Comscore just released the Rankings for Social Sites for the month of October.
Best % change : Imeem, AIM Pages, Digg, Flickr, Facebook. (that’s Web 2.0)
Biggest % drop : Xanga, MSN Groups, Aol, Lycos Tripod (that’s web 1.0)
A Florida based company is launching the very first Safe Sex Passport that guarantees you that the person you meet online has no sexually transmitted disease (STD) like HIV, genital herpes, chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis.
The service is for people who are registered on dating websites.
To get your card you go to an affiliate laboratory and take the tests. Your results are sent by the lab to Safe Sex Passport (SSP) that gives you your passport.
“If you want to meet someone online, they can call a phone number and get the test results and test date for you, plus identification information so that they know for sure that you are really the person who was tested. In the old days, you had to take someone’s word for it when they said they had been tested and were in the clear. Now you can ask for proof.”
Safe Sex Passport has already 15 000 registered users and many dating websites expressed an interest in the service.
Official Launch: December 1. European launch: first quarter 2008.
A very lucrative business for SSP : it will cost you $ 300 for 6 months ($ 274 for renewals) !
At this costs, singles have to plan a special “dating” Budget.
With this Sex Card, are people going to get “crazy” or more responsibles ? Both I think 
See the SSP Corporate Kit (PDF)
Tags: SexThis is Great Art with Photoshop : 2 hours and half to create a very sexy Jessica Biel
Softwares used : Photoshop CS3, Painter X, Wacom Intuos 3.
Below the pic that was the inspiration :
And here is the video with Photoshop:
Tags: SexyWell this theme is temporary. I would like a nice custom WordPress theme, if some designer is reading this please email me vincentabry@gmail.com or let your infos in comments.
Or if you know where I could have someone to do this, please tell me in comments.
Actually I like themes like these ones: (a good starting point)
Tags: WordpressThis guy is crazy. Kent French has the world record of claps per minute : 721.
So Funny.
Blogentrepreneur is for sale.
This Marketing/SEO/Entrepreneurship weblog has great numbers for October 2007 (especially impressive ratio dollars/visitors)
and good revenues :
Total: 628.83 $ for october.
Adnan is leaving the Blogosphere after his “experiment to see whether the internet was an avenue forward in terms of making money online, and forming new friendships, gathering a loyal crowd of readers and using technology for progress”.
“Whilst this is not the time for a full explanation (which will come in the next few days), it is with great regret and sorrow that I announce that I’m leaving the blogosphere, and have decided to put Blogtrepreneur.com – my flagship blog – up for sale.”
Good Luck Man.
Tags: BlogosphereThis is pretty old (some months ago) but I love it : Yves Rossy aka “Fusionman” from Switzerland is the first Flying Man.
Jet-Man is able to fly following Icare’s dream, with true wings and a jet-pack.
Wonderful music on amazing images:
Phototrade is a new web service that allows you to make money by sharing your images and photos online.
The website is currently in beta and on invitations only (one invit to give, email me to vincentabry@gmail.com or register on phototrade to be notified)
First when you are invited on Phototrade here is your Dashboard when you are registered:
Then you upload your pics via the online tool:
And here what a typical hosted page looks like:
And you start making money with your photos by CPM and Adsense sharing revenue.
You can also sell your photos: (you set the price)
See video of Phototrade at Blogworld Expo, by Shoemoney:
Now it’s probably a good way to get paid for your photos when I see the number of visits I get from Google on my pics.
We’ll see in the future how Phototrade perform.
The negative aspect is that we are getting dependant from this kind of service as a free webhosting. What will happen if they close ??
674 MB downloaded in just 34 seconds (average speed: 159 Mbit/s) and 32 seconds more for compressing. Totally amazing.
This was done for UseNeXT download contest, the Next Generation Downloading.
Blogger and Webmaster Jeremy Schoemaker aka “Shoemoney” answered questions on his blog about the famous picture where he is holding a $ 132 994.97 Google Adsense Check.
Check is real even if it’s hard to believe (click to enlarge) :
It was for the month August 2005 and we can see the full month report from AdSense (he has permission from Google to display CTR and eCPM rates) : (click to enlarge)
- revenues were made on his website Nextpimp.com (Wallpapers and Free Ringtones)
- it’s 100% user generated content (494 000 members)
- at the time his expenses were 1 server @ 299$ per month for hosting, so it’s at least 130k profit.
