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SOPA. Stop Online Piracy Act. Ito ang mainit na issue sa US ngayon, kasing-init yata ng RH Bill dito sa Pinas. Pero ano nga ba ito at maaapektuhan ba ang mga tao dito sa Pinas kung maipasa ang bill na ito sa Amerika?

Majority ng mga major websites ay tutol dito. Google. Twitter. Tumblr. Youtube. Reddit. 4Chan. Bakit? Panoorin nyo na lang ito:

Maganda ang layunin. Sablay ang paraan. Kaya marami ang tutol. Sa mga kumikita online, malaki ang magiging epekto sa atin kung maipasa ito, lalo na kung majority ng mga visitors nyo ay mula sa US. Kayang kaya nila iblock ang website nyo kung may makita silang “infringing” contents sa sites nyo. Goodbye US visitors na kaagad. Patay ang negosyo.

Paano tayo makakatulong para hindi maipasa ang batas na ito? Since hindi naman tayo pwedeng makisawsaw sa kongreso nila, we can spread awareness para yung mga readers nyo na mga taga US, sila ang gumawa ng paraan. Malaman nila kung ano ba talaga itong SOPA at matawagan nila ng pansin ang kanilang mga congressman. Kaya makikita nyo dyan sa header ng blog ko, merong “Stop Censorship”. Kahit yung Batangas Today, nilagyan ko na rin. Kung paano lagyan yung website nyo nyan, just visit americancensorship.org.

Stop the Firewall of America. Stop SOPA. Kumain na lang tayo ng sopas.

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Tupac still alive in New Zealand
by PBS Web Tech

Prominent rapper Tupac has been found alive and well in a small resort in New Zealand, locals report. The small town – unnamed due to security risks – allegedly housed Tupac and Biggie Smalls (another rapper) for several years. One local, David File, recently passed away, leaving evidence and reports of Tupac’s visit in a diary, which he requested be shipped to his family in the United States.

“We were amazed to see what David left behind,” said one of sisters, Jasmine, aged 31. “We thought it best to let the world know as we feel this doesn’t deserve to be kept secret.”

David, aged 28, was recently the victim of a hit-and-run by local known gangsters. Having suffered several bul1et wounds on his way home from work, David was announced dead at the scene. Police found the diary in a bedside drawer.

“Naturally we didn’t read the diary,” one officer states. “We merely noted the request to have it sent to a US address, which we did to honor the wishes of David.”

Officials have closed down routes into the town and will not speculate as to whether Tupac or Biggie have been transported to another region or country. Local townsfolk refuse to comment on exactly how long or why the rappers were being sheltered; one man simply says “we don’t talk about that here.”

The family of David File have since requested that more action be taken to arrest those responsible for the sh00ting. “David was a lovely, innocent boy” reported his mother. “When he moved to New Zealand, he’d never been happier.”

His brother Jason requested that one part of David’s diary be made public in an attempt to decipher it. “Near the end,” Jason says, “there’s a line that reads “yank up as a vital obituary”, which we’ve so far been unable to comperhend.”

David’s girlfriend, Penny, did not wish to make a statement.

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So, why did I delete my account then? Because I signed up on Friendster for social networking, not for any new service they are planning to offer. Having my account already with them makes me subscribed to their planned service already, whatever it is. And I don’t want it that way. I want to see the service first and sign-up with them if I like it. I signed-up for a social networking service, not a gaming or music service.

I highly recommend you do the same. We don’t know what they are going to those account information anyway. After they deleted the reasons we have the Friendster account in the first place, don’t expect that we’ll just stay there and let our information be used on any way they want.

So, how do you delete your Friendster account? Simple, after downloading your information using the Friendster Exporter app, go to Settings on the upper right hand corner of your account. Then click Cancel Account. See screenshot below. Click the image for a larger view.

And that’s it! Goodbye Friendster!

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See how it works:

Yesterday, I installed the Pixazza code in my photo blog. It is now showing the Pixazza ads in my photos.

According to their About Us page, Pixazza is a private company funded by August Capital, CMEA Capital, Google Ventures, and Shasta Ventures, with offices in Mountain View, CA.

You can join them by visiting their site: pixazza.com.

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All you need to do is to create your Dreamhost Rewards account for free and you’ll get your affiliate link from that account. Earnings? You’ll earn $97 for each account you refer.

Create your account here and start earning! You don’t need to have a website. Get the affiliate link and promote it on Twitter, Facebook or any social media you are fond of. Join NOW.

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If you are one of those people on their “hit list”, if your IP address has a record of spamming websites or doing any malicious things in the past, you will not be allowed to enter this site unless you prove yourself on a captcha. However, if your IP address has no bad record, you visit this blog normally, no captcha whatsoever.

How Cloudflare Works
Credit: Cloudflare.com

With Cloudflare, before a spammer could reach your site, they are already blocked on the entrance. It becomes your first line of defense. You can also block IP address by hand, if it passes Cloudflare and you think it is doing some malicious activities on your site.

