Archive for February, 2011
What is the most popular web content of all time?
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Computer Security on February 28, 2011
Have you ever wondered what is the most popular and most viewed content on the web? Perhaps you suspect it should be some deeply intellectual articles, some incredible news stories, some of the world’s most popular entertainers? Maybe you would expect the most viewed content on the web to reveal something about our societies and our world? Though the web is a fantastic place for business and relationships and has grown to be centered on social networking the most popular content on the web still reveals that the internet is primarily a place for being entertained.
What is the most viewed YouTube video of all time?
The top four most popular YouTube videos are all music videos! Is it a surprise to you that Justin Bieber is currently holding top spot with over 472 million views on his Baby video featuring Ludacris? Lady Gaga, Shakira and Eminem round out the top four.
On Digg, what is the most Dugg story of all time?
Digg users show that they believe in themselves with their top four most dugg articles of all time. The top article is basically a petition requesting diggs and expressing frustration with how certain power users are controlling digg. Searches online show that Digg has had articles with over 50,000 diggs but these articles can no longer be found by searching their database. I wonder if some articles were removed or misplaced during the switch over? In any case the top article is now showing 23,197 diggs.
What is the most bookmarked page on Delicious?
It should come as no surprise that three most bookmarked pages on Delicious are (in order) You Tube, flickr and Facebook. You Tube has been bookmarked more than 89750 times on Delicous! Find out what the top 100 bookmarks on Delicious are by checking out popacular.com
What are the most popular blogs on the web according to Technorati?
Technorati the definitive blog directory and search engine on the web keeps a list of the top 100 global leaders in blogging. Here’s the top 5 at the moment.
You can find all the blogs that are in the technorati top 100, here.
iTunes top 5 most downloaded songs of all time:
View the rest of the iTunes top 20, here.
cNet shares the top 10 most downloaded applications of the last 10 years:
cNet shares their perspective on the top most downloaded applications of the last 10 years. Many of the programs on their list however are now obsolete, though they were popular in their day they no longer prove valuable. You can view the entire list of cnet’s top 10 downloads of the last 10 years, here. Here’s their top 3:
Top 10 most popular facebook pages:
View the entire facebook page leaderboard, here.
Top 10 Most Popular Facebook applications:
Check out the rest of the facebook application leaderboard, here.
Other articles you may find of interest about some of the most popular content on the web is the list of internet phenomena, and this timeline of popular internet services. What do you think about all this content? Videos you’ve watched? Songs you’ve downloaded, programs you’ve used? Perhaps? Perhaps you think something else should be sitting on top of the world, share your thoughts.
Blog Engage 2011 Contest, Let’s Get Going!
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Blogging on February 21, 2011
Blog Engage is back hosting another blogging contest for this early part of 2011. This time the prize money up for grabs is $500 US dollars! With 250 for first place, 150 for second and 100 for third this is your opportunity to find out if you’ve got what it takes to be a successful blogger. Do you have the writing skills to capture people’s attention, and are your posts relevant enough to gain votes, comments and social media promotion? Entering a contest like this one at Blog Engage, is the way to find out if you have what it takes. You’ve got nothing to lose so why not write an article and enter now?
These contests are a big deal and this will not be the only blogging contest Blog Engage holds in 2011, in fact there will be plenty more including a year long contest that will culminate in December with a $1000 USD grand prize (find out more about the Year End contest and how to participate now, here).
Sponsors of Blog Engage’s 2011 Contests:
The sponsors are what makes these contests possible. You can take a look at the Contests and Sponsors page at Blog Engage directly, or take the time to find out who these great companies are by following the links below.
Who Can Participate?
You can! If you are a Blog Engage member and you have a paypal account and a gravatar you can participate in this contest. What’s required of you? Find out HOW TO WIN by reading the official contest rules and guidelines directly at Blog Engage.
My Submission: Support Daniel and infocarnivore.com
I’ve got an entry in this contest titled “Are you a genuine blogger or a faker”, and I would really appreciate all the support and votes I can get! The following actions are really important…
It’s easy to help me win! 
1. Go to the article and leave a comment.
2. Retweet it on twitter.
Any way you can help will seriously boost my chances of success in this contest.
