If you do online shopping, then without spending another penny, you can donate a percentage of your spendings to a charity. Confused? Usually, the affiliate marketers and publishers get a percentage for every referral they make to such online stores. Giveness springs from the same concept but they help to direct such commissions (affiliate sales) to charity programs.

Giveness is a social network for philanthropists who love shopping. When you buy something from online stores such as Amazon or eBay, via Giveness, they donate a percentage of their earnings to a charity of your  choice directly.

Giveness lists a big basket of about 134 online charities ranging from Children of Rural Africa to Sustainable Harvest International. When you sign up to Giveness, you can choose your favourite charities, before you do shopping. When the online stores send the commissions, all 100% of the money is sent to the charities. Now, you would have had a double joy as your shopping has not only fulfilled your need, but also some percentage of your spendings went to fulfill some higher cause.

Apart from this, Giveness is all about social networking, you will find people who are interested in common things. You can have a personal page, share things, chat or message friends. They should be good souls as they believe they can make a positive difference in this world by doing a small bit for the world.

Oh, I almost forgot to tell a thing. You can also start a charity fund. You can define a purpose – it could be a global problem or it could be even a neighbourhood’s issue. You can organize a charity and start your social service.

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This MappyHour application is built on top of Google maps and you can add your own favourite bars and pubs on it with a simple click and edit.

You can chat with your friends, organize a pub crawl and share links with your friends if you sign up to the service.

Enjoy drinking.

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I am not a qualified financial advisor, but over these years, I have learnt few things that worked for me in saving money. Continuing from the yesterday’s post, here are the remaining five money saving tips that have worked for me. You would’ve heard many of them and they are nothing but common-sense, if you actually look at them. They will work for you as well, I bet.

6) When you go in a group, Spend for yourself only
When going in a group, try to spend for yourself only. Don’t get me wrong. You can spend for your friends once in a while, but do not make it as a habit and becoming a sponsor of everyone. Have a check on the amount you spend. If someone is paying for you, give back your money to them or spend for them another time. Keep track of the records on things such as these – who spent for you and for whom you have spent. I don’t keep track of every cent with my close friends (‘You pay a movie for me, I will pay you the next movie’ kind).

7) Write some financial goals, now
Two years ago, without any serious intention, I jotted down in my personal journal that I would get a job in a year that would pay me Rs. 50, 000 a month (that was my financial dream, when I was working in a job with a paycheck of Rs. 16,000). A written goal clearly sets you in a positive direction; I had read that somewhere and thankfully it worked for me. A few months later, I was at the University of Adelaide doing a Master’s Degree with a scholarship. Do you know how much money I was receiving a month in Indian Rupees? A little over 50,000 rupees (tax-free). Fancy that?

How did it happen? With few written words and some extra work from me. So, do a favour for your financial future. Write down a reasonable goal that you would like to achieve and set a time stamp on it (Say, for instance, a saving of $2000 by December 31st, 2007)

Carry your lunch box
Oh yes, it works. The first thing I purchased when I came to Australia is a Tupperware lunchbox set to carry my daily lunch with juice. The lunch is often very modest – four slices of bread with peanut butter spread and chocolate spread or veggie burger – with squeezed orange juice. The lunchbox not only saved money for me, but it contributed my health as I stayed away from fast food. Occasionally (once in few weeks), I went out for lunch with my colleagues to have a cool ‘lunch chat’. When I had stopped carrying lunchbox while I was writing my thesis, lot of money went on the nasty fast food lunches.

9) Say ‘No’ to credit cards
I don’t have a credit card. Not even one. Some of my friends said, ‘credit cards are for emergency situations’ and gladly accepted them. Now, they are in trouble for their “emergency spending” on clothes, food and movies. When you have a credit card, it is easy to get tempted by the “0%, interest free loans”. I admit that I can not handle my temptations and I am weak on them. So, I have not even a single credit card. I spend it only from my debt card. And, anyway, my other account has my savings which I always can use if an emergency situation arises (it has no ATM card access but, I can transfer them online when I need in an emergency).

