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Saturday, September 30, 2006

Where to Get Music Video Codes

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I believe most of you prefer getting music video codes from Youtube to those from music video code websites that I think its video quality is much better than Youtube. You can modify or change size of your video screen as you'd like. I am telling you about some music video code sites I regularly visit. However these websites provide only high-quality music videos run at the speed of 300 kbps or more. So you need to have a very hi-speed internet connection, let's say, 512 kbps of speed. The recommended music video code websites are as follows:

1. videocure.com

This one is my favorite as it looks nice and professional. Over 95% of the codes work. Some are broken. Nevertheless, newly released songs are unlikely to be posted. You have to wait for some time to get codes of new songs.

2. videocodezone.com

Its competitive edge is that new song codes are added once the new songs are released. Codes of old songs are available. However half of the codes are not working.

3. videocodes4u.com

Music video codes of this site always work and I think this site accommodates a huge number of music video codes. The only problem is that there are too many pop-up ads when you change pages.

Monday, September 25, 2006

Wordpress Doesn't Support Adsense?

I have been thinking of creating a new blog solely contributed to Education matters related to learning English, Studying Abroad or that sort of thing. Just realized that the free wordpress, I mean using a subdomain like xxx.wordpress.com, does not support adsense. You are not allowed to cut and paste adsense codes on your wordpress. In other words, you cannot make money from free wordpress hosting.

However you can earn money from wordpress and adsense by registering your domain name, and getting your hosting. Then you download Wordpress Content Management Software which is free and install it. The software will support a lot more features than that used in wordpress free hosting.

Wordpress is now still the best content management software available in the blogsphere. More importantly it is free!

Friday, September 22, 2006

Why Aren't Music Video Code Sites Popular in Asia?

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At present, there are a lot of music video code websites in the websphere but it seems popular in only some countries. Those countries are North American and European countries as well as Japan. Actually those websites perform well for the first world or countries with good I infrastructure especially widely-deployed broadband network.

As you know, broadband connection is becoming more and more available and the cost is getting lower and lower due to economy of scale. Nevertheless, most of the people in the third world still have less accessibility to use hi-speed internet while most music video code websites provide music video codes at hi-speed streaming rate that usually cause troubles when using narrowband internet connection hence taking a long time to see a music video. People hate waiting.


If you come to doing something with music video and your targets are in Asia or the third world people, make sure that the video streaming is of low rate, 100-150kbps is the most optimized range.

Monday, September 18, 2006

BigNose is ranked No.1 by Google Search

I was just searching for the word "BigNose" on google.co.th and 137,ooo result pages were generated. bignose.exteen.com is ranked NO.1!!

How about searching in google.com, it is still listed in the first page and ranked No.5 with 138,000 result pages. It is not bad, isn't it?

When searching using the word "exteen", BigNose is ranked No.2 just behind exteen.com itself, BlogToBoom comes up as No.7.

I am awaiting BMW to launch a new model named "BigNose" again so that I can get some big traffic, at the time, my blog would be BMW Series, one of my favorit cars.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Miho Nakayama vs. Misaki Ito















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Have you guys even watched a Japanese Series, Densha Otoko or Trainman? I watched this series a couple of times just because I thought Miho Nakayama (her photo is on the left hand side) starred in this series and I wondered why she still looks great(yes, she is) and never heard of her appearance in movies or series for years. Yesterday I discovered that it was the wrong person as the one playing Saori(Hermes) is Misaki Ito!(the right hand side photo) It is not Miho.

They look alike so much.

I am updating a MV (Densha Otoko) featuring Misaki Ito(just a little bit) and a MV starred by Miho Nakayama in Love Letter dated back to the year 1995.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Regarding Scobleizer

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I have been thinking of registering a domain name to create a new blog or website to play safe in case my free blogs are wiped out somehow. All my blogs now are of blogspot, exteen and wordpress(The last blog is used as a back-up blog for this blogspot one and is not updated for a month by now.) Until just now, I may change my mind when I came across the second best blog ranked by businessweek.com. It is scobleizer!

I was amazed that the owner of the blog is now using a free-blog hosting like me. Even more interesting, he just changed his blog address to wordpress and of course, it is a free blog again!

It is extremely rare to find a very popular blog using free hosting.

