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I remember thinking, when my niece told me she had a site on MySpace, that she was really taking a chance on risking her privacy. I have since discovered that MySpace is a fun community. You meet many people on MySpace. My daughter has had former school mates contact her through MySpace. These were people that she had lost contact with so it was fun for her to be able to chat with them again.

I do think it is important, as parents, to monitor your family's participation on MySpace. There are always going to be those yucky people who prey on our children. MyspaceShield is a wonderful software program that lets you know what is going on when other family members chat and use MySpace. This program will ease your mind and let you feel comfortable when your child uses MySpace.

You can read more about this great program in the following press release:

Press Release:

New Software Release Offers Peace of Mind for Parents, Spouses

In today’s world of wireless technology, web cams, and the ever-growing phenomenon of MySpace and other online profile sites, the issue of internet security is quickly becoming a persistent worry in the minds of many parents.

(PRWEB) September 12, 2007 -- In today’s world of wireless technology, web cams, and the ever-growing phenomenon of MySpace and other online profile sites, the issue of internet security is quickly becoming a persistent worry in the minds of many parents.

In fact, according to a 2005 report issued by Pew-Internet and American Life, 79-percent of teenagers admit they are not careful enough when it comes to revealing personal information to complete strangers over the internet, leaving them vulnerable to the advances of child predators.

Recently released software, MySpaceShield, utilizes technology to discreetly monitor all MySpace activities as well as various instant messaging programs including AOL, Yahoo, and MSN. “This program will automatically track and report all MySpace activity through your home computer,” said David Kayo, Vice President of Business Development of MySpaceShield.

Kayo said MySpaceShield is designed with safety in mind. “We’ve all seen the news stories about inappropriate internet contact between innocent children and the adults who prey on them,” said Kayo. “We wanted to provide a solution that will help prevent these tragedies,” he said.

In addition to its popularity and usefulness among parents, spouses too are taking advantage of the ability to monitor online messaging and MySpace activities with MySpaceShield. “If you suspect that your spouse is engaging in questionable behavior through MySpace or other chatting programs, MySpaceShield will give you the answers you’re looking for.”

Delivered by email, MySpaceShield installs quickly and is easy to use, even for computer beginners. “This software was designed to be up and running in just a few minutes even for those who aren’t tech-savvy,” said Kayo.

For more information about MySpaceShield, or to purchase the software for $19.95, please visit www.myspaceshield.com .

The world of entertainment is changing. Want to take a guess why? Ding, ding, ding! It's because of the Internet.

We know that because, we bloggers use the Internet! The rest of the world is just catching up.

Media conglomerates are going to great lengths to take advantage of the Internet's ability to generate buzz. Maybe the media, including the music industry, should use PayPerPost like the group The Police did.

The article in the Wall Street Journal on Thursday, made it sound like the buzz was all due to YouTube. These people need to look around and see what bloggers are talking about. If they want to get a buzz going about something, get in contact with one of us!

When starting any new venture, it is important to look before you leap. As an entrepreneur in the brick and mortar world of business, I know that there are many ways to be scammed. Fortunately I had good mentors who warned me of such things. StoresOnlineSite.com is trying its best to promote the Internet as the electronic commerce center of the world. Through local training preview sessions, they hope to educate future e-commerce participants who are just beginning to venture into the online e-commerce world as a source of income. There are many scams that try to deter the entrepreneur as they begin to make money online. Storesonlinsite.com is offering workshops that will help people avoid being the victim of an Internet Scam and make the e-commerce experience a great one.

As a small business owner, we have tried various types of advertising. We have had billboards all over the countryside. That was a treat to see our name in huge letters pasted onto a beautiful teal background. Billboard advertising is very expensive. Without some type of help from the large companies we are associated with, we would never be able to advertise that way.

We had premade commercials on our local tv station. That was an experience as we got comments on how lovely our children were and how shapely my legs were! For one, the children in the commercial were lovely but weren't mine! My children are lovely too. Secondly the legs in the commercial were not mine either. I won't go into a discussion here about vericose veins. LOL TV advertising is more expensive than billboard advertising!

We have had success in newspaper advertising and radio script advertising. How much of our client base is in the listening or readership area of those local venues is hard to tell. We keep plugging along with those types of ads in hopes that many customers will mention they were sent to us because of these ads.

With the Internet becoming more of a fixture in the consumer world, it is time to join those who sell on the web. I am looking into this with anxiety. I hope to be back with an update that says, it wasn't a big deal. I will let you know.

