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Review of the ProfitLance Online Business Training System 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)This a review that was posted yesterday on my other blog "SOHO Quest".I have been searching for an interactive website marketing course and it took me a long time to find it.Part of this is that it is so hard to sort through the clutter on the Internet. Everything looks so much alike with photos of fancy sports cars, luxury boats, fabulous houses, and piles of cash.Another factor is that the price point for this online course is so reasonable that it actually was a stumbling block for me in making a decision to purchase the course. It simply looked too good to be true.The ProfitLance
system is a credit to its creator, Mike Andrews. ProfitLance is an online tutorial course and guide with interactive tools that take you step-by-step through the process of being successful in any online business.These are not black hat SEO tips and tricks to try and fool search engines. ProfitLane is about building solid life long Internet marketing skills Read more:Business
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How To Find The Right International Cell Phone For You 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Technology in Plain English)by Michael FurnissHaving an international cell phone with you while traveling abroad can make things much easier — you can be instantly contactable, either with the folks back home, or to deal with your trip plans and reservations as you travel.However, if you research on the Internet it can be a little overwhelming with the different options available.In truth you really only have 3 main options with international cell phones, and the major factor that will affect your decision is whether you want the easiest and most convenient option, or the option that has the cheapest call rates, because you can only have one or the other.1. Check if you can use your own cell phoneIf you have the right type of cell phone, you may be able to use it when you travel abroad. If you are unsure then your carrier should be able to tell you. The advantage of taking your own cell phone is that you will keep your own number so it will be easy for friends to call y Read more:Cell Phone
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The Digital Nomad’s Toolkit 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Technology in Plain English)by John MartinIt seems that everyday brings a new tool/toy to my attention. Flock, Writely, Skype, Wordpress, PBwiki, the list goes on and on as the deluge of feeds from my blogroll can attest!Between the wealth of new web-based tools out there and my own digitally nomadic life, I thought it time that I create my own list of “killer apps” that I would combine into my truly mobile “office.” At the risk of sounding like a Google flunky, I have to say that most of the tools they have either developed or acquired I would not hesitate to include as they form the beginnings of an online office suite. So to begin, here are my first candidates: G-mailGoogle CalendarWritelySpreadsheets I would like to include Google Talk but as it does not have native support for Macs, it doesn’t rate as a communications tool in this any computer, anywhere model. What else do I have in my toolkit? Box.net - The idea of having online storage available to me Read more:Digital
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The Global Community... 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Social
Design)The Global
Community Mythby Kate GardensThe term "Global Village" had remained largely the mantra of academics and philosophers and it was not until the arrival of the Internet that the phrase started to enjoy common usage. With the Internet usurping television as the supposed global village medium, and the term itself having evolved into a more positive influence, the planet and its six billion people are no closer to a global village life than they were during McLuhan's perceived downfall of the print age with the advent of television and, indeed, in eras prior. The key part of McLuhan's redefined theory is, of course, "village". Technology allows a rubber tapper in central peninsula Malaysia to talk, interact and exchange cultures with a New York Wall Street stockbroker in real time, any time. The essence of this relationship implies a global phenomenon but what many forget is that Internet penetration around the world is still only 16.6 percent. There
Important Blogging Changes for Three of The Digital Nomad's blogs 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Related Miscellany Weblogs and Business)The "Famous Technomads" link has been moved to the "DigitalNomad
s" blog. There is a redesign in progress of three blogs so that they are more market specific, more valuable, and more on topic for readers.The "Technical Nomads" blog has been renamed "The SOHO Quest" (Small Office-Home Office = SOHO), and will deal with reviews and resources mainly for people wanting to telecommute, or work-from-home in a virtual office environment.The "Digital Nomad" blog will now deal with reviews and resources specific to those needing a more Portable Office that they want to take with them on the road, or when they travel.A new blog named "The Sovereign Journey" is being implemented as a resource for individuals investigating or looking to relocate to another country, and will deal more with the issues of personal freedom, and living and working as an expatriate.All three blogs will still be concerned with emerging technologies, ecommerce, and w Read more:Blogging