Fifteen Great Blog Engage Personalities And Their Best Articles
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Blogging, Social Networks on February 20, 2011
It is no secret that Blog Engage is my favorite social network at the moment. Posts that make it to the front page get a lot of views and even ad clicks earning the author revenue through the Blog Engage revenue sharing program. If you don’t know a whole lot about Blog Engage but are interested in knowing more you can read my review on The Blog Engage Community. In addition I’ve also interviewed Brian the founder of Blog Engage and you can read that interview here. I also surveyed a number of bloggers and posted their comments in an article titled The Best and Worst Social Networks for Bloggers, find out their thoughts on Blog Engage, here. Now to the crux of this article, I’d like to give a special mention to my fifteen favorite members of Blog Engage and share with you their most voted on articles, these individuals take the time to read articles, comment on articles, vote for articles and retweet them or otherwise promote them. They deserve all the recognition they can get! If ever I need another vote at Blog Engage I’m certain one of these kind folks will help me out. I hope you’ll take the time to read some of these fantastic articles. By the way no special order on this list, these are all fantastic people you need to get to know and connect with!
Brankica. A Bold, outspoken blogger from Live Your Love. Brankica’s top article at Blog Engage has earned 26 votes and is called “How to lose reputation as a blogger and get banned the easy way“.
Ileane. Friendly and popular, Ileane blogs at Basic Blog Tips. Ileane’s top article has earned 49 votes! You can find it here “Build an Online Profile for your Blog with Retaggr“.
Alex Whalley. Intelligent and funny, Alex teaches people how to Build, Rank and then Profit at Alexwhalley.com. Alex’s top post has earned 26 votes, “4 essential free tools to make your blogging life easier“.
FionaBosticky. Fiona is creative marketing genius. Her blog can be found at abnormalmarketing.com. Fiona’s top post at Blog Engage is “Blog Commenting: Commentluv, Disqus or IntenseDebate” which has 25 votes!
AlisonMooreSmith. Perhaps one of the most prolific members of Blog Engage Alison has 167 published stories! Her website sets up blogs and is called win-with-1.com. Alison’s top Blog Engage post at 31 votes is “Develop an editorial calendar, 31 days to a better blog“.
JeevanJacobJohn. Jeevan is a young blogger from techpupil.com. His original articles have got him published 40 times at Blog Engage, and his top article with 22 votes is “Are you ready to publish your article?“
DanaLingga. Dana from letupdate.com, is very active at Blog Engage and has shared some fantastic articles with readers there. Dana’s top post “Facebook and Telecommunication gadget” snagged 30 votes.
JohnPaul. John is a money making blogger with some great tips. His blog johnpaulaguiar.com features some fantastic blogging advice. John’s top Blog Engage submission is “Keep Your Blog Readers Stuck To Your Blog like Jelly on your fingers” which has earned 34 votes to date.
BankerRahul. Rahul is a student who authors thecopypasteblog.com, his best posts offer some great blogging advice including his top Blog Engage article with 25 votes “How To Stay Focused While Blogging“.
Xwxmanx. Alvin always techy and offering up great tech articles at maddencorner.com. His top Blog Engage article has 22 votes “Why Facebook Email will not be a gmail killer“.
Maidoesimple. Gabriele offers up web innovations and services at his website esimplestudios.com. His top Blog Engage submission is “7 Simple and Effective Ways to Promote your new Blog Post“, which has earned 26 votes.
KimJCastleberry. Kim is the brain behind just-ask-kim.com an internet marketing blog. Kim’s most popular article at Blog Engage is “Can You Help me Find the dofollows” which has 29 votes thus far.
DSharkov. Daniel shares content of incredible quality (and is one of my favorite tweeters right now!), his blog reviewzntips features great blogging tips, social media and traffic generation articles. Daniel’s best Blog Engage article is “Keeping Visitors Longer in 5 Easy to follow steps” which has earned 25 votes.
Keasley. Kiesha is the amazing owner of weblogbetter.com. She is incredibly active at Blog Engage and has 177 published stories! Kiesha’s top Blog Engage article with an amazing 38 votes is “Guest Post Rejection: How to Deal“
BlazingMinds. Karen is the entertaining British blogger at blazingminds where she offers up blogging tips music and film reviews. Karen’s top Blog Engage submission (and it took me a moment to find as I had to search through 297 published articles!), is an article “The 5 Best Ways to Get Regular Visitors” which has 28 votes.
There are A LOT of other fantastic Blog Engage members, far too many to mention in a single post! If I missed you I’m sorry, there are dozens who have taken the time to vote for my articles and I greatly appreciate that. As bloggers we must all support and promote one another! We can all grow our blogs together. Thanks all! Till next time.
Editors note: In case anyone bothers to count there are only 14 users here. The original article contained 15 users but one Blog Engage member was removed for spamming the network. Ah well.
What happened to MyLikes? A frustrated review.
