It seems that Paypal has finally redesigned it’s site but you still have the opportunity to revert back to the old one at any time.

Looks pretty good if i say so myself.

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today announced it has acquired StumbleUpon, an early-stage company that helps people discover and share content online, for an aggregate transaction value of approximately $75 million. This acquisition will provide eBay with in-depth exposure to a fast-growing community-based service with approximately 2.3 million users. StumbleUpon gives people a new way to discover relevant and entertaining content based on personal preferences and community recommendations.

I am one happy SU user and i’ve really “stumbled upon” some great sites along the way, i seriously wonder what eBay’s plans are concerning SU, hopefully they don’t spoil it somehow.

Via Techcrunch

The little gadget will generate a new six-digit number every 30 seconds and displays the number when a button is pressed, and you would have to use that number to login to your paypal account.The security key will set you back for a mere one-time non-refundable fee of $5.00 USD. After that, there’s no monthly fee or recurring charge – your extra layer of security is free.

Business accounts get these fees waived.

More at Paypal

The site that is for sale is Invisible KeyLogger, a superior stealth surveillance application that is completely undetectable.

The KeDevil is a Hardware Keylogger capable of memorizing over 260,000 keystrokes including website addresses, passwords, or anything typed on your computer. The KeyDevil is in fact a small electronic device plugged in between a standard PS/2 keyboard and a Personal Computer. It’s main function is to log all keys pressed on the keyboard to internal non-volatile memory. Stored data can be later recalled and analyzed at anytime.

Now that’s a cool thing ain’t it? well not that cool if you value your privacy

As of the time of this post not a single soul has matched the minimum bid although according to the owner the site makes a cool $12,000 per month, if that were true than the new owner would make his money back in no time with the help of some advertising.

Check out the site’s auction here.

About the site:

Web2.0tshirts.com was created by Clear Function, a technology company based in Memphis, TN. Clear Function designs the way technology should work: easy, flowing interfaces with effortless functionality.

Clear Function mainly does website design and web application development, but we thought that it would be fun to try our hand at the clothing industry. Or, at least the T-shirt business. Web2.0tshirts.com is our little way of having a little fun and bringing a little satire to the Web 2.0 industry.

The other cool thing is that the site is powered by Shopify a free web service to create online shop, it’s a breeze to create an online store with Shopify, LiewCF posted a little about Shopify and you can find that post here.

Visit Web 2.0 T-Shirts

Yes, it’s Christmas time and one of the hardest thing to do for most people around the world is to dind that perfect gift for the family, friends or that special someone.If your in the hunt for gifts that design*sponge is the site you would want to pay a visit.

design*sponge is a daily website dedicated to home and product design run by Brooklyn-based writer, Grace Bonney. Launched in August of 2004, Design*Sponge features store and product reviews, sale and contest announcements, new designer profiles, trend forecasting and store/studio tours.

If you browse the site you will noticed that there’s a category for almost everything, such as gifts for him, gifts for her, gifts under $100, gifts under $25 and some reviews on some very cool products.

Visit design*sponge

I’ve been using eBay since 2004 and i normally tend to buy things with the ‘Buy It Now’ tag on it as i really hate bidding, plus the difference in timing (I’m GMT +8) means that at most times i’ll lose anyway to a last minute bidder or also known as a “snipper”.

I guess if you ever bidded on eBay before you would have experienced the same thing, snippers bidding at the very last moment just when you thought you were going to win it.

That’s where the Auction Sentry and Auction Sentry Deluxe software comes in to help you.The Auction Sentry is an online auction tool can streamline and automate the transactions you make through eBay auctions.

Auction Sentry automates bidding by placing your bid as close to the end of the auction as possible.The intuitive interface displays your auctions in a color-coded grid, indicating which auctions you are winning, which you have been out-bid on, and which you have set up a snipe bid for.Auction Sentry will place instant bids for you or it can set up time delayed bids (sniping!) to be placed just before the auction ends to make sure that YOU always get the last bid in. which of course increases your chance of coming out tops in the auction.

The software is not free and it costs $14.95 for the Standard Edition and $24.95 for the deluxe edition, you can however download a FREE 10 day trial of the software here.

Visit Auction Sentry for more details and purchase options.

I’m a Paypal user myself and i’m quite happy with their services, in fact i have not encountered a single problem in my 2 years with them.

However it seems that many users have other opinions about the famous payment processor.
Sites like Paypal Sucks have pointed out nightmare dealings users have encountered at paypal and most of the time their account eneded up being frozen without ever seeing their $$ again, which of course is a bummer.

RON LIEBER over at WSJ has written an article on How to Make PayPal Your Friend and it’s quite a good read for any Paypal account user or if your about to apply for the service.

I personally use paypal because it’s fast,simple and easy plus i use eBay quite alot for my purchases.The other good thing about using Paypal is that you will never have to give out your credit card info to each and every single merchant site, instead all the merchant sees is a payment from you through Paypal, no credit card info was exchanged at all, which makes it better.

Read the full article here.

