IAB: Internet Advertising Continues To Head North

From TechCrunch

New figures released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers show that internet advertising continues to grow to record levels, with the 3rd quarter internet ad spend in the United States hitting $5.2 billion, a $1.1 billion/ 25.3% increase over the same quarter in 2006.

Whilst the $5.2 billion figure is a record month, the growth rate quarter on quarter are not that spectacular; the third quarter was up only three percent on Q2. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing; three percent may not sound a lot, but if it were 33% the cries of bubble would be heard loud and wide. 3% is a sustainable, healthy number that will bring joy to many online who rely on advertising without the related fear that the growth may not be sustainable.

Internet advertising for the first nine months of 2007 totaled $15.2 billion, up 26% over the $12.1 billion recorded the same period in 2006.

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The Environmental Blog

I have been blogging since April of 2007 and enjoying every minute of it, It is quite a new thing to me and I am still learning quite a bit. When I started I was not sure what I should blog about. I started with a poker blog called Perferredpokerblog you may notice it is spelled wrong which was an inside joke between myself and a friend lets just say I perfer it that way. The next blog was about Dungeons and Dragons I love this game and have been playing since 1980's, the blog is called Dungeons and Dragons Shall Never Die!

The last blog I started was Share The Wealth and it has become my biggest passion I try to offer content on anything that has to do with money and investing I also want it to be a place where I share what I have found on the web that I view as important hence the title Share The Wealth.

In May 2007 I joined Linkreferral and found a blog called The Environmental Blog and I loved it so I subscribed to it via email and I have shared it on my Facebook profile. The Environmental Blog should be a blog that everyone should tune into because it happens to be a very important topic in todays world. The environment happens to be what allows us to survive on this planet we call mother earth. I recommend that you join The Environmental Blog and if not this one then look for another blog with concerns about out environment. Please educate yourself, family and friends and lets try to save everyones "mother" the planet we call earth.

Totals For Yuwie

Yuwie continues it's growth and offers quite a unique opportunity for the social network environment . I know that in certain circles many of you know that you earn money through Yuwie just by using like you would Myspace.

The format is very similar and it is as fun to use, unlike many other social networks you can end up with hundreds of friends. So many people have made friends in hopes of earning more money quickly, I find that that is some what of a tedious cycle of trying to keep up with everyone.

My sugestion is to use it like you do use Myspace don't try to get more people to read your site. Let it happen naturally and when you get the friends request approve it. I personaly have only earned just $0.46 cents and as it grows I hope to earn more, I just want to watch it grow naturally and see what happens.

The great thing about Yuwie is that it is free you never have to pay anything, Yuwie gets it's money from advertising and if you are a member you get a small percentage of those earnings. The important thing is that you only click on the ads you are interested in.

The downside is that Yuwie is new and there are so many social networks out there. Because Yuwie is new it tends to get bogged down from so many members and Yuwie has had to keep up grading servers. I noticed today that it is quite a bit faster and should continue to improve.

clipped from www.yuwie.com New Members Total Members: 249,603 New This Month: 31,315 New Today: 1,935

My Second Payment From The Updown

This is from my Paypal account and it is the second time I have been paid. Email me for a referral Thanks

clipped from www.paypal.com Recent Activity Last updated 11/9/2007 16:39 PST Show File  Type  To/From  Name/Email/Phone  Date  Status  Details  Action Amount ($)   Fee  Payment  From  The Updown Corp.  Nov. 6, 2007  Completed  Details   $1.14 USD  $0.00 USD

Dome Home Save Energy and Save Money

Dome homes were first brought to our attention in the 1960's and then faded from our thoughts. Not anymore with the environment and our green campaigns to save energy and save our planet the future of dome homes looks to be the thing for the 2000's. I for one hope to see more changes like this.

These dome homes can be built from recycled material and you can easily incorporate solar panels and wind energy to boost saving. Dome home have also been able to with stand hurricane force winds due to the shape of the building structure.

The recent story on CNBC about American Ingenuity a large manufacturer on dome homes looks like a promising venture and investment. American Ingenuity has been in business since 1976 and has recently seen a great growth in business. Lets look for a better future in alternatives.

This is a Video from May 2007 about mini domes in Japan

Could vertical farming be the future?

From Msnbc

Farm able to feed 50,000 people could 'fit comfortably within a city block'

Rice on the seventh floor. Wheat on the twelfth. And enough food within an 18-story tower to feed a small city of 50,000.

Vertical farms, where staple crops could be grown in environmentally friendly skyscrapers, exist today only in futuristic designs and on optimistic Web sites. Despite concerns over sky-high costs, however, an environmental health expert in New York is convinced the world has the know-how to make the concept a reality — and the imperative to do so quickly.

With a raft of studies suggesting farmers will be hard-pressed to feed the extra 3 billion people swelling the world’s ranks by the year 2050, Columbia University professor Dickson Despommier believes a new model of agriculture is vital to avoid an impending catastrophe.