10) Have a financial advisor or refer some books
You can not be a financial guru and I am not one either. We need to know only necessary things that are enough to make our life comfortable. That’s my style. And, if you open your eyes and ears, you will receive good financial advice – I meant “good”, not some gossips or ‘quick-rich schemes’ (actually, they are quickly-broken) from half-cooked-experts (sadly, they happen to be your friends or relatives). If you are working, you will have an accountant working with you – so, ask them (My friend says so. ‘Is it so?’) over a cuppa. Or if you are like me, just keep tab on a newspaper’s financial columns or trusted books. If you think it is all over your head, then keep a professional financial advisor -

These tips are effective only when you act on them (doing is way better than just knowing). Start with a one or two. I would recommend you to start with budgeting (you just need to use your diary, that’s all). Without knowing where your money goes, it is difficult to save or cut-down your expenses. Just do it. As always, share your opinions on this post.

Read the part 1 of “Money Saving Tips”

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You may be famous among your friends circle for your advice on real estate investments. Your friends always pour out with you about their relationship troubles and ask for your advice. They know and are sure that your advice will help them. They think that you are an expert.

What if you can help the whole online community with your expertise. There are millions of people ‘out there on the web’ who constantly seek help- friendly advice – or a nice casual chat with you. Now, the best part is you can get money for listening to people and advising them – at least the initial earnings would cover some of your bills. As the time passes, you will grow into a better expert and you can a successful online business based on it.

We are going to review a web service that runs expert counsellings on the web. Werlive.com is one such web service that helps you to open such an online business program for you. You can sign up with this form to become a VideoChat Expert with werlive. People will pay to learn what you know – teach them online at weRlive.com – yea, thats an underlined fact. You will get paid for the job that you love most.

What do you need?
1) A personal computer with a webcam (web camera)
2) Internet connection (Broadband preferred)
3) Filling up this expert signup form at weRlive

Once completed, you’ll need to read the Terms of Use and create a resume / CV telling about your and your speciality areas before you can begin VideoChatting with users.

But, your resume is the billboard that would draw people towards you. Hence, look at some of the expert profiles in your area. Visit weRlive.com homepage to explore the successful experts similar to the subject area of yours.

Look at the following profile of an expert – serenityforyou – who is specialized relationship issues such as abuse,Divorce, Dating, Fear of Commitment and Marital Problems


When do you work?
You can set your working hours. I would advise you to start allocating 2 hours a week (on one day).

You need not make any promises to your users regarding the overall amount of time you will spend online or the length of a VideoChat session; but it is good marketing practice to let them know when they can expect to see you in your chat room.

You must be online at least three hours per month,

How it works?
When a weRlive user contacts you and begins a paid Chat or VideoChat session, your working hours will start. You will get paid on a fee-per-minute basis and you can set the fee.

When you are offline, members can contact you by email (has a set price), and when a member accesses your written tutorials, you will get paid.

You will receive 50% of what your users pay. Your charges may vary from $0.98 to $9.80 per minute, and weRlive.com will fix an upper limit for your fee. As you provide more expertise you will raise your fees.

How will I get my money?
A cheque via FedEx Shipping.
Electronic transfer to your Bank Account.

Verdict: Whatever expertise you have got, you can start selling them right now. There are at least few people who are seeking on basic things such as how to build a blog, how to set up a website or how to fix a computer. It doesn’t hurt to try new things. Start small by allotting 2 hours on the week ends. I strongly believe that this has a good earning potential. When you become an established expert, you can start your online business based on it.

People will pay to learn what you know – teach them online at weRlive.com

Don’t be surprised if, I soon become a “Blogging Expert” at weRlive.com. I have already applied

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From Business Week: www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_24/b4038405.htm

Creators – Bloggers, upload photos, videos, lives online (like me?).

Critics – Comments, reviews things, participate in ratings and evaluations.

Collectors – do RSS, tag things, edit Wikipedia, libararian works.

Joiners – social networkers actively chat, mail, twitter with their friends

Spectators – who ‘just look around and watch things’

Inactives – they are online but dont take part in social activities on web. duh.

