Michael Searles Blog: February 2010

Internet Business Success - FREE Audio

Australian internet marketing genius Steve Sammartino spills the beans with Michael Searles as we pull back the curtain on his many successful internet projects.

Michael interviews Steve Sammartino about what it takes to get an internet business off the ground and become a successful web entrepreneur.

Get your pen and paper handy because you WILL want to take notes during this content packed half-hour.

Streaming Audio Playing Now - Below Image

Live and unedited audio interview recorded February, 2010

PS The streaming audio is an MP3 file uploaded to the free media hosting site - Archive.org . Perfect for hosting streaming audio files on your blog platform.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License

Should Social Media Be Held Accountable?

Should social media be held accountable for user actions?

At what point should social media be held responsible for publishing user-generated content?

What if YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc. had to shut down because they could not control the things users post?

What if every blogging platform had to do the same?

What if you went to jail for comments posted on your blog?

Google Case in Italy Has Serious Implications for the Web

A judge in Milan, Italy has convicted three Google executives over a video uploaded to YouTube in a case, which could have serious implications for social media and ultimately, the web in general, at least in Italy. The video, uploaded back in 2006, featured a group of school kids bullying an autistic child. Google says it worked with Italian authorities to help ID the person responsible for uploading it, and the uploader and other participants from the video were sentenced to community service.

Now, in 2010, Google executives David Drummond, Peter Fleischer and George Reyes (3 out of 4 defendants) have been convicted for "failure to comply with the Italian privacy code". They were all found not guilty of criminal defamation.

"How I Beat Google's Traffic Monopoly" - Ryan Deiss

S T O P: Watch the video presentation via THIS LINK now!

It is from Ryan Deiss, a super successful internet marketer of 10+ years experience.

He tells of a surprise discovery of how he has beaten Google's monopoly on online advertising - especially Adwords.

It's interesting. Watch it now and be warned - Ryan does use some "language".

Also, he said he will take the video down at any time.

20 Ways To Tweet: For Companies & Small Business

20 Ways To Tweet: For Companies, Corporations & Small Businesses

View more presentations from Brett Farmiloe.

Create A Social Website In 2 Minutes

PRODUCT REVIEW

SocialGO is a service that allows anyone to create a professional-grade social network for their group, business or interest. Each social network created on the platform is independent and can be completely customized from it’s look and feel through to its privacy options, features and permissions.

I've had a look at this service and I think it is worth a closer look. It took me a little more than two minutes to set up Social Media Marketing School. Click here to take a look.

Especially appealing is the ability to create a social networking website, blog or forum that can convert regular visitors into members. Even paying members! What's the benefit to that? It means you can create your own passive stream of regular income via a membership-site. Many of the top internet and social marketers insist that a membership-site is an essential part of your online business mix.

Businesses, entrepreneurs and groups are using SocialGO to build meaningful relationships with their customers, build communities around their brand or build a strong communication channel to their members. SocialGO’s unrivaled monetization features are allowing thousands of our members to build direct revenue streams from our network.

SocialGO is focused on offering a premium service and offers free export of data at any time, unrivaled support and a localized hosting infrastructure giving you a solid foundation to build your social network on. They have servers throughout the UK and the US and have an on-call team monitoring and responding to network issues should they arise. They also operate multi-site backups to ensure that your data is never lost. Seems like they have carried due diligence to put out a quality product.

If you have a comment about SocialGO or social media then post below.

As I said, I like the look of SocialGo. Take a closer look and decide for yourself. It might just be exactly the right fit for what you are looking for. Again, here is a link to what I created FREE in a little more than two minutes.

50 Cent - He Is No Half Dollar

Let's keeps this real simple.

I have discovered a book. It's a new book. It's a book you MUST read.

I have read hundreds of books in the 'success, motivation, inspiration' genre over the past thirty years and nothing compares to The 50th Law released September, 2009.

Written by multi-millionaire rap artist, author and social media genius 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson), (50 x 50: 50 Cent in His Own Words, From Pieces to Weight: Once Upon a Time in Southside Queens) and successful psychologist and author Robert Greene (The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, The 48 Laws of Power) this book is like nothing I have ever read before.

Why would I say something as profound? Because it's the truth.

Reading The 50th Law is like a breath of fresh air compared to the plethora of piffle between the covers of other books in the same category occupying the same book-shelf space in your local bookstore this very day!

You must surely know what I mean. Rehashed content re-written so many times over by a hundred different authors but all saying the same thing.

That is not the case with The 50th Law.

Let me sum up what this book teaches in just two words . . . and then I am going to leave you alone so you can watch each of the next three videos in peace.

"Fear nothing"

I am not into rap and to be honest my only perception of 50 Cent was some American gangster dude who came out to Australia on concert and caused mayhem.

After reading this book I not only see Curtis in a totally different way but I am now open to seeing anybody who looks, sounds and acts differently to me in a different way too.

As for co-author Robert Greene, I am already a fan of his work. This book only confirms my respect for his writing and knowledge on all things related to leadership.

Now for those videos . . .

Watch First

Watch Second

WatchThird

Watch Last

Which Twitter Applications Should You Allow?

Since Twitter is the powerhouse social media platform of the current Web2.0 era new supportive applications are being launched every day.

These applications access your Twitter account only by your permission and informed consent and provide a huge range of different benefits.

But why do it? What's are the benefits?

The advantages of linking an application to your Twitter account are as varied as the number of apps themselves.

Let me list the top applications I use with my Twitter account with a brief overview of what they do.

Click each app name below to visit the relevant application home page to learn more.

Twibes - lets you vote for your favorite tweeters, create groups, and manage your followers.
Scribd - HOT is the largest social publishing company in the world — the website where more than 60 million people each month discover and share original writings and documents.
TwitWall - is an instant blogging companion for Twitter. TwitWall enables Twitter users to post full length blog entries with long text, videos, embedded widgets, audio, and images into their own walls.
Topsy - HOT A search engine powered by tweets.
Twitalyzer 2.0 - The Internet's most sophisticated and powerful Twitter analysis application.
Twibbon - is the easiest way to promote awareness of your cause on twitter.
Google - Google/Twitter integration.
EzineArticles - Submit Your Best Quality Original Articles For Massive Exposure, Ezine Publishers Get 25 Free Article Reprints
LOL Quiz - Take fun quizzes!
FriendFeed - enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends
TwolloGroups - HOT is a tool that allows you to easily create groups of users
Tweetmeme - is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular.
MrTweet - Your Personal Networking Assistant
Grader - Free tools to measure your marketing effectiveness. Get your Twitter Grade
The Remote - A small widget for bloggers to see who's visiting their blog.
TwitterHit - helps people choose interesting people to follow by using the Twitter search timeline.
Disqus - is a service and tool for web comments and discussions.
Twitter Karma - VERY HOT simplifies routine friend and follower management, offering different filters and sorting options for your entire account, all on one screen.
TwitterFeed - feed your blog to Twitter - lets you post any RSS or Atom feed to Twitter automatically
Twollo - HOT Find and follow others with similar interests to you - automatically
Ecademy - Twitter status updates from within the ecademy.com business networking website

While this list is far from exhaustive it is a sample of the applications I choose to integrate with my Twitter account.

Apart from linking through to the apps above you can also Google "Twitter applications" for an endless list.

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