Entrecard Economy… Economics? Getting Better?
I was about to logout last night when I received the email from Entrecard regarding the many significant changes in entrecard. Actually, I was one who commented early. (comment #26, duh…)
At first glance, it saddened me… no more selling of my extra EC credits since it was included in the TOS now:
Members are not allowed to sell credits: This goes for ebay sales, posts in the Marketing forum, and posts on other forums. If you have references on your site to the sale of credits, please remove them immediately, as it is now against our terms.
I removed my paypal donate button on Entrecard Credits For Sale post and removed the link of that post below my EC widget. I love EC and don’t want to be banned. The good old trading days is over but looking forward to the new advertising price. It is a known fact that placing an advert to highest “price in credits” blog doesn’t mean that its worth it or will give you tremendous traffic. I doubt if the law of supply and demand applies to old advertising price.
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Google PageRank Update Again (September 2008)
There is ongoing PageRank update again, too soon because we just had PR update two months ago. I noticed it on my Google toolbar showing this site a PR2 now. Anyway, the PR will be stable in a few days. I don’t know if migrating my blog from GoDaddy to Bluehost contributed to this.
Which reminds me, last month I removed a certain unnecessary category. As you can see, I’m using the custom permalink /%category%/%postname%/ so I maybe lose some backlinks for doing that even if I’m using a redirect plugin.
Hoping for a better outcome soon. How is everyone making out in this update? I wish its a false alarm, happy blogniversary to my blog.
Brisingr Breaks Record For 550,000 Sold On 1st Day
The third book on Inheritance Cycle, Brisingr make a record in Random House Children’s Books history for sold 550,000 hardcover copies. Random House Children’s Books is the world’s largest English-language children’s trade book publisher.
Brisingr was published by Random House’s Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers imprint in the U.S. and Canada on September 20th with a first printing of 2.5 million copies, the largest first-print run in the publisher’s history.
The first day’s sales for Brisingr are four times that of Eldest, the second novel in Paolini’s Inheritance cycle, which was published in August 2005.
Brisingr was also released simultaneously in the U.S. and Canada as an audiobook by Random House’s Listening Library audio division. Initial reports indicate that sales for the audiobook as well as the BRISINGR ebook are also strong.
Paolini will write a fourth book to conclude the Inheritance cycle. For the meantime, I’ll be busy now reading my freshly converted Brisingr mobile eBook in repligo format. If possible, I’ll keep you posted about the adventures of Eragon and Saphira. Enjoy reading. 
Google, T-Mobile G1: World's First Android Phone
It was announced the released of world’s first Android Operating System in the mobile market, a partnership of Google and T-Mobile on October 22, 2008 initially for T-Mobile subscribers in United States only. No word if it will be available for prepaid subscribers and release in Asia (especially in the Philippines).
Google G1 Features:
- One touch Google search
- Touch screen
- Customizable home screen
- Run by Android OS (Operating System) – Android is the mobile operating system on the T-Mobile G1. It allows developers from around the world to create new and exciting applications that can easily be loaded onto the phone from the Android Market.
- Full QWERTY keyboard – slide open the screen to use the keyboard
- 3 megapixel camera
- comes with 1GB memory card
- Google pre-installed application:
- Google Search
- Google Maps
- Gmail
- Google Calendar
- Google Talk
- YouTube
- 3G, EDGE and Wi-Fi connections
Google G1 costs $179 with 2-year voice and data agreement (T-mobile) is cheaper than iPhone 3G. Nobody will think that there’s no competition between Apple’s iPhone 3G and Google’s T-mobile G1. For sure, the price would be much higher in my country just like iPhone 3G. How about mobile ebook on this smartphone? I’m sure online mobile ebook reading will be a wonderful experience.
Glitch On YM UnliChat 24EVER
I recently blog about the trial period of Globe Telecoms’ 24EVER YM UnliChat promo, I didn’t have any problem not until yesterday. I don’t know what happen but when I logged in to my Yahoo account yesterday morning, my contacts are gone. I thought, it could be system maintenance or something so I exit the mobile application and used my PC instead.
