? We’ve got about 4 and this is a great opportunity for us to clean up that mess and get paid for it. Dying to get your hands on an iPhone now that they’re $200 cheaper? Grab your chance and sell your old mobile for cash!

According to Inform Inc., a non profit independent research organization, about 130 million cell phones are retired each year in the US. Other organizations estimate that there may be as many as 500 million cell phones lying idle in the desks and closets of America.

500 million cell phones in the US alone! That’s a huge chunk of change waiting to be cashed in! If you don’t have an old cell phone anymore, you might want to ask your friends, family or some perfect stranger for their old phones. Just tell them you’re doing a science project or something and that you’re more than happy to help them get rid of that old phone. If you’re too lazy to collect them yourself, you can join the Cellforcash dot Com affiliate program which pays you $5 per completed transacation.

Have a look at these numbers:

• Over 70% of Americans do not know that they can recycle their old cell phone.
• Less than 5% of obsolete cell phones are refurbished or recycled.
• In a recent survey, only 2.3% of Americans recycled their old cell phones and 7% threw them in the garbage.

As you can see, recycling old cell phones is big business but these guys also sponsor and donate huge amounts of cash to charity projects. You could infact choose not to get paid for the old cell phone but donate the cash you’d get for it straight to a good cause like 911 phones. But for now you’ve probably got only one good cause on your mind, getting your hands on one of those free Wii game consoles and a $50 game voucher!

*Contest deadline is the 30th of September. We will draw and announce the winner on October 1st.

A little off topic: Everybodygoto dot Com is giving away free cool geek t-shirts! Get ‘em while they’re nerdy!

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81 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

Today a paid review on Webappers.com, a site that provides “Only the Best and Free Resources for Web Application Developers“. Ray Cheung, a freelancer who’s been doing website design and web applications development for over 10 years, decided it was time to share the massive amount of free resources he comes across. Anyone that’s looking for high quality work should make this one of their first stops. Ray’s commited to his claim to have new free material for everyone each day and so far he’s made good on that promise.

How well are these guys doing?

An indicator that Ray is indeed delivering nothing but the best might be the number of RSS subscribers that’s already over 2000 within just 3 months(!) and his Alexa ranks that sits in the top 50k. And of course the fact that he was able to afford an expensive review from ourselves By the looks of it, Webappers dot Com is already making Ray a steady revenue of ~$500 per month with his private ad sales. Not bad at all for a young blog that offers free resources! They should really consider to start offering text link ads in the RSS feeds, surely that’d boost the earnings with that massive amount of subscribers.

Free as in free beer!

For experienced designers and developers, the common open source licenses are probably know by heart and Webappers dot Com offers a great category system where the freebies are filed under their respective licenses (e.g BSD License, Creative Commons, GPL License, LGPL License, License Free and MIT License). This is very usefull and saves you a lot of time if you’re restricted to a certain licensing scheme for your site or web app. If you don’t give a toss about licenses, you can always browse through the HR (human readable) categories for cool icons, sexy background patterns and smashing fonts for example. There’s too many to list here so go have a look for yourself. Surely you’ll find something nifty to add to you own site or blog!

Practice what you preach.

Showcasing all the finest design highlights on the Net, Ray is making sure for a pleasant user experience to all that visit his blog. No ad cluttering, no unreadable fonts and no bullshit. Clear white background with plenty of space everywhere. Easy navigation to take you where you want to go with the click of a button. There’s a great number of screenshots in his articles so you’ll know what Ray is talking about and we’re getting the feeling that Ray actually knows what he’s talking about!

Our conclusion.

There’s really nothing we could find personally to bitch about, Webappers dot Com is truely a great resource site for the best webdesign and web application freebies! If we’d do free reviews, this blog would surely be on our list!
Well worth sharing with your friends on Del.icio.us to show what great taste you’ve got. We’ve subscribed to the feed because getting a daily fresh dose of inspiration for free is great! No RSS? No problem, you can get their updates via email too. It will be interesting to see if Ray manages to crack the 5000 subscribers milestone by the end of the year!

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21 Moos » ~ ~ Random Post

This ought to be an interesting review that was ordered by Sitecritic.net! These guys are professional site reviewers so we’d better try our hardest to get them a review that’s up to their standards. They provide inspiration for the creative according to their tagline.

First off, what is sitecritic dot net all about? Yeah thats right, they do website reviews. (duh!) Raise your hands if you were smart enough to figure that one out.

Sitecritic.net is a non-profit organization formed by a group of experienced web designers and developers. Our goal is to provide the web community accurate information in creating effective websites.

They’re giving back power to the people.

One of the main reasons they have created the site for is to try and help real people with real websites that deserve to be noticed. Current SEO techniques are often so effective that just about anybody with a crap site and enough money can “buy” a spot on Google’s first result page. Usually packed with ads, these sites drown out the truly creative and worth to watch sites. One thing that struck us as odd though; It seems the webmaster himself isn’t shy when it comes to SEO manipulation. We’ve seen him buying high pagerank links, social bookmark services and batches of blog back links on a well known webmasters forum.

Or are they?

Agreed, the site has a lot of good content and all the articles seem to be handwritten by real people. They’ll teach you how to create a website with a detailed series of articles or give you some art design ideas. And they can point you to all the right resources since they are also running a (paid) web directory. This appears to be one of the ways they are earning their money. Selling links in the directory and articles. It seems decent value for your money since site itself has a PR7 and loads of inner pages are quite highly ranked too.

If they’re doing what we think they are, they’re pretty smart.

The site gets updated with articles because site owners love to get free reviews of their site(s). Enthusiastic writers can join sitecritic dot net and produce as many articles as they like in return for “free exposure across the web especially when your work is re-published else where”. It’s a win win for everyone really. The webmaster gets free, unique content. Other sites get free reviews (While they provide new content to write about). And of course, the people who actually write the articles are probably having fun in doing so and get some exposure for their writing skills.

Aha, so that’s how they make money.

Unique content that’s frequently updated is exactly what you need to get noticed by the search engines. And once they notice you, the traffic will start to flow in. The bigger your site grows, the more links you’re likely to get and the higher the page rank will climb. We’ve explained before that link sales are big business. With the web directory they have going, the high page rank is ideal as many a webmaster will fork out a nice sum of money just to get listed. Also the articles themselves are used to sell links. Paragraphs can be added to them for the right price.

We might be wrong, but..

We might be completely wrong about the webmaster’s true intentions but to us it looks like a slick operation. The site looks good, the content is genuine and real, but the underlying reason is simply to cash in on link sales. Nonetheless they do have some great articles to offer for free and they have worked hard to make the site valuable. Just one thing we’d like to advise is they should really consider using a larger font. We’ve got a headache after reading the site when we were researching it for this review!

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