http://www.blogcurry.com Exploring news and views from around the blogosphere direct from Japan! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:33:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Cultivate Some Creativity! This is one virtue a site must possess to lead the race in the ruthless competition in the Internet based business. With so many competition and rivalry going on, every method of marketing must be employed and utilized. It doesn’t matter if you have a killer product or a ... http://www.blogcurry.com/how-to-use-viral-marketing-effectively   If you've heard about this new blogging software called Firepow around the web, you're not alone. Firepow won't be released until July 1st, but I thought I'd post about it here with all the information I can gather for now so that you can stay well informed up until it's launch ... http://www.blogcurry.com/firepow-software-prelaunch-review RSS is a huge part of the Web 2.0 phenomenon that is taking the web by storm. RSS provides an easy way for people who are interested in your content to subscribe to your site and have it delivered to them. Internet experts cannot even agree what the letters "RSS" ... http://www.blogcurry.com/rss-feed-internet-marketing Using Digg for driving traffic to a website is controversial. Some people claim it is not even worth doing, yet others have had massive success with it. Digg seems to be like this, extremes with very little middle ground. There is so much importance attached to getting on the front page. ... http://www.blogcurry.com/how-to-use-digg-to-generate-traffic What is it that really made YouTube different from other online video sharing websites? It was the right site, at the right time. At a time when broadband internet is the norm and social networking was beginning to explode on the internet, YouTube gave users a new way to communicate. People ... http://www.blogcurry.com/the-youtube-phenomenon In the 20th century, people got inspired to write their own articles and diaries online. This phenomenon is now been referred to as blogging. Currently, there are news blogs, tech blogs, sex blogs, commentary blogs, drug blogs and other teenage blogs. The news and documentary blogs are sites that consist of ... http://www.blogcurry.com/inspiration-behind-blogging One of the things I truly enjoy about living in Japan is watching some of the outrageous comdey shows they present here. I won't bore you with the written details and instead post this great video to give you an idea! http://www.blogcurry.com/watching-tv-in-japan Spyware is computer software that is installed stealthily on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's knowledge or consent. Unlike a computer virus, spyware does not directly spread in the manner of a worm. Generally, an infected system ... http://www.blogcurry.com/anti-spyware-tactics If you are setting up a new site online, one concern you may have is picking the right programming language. Having set up a lot of my own sites, let me share with you what I've already learned... First of all, if you are trying to find the perfect programming language ... http://www.blogcurry.com/choosing-the-right-programming-language-for-your-site Look out - two posts in a day ;) Irish teens, brothers Patrick and John Collison, have just reportedly sold their ebay application auctomatic.com for a tidy sum. They describe auctomatic.com as " a tool for managing your eBay business. Use Auctomatic to track your inventory, pictures, and auction templates, and ... http://www.blogcurry.com/irish-teens-sell-start-up-for-millions