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Bookmarking or social bookmarking has become necessary for getting web pages indexed and to get better traffic. I follow the simple routine of making my notes for my main blog pages and make some extra notes. These extra notes help me with bookmarking sites.

I have realized that bookmarking sites have lot of changes. Technorati  used to have PR 9 now it is PR 3. I like it so I will take that but objectively it hurts. Digg has started “no follow”. I accordingly, adjusted to pick a few new bookmarking sites. I do not see any reason of micro blogging like Twitter because I need more than 140 characters to communicate.

The best course is to pick a few ( 3 or 4) from the top sites like:

• facebook.com,
• myspace.com
• twitter.com
• digg .com
• stumbleupon.com
• squidoo.com
• reddit.com
• technorati.com

Then I pick a few newer sites with the hope that they will be good for a couple of years, at least. My choice is:

1. ur-faves.com
2. mixx.com
3. folkd.com

Of late I have found that the newer sites work better.  Perhaps, the need for more and more ad revenue is making top sites too much commercial.
I have test run which allowed me to create several unique accounts, several unique notes for nearly 100 social bookmarking sites. The results were actually better than manual submissions . It saved me time and I got several back links. This is a white hat product but software that helps you manage the bookmarking work. A small, one time investment, seems to get justified if you see the time and effort it would spare you to undertake other tasks. To get this software and save time is an option though I would recommend.

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Digital camera technology has become mature and most of the cameras produce results par excellence as compared to the former analog SLR cameras. Till ten years back, the professional photographers used to have SLR camera, a studio with lights. As compared to those days, an average point and click camera, steadily performs much better. You do not need a dark room to go through the film development process. You can use a printer at home to print photos on the photographic paper that is sold at all Walmarts.

Where is the catch: there is none. You need a steady hand and willing to be outgoing. Depending upon your starting point - if you have a camera, follow the advice at number of places, such as  Get Paid To Submit Photos To The Internet! or other places on the internet like:

Perhaps I made it look too simple and things are a little more demanding. Not all pictures may get accepted and not all accepted bring any revenue but with a little effort, you too, can learn photography and with a digital camera, start generating, may be, $1000 a month, extra. That can be a handsome amount for so many things besides a payback for your investment in your digital camera or to justify the upgrade of your existing digital camera.
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If you need the equipment, you can look at the listings at well known sites such as http://digital-camera-plus.com and find what feels comfortable. You can get all accessories as well to make a good start. Remember you need to have an initial success to build the encouragement after that you will evolve your own niche and strategy for success. Most of us have done it the same hard way. There is nothing too easy but success is not too difficult. You just need some tenacity.

There are a number of professionals who have written stuff based on their experience and for a small amount would put you on the right path. If you need guidance, I suggest you consider one of the pro courses such as:  Easy Photography Business - Digital Camera - Make Money!

In the current economic market it is much better to learn and be tough and start something of a skill which will stay with you and can be a hobby as well. It requires very little investment but with technology on our side, the home business can become a regular business.

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For the keen, it is the easiest. PHP 5 or PHP version 5 has the object oriented capabilities and has grown to a mature level. There are more websites created in PHP than in any other language. Some of the very large business houses use them. For example, Oracle Corporation which is well known for the most popular Oracle database engine, supports PHP and provides a number of helpful downloads, like this pdf book for PHP,  for free. Similarly, IBM, the other big company in the IT and computers field has extensive PHP support. On this day, if you search for PHP on ibm.com, you will find 52,728 items. Most of them are articles and specific topics covered. In nutshell, in other words, PHP is no more a lame duck. It is getting recognition from the industry and a lot of work is being done in PHP. In fact, this site is running on PHP.

If you are convinced that PHP is good to start, you have won half the battle. From here on, it becomes very easy.

Download xampp. Say, for windows, take the zip file. Unzip in a folder. Please keep in mind, the folder has to be named xampp if you downloaded xampp and it has to be xampplite if you downloaded xampplite.

Just open the folder in windows explorer. You need to notice a few things:

There is an apache folder which has htdoc sub-folder. The main folder has a few .bat files.

To start, duble click on start-apache.bat. This will start apache. Then click on start-mysql.bat. This will start mysql.

In your Internet browser, type, http://localhost and you should see an orange screen giving you option of a bunch of languages.

Choosing English will take you to an information page. This is your setup for apache, php, and mysql.

Play around to make yourself familiar.

Now, to learn follow this link. There are tons of tutorials on the web and soon you will be able to program.

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Insurance is a cost that can, in very subtle way chip a lot total for a business or individual.  All insurance is bought because either we are compelled or we want to insure with professionals the risk. To insure here needs to be contrasted with self insurance. In other words, if you live in flood zone, normally you should have flood insurance. You should have flood insurance even when you do not live in a flood zone. When you decide not to insure, you are supposed to be “self-insuring” or in other words you have calculated the chance and are willing to carry out the indemnification out of your own resources. Till the time concept is understood, it is fine.

It can happen that a person buys an insurance for a car and meets with an accident, within a day and on the other hand there can be a person who may not meet with accident for decades. Incidentally, motor vehicle insurance is mandated by law because it can involve indemnification of third parties. On the other hand medical insurance or dental insurance can be purely personal decision. One may think, I am healthy and I have not fallen sick and I do not want an insurance and if something comes up, I will pay the expenses out of what would have been insurance premium paid to insurance.

In the case of mandated insurance, the law entails us to buy the minimum but may not be adequate in circumstances. Such coverage is under insurance.

The basics are to buy adequate insurance after ascertaining  your risks or perils but buy insurance from a source which does not over charge you. Insurance can be a little technical for most of us not working in the industry. I came across this link http://www.ur-faves.com/insurance/insurance-basics-for-buying/ and followed it. It seems like the site has very clear explanation of the pros and cons to enable you to make some insurance decisions.

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Microsoft had taken an initial step in getting strategically involved with young businesses by offering BizSpark.  I would consider that as a very smart move because this would make the new and budding entrepreneurs look at the Microsoft technology more favorably than other technologies available. This takes care of the greater exposure plus builds goodwill with the newer businesses. Once they are successful, making a technological shift is more difficult for a well entrenched business. Though it is not as difficult as auto makers shifting to making electric cars but considering that skill sets of developers are often a matter that comes up because you cannot translate cummulative experience of an existing team (it is an intangible) to a newer team if you have to make a shift. And honestly, there is only difference in semantics otherwise all IT products work similar.

Successful businesses are likely to become role-models and examples of achieving bigger goals because of this help from Microsoft. For a mid size business this is veryimportant.

Now that they have over 15000 businesses getting benefit of the scheme in a host of countries, it may be possible that one day this will become the difference between Microsoft and Oracle.  It is nice to see Microsoft make some moves which differentiates from other IT companies such as Apple.

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I have always believed that one can blog about your thoughts. I came across www.auto-insurance-home.com which is pleasantly surprising. It is different in the sense that the whole site / blog is devoted to insurance.

It would be interesting to see how far the author goes but a simple expression, so far, wins my vote.  A post relating to why people buy life insurance discusses simple facts or reasons. I am more interested in seeing some new stuff or details about insurance. For now I have book marked the site because I want to learn about insurance and save some money on insurance premium.

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