- none of traffic was PPC (Pay Per Click) but was 70% from direct access, 15% from search engines and 15% from referrals
- stats : 75 000 uniques visitors per day
- to the question Do you think its possible to still earn that kind of revenue? (most often asked question), Jeremy answers : YES.
- Shoemoney never tried to make any money the first 1.5 years it was running. He just concentrated on providing a good service. About 2 years after he started the site he started to do good revenue from AdSense
Insane, no ?! these nice pics make me living again… even if people like “Shoemoney” are not a lot in this world…
And see, there is more to come: Shoemoney says that Adsense earnings only count for 5% of his total revenue on his websites.
In october Shoemoney’s blog gave him $ 30 000 in direct sales (advertising logos, banners).
In march 2007 he earned $ 709 626.81 as an affiliate of Commission Junction.
Back to Adsense Check, when I look on comments in the post, Shoemoney says:
“I have a good friend that was doing about 2M per month.. so that would be about 65k per day so yes 100k every few days for sure is possible”
The guy who is speaking about must be Marcus from Plentyoffish.com (2 millions unique visitors per day!)
So I am going to bed now and I will put Shoemoney’s Adsense Check just above my bed.. may be it will bring me success…
Tags: Adsense, Blogosphere, Shoemoney, USA
RSSHugger just opened its doors and it’s now Free.
RssHugger is trying to help blog owners gaining more exposure while helping readers find more relevant content.
And the $10 registration fee has been removed. So it’s now completly Free. The only thing you have to is post a review about it or i you don’t want you can pay a unique $20 fee.
Rss Hugger founder is Collin LaHay, an experienced entrepreneur, search engine optimizer and and internet marketer.
His goal “was originally to get 50,000 blogs signed up with a $10 joiners fee, but due to the fact that I want to support all of the great bloggers, even those who cannot afford $10, I changed this goal to sign up 250,000 free blogs within the first year of operation. With over 112 million registered blogs, with about 175,000 new ones per day, I feel this goal is possible. The money will be used to pay off college expenses, to invest in my other internet startup companies, sponsor like-minded business folk, and continue to support Kiva, who support entrepreneurs in the developing world.”
“Now that we have removed the registration fee, and offer a completely free way to join rssHugger for 10 years, everyone that writes a quality blog should join!”
Rss Hugger has already been covered by John Chow, Mashable, SEO Book and many other blogs.
What I like with this website is the idea to drive targeted visitors to my blog as well as attracting new rss subscribers.
Here are the Benefits of owning a blog page at RSS Hugger (www.rssHugger.com/YourBlog.com):
For the blog owners:
For the visitors:
What is cool is the Top100 Rankings and The Random Blog Page.
A report from Denis Olivennes, CEO of Fnac.com has been signed this Friday by the french government of Nicolas Sarkozy.
The pact was signed between french government and about 40 associations from Music, Cinema, Television and Internet Service Providers (ISP). However this agreement has been very criticised by french Assembly.
Among the artists who support Olivennes Friday: Thomas Fersen, Patrick Bruel, Calogero, Didier Barbelivien, Jean Reno et Christian Clavier.
Internet users are just starting to discuss about this agreement and it is going to be huge in the blogosphere and medias.
Denis Olivennes : “[…] J’ajoute qu’en l’occurrence, il est précisément question de tout sauf de prison ! Suspendre l’abonnement après trois avertissements, ce n’est ni une condamnation, ni une amende ni une peine de prison […]”
(translation: “It is everything but jail. Suspend internet access after three warnings is not a conviction, a ticket or jail”)
The pact plans to send a notice to the internet user after three P2P downloads. If the user does it again, he won’t have access to internet (done by ISP) and he could be put on a blacklist.
So the internet user won’t be able to connect to the internet!
Sarkozy said: « J’avais pris des engagements sur le droit d’auteur avant les élections. Chaque artiste doit voir son travail rémunéré, je ne transigerai pas sur ce point. »
(translation: “I took the pledge on copyrights before the elections. Every artist should see his work paid. I won’t compromise over this.”)
And : “We run the risk of witnessing a genuine destruction of culture”
“The Internet must not become a high-tech Far West, a lawless zone where outlaws can pillage works with abandon or, worse, trade in them in total impunity. And on whose backs? On artists’ backs” he said.
But currently the law is not applied and even if it’s applied one day, we are going to see other alternatives for illegal music and movies downloading.
