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Blogger has just added a new feature on the dashboard. We can now upload videos to our blogs the same way we upload pictures. We no longer need to embed the codes from YouTube. Though I have not tried this yet, I think it is a nifty feature to use. Maybe one of these days, I might just upload my own videos of a stage performance taken in China that comes with the delicious Mongolian food buffet. Blogger only allows video uploads of not more than 100mb each time. Most formats are accepted. Have fun with your videos.

As if PayPerPost wasn’t enough, enter Blogkits, a new kid on the block for paid blogging. However upon checking closer, I noticed it is catered to USA citizens as you need to key in your social security number or tax id. PayPerPost already has had complaints from its writers that if you do post a negative opinion, and don’t have a high traffic blog, you quickly fall to the lowest rank of the system, and pay follows your ranking downhill.

The newest entrant in this arena, BlogKits, seems to eliminate the ranking system for pay, but links the majority of bloggers’ compensation to click-rate: the “best weekly submission” for a certain campaign can receive $100, but for the rest of the campaign participants, it’s the clicks that count.

If a blogger really wanted to make money from BlogKits, it’s fairly obvious that you’d have to rely on positive reviews; how many people are going to click through to a company or product you’ve just panned, especially if they are loyal readers who already place some value on what you have to say?

Above is a YouTube video tutorial on how to start a blog in Blogger.com. If you are new to blogging and would like to start your own Free blog, check out this video tutorial and get your very own blog in a moment. There are so many pay to blog programs that you can leverage on and it is a good idea to start blogging begining from a Free blog at Google’s Blogger.com. All you need is to sign in, fill in your password and the rest are self-explanatory as you are guided along step by step.

There is a company that produces software for agency level pay-per-click management. The software allows PPC management across google adwords, yahoo search marketing and microsoft adcenter from a unified interface. This Pay Per Click management software includes reporting and collaboration tools, saving time and money for agencies who manage multiple pay per click accounts.

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PiXPO is a Canadian company that offers video, photo and audio sharing. Users can choose the files to be public or private and to share those special memories with just their friends and families. It can also be used to create YouTV to broadcast your own selection of personal videos spread the word such as make a channel around an event or a product. You can also build an audience of artists, videographers, podcasters, musicians and like-minded people. In the long run, PiXPO saves your money as it runs directly from your PC, so there are no bandwidth or storage costs.

PiXPO makes it easy to get all your videos online. Sure, it’s not too hard to get one or two clips online, but PiXPO is the only solution available that lets you broadcast ALL your personal video. Plus, with music and photo capability, you can broadcast all your media. It is just like a version of YouTube and Flickr combined for your video and photo uploads respectively.

You can download it free here. If you are just back from the party with a digital camera full of videos and photos, then you might like to try PiXPO. Get showing them off! With PiXPO, just dump your files onto your PC, then create a channel. In under 3 minutes you’re broadcasting to the world – right from your own PC. PiXPO makes it easy to create a full-on broadcast of all your media. It’s virtually instant to launch new channels. Plus, it’s super-easy for your friends to see them - just send them a channel link and they’re watching right now.

An online pal sent me an invitation link to join StumbleUpon, a place where you can discover new sites based on your interests. After clicking on the link, decided to check it out. There are a few features; you can channel surf the internet for great websites, videos, pictures, games and more. To begin, I entered the necessary details and then it led me to a page to download the free StumbleUpon toolbar. After downloading the exe file, I ran it on my PC and it was automatically installed on my IE browser but I could not use the tool. Later, I recalled reading that it will operate on Firefox browsers.

Anyway, here’s what you get when you used it on your Firefox browsers. By choosing personalized recommendations according to your interests, you get to rate, review and share what you find; you can also keep an online history of the things you’ve Stumbled and more importantly, there is no adware or spyware secretly installed with this toolbar.

The requirement is that you must be at least 14 years old to join and Stumbling is personalized for you. By telling them your interests, they can bring great websites to you. You may select popular topics out of the over 500 that they have. And if you’d like a few more now, you can click Show More, or you can always make changes later. Do not fret as your information is safe and protected. They have a privacy policy linked up.

If you are familiar with YouTube, an online video sharing and its recent bought over by Google for $1.65B in stock, then you may be interested to know that Lycos also offers video where you can watch and connect with friends. While choosing a movie, you can invite friends to watch and chat with them. There are a wide repertoire of genres such as genres such as action & adventure, comedy, documentary, drama, foreign, how to, kids & family to mystery, romance, sci-fi & fantasy and thriller. You can also browse the catalog and and create a new screening room.

Lycos, well known as another search engine, has followed Google to offer new video sharing features and hence attract massive traffic or organic traffic which means traffic from search engines. If you are a movie buff just like me, then there is no harm to check out this site for the online entertainment. By the way, I am waiting for the screening of Spiderman in the cinemas.

Still in its beta format, you may find Lycos Cinema relatively new with not many videos compare to its established counterpart, YouTube. But what is interesting is that Lycos Cinema has a function which displays the movies that are currently being played here while showing the progess time. To view the videos, first of all, you need to sign up for your login id, password and other details.

Basically, if you wish to keep up with what’s happening in your world, you may watch videos with friends online, launch a blog or two, build a website, showcase your photos, get free email, listen to music, play online games, read the latest headlines, meet with friends, create a Planet, share your ideas at Lycos…and it’s 100% free.

Wetpaint is the canvas for everyone while combining the best of wikis, blogs, and forums. From personal expression to collaboration, Wetpaint empowers you to connect with others on whatever you’re passionate about. Why choose Wetpaint? Simply because it offers you everything you need to start your site and grow it quickly. Wetpaint works by getting the technology out of the way. Creating a site, contributing content and connecting is fast and familiar — you don’t have to learn anything you don’t already know how to do.

In three easy steps, you can start Wetpaint which is free, name your site and choose from a gallery of styles. This is the functionality that many users find attractive. To add content, just click, type and add as many pages, photos and videos as you wish. There is a feature to track new contributions with site reports and keep visitors coming for more with email notifications, RSS feeds and also to invite your friends. It is a great way to network.

You may also choose your domain (http://www.yourchoice.wetpaint.com) and decide who can contribute to your site. Being user-friendly, you can also customize your profile page with stories and photos. The websites created are actually wikis. All content you create can be shared and edited as you like, even for non-registered users. But one of the prominent features of Wetpaint is the version control that is automatically built-in. It is great for clubs, hobbies, groups, causes, reunions, parties, fan sites - or anything that you’re passionate about.

Dapper is now open to the public and in the coming months, expect to see new features and improvements to Dapper’s functionality. Dapper’s mission is to allow visitors to use any web based content in any way imaginable. And it means going beyond just reading or viewing a webpage. You may want to create an RSS feed or a Google Gadget for a site, take a site’s content and put it on a map. Whatever you want to do, however you want to mold the web, Dapper can help you do it.

There is non-stop music hits on your favorites from Dapper here. By creating a Dapp (web service), you can browse to find pages. Use their virtual browser to add similar pages from a website into your basket. For instance, if you want to build a Dapp for Google search results, enter http://www.google.com and then perform a few searches, adding each search results page to your basket. You can also have Dapplications which are web-based services that use Dapps. Here are a list of Dapplications that have been created by the Dapper community.

You can think of a Dapp as a “black box” which represents a specific type of page on a specific website on the Internet. The Dapp provides access to the content of that specific website in XML. Basically, the web is your playground.