box’s blog

Recessions is on and all of us could use some money. Different web 2.0 corporations promise money for content, but do they actually pay. Well, cyberantweb tells us the direction of different web 2.0 corporations. Looks like that many sites promise you a lot of money, but most of them fail to keep that promise. After all you are on your own :-(

Online social media site Kirnu has got some new features, last month. The most wanted and waited must be Kirnu forum, which allows continuous discussion with hot topics, without articles.

Building social media site with open source without any income is quite a challenge. But I think I'll manage.

About a year ago, I created a blog at blogspot as I thought, that I could use it for web earnings. However quite soon I realised, that if I wish to make money by blogging, I'll have to have my own domain and own commercial blog.

But after establishing my own commercial blog, I did not leave my blogspot blog. Even that I cannot use it for money making, I can use it to support my other www sites. Blogspot has some very useful features like .rss readers, link list and it can even be integrated with Digg, so you can publish your Digg seeds automatically to blogspot. And no one prevents you to write stories about your own groupware books, if you wish to do so.

I did my studies with information systems & computer science and I specialized in group technologies. During those days, I did wrote Groupware Support for Operational Management, and a kind of forgot it afterwards.

But it came in my mind, when I received email last April. Someone had read it and thought, that VDM Verlag would like to publish it. Then in May I had a long sick leave, and I had nothing at home but time, so I sent the work to VDM.

Less than month after sending my work, I got a confirmation message, that my work had been published. Then with Google, I found it for sale at two web shops. So now days I'm also an author.

For a long time I was able to write an article at Newsvine, which got some views and comments. And like usually, to get attention, you have to create feelings. This time my article about the Finnish gun paradox: In the land of the firearms, knifes kill more than guns, did the job.

The article destroys the common argument, that the number of guns increase the number of murders, which is not true in Finland.

I have had a blog at MySpace over a year now. I'm quite used to use several different sites like Vox, MySpace, Yahoo 360, NowPublic, Newsvine, Windows Live, Blogger, Facebook and I too have a Wordpress blog and Joomla site.

And if I had to pick up two worst sites to use, they would be Facebook and MySpace. I cannot really say, which one is worst.

But the amazing thing is, that if you would have to pick two most popular sites, they would be Facebook and MySpace...