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Satellite Telephone Technology Explained 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Technology
in Plain English)by Nicola KennedyWith recent developments in technology, everything is instant, life becomes more convenient.Even in the field of communication, there is no need for us to exert too much effort - unlike the past when it took quite a long time for our predecessors to pass a message from one place to another.But now, it is much easier. Inventors are not content with the modernization of telephones and cellular phones, they still discern for something more innovative. This, then, is Satellite
Phone Technology.So, what is a Satellite Phone?It refers to a subscription radio service. It is similar to cable television - it provides for a wider range of programming and functions that cannot be found on traditional AM or FM radios.A satellite phone is a telephone-like device that sends radio signals direct to a satellite, then back to the earth station from where the call can be directed to the so-called 'Public Switched Telephone Network' or the PSTN
Expatriates: What You Should Know 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Social Design)by Gabriel J. AdamsAn Expatriate is an individual who resides in a country that they were not raised in or did not obtain their citizenship from. However, the term does not apply to government officials who are employed or stationed in a foreign country. Expatriates
are often confused with Immigrants. The main different is that Expatriates see the move as temporary with every intention of returning to their native country while Immigrants are committed to the place they move to.One famous group of Expatriates called the Lost Generation refers to a group of individuals from America who resided in Paris, France from World War I through the Great Depression. This group of Expatriates included many great writers of American literature including Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.In the United Kingdom, Expatriates are not treated well upon returning to their country. This is because it is viewed as a betrayal of their culture and Nation. Often, there child
Worldwide Brands Product Sourcing Experts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)by Jason CollinsIn my few years in the ecommerce world, I have always had trouble finding not just a product that sells well, but a wholesale distributor that will supply me that product. I work from home, and I hear so many people say that they want to start a home business, but I can see that they are misguided before they even start.Working from home is not that hard to do if you are a determined individual but most people just do not have the right information. They cannot see the big picture because they are staring into a dark world they know nothing about.Ecommerce seems simple; you post your products and you make a profit. Most people get that part down but what they fail to realize is that you have to be able to source products from a real wholesale distributor to be able to turn a profit. You also have to build a business, complete with websites and marketing strategies for shoppers to even find you.Operating a website is much Read more:Brands
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Extreme Telecommuting - An Office Odyssey 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Related Miscellany Social Design)So what exactly is "ExtremeTelecommuting
", and how does it fit in with an "Office Odyessy"? Undoubtedly, if you are reading this blog you already know about and have an interest in the concept of telecommuting.Well, extreme telecommuting is exactly what you might expect.Since I am interested in anything virtual, I spend a lot of time researching and reading websites to see what folks are up to and how they have done it. I recently came across a website called "Office Odyssey
".It was created by Sid and Kristanne Heaton in the late 90s. The website has not been updated for some time, but it is still fun to see how the Heaton's have documented their adventures and how they accomplished being some of the first digital road warriors.In 1997 they started their original "Office Odyssey", packed their lives into backpacks and with laptop computers hit the road. They were true digital nomads, traveling first through North America and then Europe, Read more:Extreme Telecommuting
The 5 Best Revenue Models in E-Commerce History 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)by Brian CarterThere was a time, back in the 20th century, when everyone wanted to have their own online shopping cart system. By 1997, Amazon.com had served their millionth customer and was really starting to impress regular folks. The internet looked like a realistic way to do business, maybe even for small businesses.So soon everyone wanted a shopping cart, got one ready to go, and… nothing. They didn’t get any traffic. Then came the website submission hounds with programs like SubmitWolf. It worked for a time, though some submitters turned into spammers and thus began the game of cat and mouse between spammers and search engines.As the number of websites grew, and around 2000 when Google, who had partnered with RedHat and Yahoo, began to become a real force, it was no longer enough to have a website and submit it… at least not for small businesses online. Sure, about $66 billion dollars in in goods was sold online in1999, but Read more:History