His blog is about tech stuff.

http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/

Friday, September 15, 2006

Where to Blog You

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When surfing the internet looking for a good blog directory to post here, i found this list and was impressed by the given descriptions regarding each blog host. I think you will love it and can weigh which one suits you best. Credits to www.lights.com Most of them are categorized by locations and interests.

5 Star Blogs - a growing human edited blog search directory. By submiting your blog to 5 Star Blogs, you will have the opportunity to gain more exposure to new readers and increase your blog's traffic. Blog listings feature user rankings, reviews and carefully hand-crafted screenshots. Only "5 Star" blogs need apply. Blogs must be in English. No X-rated, illegal, unethical blogs allowed

BBC Blog Network - Find and talk to the BBC's bloggers

BigBlogMedia.com - Directory of blogs containing articles and reviews aimed at specific interests ranging from cunlinary arts to celebrity gossip

Birmingham Bloggers - bloggers from Birmingham, England

bitacoras.net - A directory for Weblogs in Spanish

Bitadir - A new directory for Weblogs in Spanish

blo.gs - a directory of recently updated weblogs and tools for tracking interesting weblogs, in the spirit of services like weblogs.com, linkwatcher.com, and blogtracker

Blog Africa - open listing of Africa-related weblogs

Blog Catalog - a listing of Blogs from all around the World. The Blogs listed in Blog Catalog range from Political Blogs to Sport Blogs. Blog Catalog is the ideal site for users looking to Submit A Blog and for users Searching For A Blog. If you don't see a Blog category that fits your Blog you can always recommend one. Suggestions to Blog Catalog are always welcome

Blog Flux - created as the spiritual successor to the Eatonweb Portal

Blog Hot or Not - view random blogs and rate them from 1 to 10

The Blog Hunter - searchable index of weblogs, along with reviews, ping and trackback services, and a Blog O the Week feature

Blog Universe - Blog directory categorized by genre

Blogarama - Search and enjoy web logs from all over the world

Blogdir.com - Latin American Webloggers Community

Bloggeries - a new blog directory. It is a list of categorized blogs from all around the world. Free and paid submissions are available

Bloggernity - searchable subject index of blogs

blogging ecosystem - Regularly updated link-based ranking of a number of weblogs and related sites

Blogging Network - Provides Web-based blogging that earns the writer money. Blogs by professionals and new writers creates a real-time exchange of ideas, news and articles. Since it is a network even new blogs find an existing audience. Readers can use the constantly updated search/directory function and browse blogs by category, popularity and newest posts

bloggoggle - a customized directory of blogging professionals

BlogHop - Someone had to put all that chaos there!

Bloginality - weblogger personality types. Find your type and others the same

Blogion.com - a blog directory intended to make searching and finding blogs about your interests extremely easy. There are many ways to search for blogs on the blogion system. Blogs can be found by language, country, keywords, pre-defined categories, and even by blog host

BlogsCanada - listing over 10,000 blogs

blogs4God - A semi-definitive list of Christian webloggers

BlogStreet - Find out your Neighbourhood of related blogs, Search Engine, Who's BlogRolling you, RSS Discovery and Top 100 Blogs

BlogSweet.com - Blog directory featuring 100% free submission. Best optimized for search engines

Blogtagstic - an English language human moderated blog directory. All links in this blog directory go straight to the bloggers site without redirects to improve your blogs backlinks. Visitors can browse the blogs in this directory by using tags, tags are how blogs are categorised in this directory

BlogThat.net Blog Directory - Human edited free blog directory

BlogTree.com - the blog genealogy site. You can register your blogs and record which blogs inspired their creation. You can also search for existing blogs and view which blogs they in turn inspired

Blogwise - bringing you a collection of categorised blogs from around the world. Whatever your taste, interest and culture - there's bound to be a blog out there written by a person just like you

British Blog Directory - BritBlog - A directory of blogs written by British people from all over the world

Canadian Blogs Directory - Shamelessly plugging BlogsCanada.ca

Danish weblogs - blogs from Denmark

dcmetroblogmap - the incredibly spiffy map where you can find bloggers in the D.C. metro area, arranged by metro station

