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Amanda MacArthur who write a post regarding 9 Ways Twitter Can Help in the Real World, after reading of this post, I’ve decided to use twitter, the micro-blogging platform to drive traffic to my blog and share intimate moments with all of my followers.

Go to the twitter homepage and watch the video on how it works. You can also use this feature or Twellow to search for people, hobbies, interests, or keywords you want, to get a better idea of twitting. You can also see who are the top twitter users with twitterholic.

Twitter, it’s FREE. And it might also change your life.

For newbies, I recommend reading how to start using twitter. This is a very useful article – a shortcut to using twitter. Follow the advice in the article and you’ll be using twitter in 15 minutes.

Facebook fans might want to read the difference between facebook and twitter.

And for those who have already joined, you can opt to “follow me” (the twitter term for “add me”) here.

There are many web sites that advertised on the internet SMS sending messages offering short message (SMS) throughout the world for free, but mostly only allow SMS to the operator / carrier selected only. However, free SMS service called KuripoTxt, works as advertised, allows international SMS for free.

Website KuripoTxt can reduce communication cost international telecommunications. KuripoTxt not only send messages in a country even though different telecommunications companies to connect the entire line of mobile phones around the world, provided it starts with the international code.

Current features / limitations:
-160 character limit
-no registrations required
-simple and straight forward user interface
-send sms anywhere in the world (theoretically)
-instant sending (may vary on heavier server load)
-no advertisements or additional texts in the message
-available in desktop and mobile versions (auto detect)

Currently confirmed supported countries are:
-United States
-Canada
-Spain
-Italy
-Saudi Arabia
-Singapore
-Thailand
-Hong Kong
-Malaysia
-Philippines
-New Zealand

Google recently added Google Sidewiki that you can use to chip in useful information on those sites you visit. If you installed this add-ons Google Sidewiki, then the google sidebar will appear of your browser as two small icon which showing in the picture below.

The Side Wiki intro video:

Wikisearch lets a user add comments and ratings to Google SERPs, whilst Side Wiki extends this even further by letting users rate websites even if they may not rank in the results.

For anything to work well, care must be taken to make firm, workable plans to execute it and the same goes for website designs. With a well thought out website design, you will be able to create a site that generates multiple streams of revenue for you. In fact, may websites turn into online wasteland because they are not well planned and do not get a single visitor. Gradually, the webmaster will not be motivated to update it anymore and it turns into wasted cyberspace.

The crucial point of planning your site is optimizing it for revenue if you want to gain any income from the site. Divide your site into major blocks, ordered by themes, and start building new pages and subsections in those blocks. For example, you might have a “food” section, an “accomodation” section and an “entertainment” section for a tourism site. You can then write and publish relevant articles in the respective sections to attract a stream of traffic that comes looking for further information.

When you have a broader, better-defined scope of themes for your website, you can sell space on your pages to people interested in advertising on your page. You can also earn from programs like Google’s Adsense and Yahoo! Search Marketing if people surf to those themed pages and click on the ads. For this very reason, the advertisement blocks on your pages need to be relevant to the content, so a themed page fits that criteria perfectly.

As Internet becomes more widespread, advertising on the Internet will bear more results than on magazines or offline media. Hence, start tapping in on this lucrative stream of profit right away!

eBay has quite an intricate and long-winded dispute resolution procedure. In this email, I’ll try to break each step down for you, so you can see what’s involved and how long it takes.

As an example, let’s go through what you would do if you paid for an item but didn’t receive it from the seller.

Before you open a dispute: Give the seller a chance to send the item before you get ahead of yourself and open a dispute. If you’re concerned about how long the item is taking to arrive, the first thing you should do is send a polite email to the seller saying that you haven’t received it and asking whether they have posted it. You should also check your own email address in eBay’s options, to make sure that the seller can reply to you. As a last resort before opening a dispute, you should try to call the seller on the number eBay has for them. You might have to pay long-distance charges for the call, but that’s better than dragging the auction through mediation for months.

Step 1 – You open an Item Not Received dispute: You can do this here: http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?InrCreateDispute.

All you need to do is enter the item number and say that you did not receive the item.

Step 2 – eBay contacts the seller: eBay sends the seller an email that tells them that you’ve said you didn’t receive the item. Then can then choose to tell you one of three things: that your payment hasn’t cleared yet, that the item is in the post, or that they’ll give you your money back. The seller can also tell eBay that they would like to send you a message.

Step 3 – You talk to the seller: You try to work out what’s happened directly with the seller, sending messages back and forward. Hopefully they’ll agree to give you a refund for the sake of their feedback, or your item will turn up in the post during this time.

Step 4 – Closing the dispute: After 30 days (or 10 days if the seller didn’t respond), you have two options to close the dispute: either you were satisfied or you weren’t. If you weren’t satisfied, then you can claim under eBay’s purchase protection program for up to $200.

Independent Dispute Mediation.

If you don’t want to go through eBay’s own process, and especially if the auction was for a high-value item, then you can use a third-party mediator. eBay recommend SquareTrade, at www.squaretrade.com, who provide mediation to many websites where there are buyers and sellers. They will contact the seller on your behalf and then mediate as you negotiate what to do from there.

Sellers who are committed to going through SquareTrade’s mediation for any disputes can sign up to display the ‘SquareTrade seal’ on their auctions. This gives their buyers $250 fraud protection, and shows that their identity has been independently verified so they are who they say they are.

When your sellers aren’t in such good standing, though, you need to be careful to avoid being a victim of fraud. There are a few scams that you especially need to look out for – we’ll cover them in the next email.