With the internet the demand for good images has increased and it has never been easier to sell good images. One way to get money from your images is to upload them one of the new sites that have sprung up to cater for these new demands. These sites attempt to look for quality images that can be resold. They sell images for cheap aiming to make money from many sales. Each site offers better returns for contributes that get many downloads.
Email is so easy, but more often than not it is not the best way to communicate. As researchers writing the the IEEE Computer point out email volumes are set to grow. Email becomes less useful as traffic increases and inboxes are polluted: important emails get lost in mountains of dross. To limit pollution they recommend:
Are internet freedoms important?
I've just read an interesting article in the Guardian in which the travel journalist Emily Baker puts some social networking sites for tourists through their paces: Going local. She gives a run-down of the social networking sites at the end of the article, here is some of it:
For meeting someone on a flight
What is it with some politicians? They see a problem, often a small one, and think up a broad law without sparing a thought for judges or the police. Creating laws that are difficult, costly or even impossible to enforce. One area which seems to be attracting these mad bureaucrats is the internet. What on earth makes lawmakers think that they can stop music downloading by threatening ISPs or bill website owners for
I read in the news today that Microsoft has made a beta release of Internet Explorer 8. They also announced that the new browser works better with web applications like Facebook as well as fully conforming to web standards by passing the ACID tests. This quick release has people thinking that Firefox is posing a threat to Internet Explorer's market share. But it may be that the two browsers are beginning to notice
The new kid on the block, which must have a number of banks wondering, is money lending sites--- otherwise known as peer-to-peer lending. These sites put people who want to borrow money in touch with people who have money to lend. These sites score the borrowers using the traditional credit scoring techniques and this is used to indicate the risk to the lenders who might lend money.
In the end the borrower gets the money they want a loan at a good rate and the borrower gets a good rate of return: often much better than a bank.
