TinyURL

You've probably seen people using TinyURLS eg http://tinyurl.com/bzg95
these are primarily used for sending horribly long URLs via Email. You will definitely have noticed that LONG URLS get mangled in your email. What I didn't know is HOW easy it is to create one; I mean really easy. It's totally free and there's no need to register. Just go to http://tinyurl.com/ enter your LONG URL hit Submit and viola your TinyURL. That IS COOL!

Buy my Entire Ebook Collection for £2.99

To celebrate becoming an Ebay PowerSeller (Jan 2006) I am selling my entire collection of resellable e-books at the very low special price of £2.99 this includes hundreds of well-known e-books. (In fact the price is so low it must put people off, as they often buy several e-books from me for more than this)

Click here http://tinyurl.com/bzg95 (Goes to Ebay)

The LONG URL is http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/All-my-Best-Ebay-Success-Self-Improvement-Ebooks_W0QQitemZ5637850023QQcategoryZ47103QQcmdZViewItem

PINGOMATIC and ADSENSE

The great thing about the Internet is that you never know it all (wouldn't that be boring!)
I've only just realised that my Blog from Blogger.com can carry Google-Adsense. I already had an Account so it was 5 seconds work to sign-up

I also had heard about PINGING your BLOG but was confused as I CONFUSED it with the PING tool that you use to test if a Website is Active. It's actually a different tool to alert people that your Blog has been UPDATED.

http://pingomatic.com/ You put in your BLOG's URL and it it is PINGED to various BLOGGING INDEXES

Crossword Puzzle Solving

http://www.a2zwordfinder.com

Really great site for solving crosswords/Scrabble/Anagrams and other puzzles

Online Shopping Boom

I was predicting that online shopping would boom years ago, that it would follow the same exponential growth as other Internet use. I was WRONG. In fact after the Dot Com Bomb of a few years ago I even feared it could disappear! Only a few Ecommerce sites survived that extinction event. Amazon was one. Even last Xmas many sniffed that E-commerce was just one percent of sales. The mood has changed completely in 12 months. E-Commerce had a 25% year on year growth in the USA and 50% in the UK, while bricks and mortar stores knew timid or even negative growth. In the UK growth from 2000 to 2005 was 26 FOLD!!