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The Foundation of Freedom 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Related Miscellany Social Design)by David MacGregorWe live in a quasi-communist society where, while communism is "dead", its philosophical principles underpin much of what is now taken for granted in how we organize ourselves and how we are organized by others.There are so many examples of this that I could almost write a book on it - but one example will suffice to illustrate.The rush to ban smoking in "public" places.This type of legislation is sweeping the developed world and trashing the concept of private property in the process. What's worse, nobody seems to know or care.While it may be considered desirable to be able to go to a bar where no one can smoke, it is more than likely a violation of property rights as well. For far from being a public place, a bar or restaurant is very likely to be a space owned by someone.Take a bar. If it's your bar, then you should have proprietary rights over its use. So, if you choose, you could ban smoking or you could allow it. Read more:Foundation
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NetZero Offers No-Cost Bandit Local Phone Numbers 1970-01-01 00:59:59 (Archived in: Online Usability Technology in Plain English)For those on the go that need to maintain a local area code and telephone number, NetZero offers a simple solution called PrivatePhone. Some of the free features include:1. Signing up is easy and FREE!2. Get voicemail alerts in email or on your cell phone.3. Check your voicemail over the phone or online.4. No contract, credit cards, or extra equipment required.5. Select from area codes from most cities.Safely stay in touch with all your favorite online communities and blogs. Use the number to shop online and keep telemarketers from calling your personal home or cell phone numbers. Use your numbers in your online advertising so you can stay on top of inquiries, but put a curb on unnecessary interruptions. You can even get additional numbers in different location for business, or have a local number for out-of-town friends and family.Combine this with a good VoIP service, Skype, or even a low-cost calling card, and you will be m Read more:Bandit
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Technology For Travelers 2007-03-02 03:23:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)By Rob WoodIf you’re a tech head like me then choosing the right bits of kit to take with you traveling is a very important decision. I like to be wired into the world and well entertained when I am sitting on a 12 hour train ride or some hotel room on a stopover – it makes the time pass much faster and I can actually get some stuff done. But what should you consider packing for your trek and how can you possibly fit it all in?As with any type of packing for travel, selecting which pieces of technology to take with you should be determined by weight, size and utility. Less is more! That means taking the smallest and lightest of everything you need.If you want some computing power on your travels, then a laptop would be the obvious choice. But do you need all the computing power that a laptop can give you or could you escape with just using a tablet or a PDA? When you are lugging around 6 pounds of laptop for miles and miles, the tho Read more:Technology
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The Future Battle for the Digital Nomad 2007-03-06 16:47:00 (Archived in: Related Miscellany Social Design)As nascent technologies converge to provide better products and services to an increasingly mobile society, a battle continues for market share. It is generally believed that wireless broadband applications will soon effectively compete with, and possibly in the future be more pervasive than what we know as the Internet of today. See the article The Mobile Society, E-commerce and Everything "E", or read Mobile Society archived here.A small nine page report by The Boston Consulting Group, entitled "The Battle
for the DigitalNomad
" gives an overview of this scenario. The report can be downloaded as a pdf file at bnet.com Free Report.The report describes how the Digital Nomad has influenced the design of products and services, based on four objectives, as a result of needs and behavior. The four objectives as defined by this whitepaper are: "Convenience of Mobility", "Extension to Current Media", "Control of Content", and "Economy of Ser Read more:Future
The Promise of Voice 2.0-Will Vonage Survive? 2007-03-09 05:09:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany Social Design)Will VOiP survive? Of course. Will Vonage
