The Internet in 1994

I had heard about the so called Internet back then but only had my first experience surfing the net in 1995 when I was in the University.

I found things via links from other people sites. Link pages were well valued those days because they helped people discovered the hidden gems not searchable by even the most powerful search engines during those days.

I used Veronica to search the web and Archie for FTP search. Then Yahoo! came along and became the dominant search engine. Other search engines followed suit including Lycos, Excite, Alta Vista, Northern Light, InfoSeek before Google arrived at the scene in 1999/2000 I think. It took the center stage ever since because of its clean homepage and relevancy.

Pelaburan Skim Cepat Kaya Melalui Internet - Kupasan Edisi Siasat

The following is an abstract from Edisi Siasat a TV program from a local TV station, NTV7, about skim cepat kaya melalui Internet or the Internet get rich schemes.

Google On the Oprah Show

If I could work at Google, I’ll choose to work at their AdWords department.

The following video from the Oprah Shows talks about how Google is the best place to work in the US according to the Fortune magazine.

Make Money From YouTube & Other Online Video Sites

Here’s another way how you can make money from online videos. Magnify.net is a service that allows you to create your own video site from videos you found on YouTube, Metacafe, AOL Video and others.

You can also upload your own video and create a branded video channel that you control. Here’s an example of a Video Channel created using Magnify.net

Magnify.net provides upload, storage and free bandwidth. You’ll be able to create your own video community and generate revenue through Google AdSense or Revver.com.

So how do you actually make money from this?

Google AdWords Trick Video - How to Write Killer Ads

If you are doing Google AdWords, check out the following video from MindValley Labs for some tricks on how to optimize your ads for Google AdWords.

Some Google AdWords users may already be familiar with the trick described in the video which is basically teaches you about split- testing to improve your ads CTR (click through rates).

Check out this related article I wrote earlier about identifying successful ads using Statistical Significance.

Make Your WordPress Blog Search Engine Friendly

Jim Westergren has written a collection of useful tips to help you improve your blog ranking in Google.

While I’ve discussed some of tips here at Sabahan.com, Jim’s post covers most of the topics and more in one location.

There are many variables that you can tinker with to improve your ranking in Google, and reading the article will ensure you are heading in the right direction.

However, contrary to what Jim said, I think RSS feeds link are not ‘totally useless’ and therefore using the nofollow attribute would not be advisable.

Google Maps Super Zooms

Philipp Jenssen of Google Blogoscoped has a post up about the ability to super zoom a location on Google Maps. He finds that you can zoom more deeply by following these steps

• Select a location and switch to satellite view
• Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
• Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, 22, or 23, and wait. Some locations will now show more detailed imagery

That’s amazing don’t you think? You can find the unzoomed map here.

How to Make Money From Your Videos Using YouTube

Vishen of MindValleyLabs has a post up where he shares how he discovered a way to make quick bucks using YouTube.

His method is not new but it’s nice to see someone documented it in a way like what Vishen did.

It’ll work better if you have an existing list of contacts to email to where you can jump start the promotion of your video. If you blog is already popular, your existing readers could boost your video popularity as well. This will cause your video’s popularity on YouTube to go up faster.

What The Internet Was Like In 1993

This video clip is taken from a TV documentary which was broadcast in 1993. It talks about a new phenomenon so called the Internet.

Back then, there was not a lot or cursing or swearing or scream full go to hell one would expect to find online. The reason being I think,the Internet demographics back then was very much different from it’s today. The average surfers were mostly IT professionals and those from the academic communities.

The Interface was text based and best described as pre-historic but still it’s amazing in those days.

Microsoft Launches SoapBox - YouTube Rival

Microsoft has launched MSN Soapbox, an online video service that would compete with Google’s YouTube. This service is currently in public beta.

While it was reported that it supports Internet Explorer only, I was able to browse and view the videos with Firefox.

I find the interface quite intuitive where I can watch and browse from the same screen.

Check out MSN Soapbox here

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