If you want total control not only over the administration of your website but also over the very hardware and software used to run it, then you should be evaluating not shared hosting providers, but dedicated hosting providers. If your business is large enough or growing fast enough that it requires its own internet connection and server, you may need a dedicated web host.

What’s the downside to going with dedicated hosting providers? In a word: responsibility. In most areas of life, with total control comes total responsibility, and it’s no different with hosting providers. With a dedicated server, the onus is on you to buy, install, and maintain the actual equipment — the server itself — mounted in the dedicated hosting providers’ data center.

Fortunately, you still get the benefit of their presumably top-notch, around-the-clock security over the physical premises, but you remain fully responsible for the security of your cyber-premises. Likewise, dedicated hosting providers will ensure that the systems in the building are all provided with redundant uninterruptible and backup power and environmental controls, but it’s you who must keep your machines and cables maintained and functioning in this idyll environment.

How do you identify whether it’s time to switch from a shared host to a dedicated host? There are 3 main indicators to stay alert for:

Speed

If the traffic streaming through your shared server is slowing down your customers’ pace as they browse your site (or your employees, if an in-house site), it may simply be time to look for more unencumbered shared hosting. But if you’ve tried several shared hosting providers with the same results, then it may be time to remind yourself how impatient the average web surfer is. While you’re jumping from shared host to shared host trying to save a buck, your customers are jumping ship. Your ability to respond promptly and effectively to customer transactions and inquiries cannot be overemphasized either.

Reliability

The limits to your control are nowhere more apparent than in the areas of reliability and security. It’s not simply that problems can arise: problems do arise. It’s the nature of the biz. And if you don’t have unlimited access to your own operating system, software and database apps, etc., there’s not much you can do when one arises.

Customizability

If your company is growing fast, you’re going to be changing many aspects of your web presence along with it. You may regularly need to tweak your disk space and bandwidth and experiment with using different applications to better serve your changing needs. On a shared host, upgrading in such a way usually involves leaping from one “package” or “plan” to another. These packages are generally preset and may or may not serve your immediate needs. They may be riddled with programs you don’t yet need, for example, yet lack in the one singular program you do. Or the next leap up from your current plan has way more disk space and bandwidth than you need at the moment. With a dedicated server, you can make changes incrementally, step forward, step back, heck, step sideways if you need to — and when you need to.

In large part, it’s the size and growth rate of your business that will dictate whether you need a shared or dedicated host. Affordability and personal time commitment are nice secondary considerations, but if your business is booming, you would do it a great injustice to try and save on a few bucks and few extra hours per week of your time in exchange for slower and poorer quality of service for your customers.

By the same token, however, if your business is small enough to function quite smoothly on any of the shared hosting providers out there, don’t squander your precious capital on a dedicated server just so you can have total control. Because sometimes total control isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

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1. Find a topic you can create a two part article on. Write part
one of your article and place it on a page on your website. Place
Google Adsense ads next to your article. (Example:
http://marketingforrealpeople.com/joint-venture-ideas.htm) Next
you will want to create part two of your article and make sure to
make reference to your first article in your second article. Take
part two of your article and submit it to ezine publishers, and
article directories.

Using this technique, part two of your article will drive traffic
to part one of your article. In this way you will profit when
someone clicks on your Google Adsense ads when visiting the web
page that you have part one of your article on.

2. Create a site that is related to your market that has nothing
on it but good quality content about a popular topic in your
market. Make sure that you place Google Adsense ads on the site
also. You’ll then offer ezine publishers and ad on one of the
pages of your site if they’ll mention your site to their
subscribers. Make sure they know they’ll benefit by other ezines
publishers sending traffic to your site. Their subscribers will
be exposed to those ads also. You’ll profit from the earnings you
earn by people clicking on your Google Adsense ads.

This technique is profitable for everyone involved. I haven’t
seen anyone using it so be a pioneer and watch this technique
explode your Google Adsense income!

3. Find a profitable topic and create a 5-10 website about the
topic. Make sure to place Google Adsense ads on your website
along with the content. Next you will want to create a mini-ebook
or report about the topic, and include affiliate links for
products and services related to your topic. Take your mini-ebook
or report and give it to website owners and ezine publishers who
can reach your target market. Allow them to brand the affiliate
links in your mini-ebook or report with their own affiliate
links. Within your mini-ebook or report, you’ll want to make many
references to the website you created for this topic that have
your Google Adsense ads on it. Whoever passes this mini-ebook or
report around will be driving traffic to your site, and you’ll
profit from those that click on your Google Adsense ads.

This technique uses viral marketing which in my opinion is one of
the most powerful marketing techniques around. You can get some
added exposure by submitting your ebook to ebook directories. You
can find a list of ebook directories by going to:

http://www.marketingforrealpeople.com/ebook-directory-list.htm

4. Take a couple of articles that you have written, and upload
them to your website. Make sure to place your Google Adsense code
next to your article. Now take the URL of your articles and place
the URL in your signature line in your email or forum signature
line.

With this one easy technique, I’ve made up to $46 a day for
spending a few minutes putting the URLs into my signature line.

