Sounds exciting - then you may like to join skill-guru , a market place where “guru” or the experts can create and sell the tests. Each individual tests can be priced, say, for example $2 each. So if 10 persons take tests, you earn $20 a day or $600 a month - not a bad way to earn extra money in the down economy.

You will have to do a little bit of extra effort to promote your tests. You may post it on forums, facebook, twitter to promote your tests. Once initial promotion is done and if your tests are good enough, the viral effect will automatically bring people to take the tests.

Notice that Creating and selling your test is just one part of many benefits that skill-guru offers

The main reason behind requirement of truck floor mats is to shield the floor of your truck. There are many reasons which can cause stain at your vehicle’s floor; one of such reason is spilling of liquid. Truck floor mats keep your truck’s floor stain free.

Suppose you are drinking coffee inside your truck and it splashes, then it will fall on your truck mat and protect your floor. If you often drive on snow area then it will protect your truck floor from road salt. It saves your money which you invest on cleaning.

When you leave your truck for service, it protects your truck floor from being getting greasy which comes from the service technician’s boots.

Main advantage of truck floor mats, you can clean them easily. Most truck floor mats are prepared of exclusive quality of rubber and just rinse them down at the time when you wash your truck. It is the sophisticated way of cleaning. If you like to invest more money then exclusive custom mats are also available at market. These are tailored as per truck owner’s choice. Husky Liners are one the prime merchants where you can find varieties of truck floor mats.

Final thought, truck floor mats work as carpet of truck and also give stylish look to vehicle.

I will suggest online marketers to focus on a new method. Forget about creating hotlinks at different places, blogs and news commenting. Focus on the brand naming. Choose a website name that is short, easy to type and communicate,  and unique. So let us say you have created a website called ezdia. And you want to advertise ezdia at proper forums by commenting.

If you notice carefully - ezdia is a unique name. And if you type ezdia, the website http://ezdia.com is the one that comes to the top. With this in mind - here is my suggestion - promote the brand name. On every forum that seems relevant use the word ezdia in place of hot clickable link http://ezdia.com.  If you need to - just write - “Search google with ezdia” or something similar.

This way you are promoting a brand name. It will get you less immediate traffic. But you are less likely to be banned by the website owner. You efficacy increases.

This method will be successful for any page that comes to number one with a given keyword. For example a webpage of this website come to top with the search term “MSP430 tutorial”. If I want to promote this page, I do not say go to http://www.referencedesigner.com/tutorials/msp430/msp430_01.php - all I have to say is - search google with “MSP430 tutorial”.

Do you see the effectiveness of this method ?

The purpose of this blog is to mention a very simple way to memorise the pin numbering of the Serial Port pin numbering in the DB9 Connector of the Serial Port.  I am not going to mention what all the 9 pins of the serial port connector do that. There are other places including wiki where you can get that information. I am also not goint to mention what all the serial port protocol is.

All I am going to mention is that most serial port communication consist of just three pins - A ground, a  Transmitter and a Receiver. So Pin 5 in the DB9 is the ground. And if you do not remember it you should. You will often need this pin to be able to measure and check your signal on your scope. That leaves us with two more Pins - A transmitter and a Receiver. The Transmitter is Pin 3 and Receiver is Pin 2.

In your computer the Transmitter is Pin 3. And that is all you need to remember. And here is an easy way to remember - both the words Transmitter and Three has the alphabets ‘T’ and ‘r’.  And with this fact memorised you know that the receiver is going to be Pin 2.

And of course, if you still have confusion, hook up a Oscilloscope and attach the ground of the Oscilloscope to Pin 5. Now connect the tip of the oscilloscope probe to Pin 3. If you now open a Hyperterminal and write anything in your Hyperterminal you should see some data on that Pin 3 of the DB9 Connector.

Well, I never know someone called Stuti and never heard of her. So I became suspicious about the marketing technique of Silicon India. I did join Silicon India and sent the so called “Stuti” and never hot her reply. I saw her details and there were none. She had 242 contacts in her list and all of these 242 had only one contact in their network - it was Stuti.

Silicon India must have sent emails to at least 25,000 people through Stuti’s contact to be able to garner that many sign ups. And I checked the email from which this email seems to have come - it was stuti@myself.com.

I sent a message to Stuti on the Silicon India - there was no reply. I send her a message to stuti@myself.com - there was no reply. There was not supposed to. There were not meant to. And there are 242 people like me. And if there are 1000 Stuti’s then they generate 242,000  sign ups. My only question is how did they got my email ? I will not wait. Their are ways you can get email lists.

Siliconindia is one of the largest professional networking website of India. At the time of writing it had alexa ranking close to 2165.  It garners good respect from the professionals in India.

Update on March 08, 2010

On March 8, 2010 - the so called Stuti had 500 persons in her contact. Note that she had 242 contacts at the time of writing, that was on Feb 21, 2010. In a matter of 2 weeks she added over 250 contacts.

Are you an email marketing expert ? If you are I would like to listen from you.

Killer Start up works like a digg website with some important difference. It is the staff of the Killer start up which post the links of the startup website rather than the common user. Daily, the staffs of Killer start up review 15 startups. They choose the start ups that can be potential Killer.

For example at the time of writing, ezdia was at number three spot in this month’s of the Killer Startup top list. Killer start up can give a good exposure to your company. You need to ensure that your start up is good in content and have good promise if you wish it to get significant number of votes.

Killer startup top list also give an indication of which industry area can be a good hit. If you think your start up can be a good hit you may use the submit button at Killer startup. It is upto the Killer Start up staff whether they deem it fit for being included in the killer start up review.