DFW Blogs - bloggers in and around Dallas/Forth Worth

Diary Registry - The Definitive Directory of Online Journals and Diaries Today there are thousands of people all over the world chronicling their lives on the web. In order to help you navigate this fast-growing community

Diarist.Net - is proud to present The Diary Registry. Now indexing more than five thousand sites, it is the largest and most definitive resource for finding online journals and diaries

DirLog - Brazilian Weblog Database

eatonweb portal - 14913 weblogs as of 11.21.03

Euroblogs - list of European weblogs categorized by the home country of its maintainers

GeekPhilosopher - a directory of weblogs accessible by location, topic, or language. Listings include blog excerpts to help new readers locate blogs of shared interests

Get Linked - a database for Weblog and Journal links. Have a link? Add it. Or, just browse the links

GetBlogs.com - human edited directory of blogs and blog related information. Each and every submission made to the directory is reviewed by a real person and all URL's are checked to ensure they point to an actual blog or blog specific resource

Global Voices - a country-by-country aggregation of world blogs: Translations of and links to selected postings from blogs around the world

globe of blogs - specifically for weblogs and blogs. Please do not submit commercial sites, generic personal sites (i.e. poetry, pictures of your dog, etc.), journals or online diaries

High Class Blogs - a non profit directory that lists only interesting blogs of high quality. Awards are given out at the end of each quarter for the best blog in each category

Indiana Blogs! - Exploring Hoosierdom through blogging - compiled by Greg Schwartz

Industry Blogs - cataloging the emerging business blogoshpere. If you are a business blogger please submit your blog to the directory, and subscribe to the category RSS feeds to be notified of new blogs in your Industry

Jewish Blogs - A community website for the Greater Washington, DC Jewish community

LA Blogs - bloggers in and around Los Angeles

The Lefty Directory - A central directory of politically-oriented blogs who identify with liberalism or the left

LeftyBlogs - the place to find out what's happening in the progressive blogosphere across the country, in every state

Library weblogs - for or by librarians

Linked - Weblog and Journal Database

London Bloggers - zoom in on the London Underground map or find your nearest station and discover the bloggers who live nearby

LS Blogs - The directory for bloggers, Submit or find Blogs, Blog Directories, forums and resources

metapitas - Jennifer's picks of interesting pitas

MozillaZine: Weblogs - directory of the blogs hosted by MozillaZine featuring developers and those involved with the Mozilla line of products including Firefox, Thunderbird, and Bugzilla

Nolablogs - Listings from the New Orleans, Louisiana area

nyc bloggers - - A map of New York City that shows where the bloggers are, organized by subway stop. Find out who's blogging in your neighborhood!

Online Writers Directory - everyone is welcome to add a link to their blog

Open Directory - web logs - Sorted by subject, with a tools section

Open Weblog Directory - Lists sites that are regularly updated

ORBlogs - Oregon Weblogs

The Pepys Project - The purpose of this is to collect URL's for web logs, diaries, and journals from around the world, indexed by geographical area and then country

Pitas.com - latest updated sites

[ P O P B L O G ] - a tiny directory for all blogs on pop culture, from music to movies to the plain weird stuff.

Research Blogs - An annotated list that can be used by researchers and academics

San Diego Bloggers - Sites must be updated frequently and originate somewhere in San Diego County, California

seablogs - Seattle weblog portal

Small Business Blog Directory - It includes blogs that are written by small business for small business. Its purpose is for small business owners to find what they need without having to search all over the place and dig through oodles of categories to get to just the right nugget of information

TheVital.Net - a searchable, categorized directory of blog and news sites

Vancouver Bloggers - from Vancouver, Canada

weblogs.com - lists recently updated weblogs

Wil's Domain - categorized directory to blogs from around the world

Zeal - Community-built directory

Xenoblogs - Weblogs from outside the USA

Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Free Hosting for Videos

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Well, according to some post of mine regarding "how to put music onto your blog", in case that you'd like to braodcast your own home/music videos, you have to make sure that the host on which you have uploaded files is working properly. It is rare to find a good free host for videos however there have been more and more sites generated to support this kind of service.

One of the most popular and technically reliable is castpost.com. If you have tons of traffic, it is recommended. I have never tried it but I know from a website fixing a traffic problem by switching to this site hosting a very popular music video to handle thousands of access a day.

