The Secret Power of Viral Videos, You’ve been Rick Rolled

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Rick Rolled
photo by Jason McArthur

So admit it you’ve either heard about or have been Rick Rolled. If not, where have you been, Antarctica?

For those who have managed to avoid the Internet over the past 3 months, One video has been causing quite a storm, unusually a music video of

Rick Astley performing “Never Gonna Give You Up” from 1987 the year I was born incidentally.

What happened was a prank, people who clicked on links expecting one thing were suddenly Continue reading The Secret Power of Viral Videos, You’ve been Rick Rolled →

Money Making Report No.5

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Money Report
photo by jenn_jenn’s

Welcome to the fifth money making report, it doesn’t seem long since I did the last one.

I have neglected my Internet interests over the last month due to university commitments (the work keeps on piling up!) Not surprisingly due to the lack of posts, traffic to this site has dwindled, therefore the money making situation for last month was quite poor.

On the bright side I did receive my first voucher from Valued Opinions for £10 to spend at Tesco. Also I signed up for matched.co.uk more about them in the next money report.

You also may have noticed a new design. I still see blogging as trial and error, unless I try something I will remain curious, I am still human after all!

But now lets get to business… Continue reading Money Making Report No.5 →

Money Making Report No.4

Making Money,
Money Report
photo by jenn_jenn’s

Welcome to the fourth money making report, it doesn’t seem long since I did the last one.

Since signing up for Adtoll and Project Wonderful. I have also signed up for Amazon. This is great except I am only showing UK Amazon at the moment. Although I am currently setting up an Amazon.com affiliate account. Then with some nifty code I should be able to target visitors depending on what country they come from.

Thankfully I have had no server problems this month although I lost two days due to it being February!

As before I am not including any online survey earnings, although you may be interested to know that I have received £10 ($20) of shopping vouchers from Toluna.

You also may have noticed the moving of Adsense units, this is purely experimental following suggestions from visitors.

But now lets get to business… Continue reading Money Making Report No.4 →