Wendy's World Wide Web

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Do you Hulu? I do. I work a full time job and have two children. This means I don't have a lot of time during the week to watch television, but there are some shows out there that I really want to see. This is where Hulu comes in. I am sure I could go to the websites of these various channels and watch the shows there, but Hulu puts them all in one place. I might not know which channel the show is on, with Hulu, I don't have to know or search on the web to find out, I can just input the name of the show. I watched all three seasons of Friday Night Light. I also watched the first season of Dollhouse. Both of these show are on different channels and on at different times, but at Hulu, I can watch them whenever I want to. The only drawback is that there does come a time when Hulu stops showing some seasons of shows, in those instances if you haven't already seen the show, you will have to look for them somewhere else. There are no shows on television that I want to see so much that I would pay for dvds of certain seasons and with Hulu, I don't have to. Hulu also has movie trailers and videos made by other people of their favorite moments on television shows. If you don't Hulu, you don't know what you are missing.

Have you ever wished you could send several files to your cell phone at one time? I am talking about multiple photos, music, videos, etc. Well, now you can. A coworker told me about this site he visited recently and I decided to try and find it and check it out. The site is http://beam-it-up-scotty.com/. Their spiel is, you can download any file to your phone is three easy steps and its free. Have you checked it out yet? What are you waiting for?

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Have you ever wanted to be paid for what you are already doing? Well I have found the way to do that. There is a website out there that will pay you to read your email. It has a wonderful interface sorta like a dashboard that allows you to access all your email providers, instant messengers, and all the social networks in one place. And they give you money to do it. How awesome is that. You also get money for reading regular snail mail from advertisers. You get money for referring your friends and them referring people. What more could you ask for. If you are like me, you are already doing the things, just not getting anything for it. Now you can. So check them out. The url is www.peoplestring.com. Check them out and let me know what you think.

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Do you hate feeling stupid about something? I consider myself very computer literate. I type very fast and somewhat accurate. I can find almost anything online and if I can't find it, I know how to use the internet to my advantage to find it. I am not afraid to ask to find the information either. What I do have a hard time with, is trying to do something and I can't figure out how to do it. My goal is to make money for what I am already doing. I work full time and in my job, we sometimes have crazy hours, so a second job outside the home is out of the question. On the other hand, I am online when I am at home. To me it makes sense to get paid for what I am already doing. To that end, I have tried to find jobs online. I really want to get into the paid for post thing because I am really good at giving my opinion. Paid for post is not an easy thing to get into I have found. In my last post, I told you that I belong to a SocialSpark. SocialSpark is sort of a meeting place for bloggers. SocialSpark also offers opportunities to make money online. The group I belong to is "I'm not a famous blogger" lead by Ben Spark. I suppose I could also call him my mentor in this world of SocialSspark and the opportunities available through it. Recently, I decided to try my hand at CPC or Cost per Click. With CPC, you have a code that you are asked to post on your site, whether it be facebook, twitter, etc. This is where the me feeling stupid comes in. I took a CPC opportunity without having any idea what I was doing, then I asked for help. Ben was very helpful. He dedicated a whole blog to the subject. Here is the link: http://www.benspark.com/what-the-heck-is-a-cpc-opp.html. The post is very informative and walks you through each of the steps of the process of CPC. I was really glad to get this information because I did not know how to make sure that I let people who saw my post for CPC know if was a sponsered post. I don't know if this is something illegal, but it is against SocialSpark's code of ethics and I do not want to be in violation of the code of ethics. I really like being a member of SocialSpark. I like being part of a group and I also like the idea that I have people to turn to when I need help. So thank you Ben Spark and anyone else at SocialSpark that I might have to lean on before I get smarter.

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As a blogger, I am part of a network called Social Spark. I don't quite understand all the opportunities quite yet, but I am trying to get the hang of it. One of the opportunities is blog u back where you blog about someone's blog and they return the favor. The one I decided to check out tonight was The Inner Shopper. I choose the blog randomly, but I am glad I did. When I clicked on the blog tonight, the post that came up was "isn't it funny", to which I can totally relate. I am not sure how to get traffic to my site. It is a little disheartening because although I don't think everyone wants to know my opinion, I would like to think my blogs are not suckish. It was nice to see someone else having the same problem. Like the blogger for isn't it funny, I have signed up for stumble upon and weblog. I have posted links to my blog on my facebook page, I am signed up at SocialSpark, I post blogs to mylot, and I have had one comment on one of my three blogs. I would even be okay with negative comments, just something for me to know that people are reading what I wrote, is that too much to ask. I liked thesocalledme, I like the layout and the blogs. If you haven't checked it out, you should.

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I have been trying to find an alternative to Adobe photoshop until I can afford it. In this month's edition of Reader's Digest they had a website that offers alternatives to popular programs, such as Adobe. The url is http://alternativeto.net. The website has a lot of website alternatives. I am thinking of checking out Picasa by Google. I like most things by Google, so this should be a good fit. I have gmail and my main browser is Google Chrome. I still like Yahoo for searches though. But back to the subject. I have tried Picnik and I don't pay for premium services, but the basic services are great. I like to edit my pictures by adding text. My desktop wallpaper was one I found at Vlad Studios and edited by adding text at Picnik. I am such an internet junkie. I web surf everywhere, the things that catch my attention are mind boggling. Have you checked out any of these websites? What do you think of them? Check them out and let me know.

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I love to read and occasionally when there is nothing new at the library, I have to buy books. I would love to find a site online where I could swap out the books I have with others, so that I could trade out. Otherwise I am stuck rereading books. I decided to see it there was anything like this on the web. Some of the sites I found were:

www.paperbackswap.com
www.swaptree.com
www.bookswap.com
www.bookmooch.com
www.titletrader.com
www.bubbasbookswap.com


I have not checked out any of these sites yet, but I am going to try them out. As I get more information, I will blog about the positive and negatives of each website. Have you checked out any of these sites? If so, what do you think about them?