Aside from protecting your site from known spammers, Cloudflare is also a CDN. A content delivery network. Since Cloudflare has servers all over the world, it will deliver your content from its server nearest to the visitor. Making your site load faster!

And we’re not finished yet. Aside from being a CDN, Cloudflare also acts as a fail-over backup server. With its “Always Online” feature, your site will never go offline again. When your host goes offline, Cloudflare will take over and deliver your content taken from their cache. Your visitor might not be able to write comments since your host is offline, but they can still read your posts and you can still earn from your ads. You might not be able to write new posts while your site is offline, but your existing content remains active giving you money while your host is fixing the problem.

Now, with all these features, guess how much Cloudflare is? You won’t believe but it’s free! All you need is your own domain. If you have access to your domain registrar and you know how to edit your nameservers, configuring Cloudflare is as easy as changing your pants.

Go, visit Cloudflare and try it now.

NOTE: This is NOT a paid post. I am just happy to share this to you because it is really cool!

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For example, if somebody from Amsterdam visits this blog, instead of downloading all the static files (css, jpg, ico, js, etc..) directly from my host (Dreamhost), the files will be delivered from a server in Amsterdam, making it load faster. If someone from LA visits this blog, it will receive the files from an LA server.

Aside from speed advantage, it lightens the load on my server. It will only serve the static files to the CDN and the CDN will be the one delivering them to the visitors. Bandwidth and memory usage decrease which in turn pull down my monthly hosting payment.

I just paid $39.95 for the CDN for 1 TB bandwidth for 1 year, speed up my sites and made a monthly savings on my hosting payment of around $50. This means that I paid $39.95 to save $600 in one year. Not bad, isn’t it? Though $39.95 is just a promo price, the regular price is only $99, which I’ll pay on my second year. Still, an advantage for me.

I use MaxCDN for my CDN needs. The CDN used by John Chow, Mashable and CopyBlogger. I’ll be posting a tutorial on how to implement MaxCDN to a self-hosted WordPress blog using WP Super Cache in the near future. Most of the tutorial I see online uses W3 Total Cache. Since I’m a WP Super Cache user and I don’t like changing plugins just to use another service, I studied and found a way to implement CDN using WP Super Cache. I’ll blog about it later, maybe tomorrow.

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Yeah, right! I know, there’s no such thing as 100% uptime. Your site could go down anytime. This is not a perfect world. So, there really is no 100% uptime. But what is Dreamhost 100% uptime guarantee? Do they say that your site is not going to go down ever? NO.

Here’s what they mean by a 100% uptime guarantee:

If your web site, databases, email, FTP, SSH or webmail is unusable as a result of a failure in our systems and for reasons other than previously announced scheduled maintenance, coding or configuration errors on your part, we’ll credit your next invoice with 1 day hosting free for each 1 hour (or fraction thereof) of service interruption; up to 10% of your next pre-paid hosting renewal fee.

Dreamhost will credit your next invoice with 1 day hosting free for each hour or fraction thereof of service interruption up to 10% of your next prepaid hosting renewal fee. Got it?

Dreamhost may not give you the 100% uptime coz 0.01% of the time, s#!t happens. But since they have the 100% uptime guarantee, they will credit you that 0.01% downtime on your next invoice.

Other hosts will promise you 99.99% uptime. If your site went down, they’ll just say sorry, you are experiencing the 0.01% downtime. On Dreamhost, they will not just say sorry, they will give you 1 day credits for every hour your site is down to fullfill their 100% uptime guarantee. Isn’t that cool?

One day credit might just be equivalent to $0.30 ($119.40/365) on you. So, you’ll just get $0.30 for every hour your site is down. But imagine the impact on Dreamhost if thousands of their clients went down just for an hour, just like what happened to the other hosts today? They will be losing huge money because of this guarantee. This is the reason every time your site went down on Dreamhost, they will do their best to bring it up at the soonest possible time. Every hour counts on them if they don’t act as soon as possible.

On my almost 3 years on Dreamhost, I never had my sites down for more than 24 hours after reporting it. They usually fix it in less than an hour or two.

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Your friends, families, blog readers, Facebook friends, Twitter followers will hear about Shoemoney System sooner or later. Why not let them hear it from you? If they heard it from others and they purchased it, you earn nothing. If you are Shoemoney‘s affiliate and they learned about it and purchased it from you thru your affiliate link, you earn 40% of the sale! That’s great, isn’t it?

Aside from that, Shoemoney’s affiliate program have a three tier commission structure. First tier gets 40%, 2nd tier gets 15% and 3rd tier get 10%. The tiers are on the price of the sale. For example, per sale you make:

• 1st tier: $200 – $350 per sale
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The video started with a scene from the Matrix. Would you take the blue pill or the red pill? That’s because after watching that 31-minute video, you’ll never look at people selling stuff on you the same way again. You’ll notice those “weapons of marketing” being used over and over again by marketers, online and offline.

You should watch it too. You’ll not regret putting 31 minutes of your time watching this video. You will actually lose more if you don’t watch it now. You’ll be missing something. Don’t be left behind. Access it now while it is still free.

That’s all!

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