5 Tricks for Finding Guest Blogging Opportunities

Have you ever heard of guest blogging? Guest blogging is basically about writing great articles for a blog related to your website. At the end of the article, you have a paragraph or profile section which includes information about you as the writer, with a link or two back to your websites. In short, it's a technique of getting your name known as well as promoting your website.
If you want to read about guest blogging in more detail, Glen of ViperChill recently wrote a great article covering most aspects of guest blogging. In this article, I'll be giving you some tried and tested techniques for finding guest blogging opportunities.


1. Websites in your Blog's Comments
If you have a blog yourself, you've probably got the ability for visitors to comment on your articles. Many of these visitors have their own websites, and they are Read Full Article >>>

You Can Now Cast Your Votes on Facebook for American Idols

Idol Fanatic promises to do what FOX’s television enterprise American Idol never has: It lets fans vote for their favorite contestants via a Facebook application — at any time.

The application uses Ribbit — a web-based phone service à la Google Voice — to dial in user votes during American Idol’s allotted voting period. Each week users start with five votes and can earn more for each Facebook friend they invite.

In order to maintain the legitimacy of the voting process, Facebookers are required to provide a telephone number that is then used to create a Ribbit account. When the voting lines open, Idol Fanatic uses those Ribbit accounts to automatically dial in the votes submitted via the app.

Idol Fanatic also creates a shared experience around American Idol voting, as it allows users to see who their Facebook friends are voting for and to discuss the show’s Read Full Article >>>

iTunes App Store Now on Facebook

The iTunes App Store and its wealth of iPhone applications are now available for browsing, searching, and sharing thanks to a new Facebook page. iTunes on Facebook is busted up into three tabs: featured, games, and search & share. Each one provides links not only to launch iTunes proper, but also to share apps you like with friends on Facebook.

This is a nice start, but it seems to me like only a stepping stone to a more robust Facebook application – I’m thinking something that plugs into the iPhone Facebook app, identifies which apps you have installed, and syncs it up with a list on your profile, so friends can see which apps you’re currently using without requiring you to manually update the list. This kind of function has been wishful thinking on my part for just about any platform that has the cajones to actually pull it off. Yeah, it might just be us überdork elite who think anyone gives two licks about which mobile phone software we have installed, but I know I would check up on my techie friends more often if I Read Full Article >>>