And besides how could the independent authority technically detect automatically the P2P downloads ?
And what about the prices in France if a lot of people P2P download ?
Here in Canada I pay CAD$ 3.99 to rent a DVD. When I was in France in the previous months it was about CAD$6.75 (4.50€).
And it’s the same for CD. It’s about 30% more expensive in France than in Canada.
May be a drop in prices could help a little the entire industry?
Tags: France
A buyer in Italy placed the winning $3.8 million bid of the ghost town of Albert in Texas, about 60 miles north of San Antonio.
Current’s owner of Albert is now checking the identity of the italian buyer.
Cave, a real estate agent, said the town’s population consisted of himself and a groundsman at weekends.
The 13-acre town of Albert also includes a tavern opened on weekends. (see photo)
The reserve price for the town was $2.5 million on eBay. Cave said he had several serious buyers for his town.
See Video of Albert Town, Texas on CNN.
Social News Site Mixx.com could be the Digg-killer.
Mixx Beta launched on September 20 and is founded by Chris McGill, General Manager of Yahoo News and VP Strategy at USA Today.
Mixx is a mix of Digg, LinkedIn and MyYahoo.
According to Techcrunch, a lot of people are leaving digg for Mixx. And especially ex top-diggers like Greg Davies.
Even a digg forum refugees has opened on Mixx message boards.
But why is Mixx so different from Digg ?
A lot of users are discussing about conspiracy and buried stories on Digg.
On Mixx, many users have already had a very good experience with their submissions voted on and see more positive audience and comments. Mixx users are free and seem to have good education.
I am going to test this new website right now! I will see if what everybody is talking about is true. I can just say my experience on Digg is not very conclusive because if you have not a lot of friend among top diggers your story will never go on the homepage.
Other Good Digg-like I use and that are better than Digg: Reddit, Shoutwire, Sphinn and Propeller.
Tags: Digg, Digg-like, Mixxemail me: vincentabry@gmail.com
Goals:
Online: Work with my online skills: webmarketing, web watching, business intelligence, blogger, affiliate and traffic manager, website promotion, netsurf, consulting..
Offline: Statistical Analyst, Marketing and database management
Online Experience, websites:
Associate in Kappea.com french startup (reversed classifieds)
My Blog: US: Abry.biz, French: vincentabry.com (2006) | Personalized Search Homepage: surfons.com (2006) | Finance Portal: day-traderz.com (1999)
Blogger at Kappea’s weblog and partner in Intruders Canada
Internet Skills:
-Business and competitive intelligence
-Webmarketing, Website Promotion, keywords advertising (ex Google Advertising Professionnal)
-Blogging, articles, content
-Affiliate and Traffic Manager
-Internet Content editing
-Search for informations and documents on the web
-Netsurf or Websurf: looking for new websites, directory classification and ranking.
-Testing websites
-Websites Management (animation, webmastering)
Degrees:
Master in Mathematics applied to Statistics. 1996, University of Toulouse, France
Software Experience
SPSS, SAS, Access, Html, Paintshop, Photo Impact, Webexpert, Urchin, Webtrends, Xiti, CuteFTP Pro, Office2000, Windows XP, Lotus Notes, Sql, Word, Excel, Interviewer, Statxp, Matlab, Latex, Onyx, Power Term, Photo Filtre, Google Analytics, Google Adwords, Google Adsense, Dotclear
Work Experience
May 2007-Now Associate in french startup Kappea.com
Jul 2004-Now MDS Pharma Services Montreal, Canada Data Analyst
• Tables and Listings with SAS Software.
Feb 2003- april 2004 Videotron Télécom Montreal, Canada Sales and Marketing Analyst
• Analysis: excel reports, customer database management and improvement with Access
Jan 1997– aug 2002 Voxco Inc. Montreal, Canada Statistical Analyst
• Statistical Analysis with SAS and Statxp Software. Computerization of surveys.
Internships
• Analysis of the sexual behavior of the population of Reunion Island (Indian Ocean). may-july 1996, ORS (Regional Observatory for Health), St-Denis, Reunion Island.
• Statistical Analysis on composite materials, april-june 1995, IFREMER (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea).
Languages: French native, english.
Hobbies: Internet, Blog, Golf, Tennis, Soccer, Windsurfing, Painting, Poker.
email me: vincentabry@gmail.com
