The idea of passive income is obviously one that many people strive for - and it
’s a term that I’ve heard used many times to describe online income streams - including blogging.
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CUSTOMERS of the internet auction site eBay are being defrauded by unscrupulous dealers who secretly bid up the price of items on sale to boost profits.
An investigation by The Sunday Times has indicated that the practice of artificially driving up prices — known as shill bidding — is widespread across the site.
Last week one of the UK’s biggest eBay sellers admitted in a taped conversation with an undercover reporter that he was prepared to use business associates to bid on his goods for him.
Our inquiries found evidence that a number of businesses — ranging from overseas property agencies to car dealerships — have placed bids on their own items using fake identities.
The cases raise questions about whether eBay, the world’s biggest auction site, is doing enough to protect consumers.
Shill bidding is against eBay rules and is illegal under the 2006 Fraud Act. However, the resulting higher prices on the site boost the value of eBay’s share of the sales.
Last November eBay changed its rules to conceal bidders’ identity — making it even more difficult for customers to see whether sellers are bidding on their own lots. Since its launch seven years ago, eBay’s UK website has attracted more than 15m customers. It sells more than 10m items at any given time.
One of the beneficiaries of the boom is Eftis Paraskevaides, a former gynaecologist, from Cambridgeshire. He has become a “Titanium PowerSeller” — one of eBay’s handful of top earners — selling more than £1.4m worth of antiquities a year on the site.
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I’m a big fan of Digg and have been for a while. Of all the websites out there they are probably the highest mentioned one on this site over the past six months. During that time there is always speculation that someone is close to buying them up and in all honesty I came to a realization today that nobody should buy Digg.
I don’t mean that companies shouldn’t look at a Digg acquisition, but take a step back and look at everything that Digg stands for and ask yourself if you can really see it prospering under corporate rule. There is enough speculation about how Fox News portrays Obama or if Microsoft is cheating by paying people to edit their Wikipedia articles and it is easy to imagine those powers using Digg to their advantage.
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This guy’s gf traps him into having a kid, then wonders why he plays 40 hours of WOW every week. Tyra and quack doctor proceed to remove his nuts by way of cd shredder.
When the Lunar Year of the Pig is fast approaching, China’s largest state-owned CCTV recently received an order from the government that prohibits airing of any TV ads that contains images of the pig. This is a measures aims to avoid offending the Muslims in China, in order to “protect the harmony between different religions and ethnic groups”.
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“The popular Social Bookmarking site Digg.com provides an easy way to find news you want. However good content can go unnoticed due to many factors mainly on who submits it and how you submit it. Here are 35 tips for submitting, gathering content and promoting yourself in the Digg community.”
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An 87-year-old man was asked to prove he was over 21 when he tried to buy a bottle of sherry in a York supermarket. I guess kids are lookin’ older and older these days.
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“I’m often asked about how Google and search engines work. One key question is: how does Google know what parts of a website the site owner wants to have show up in search results? Can publishers specify that some parts of the site should be private and non-searchable? The good news is that those who publish on the web have a lot of control…”
What’s stopping this all from happening immediately? Two things, monetization of content and a simple, ubiquitous TV/internet convergence device. For certain, any company who manages to solve either of those problems and catch the wave of public acceptance is headed for a big payday.
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I think this guy called the Colts-Patriot game a little too early…
