Demand Media Raises $100 Million
It looks like my dreams of becoming a major player in the domain name industry are over. Demand Media will focus on buying domain names with organic search traffic and optimizing them through social networking technology.
The internet is great at delivering the skimmed down, all-you-need-to-know, top 10 lists with the promise of making your life easy. I know I’m liable for clicking on every Top 20 Web 2.0 Companies, Top 5 Ways to Make Money and 15 Best Startup Tips in my feed - so when I came across Daytipper, I got pretty excited.
Basically, Daytipper is a website that allows users to submit tips (who even have the chance to get paid for each submission) that are then reviewed by their staff, posted on Daytipper and voted on by the community. The site has tips in all sorts of areas including education, money, technology and travel. Here are some of the more interesting tips that I saw featured:
They currently only have a few pages worth of content, but if their submissions pick up, I’m sure you will find plenty of great tips that can help your business, hobbies and personal life. My only qualm with the site is the lack of additional information on each tip. They only feature the ‘how to’ for each piece of advice without additional links to visit. None-the-less, the site has some interesting advice that is worth checking out.
For the past few months I have been using www.netvibes.com as my homepage. It is a simple way to manage your RSS feeds in addition to having numerous modules that allow you to create task lists, notes, weather trackers, etc. With the internet being the information overload that it is, neglecting to use RSS feeds to filter your favorite blogs/media sites, is like using excite.com as your search engine.
Really Simple Syndication offers instant updates of the newest posts and articles from your favorite sites. RSS really cuts down on the time I normally spend surfing around. Netvibes also features a summary of each post - this really helps in choosing which posts to actually read.
When managing my goals, I use a task list with the specific goal as the title and the action items as each ‘to-do’. I find it makes things easier since the layout allows you to see all of your goals and action items, rather than having them all spread out.