5. Create a mini ecourse on a topic that you know about or do
research on a popular topic and create a mini course for it. Take
each day of your course and place it on it’s own website. Day one
will have it’s own page. Day two will have it’s own page, and so
on. Make sure you place Google Adsense ads on each of these pages
also.

When people sign up for your ecourse instead of emailing them the
content, send them to the website address where the content is.
The key to this is putting your Google Adsense ads before the
content.

By using this technique you are not only building a subscriber
list, but you’ll also profit from people who click on your Google
Adsense ads when visiting to read your ecourse.

In the future I will be writing more articles on how to profit
with Google Adsense without having to use any SEO techniques. By
using the techniques above, you are working smarter and not
harder, and that’s really the key to making money with Google
Adsense.

Liz Tomey has been making a nice income from Google Adsense for
the last year and half. Learn how she uses no search engine
optimization, keyword research or expensive software to make easy
money with Google Adsense at TomeyMarketing.com

Excerpt of the mail:

If you do not wish to hold a PayPal Private Limited account and would prefer to retain your relationship with PayPal, Inc., you may only do so if you are a resident of the United States, and if the primary address on your PayPal account as of August 1, 2006 is a legitimate postal address within the United States.

If your primary address is not in the United States, you may close your account at any time, either before or after the transition to PayPal Private Limited, by logging in to your PayPal account and clicking Profile. We value your business and hope you’ll transfer with us to PayPal Private Limited, where you’ll be able to use PayPal in the same way you do today.

So it looks like that we (Malaysians) will have our accounts transfered to Singapore -Paypal Private Limited unless our primary address is in the United States.

Commission Junction,Clickbank and PayDotCom,what do they have in common?
They are all great tools for affiliate marketing.

Today let’s look at PayDotCom,

Apparently, PayDotCom is an affiliate marketing tool that can be used by vendors and affiliate sellers.

If your a vendor seeking to sell your products with the power of affiliate marketing,than PayDotCom is a solution for you.One of the difference between PayDotCom and say..Clickbank is that PayDotCom supports both digital and physical products as oppose to clickbank that only supports digital products.

Among the advantages of selling with PayDotCom are:

For a full view of advantages,click here.

However if you are NOT a vendor but seeking quality products to promote and make some extra $$ as an affiliate,than PayDotCom is the place for you too with hundreds of quality products for you to start promoting and earn anywhere between 5% to 80%.

The other good part is PayDotCom is totally integrated with Paypal, which makes it easier for you to receive your commisions,instead of waiting for a check .

You can find out more on how to be an affiliate here.

The Marketplace

I’ve personally tried PayDotCom for myself and have been promoting mostly ‘design’ stuff..like the ‘Photoshop -eBook’ & the ‘Illustrator Tutorial”.
It’s pretty much a decent income made from PayDotCom,maybe you can be succesfull with PayDotCom too…here’s to your success!

First it was Gbuy,a rival to Paypal (even thought they deny it:P),than now it seems Google is about to launch an Affiliate Network ala Commission Junction.

Unlike Google’s Adsense program,where it’s pay-per-click (PPC), and affiliate network would allow Google to serve Cost-Per-Action [CPA]adverts.

And yet it’s not paticularly strange ot unheard of,as Google already pays referral fees for Google Adwords, Adsense, Picasa downloads and Firefox installs.

Source & More: Mashable

even more…

UK Security Firm NetCraft, has warned Paypal users of a very serious flaw that is being exploited by fraudsters to steal credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to PayPal users.

Most of us paypal users by now would have come across those ‘Paypal’ scams in our inbox,and like me,i believe you are quiet immune to it and pay no attention to the scams at all,however this particular scam is a lot more convincing that the rest,becuase it actually leads you to the REAL paypal site, and becuase it’s the genuine Paypal site it would appear as if information is encrypted through the company’s own SSL certificates. However, through cross-site scripting, some of the information on the accessed page has been modified.

Netcraft said that its anti-phishing toolbar has been updated to block access to the external server the user is directed to, which resides in Korea.

And you thought Korea was only good at the World Cup?

The genuine PayPal SSL certificate used by the scam

FULL report by NetCraft

**Update: Paypal has rectified this flaw..more HERE

Besides all the usual aspects of a website e.g – Domain name,Design,Updates, an e-commerce site would also need a payment gateway,and noy just any payment gateway,as more and more people are beginning to pay careful attention to a payment gateway before submitting their sensitive credit/debit card info.

So, what can a small and medium business do?. We all know it costs money to make money. Yet after you tally up the cost of an application fee for a merchant account at your bank (which allows you to process credit card charges), monthly fees for the online gateway to the transaction clearinghouse that authorizes each charge, the monthly statement fee, and the bank’s percentage commission and transaction charge on each sale, can a small business still earn a decent profit online?

In comes Paypal.

With Paypal you can accept all major credit cards, debit cards, bank transfers, and PayPal payments securely, and hassle-free.There are no setup, gateway, or monthly fees. You pay 30 cents per transaction and a commission of 2.9 percent or less, depending on your monthly sales volume.

Richard Morochove over at PCWorld.com has written an article on this,you can view the article HERE