Got this via email this morning:

On July 31, 2008, we plan to discontinue the Pay Media (Beta) functionality within Brightcove.

The Pay Media functionality allows publishers to rent or sell their content directly to consumers. Since its beta release in January 2007, less than 1% of our customers have tried the feature and an even smaller percentage of our customers use it routinely. Given the minimal adoption of Pay Media and the feedback we have received from the market, we are going to discontinue this beta functionality.

As a result, you will no longer be able to sell or rent downloadable Windows media video files directly to consumers via your Brightcove players as of July 31, 2008. We estimate that final payments for any outstanding revenue earned will be sent to publishers in August 2008. The changes to the Pay Media (Beta) functionality will have no impact on other features and functionality within the Brightcove platform.

The people who purchased or rented media from you will not be affected. They will continue to be able to view the media they purchased or rented from you prior to July 31, 2008 until their rights are expired.

You will not be required to take any action for this change to take place. On July 31, 2008, Brightcove will automatically deactivate your Pay Media titles which will prevent them from displaying in your Brightcove players.

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Do you make money from your blogs? Do you make money online? Then this is the time to enjoy your online income by relaxing and spending quality time with your family.

Have you been spending hours and hours on the Internet, building links and always looking at stuff to blog and read what people are blogging about? Then it’s time to release that mouse and get your hands off the keyboard! The holidays provide probloggers out there an excellent opportunity to enjoy the fruits of their hard earned labor and share their time with loved ones.

Stop and think for a while… What’s the good of that Adsense check if you don’t use it to buy SOME TIME off your daily blogging grind? Time is the most precious of all commodities because you can never even buy it after it passes you by.

Take your kids to the park or the mall. Give your wife a good massage like the way you work your fingers on the mouse and keyboard. Visit your mom and dad. Just do things for people you have somehow neglected in the REAL WORLD while you were building virtual relationships online.

Happy Holidays!

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I just picked up a copy of the 20th Anniversary Issue of Small Business Opportunities magazine at our local Pathmark store, and came across this article by Dan Schawbel (of PersonalBrandingBlog), “Brand Yourself Now! Uncover a new world of business potential with personal branding.”

In the article, Schawbel says “today there is such a high volume of competition, and transactions are created directly between people, where credibility is at stake.”

Schawbel defines Personal Brand as an individual’s “total perceived value”, relative to competitors, as viewed by their target audience.

He enumerates the four steps of personal branding:

• Discovering your brand — seek your inborn abilities and understand yourself as a business person.
• Build a new age press release — or Press Release 2.0, which utilizes user-driven technologies such as blogs, RSS feeds, wikis and podcasts. Use these to brand yourself with your core message.
• Brand creation — a “tangible piece of your identity” such as a website or blog.
• Maintenance - as your business grows, you gain new skills and experience, so you must update your “collateral and core message.”

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BloggingProfits.com gets a pagerank of 2 from Google, one and a half months after the blog opened with our first post on September 14, 2007. There are currently 45 posts and 25 comments, contained within 57 categories.

I did not expect BP to have any pagerank at all this early, so I guess this is a good start to post on a regular basis. Due to a fulltime job and a very active family and social life, I find it hard to post regularly so I decided to stick to a "blogging schedule" of Tuesday and Friday.I’m not a problogger and I don’t have plans to be one. I’m happy and contented just keeping some blogs, making posts and earning some money on the side. I see blogging not as an occupation, but as a hobby and a way to conduct some "fun internet experiments."

I’m happy also for Fred Peters whose blog NewestOnTheNet got a pagerank of 4. His blog is also one and a half months old, but he’s very consistent in posting and I guess it paid off. Congratulations to Fred and other new bloggers whose hard work have been rewarded with higher pageranks.

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Here’s my Widgetbucks earnings in first 20 days since joining. Continue Reading »

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So Google Adsense doesn’t work for you? Or maybe Widgetbucks slows down your page loads? Here’s a new payperclick ad network that you can try out — ShoppingAds.

What is ShoppingAds? I had no idea that ShoppingAds ever existed until I got an email this morning from Patrick Gavin, president of Text-Link-Ads, inviting me to join their first-ever CPC ad program called ShoppingAds.

ShoppingAds is a cost per click ad product powered by the major shopping comparison sites. SA allows you to display relevant merchant offers in the form of an image and a text description to your audience and every time a visitor clicks on the ad, you get paid.

So I followed the link he gave me and signed up to ShoppingAds. Here’s how the control panel looks like: Continue Reading »

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Stop reading blogs about blogging.

Why?

The more you read blogs about blogging, the less time you have left to actually write a blog post.

Why?

1. You begin to follow links, then follow again, until you end up in a black hole of massive information.

2. You follow an affiliate link to another ebook or internet marketing guide, then read a mile-long salesletter, then before you know it, you buy and spend. You later find out the internet marketing guide is just a compilation of free information gathered on the web, and some more affiliate links.

3. You read comments, then follow the links to the commenters’ site. Again, you begin the cycle of following links, signing up to another affiliate program, following links on the commenter’s blogs… ad nauseum.

At the end of this vicious chain, you realize that you gained nothing but satisfy your curiosity and get a massive amount of confusing information — and a significant amount of lost time. 

Don’t get chained to the blogging chain!

So stop reading blogs about blogging, clear your mind and START writing now!

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Google sells ads, but won’t spend much on them - U.S. Business - MSNBC.com

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Whether you run one or 100 blogs, desktop blogging tools help you save time and increase your productivity. There are many available applications that let you manage your blogs from your desktop. This really saves time if you run multiple blogs — you don’t have to log-in into your web-based control panels each time you have to make a post.

Here are two top choices:

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PayPerPost, one of the world’s largest consumer generated ad network, has launched an affiliate program through Commission Junction that pays for every new registration referred by a publisher/affiliate.
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