survive? Probably not. Anyone that has ever been involved in a lawsuit knows that the party with the most money usually wins, and Vonage just lost a big one to Verizon. Check out yesterday's news and return to this page.Vonage has been plagued with lawsuits (everything from patent infringement to investor relation problems with their IPO). If Vonage is not getting sued, it seems they are suing someone else. Vonage sued AT&T over the name CallVantage in 2004. Pretty sure AT&T won that one since they are still using the name.Voice
2.0, or anything "2.0" is a great concept. The reason these concepts have not already emerged and thrived, is the same reason we do not have hydrogen powered vehicles and flying cars. Certainly the technology already exists, and has for some time. There is no doubt that telephony, computer, and television technologies continues to converge.The problem
Posting from "Writely" to "Blogger" 2007-03-09 02:38:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)This is a test I have created to test publishing a post to a blog from Google Writely. In this case the blog is http://digital-nomads.blogspot.com.The purpose of the test is two-fold. The first is to obviously test the functionality of "Writely" for posting to a blog, and the second is to to test if there is a benefit in terms of creating backlinks from Google that could possibly increase page rank over time through consistent, or frequent postings from Google "Docs & Spreadsheets".As I create this document, I am using many of the functions from the Writely toolbar with similar and familiar looking icons at the top of the document window. There also is a function to edit in HTML, and a preview, print, and email function.It may also be that this becomes easier and has more usability than typing in notepad and cutting and pasting as you edit posts or articles for posting to the Internet.This Digital Nomad believes that "Free Office Suite" Read more:Blogger
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Sprint-Nextel Next in Line to Bash Vonage 2007-03-14 17:56:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany Social Design)VOiP is a great concept and the technology will only improve. I used to be a Vonage
subscriber, and generally liked the service except for occasional quality glitches, and the fact that if your Internet service is down then you do not have telephone service. Customer service was lacking as well with long hold times (12-18 months ago). The pricing of the service plan still made it a good value.So, I am not a Vonage basher per se, but do want to keep abreast of the current market with updates to the company's pending legal woes. What follows is an excerpt from a news report today. To read the full story go to this online article by Jim Duffy. This is on the heels of the lost suit to Verizon."In October 2005, Sprint
Nextel filed a suit against Vonage and two other VOIP providers claiming the companies violated seven patents on technology for processing and delivering packetized voice and data, including VOIP. Its suit
On the Digital Nomad Trail 2007-03-15 15:53:00 (Archived in: Related Miscellany Social Design)Here are a few quick updates. I am finding there are more and more DigitalNomad
s online everyday. It is not a particularly popular search term, but anyone that sees or hears the term knows immediately what the connotation is.Today I want to present a challenge for anyone that happens upon my particular space, and ask for your help in creating more community. As an example, I was on MyBlogLog and have added Gregory Moulinet as one of my contacts. Gregory is a graphic designer and a Forex online trader living in France, but also spending time in the US and Japan. Check out his various Nomad blogs. One is even in Japanese. They are Nomad Designer, Nomad Design, and Nomatrader.All three of his websites reference the keyword Nomad in one way or another. Gregory definitely is a Digital Nomad with his business interests based online. So, back to the challenge.If you live as a Digital Nomad, or have a business related Nomadic life, I will mention Read more:Trail
Digtial Nomads Continue to Go Global 2007-03-18 20:47:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany Social Design)I just made a post on The Sovereign Journey related to my post here about the growing number of people going global with their online business concepts, living and working around the globe.I did not want to make a double post, so check it out at New Resourses post.Strategies for Making Money When You Want from Where You Want
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Digital Nomads Has a New Translation Utility Tool Installed 2007-03-23 18:34:00 (Archived in: Online Usability Related Miscellany)DigitalNomads
has been updated with a handy new translator widget. Click on any of the flags to the right in the side bar and this blog will be translated into the language that you choose.The blog can now be translated with this Google Tools Widget that has been installed for different languages including: French, Italian, English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, and Chinese.You should also be able to bookmark posts in different languages, and read the post comments in different languages, which will allow others to read your comments in their native language.This widget is still in Beta testing, so please let me know what you think of it, and if you encounter any problems using this new utility. Thank YouStrategies for Making Money When You Want from Where You Want
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