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Make Money Blogging, Site Reviews, social media, Twitter on February 16, 2011
I don’t know if I Like, MyLikes anymore. This MyLikes review will let you know why I’m seriously disappointed with the service as of late. Though I have made money with MyLikes and have found numerous quality products to promote (in the past) lately my feelings have changed. Though MyLikes has received a lot of great reviews and has proven itself as a money maker for many using it to earn cash through twitter or facebook, I’ve become quite jaded with the MyLikes service and am increasingly unimpressed with the quality of opportunities available on MyLikes. Some of my greatest concerns lie with the fact that MyLikes is now directly giving members an opportunity to promote scams and false advertising!
MyLikes Review: Promoting Scams with MyLikes
Here’s a MyLikes opportunity that you can promote and earn from clicks, but beware you would be promoting a scam. The “Make Money with Google Course” uses the good name of google to con people into believing they can earn money working from home by doing who knows what, but first you have to buy the course (don’t worry you can get it for only $15 instead of $97 like everyone else!). I don’t really feel bad for people who fall for scams like this, who in their right mind pays an employer to employ them? But anyway, it’s still NOT RIGHT that MyLikes is allowing an advertiser to use this service to promote and push scams.
The above scam has been debunked by Snopes, there are a lot of variations of the wording (including the Make Money with Yahoo version) but you can rest assured Google isn’t hiring and paying anyone to work from home. (Find out the details from snopes research, here.)
Promoting False Advertising on MyLikes
Or if you like you can promote some ads that say one thing but actually redirect to something totally different. There are a number of variations on the below opportunity, and the advertiser will gladly pay you $.15 per clicks from within the United States… while the suggested tweet says “This is SO COOL! Enter your name in this site and in seconds find out who has been searching for u on the net!” and the advertiser link is posted as whosearchingforyou.com, when clicked the site actually redirects to coupondealsdaily.com. In addition can you explain to me how this title and picture have anything to do with anything!?!?
Promoting Plain Garbage on MyLikes
Besides scams and straight up false advertising there is now just a LOT of garbage opportunities on MyLikes that I would never take. I’ve written about blogging integrity over at my friend Ileane’s blog, Basic Blog Tips, you can read that article here. I want my twitter followers to trust and respect my tweets, to know that the things I’m promoting (whether I’m paid to or not) are worthy of their attention. In the past I’ve mistakenly promoted ads that I wish I hadn’t (and now I always follow the URL and check what I’m tweeting about BEFORE I click publish). If I’m going to promote something I want it to be quality and worthwhile, not like A LOT of the opportunities available on MyLikes these days. Take a look at some of these offers you could tweet out and get paid for, “Can you tell the difference between Chinese and Japanese? Take this quiz!” are you serious? Or promote ask.com with the wonderfully thought out tweet “Did you know what Barbie’s real name is?”. Perhaps if you’re a health nut you can promote Resveratrol… which has been claimed by some researchers to potentially be responsible for the positive effects that red wine has on cardiovascular health. Personally I wouldn’t want my name and reputation attached to tweets for any of these silly and ridiculous things (though some of them may well be legitimate). My online integrity is too important to try and make money by pushing useless, and unhelpful content on my followers and readers.
Where are you at with MyLikes? Like it, Love it, Hate it?
It’s your turn. MyLikes? I don’t know if I like MyLikes anymore… Where are you at with the service. Do you use it? Have you noticed the quality of opps has changed? Or perhaps you get excellent opportunities that fit with your niche and earn you a good chunk of cash? Or maybe you don’t care and you’ll promote anything – if the fools click it that is their problem… Let’s hear your thoughts. If you agree or disagree share your MyLikes review here in the comments.
Stop the CRTC from allowing Internet Metering in Canada
Posted by Daniel Snyder in My Thoughts on February 15, 2011
Are you a Canadian Internet user? If you are then there is something afoot that requires your attention. In our beloved Canada, Internet Providers are cracking down on our apparently ‘excessive’ internet usage.
In Canada Internet providers are attempting to monopolize the market, and raise the price of residential high-speed internet access. Providers such as Telus (in Alberta and British Columbia), Bell (in Ontario and Quebec) and Shaw are looking to put a cap on our home internet usage, meter everything you do online and charge you through the roof if you go over your limit. The decision essentially says that unlimited internet plans will cease to exist and downloading limits will be drastically reduced for customers of these ISP’s. Thankfully Canada’s internet regulator the CRTC has launched a review of this decision.
Are you looking forward to a future where your ISP will charge you per byte and bit, the same way they do with your phone? If this happens we will end up in a situation where we pay MORE for LESS internet.
Usage Based Billing, What is it?
“Large ISPs charge their customers based on usage-based caps that specify the maximum amount of bandwidth they can use for internet activities like streaming video and movies, talking on Skype or uploading and downloading data. Customers who exceed the cap pay “overage” charges of up to $2.50 per gigabyte unless they bought insurance.