Recently castpost stops getting members but you can fill your email in a blank provided for an invitation when memberships are available.

Esnips.com is a good one but sometimes it is now working probably depending on the traffic volume. However it is difficult to find a URL link that works for broadcasting your video on your blog or website.

Schtuff.com is the second best in my view as it always works however the URL link generated will not end up with .wmv, or any extensions. It is confusing by its management control. You can easily find a URL link to use for your blog/website by usin flashget or any download manager software. Before downloading you will see a link with a word "binary", that is the link you can use for video broadcasting. The space you can have is 250 MB!

Palungjit.com is the best in anyway. It is the best for broadcasting videos for Thai as the server is located in Thailand.

I will add more later if I find more interesting hosting websites for videos.

Saturday, September 09, 2006

Use Specific Headline as Keywords to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

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You know now there are millions of articles that guide you how to make your blog famous, how to drive traffic to your blog, how to make money from your blog but only a small number of articles that give you unique and practical ways to achieving that. Experiences help!

Today I am still somewhere around creating keywords to drive traffic to your beloved site or blog. I am not talking about top paying keywords. Just make your blog famous, keep your guests coming in everyday and then make money from that.

One of the most difficult things in the blogsphere especially when using free-blog-hosting like mine is to generate traffic to your blog. I have discovered a new way but maybe old for some people.

These days I notice that each day tens of visitors have come to my blog using search engines. The point is that the keywords are "how to put music on your blog" or "how to put music in your blog" or more or less the same.

I found that my blog is displayed in the first page when using the keywords "how to put music on your blog" or it is ranked in the second page when the keywords "put music on your blog" is used. Interestingly I just posted this entry for less than 1 month competing against 131,000,000 result pages sought by Google.

Does SEO-Search Engine Optimization work well? Probably yes or partially.

My assumption and advice is that using more specific keywords as a topic or headline of your post is a new way to effectively drive traffic to your blog. Start it with "how to" could be a good way.

Monday, September 04, 2006

Wordpress: Probably the Best Free Content Management Software for Bloggers

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I have heard of this content management software for months and I have got a chance to try it as at the time, this blog of mine was locked so I needed to make sure that everything would still exist though it could have been wiped out for some unknown reason.

I then decided to create a new blog in order to use it as a back-up one in case there is something wrong with this blog.

Most people who are experts in content management solutions say Wordpress is the best content management software that bloggers can possess free-of-charge. I do agree.

This CMS allows you to place ads in any part of your blog page meaning that you can maximize the effectiveness of your blog putting the right ads in the right place!

It also allows you to categorize your entries so that it is convenient for your visitors to find what they are looking for on your blog.

I am now thinking of creating a new blog using a domain name and pay for hosting. What the new blog is about is the biggest problem of mine.

Saturday, September 02, 2006

When Talk-of-the-Town Matters

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In the previous post, I mentioned on 6 tips to drive traffic to a blog. It is the first article I submited to some 10 article sites in exchange of traffic. Now it has born fruit but just to some degree. At least there are results when I do a search using my name in English.

Let's go straight to the point, the last tip said something about hot keywords that could never be bid as it's just a talk-of-the-town.

When I saw the news on TV about that Gillian Chung was victimized by Paparazzi in Genting, Malaysia 2 weeks ago when she adjusted her bra at the backstage during a concert. I made me "google" to see what is going out there to one of my favorite actresses though I have seen only a couple of her movies. She is also a popular singer grouped with another Hong Kongese singer in the name of "Twins". If I am not wrong, some song of her is listed in my blog.

The keywords I used were "Gillian Chung Naked" and I got some 58,ooo search results. It is such a small number of search results when compared to other keywords like "content management", "domain name register" and others that are bid at high prices. However the keywords "Gillian Chung Naked" are worthless in the eyes of internet marketers as no one bids for these words.

It is nothing in terms of cost per click or bid price but it does matter on traffic.

When I surfed the internet seeking this news, I also checked the number of visitors of the site I was visiting. I discovered that the sites which covered this hot news were flooded by visitors and double or triple the number of unique visitors. Those sites also run adsense!

So you can drive traffic to your blog using talk-of-the-town words though it is commercially useless. However the situation could be better, if those words cover words like "Britney Spears" which make money though it is cheap.