“The reason why we need vertical farming is that horizontal farming is failing,” he said. If current practices don’t change by mid-century, he points outs, an area bigger than Brazil would need to become farmland just to keep pace with the demand.

Working the soil has always been an uncertain venture, and Despommier argues that the price of crop failure is growing ever steeper as the global population mushrooms. “The world,” he said, “is running out of resources faster than what it can replace.”

Critics like Bruce Bugbee, a professor of crop physiology at Utah State University in Logan, see improvements in how future farmlands are managed as more practical and cost-effective. To Despommier, though, the world already has the need and the technology to dramatically improve yields and reliability by adjusting its point of view: from out to up.

The Columbia researcher said his interest in vertical farming is an extension of his long-standing work on disease transmission among humans. Among the laundry list of benefits he cites, Despommier believes vertical farming could help break the transmission cycle of diseases in traditional agricultural settings. But it’s the potential to help solve impending food shortages that really excites him.

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Behold the Miracle of Compound Interest

Kiplinger's Starting out

When you're young, you have an asset money can't buy: TIME. Start saving now and turn pocket change into riches.

By Erin Burt

November 8, 2007

Compound interest has been called the eighth wonder of the world. And with good reason. It magically turns a little bit of money, invested wisely, into a whole lot of cash. Even Albert Einstein -- a bit of a smarty pants -- is said to have called it one of the greatest mathematical concepts of our time.

But you don't need to be a genius to harness the power of compound interest. Even the most average of Joes can use it to make money. Trust me. This is so much easier than the theory of relativity.

Here's the gist: When you save or invest, your money earns interest, or appreciates. The next year, you earn interest on your original money and the interest from the first year. In the third year, you earn interest on your original money and the interest from the first two years. And so on. It's like a snowball -- roll it down a snowy hill and it'll build on itself to get bigger and bigger. Before you know it ... avalanche!

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WELCOME TO ANTARCTICA!

Micah and I went to culinary school and became fast friends, in fact I would say he is my best friend. He set allot of goals one of them was to go to Antarctica. Well he made it, this is what is means to set goals and if you set them you can achieve wonders.

From My Fiend Micah who is in Antarctica:

Ann Curry from the Today Show is here at Mcmurdo and will be doing the show live on the 5th. She came and had lunch with myself and a couple other cooks today which was sweet. She is writing about here time down here one their website so here is a link, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/ . So if you can watch the show I might be there!!

From allDAY Today's Family Blog

(From Matt Carluccio, TODAY producer)

We've arrived at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

The flight in was thrilling -- especially for the team members who were invited to sit in the cockpit on the approach into McMurdo. I'll leave it to Ann Curry to describe, and for viewers to watch the video (we'll be sure to include on November 5), but just imagine a fully-loaded cargo plane landing on 20-foot-thick sea ice. Amazing to me, but routine for the Operation Deep Freeze pilots from McChord Air Force Base who support McMurdo Station.

Our gracious hosts from the National Science Foundation greeted us and spent the better part of the day giving us a tour of "station," as the locals call it. McMurdo is the largest of the three U.S. research bases on Antarctica and it serves as the U.S. Antarctic Program's hub - basically, everyone comes through McMurdo. It is a unique place, to say the least.

While some might envision a camp of igloos and huts, McMurdo is actually a small and highly efficiently run town. Sitting on crusted volcanic rock along the frozen sound from which it gets its name, construction on McMurdo began in the 1950's by the U.S. Navy and it's progressed in some form ever since. Today, more than 60 buildings have dotted the area - some crude looking from the outside but all sufficient to house and work the 1,100 scientists and staff who come here for the summer season which starts in October and last until February.

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Prosper Registers With SEC to Create a $500 Million Secondary Market in Peer-to-Peer Loans

I have been a member and lender of Prosper for sometime now and look forward to this change. I absolutely love what Prosper has put at our finger tips and look forward to Prospering and growing with this company.

From TechCrunch

One of the most disruptive startups in the financial industry is Prosper, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace. Since its launch in February, 2006, Prosper has attracted more than 450,000 members who have loaned $96.4 million to each other. There is so much liquidity on Prosper now that the startup wants to create a secondary market for loans on the site.

Right now, if you loan money to someone on Prosper, you have to wait for the term of the loan to expire to get all of your money and interest back (unless the debt is paid back early). A secondary market would allow individual lenders on Prosper to sell loans to each other right away, and perhaps even package them together. Such a secondary market could make Prosper a more appealing place for larger financial institutions to invest in.

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Yodao Releases Related Blog Posts Widget

By China Web 2.0 Review

The most popular feature of search engine Sphere.com is its “Sphere It” related content widget, it shows blog and media content related to your posts when clicking on the widget icon. Yodao, the search engine by Netease, released a similar widget for Wordpress users. After installment, it will analyze the blog post and then take Yodao blog search engine to find and display up to 5 blog posts related to each of your blog entry. But different from Sphere.com which require your readers to click on the widget icon, this widget from Yodao will show related blog posts just under the blog content. You can change the plugin option to only search your own blog for related posts, set the time frame for related blog posts, and tweak the color of the widget.

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