Bell says usage-based billing is necessary to reduce network congestion and discourage heavy internet users from using an unfair amount of bandwidth.
However, consumer advocates say imposing the caps on small ISPs would lead to higher internet prices, discourage the use of new services such as Netflix and make it impossible for smaller internet providers to offer different packages than large ISPs, utlimately reducing competition and consumer choice. Netflix allows people to stream unlimited high-definition video over the internet to their TVs for a monthly fee and uses a large amount of bandwidth.”
CRTC Confirms Re-Examination on ruling
The CRTC has confirmed that it is re-examining its rulings on the way small internet service providers – and therefore their customers – are billed by large ISPs like Bell, and is seeking public comments as part of that review.
YOU can help prevent this from moving forward by being pro-active and using your voice to let the CRTC know that you’re NOT happy with big ISPs trying to corner the market. How would you feel about having a 25 GB limit on your monthly bandwidth (up and down!)? I know for myself I’ve transferred over 25 gigabytes in the last 30 hours alone. If I was capped at 25 for a month I’d be paying more than triple my current rate to continue using the internet the way I do, (and that may be a conservative estimate).
A Major Problem with Usage Based Billing
One significant issue that threatens the integrity of internet service providers and there eagerness to bill us extra for our metered internet usage, is the fact that they don’t seem able to meter us accurately at all. In fact there are plenty of reported cases of people (smart techy people!) who know how to track their own usage, and are discovering SERIOUS and blatant discrepancies between what their own computers and their ISP is telling them. Plenty of cases in fact that show without a doubt that ISP’s are claiming almost DOUBLE what the actual usage may be. And these aren’t just allegations either, take a look at this screenshot from Bell’s customer service site taken on Wednesday February 9th.
What YOU CAN DO to let the CRTC know how you feel, and put a STOP to this decision.
Step 1.
Go to the CRTC website where you can share your opinion. You have until March 28th to comment. The link to the CRTC review of billing practices for wholesale residential high-speed access is here.
Step 2.
Sign the online petition and stop the meter on your internet use. The petition can be found here and will be submitted to the CRTC by openmedia.ca.
Step 3.
Contact your local MP. You can find out who your MP is and there contact information by using the Government of Canada website, here is a link to the Member of Parliament directory.
Get a hold of your MP and let them know your feeling on this issue.
Are you a Poker Star?
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Other, Random tid-bits, Site Reviews on February 15, 2011
Poker is HUGELY popular, and the online poker industry is continuing to explode. Boys and men all over the world are signing up with the dream of becoming the next Daniel Negreanu. I don’t yet play poker online but I must say I’m tempted to start, it’s one of those dreamy things that sets a person thinking they could become rich over night. I have to offer warning about online gambling only in the context that you must watch for shady and new poker sites and only put your money where it will be safe. At last count I would suspect there to be at least a dozen legit big name poker sites for you to gamble at online. If I could recommend only one based on my limited research it would be at poker stars. I checked pokerstars.com earlier and discovered an astounding 200,878 players currently online!
PokerStars was established in the Netherlands in 2004, there are more cash game tables at PokerStars than anywhere else on the internet, and famous players like Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker all make there online poker homes here and can actually be found playing from time to time as well. PokerStars is the BIGGEST online poker operator in the world, and thus has built itself an established reputation.
Online rumors abound about shady poker sites with rigged systems, so if you’re at all considering jumping into the online poker world, do yourself a favor and go where you can rest assured you’ll get paid out when you win! PokerStars has an excellent customer support team, though the only method of contacting them is via email. Research shows that customer sent emails are always answered promptly and professionally. To the best of my knowledge, PokerStars has yet to drop the ball on a legitimate customer service complaint. This reveals an incredible reputation and is a significant factor in PokerStars’ success.
Do you gamble online? Share your thoughts in the comments.
Fast, Free music downloads straight from google.
Posted by Daniel Snyder in Other, Random tid-bits on February 12, 2011
Everyone is after free music downloads these days, and there are a multitude of ways to do this, though the vast majority of them are not technically legal it doesn’t seem to stop anyone. You can always test drive songs before buying, and if that’s something you’re wanting to do quickly and easily, without P2P (peer to peer) software, without having to download any additional programs, without having to register for a website, or type in silly captchas then this short little video will explain to you how you can get totally free and fast music (mp3) downloads, starting at google.com
Free song download: [video]
Instructions for free music downloads:
Step 1: Open up your web browser of choice.
Step 2: Go to google.com
Step 3: Insert name of desired band followed by song or album followed by the kicker “site:mediafire.com”
Step 4: Select the link that looks like it will lead to what you are looking for.
Step 5: Once MediaFire processes the request just click “download”
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