Have you tried Google Earth? The program developed by the Google several years ago, that displays maps and sattelite view of the world from above. Even now, I'm still amazed of what it can do and how it changed the whole life of people who already tried it. This kind of innovation from 'do no evil' company, made the world smaller than what we think of it before. Anyway, I found a program called Nomao, that used this innovation on a different way.
Nomao is a free social network program that lets you interact with other users using the Google Earth interface. How does it work? Simply by locating your favorite places on the map. To get started, you need to locate on the map your country, city and exact location. Then you are given the option to place icons that will spot your favorite places. You have to identify also the nature of these places from different available categories like shopping, personal place, dining, night life, your home and others. What I like more, is that you can add descriptions on this marked icons. So your visitors will know a lot about your neighborhood, your lifestyle and everything you want to share to others. It's a way to express your self better and show to your friends, what is life like around you.



Another great feature of Nomao is the event organizer, where you can notify everbody for the event that may takes place near you. Spreading the word to your friends is as easy as click away from your computer. Nomao will ask about 'what, where, when' the event may takes place. So make it a habit to check your friend's pages to get updated on the current happenings nearby. You'll never know, if other people in your neighborhood may have organized a party, games, reunion, meeting or other events that may interest you.
After you spotted all your favorite places you can share your own sitemap to your friends and other members of Nomao. You can put it on your blog too if you want. Nomao provides a highly costumizable widget available on different frame colors and you can edit it on your own preferred sizes. You can either place it on any side of your blog or better, put it on your own sitemap and profile page.
Tired of your old social network program? Try Nomao for a change and see the difference.
Summary:
1) To get started you need an account on Nomao's free service.
2) Spot your locations with Google Earth interface.
3) Organize an event with Nomao's built-in event organizer.
4) Share your sitemap to your friends and other members.
5) Upload your map on your blog.
4/25/08
Create Your Own Sitemap with Nomao
Labels: Blog Widgets, Social Networks, Webtools
12/15/07
Check Your Friends Current Activities on Twitter
I was reading magazines on computers and technology one morning, when I read about Twitter. A new site that quickly gains popularity these days. It is simple, very unique that I easily got addicted to it.
This idea was originally created by the famous blogging big guy, Evan Williams. Yes, no other than the man behind Pyra Labs/Blogger. After he sold his own blog hosting site (that was probably $50,000,000 as rumored) to Google, Williams is now back with a new program called Twitter.
Twitter is widely used to track your friends current activities. There is only one question that you need to answer, and that is 'what are you doing right now?'. You have only 140 characters to put in your message box to update all your buddies connected to you. You can tell them what you are doing at the moment and you can track theirs too. Yes, this is how simple the program works. Another good feature, is that you don't only send your message through Twitter but also by your cellphones and IM. That adds extra ease for everybody on giving updates to their friends.
So what are you doing right now? I think your buddies want to know the answer. Why don't you use Twitter? It's the best way to be in touch with your friends by just answering one question.
Summary:
1) Create an account to get started on Twitter.
2) Inform your friends and add them to your list.
3) Get informed with their current activities.
4) Send yours too, for them to know.
Labels: Blogger's Communities, Forums, Social Networks
12/13/07
Earn Money Online by Posting on MyLot Forum
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Four years ago I read different articles about making money online. I never thought that there were people who made millions through the internet. Since Im still young back then, I never been interested on such topics. Those informations just rusted on my memory and I almost forgot about them. Until, last year, I stumbled on a site called myLot, that pays their members who make post in their forum.
MyLot is one of the best social networking community I joined so far. Just like Myspace and Friendster, you can also make your own profile in the site. You can customize it, add your photos, send messages on your co-myLoters (the title given to all members of the community) and give them your comments or testimonials. The only thing that make this place unique to others is that it is also a forum other than a social network. Yes! you can interact with people and enjoy site more if you join the forum.
The good thing with the froum is that it only not give you access to different topics discussed by myLoters but also pays you to every posts you made. Can you believe that?! You can earn for every discussions you initiated, comments you gave, and even photos you uploaded. It made the whole site a place for fun and earning online. Not only that, you can also earn whenever you referred others in the site. You can earn 25% of their total monthly earnings. That means the more active referrals you have the more earnings you get. The latest added features on the site is submitting your blog on their directory. Your blog will be reviewed manually by myLot staff. If it passed their standard then your going to earn more with it. That's right! If there are people who commented on your blog you can earn from it.
Mylot has been a very popular site because it has strict guidelines that proctected the community's integrity. Of course site like this can easily be abused by users, so they have put standards to make it neat and user-friendly. A good place to earn from your idle moments and interact with others to lighten up your day.
Summary:
1) Join myLot to interact with other people worldwide.
2) Edit your profile and give your comments or testimonials to your co-myLoters.
3) Participate in the forum and earn from your posts.
4) Refer more members and get rewarded from their total earnings.
5) Submit your blogs and drive more traffic.
Labels: Blogger's Communities, Earn Online, Forums, Social Networks
12/8/07
Track Your Conversations and Share It to Others With coComment
One of the best way to drive more traffic on your blog is to make your visitors keep coming back. That is the purpose of your comment section. It adds additional activity on your blog and if you always reply on their post there is a bigger probability that they will going to check your site every now and then. Now, what if you have a good conversation on other blogs and you want to follow what's the latest comments, but the problem is you forgot the URL of the blog? Well, worry no more, coComment can help you on that.

CoComent is a new site that let's track your older comments on different blogs. It seems so impossible but it really works. Joining this program you can give your readers a way to share and enrich conversations with them. A good way to make them keep coming back on your blog and follow your own favorite comments. Sounds great huh? But that's not all, the program offers additional features that you're going to like. The coCommunity for example, will let you join a group to share your conversation with them. Track their comments and they will also track yours. The more group you join the more friends and readers can track yours too. Those people who have the highest number of comments made, can have one of the spot on the top 20 commenters. I've seen people there who almost have 6000 comments made. That really takes time but its worth it all. There is a site also that have more than 90,000 comments recieved. Wow! I can't imagine how many visitors checked his site everyday(how I wish to be in shoes).
If you really want to check more spicy topics then you better join this site. You can use it to increase your traffic by joining groups and making friends in the community. CoComment is really something, indeed.
Summary:
1) Join coComment to track all your comments on other blogs and sites.
2) Find a group and share your comments in the coCommunity.
3) Make friends and enjoy sharing, tracking and enriching your conversations with them.
4) Post more comments and get a slot on the top 20 commenters.
Labels: Blogger's Communities, Social Networks