We all hope that when someone puts in our blog name into a search that it comes up in the number one spot. We hope that at least it will be on the first page. There are thousands of web directories on the Internet. You can submit to one, and end up on page 10 of results, where no one will see it and you will have little if any link value. Big Web Links Directory has a new concept to help bloggers and web ecommerce sites get on that front page. On their directory you bid for placement. Instead of sorting listings by popularity, page rank, or alphabetically, the listings with Big Web Links are sorted by the bid amount. Control is maintained by bid amount. This concept works with the idea that the money invested to get a good spot will bring a bigger return because of the placement where others will see the site and use it will be the best a good bid can buy.

Sponsored Post.

I found the following article very interesting.

Correspondents in San Francisco
APRIL 13, 2007
MORE women than men go online in the US, defying the perception of the internet as a male-dominated realm, a new study has revealed.

Approximately 97.2 million women use the internet in the US, compared to 90.9 million men, according to research by eMarketer.

Women are inclined to use the internet to accomplish tasks instead of as a diversion, said eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson, author of the "Women Online" report.

"Females, especially adult women, are more likely to use the internet to get things done, rather than to have fun," the eMarketer report states.

"Many adult women, busy juggling work with their relationships and child-caring responsibilities, don't have time to surf the web for video."

Seventy-eight per cent of male US internet users will watch video online this year while only 66 per cent of the female users will, according to eMarketer.

Reasons given for the difference in video-viewing proclivities included men adopting new technologies faster than women and having greater access to high-capacity broadband internet connections needed to handle data-rich video streams.

The gap between the genders is expected to narrow in coming years as broadband connections become ubiquitous and television shows popular with women are made available for viewing online, according to eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson.

"Early data indicate that female teens are as enthusiastic as male teens about online video," Ms Williamson said.

"The networks are well-positioned to drive greater female online video usage by offering more programming that appeals to females, particularly adults."

I just finished reading some wonderful obsessions at MomReviews. Funny thing is, I have some similar ones! I never thought about some of them as an obsession but by golly, I guess they are. Here are my top 5.

1. The internet. I wake up thinking about getting it turned on to see if I have any emails and if there are any opportunities waiting for me to grab at PayPerPost. I try so hard to at least make coffee for my hubby before he sees me pecking away at the keyboard.

2. Speaking of coffee, I love a new mocha type coffee that my friend got me started on. These are made at our local convenience/gas station type store. I fill a cup part way with regular coffee, add a vanilla creamer and fill the rest up with any flavor mocha. It is yummy.


3. I always have coffee with my favorite pie. I have an obsession for sugar cream pie. I cannot pass it up. I savor every bite mmming at each one like it is soo good yummmm.

4. My doggies have to be in bed with me. I have a hard time sleeping if my dogs aren't curled up in the bed with hubby and me. I know we would sleep better if they weren't but now that I am used to them being there it feels like something is missing if they aren't.

5. My obsession with a neat yard is one I am trying to overcome. I cannot stand to see a weed. I pick leaves out of our flower beds. We have river rock in the beds and I hate to see a stick or weed in there. It makes me so I cannot relax when I'm outdoors. When we go to a restaurant I want to pull the weeds out of their flower beds. So far, I haven't done it when I'm out.

This weed is bothering me.

What are your top 5 obsessions? If you want to talk about them on your blog, let me know because I'd love to read about them.

Since I have been blogging on the internet I am conscious of the things I write about. I am always curious to see other blogger's writing styles. There are so many different types of bloggers. The things bloggers talk about on their blogs range from here to yonder! From discussing day to day trials with children to the technical jargon on a geek's blog, the sphere is great. At the Blogger's Choice Awards, they are letting people nominate their favorite blogs for a variety of categories. A few of the categories are Hottest Mommy Blogger and Best Animal Blogger. There are sections where you can choose a blog as your favorite because you like the physical style of it.
At Blogger's Choice Awards, you will see blogs that people have nominated because they think they are currently making an impact in the blogosphere. There are no restrictions to nominations, votes, or comments. You can nominate as many blog sites as you want. In fact, the more the better!
You can also comment as often as you'd like. You may also vote for as many blogs as you like, but you can only vote once per blog, per category. The exciting thing is votes will be shown on the site in real-time, so you can see who's leading within each category!
The winners of these web awards could be someone you know because, all of the blogs you see there are nominated, voted and commented on by users like yourself! Winners will be announced on June 2nd at Postie Con in Orlando, Florida.