According to StatCounter with its "Mobile vs. Desktop" statistics option, desktop internet users have decreased from 97% to 93%, and mobile internet users have increased from 3% to 7% over the past 12 months worldwide. While this doesn’t sound like a lot, that’s actually a fairly large jump. Will mobile users increase to 15% and desktop...

Most of you who use webmail probably configure the welcome screen to give you local information; this is accomplished by typing in what town/state you’re living in. After that you receive news headlines that are supposed to be local to you. The problem however is that local really doesn’t mean local in this instance, but rather regional. For example,...

Google usually has really, really bad video advertising for their products, but this time around they actually came up with something good promoting the Blogger product. It’s good because it actually states things about the product and why you would want to use it. And it has a snazzy-cool soundtrack besides which:There is, however, a sad part to this...

Have you done a project which you want to remember the steps for how you completed it? A great tool for recording your how to’s is a blog. Not only will it serve a great reference for yourself but for anyone else who may be tackling the very problem you solved. There are numerous places you can go to get your own blog for free and with easy to use editors...

When it comes to self hosted blog packages, WordPress is probably the most well known and widely used. While WordPress can be run on any web server, it is specifically developed to be deployed on Apache web servers. So for those of you who use Windows hosts and want a fully featured blog platform, take a look at BlogEngine.NET. BlogEngine.NET is an open source...

If you currently use Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, LiveJournal, Xanga, WordPress or TypePad as a place where you post blog articles, all of them have the ability to post via a WYSIWYG editor within the service. Some of you may have discovered Windows Live Writer (which works with nearly every blog service that exists) and found it to be a very useful writing...

Blogging is something that’s attractive to many because it allows you to express thoughts journal-style with little hassle (if any). However there are many different blog services to choose from. Which should you go with? That’s up to you. Let’s see what’s out there. Blogger This is a Google-owned system. It’s relatively speedy in...

You’ve got a blog and you’re putting a good amount of effort into it. You’re writing away, posting articles and doing what you can to get some readership. The problem is that nobody is reading your blog. It seems no matter what you do you’re not gaining any traffic. And you know you’re writing good stuff. What do you do? Follow the...

In a few short months it’s going to be 2009, and a ton of stuff has changed in the world of computing over the past almost-ten years. Some of the modern advancements have proven to be a notable improvement while others still produce the same crapola they did nearly ten years ago. In this installment we’ll be taking a look at blogging. The history of...

I have an older Dell Inspiron 6000 that I recently decided to go true-blue dual boot with Ubuntu v8.04 and Windows XP Professional SP3. For those interested, the system specs on my laptop is that is has a 15-inch LCD screen with a native 1680×1050 resolution monitor, 60GB hard drive, 1GB RAM and a 1.5GHz Intel Celeron M processor. The reason I decided to...

On Monday I wrote an article about Office Live and Google Apps. In that article I said: Neither has any blogging capability whatsoever. I was corrected on this concerning the Microsoft offering. By whom? The Microsoft Office Live Team themselves (see comments in that article). Microsoft Office Live does do blogs and rather easily by using Live Spaces. This is...

OK, this is a bit of a technical post, but one which will come in handy for somebody down the road. Windows Live Writer is, so far, the best blog client I have found for either Mac or Windows. If you are running Windows and are a blogger, I highly recommend you download Live Writer. It is a freebie.One of the things Live Writer will do is detect your...

Today’s information products rarely consist of just written material, instead you will find audio and video that complement the written portion of it. So even if you don’t want to write it yourself, you can still be involved by doing an audio interview with a fellow expert, or creating an instruction video. If you want to avoid writing the product yourself,...

Surveys: This a widely used form of conducting market research for online products because it is inexpensive (or free), and it can be sent out to your customers through email. If you opt to do a survey, make sure you keep the questions simple and don’t list more than 10. Otherwise, you run the risk of overwhelming them and taking up too much of their time. By...

If you have a good idea of what people within your niche want, but you’re having a hard time nailing down specific topic ideas, don’t worry, there are a few things you can do. [hidepost=1]Amazon.com – This website contains a wealth of ideas that you can implement into information products. A search of “silk floral arrangements” in the books...

One of the unwavering rules that writers live by is, “write what you know.” Why? Simply because it’s more enjoyable, easier, and faster to write on a topic that you already know about. For example, if you want to write an instruction sheet on how to make a soy candle, but you have no idea how to make one, then it will be that much harder to write about it....

If you’re looking for a way to create an additional stream of income through the business you already have, then creating an information product may be the answer. No matter what type of business you own, there’s always an opportunity to create an added flow of income. Whether you promote affiliate programs, take part in Google Adsense, or market to your...

Many people turn to the internet for information. They want to know something, so they turn on the computer and do a search on the subject. They scroll through the search results, looking for websites that can give them the information they need. By creating information products to sell on your website, you can create a very nice income from home. An information...

Many people who want to make money from home through their writing often turn to copywriting or ghostwriting for others. However, by creating your own content site, with the help of a pay-per-click program, such as Google’s Adsense, you can earn money with your own writing. [hidepost=1] The first step is to decide what kind of market you would like to target....

Ghostwriting may sound mysterious, but it is a profession that you are probably very familiar with. You have, undoubtedly, seen many books written by celebrities. Well, the celebrities name may be on the cover, but a ghostwriter is the actual author; for instance, Clay Aiken’s autobiography “Learning To Sing” was actually written by Allison...