Some Excerpts from the Killer Start up Website

KillerStartups.com is a user driven internet startups community. Entrepreneurs, investors, and bloggers are staying informed on up-and-coming internet startups using our blog platform, where internet entrepreneurs submit their startup to see what others think about it.

Gonzalo Arzuaga (36) - Co-founder, KillerStartups.com.
Gonzalo has written 5 books about the internet in the areas of business and marketing. He started a search engine in 1996 in Argentina, GauchoNet, which rapidly became one of the most visited sites in the country, and finally was acquired in 1999 by Terra-Lycos. Gonzalo’s latest creation features TheBlogCompany.com, which has already reached 1.8 million unique users with its link2blogs.com service.

In today’s blog I will be pointing out how people are misusing microworkers.com to have the ads fradulently clicked.  Take a look at one of the projects posted on the microworkers site

It turns out that the tinyurl link takes me to a blogspot  website  http://sebulba1963.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html . On this website is listed a large number of  websites that have Google Adsense.  Some of the websites are, for example, http://outdoordaybed.org/ ,http://antiquesink.net/ and a bunch of others. This Microworker job pays $0.80 for the work, which essentially is clicking 2 Google Ads.

Google are you listening ?

One  digg user summed his personal experience

“It’s an absolutely retarded thing to do, but we’ve all done it…

The worst part is most girls will go out of their way to make themselves seem as happy as possible once you’ve split up, only to further add to the misery.
You’ll visit her Facebook page only to notice her default photo is now her and ‘guy x’. This ‘guy x’ also happens to be somebody you’ve been friends with for years, and when you previously asked her “do you fancy guy x” weeks earlier, she’d reply with “no way!”.

I had a really bad breakup with a girl and she did all of the above, but also set her profile to private…whilst ‘accidentally on purpose’ not changing the password she knew that I knew. So I logged in to it only to notice everything I’d ever posted had been removed and it was now all lovey-dovey shit about how good her new boy is. Girls can be pretty damn brutal!”

So it is your time to decide - Is facebooking doing any help to society or harming it. I arrive at the conclusion that most of  this social media is eventually leading to misery, sadness. I hoped it were otherwise.

This will set up the cron job at every 15 minutes. If you have never done so, here are details of how to set up the cron job on Godaddy

1. After Logging  in to  Godaddy go to  My Products section, select Hosting and click Manage Account.
2. Go to  Content section of the Hosting Control Center, click the Cron Manager icon. This action displays the Cron Manager screen.
5. Click edit next to the Email Address heading in the left navigation area.
6. Enter the email address to which you would like to have all information sent regarding this Cron Job.
7. Click Save and then Click Create Cron Job.

Cron Job Title
Enter a name for this Cron Job. Ideally, this title relates to this task, so you can identify it easily.
Command

The Command field is the script or executable that runs at a specified frequency. Click Browse to locate a file in your hosting account. The full file name of your selection is placed into this editable field. Click the question mark icon for additional assistance in selecting a command.

Frequency
Set the frequency at which you want this Cron Job to run: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
Minute/Hour/Day/Date
Depending on which Frequency setting you select, this lower-right field will display differently.
* Hourly - Displays the Minute field. Enter the time that you want the Cron Job to run. For example, you can set your job to run at 15 minutes after each hour by selecting “x:15.”
* Daily - Displays the Hour field. Enter the time of day that you want the Cron Job to run. For example, you can set your job to run each day at 1:00 p.m. by selecting “13:xx.”
* Weekly - Displays the Day and Hour field. Enter the day and the time of day that you want the Cron Job to run. For example, you can set your job to run each Thursday at 7:00 a.m. by selecting “Thursday” and “07:xx.”
* Monthly - Displays the Date and Hour field. Enter the date and the time of day that you want the Cron Job to run. For example, you can set your job to run on the 15th of each month at Midnight by selecting “15″ and “00:xx.”

9. Enter the required information in each field to schedule the task to run repeatedly at specific intervals.
10. Click Save.

Your Cron Job is saved, enabled, and runs at the next scheduled interval.

What Adblock Does

Adlock allows users to prevent advertisements  from being  displayed. It also prevents download of some elements. Adblock has become one  of the most popular firefox extension and at the time of writing there were   69,704,401 downloads. According to one source it has 8.5 million daily users.

Adblock Hurts Google ?

Adblock also blocks the Adsense Ads from Google, which is also the bread and butter for the existence of Google. The following two figure shows how a webpage looks like with and without the Adblock

Figure 1 - Ads do not display with Adblock installed

Figure 2 - Ads displaying without the installation of Adblock

Google is certainly not happy with the Adblock. It is a pain in the ass of google and it is not sitting idle to do something against the Adblock. Google Chrome is supposed to do give some more control to google to prevent the display of the Ads.

Just consider what will happen if Adblock is installed by default in mozilla firefox ? Can you just imagine how much revenue will drop for Google ? It will be a mind bogling number that Google will not like.

Whether we want it or not is a debatable question. Many website owners depend upon the Adsense for their existence. However, the improved navigation experience after the installation of Adblock dictates that more and more people will continue to enhance their browsing experience by installing Adblock Plus.

Google as well as Yahoo continue to decline to comment on Adblock - everywhere I read on the internet.  And the reason seems to be obvious. Many big players have been requesting its user not to use Adblock as this is the source of their revenue - It has been reported by Washington post.

So did you try downloading Adblock today ?