What do you do?

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What? You have not installed Google Analytics. Oh, man you are missing a world. For the starters, Google Analytics helps you to know your visitors – where do they come from (yes, even at the city or street level), what they do at your site, what they click etc. Sign in to Google Analytics (it’s free) and get started first. Unless you know where you are now, you can not build a successful future.

Jump in.
As an example, I have used the stats of the blog that you are viewing and you can open a Google Analytics window to check your own.

A successful blog in my view has large amount of daily traffic, loyal (returning) readers, generates lots of traffic (read as money…LOL) and of course provides a good reading that you will not miss the blog at any cost. In order to build a successful blog, we need to build a blog that has valuable content, worthy for every visitor and also should build massive traffic. Google Analytics also gives many tools that could measure all the three (and one more for measuring your Adwords performance if you are advertising).

Let us see one one by one.

1. Visitors Graph:
The very first thing you will notice when you login is the last week’s number of visitors graph. You may see few occasional spikes (if some big site like Digg sends you a flooding visitors). The average line indicates regular flow of traffic – for starters, try to keep that above 100.

How do you that? Post regularly, at least 1 post a day, ping blog directories, advertise your blog address through emails, forums and chats.

2. How do they come?
Next thing you should notice is how do your visitors find you. You can see under ‘Traffic sources’ to know from your visitors come from. Direct traffic indicates that they typed your blog URL (straight from the heart) right into the browser. It is good as they are your good readers (loyal, revisiting brand ambassadors for your blog).

Also follow how much traffic comes from search engines. IF not much, then add your blog to diretories, try Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to improve your blog code.

Because, it is a well known fact that the traffic that comes from search engines are the ones that earn you money. Why? because, they are the ones who are looking for something – so, they would come (if they cant find something on your post) and click on some ads and leave your site – good for your wallet.

3. Who refer your site?
Also, the referring sites – go down to the detail to find out which sites refer to your blog posts? If so what post they are referring to. Digg users are fond of lists – for instance, StumbleUpon users are interested in photos – generally. So, deliver a mix of content to suit your audience.
4. Which traffic is good for you?
Direct traffic is always good – because, thats is your basic flow of traffic – they would constantly visit for your blog updates – so, update your blog often (at least once a day or two).

5. How many posts did they read/see?
Next, see how many blog posts a visitor visits. Say, they are coming from a referral site – are there any other blog posts that will attract them?

Use categories, similar posts, labels, tags to show other articles that might interest the visitor. If you can , get a “Related Posts” plugin for your blogger like this blog – simple but very effective to keep your reader for long time.

In the visitors section, you can analyze the characteristics of your blog readers and understand them to serve better.

6. Did they stay long enough?
How much time they spend on your site? Either reading it or browsing through the content? Your goal is to keep the visitor for at least 5 minutes (thats is a big goal, believe me). But, a good design, not much ads – organized content – catchy articles will keep them for login time – they would even bookmark your blog if they had to go to toilet urgently.

7. How fast your site loads?
Find what type of bandwidth your visitors use, if the majority of your users are from Dial-ups, then you have to check the loading time of your blog – and optimize it accordingly. IF not, you will loose your readers. Use the Web Page analyzer to get the loading times over different type of Internet connections.

8. Can you offer them a special treat?
Which are the major search engines / web sites that drive traffic to you. Can you orient your future articles towards their users. If I find many of the Orkut users visit my page, then I would write a “101 tips for Orkut users” as a special post.

9. Are they loyal and coming back for more?
Repeat visitors – are really good. But , if you offer full RSS feeds, they would read your posts from their faourite feed readers. Include a “related posts” link at the end to make them visit, deep link to your own articles so they would curiously click and visit your blog.

Ideally, you should have 30% of your readers as daily visitors – thats a good way to build traffic. Only by developing good content, you can achieve this.

10. How much percentage?
As mentioned, ideally it should be 50-50. Also, invest time to think why your first time readers just leave.
11. At what time you should post?
Your regular posting schedule should match your visitors time zones. So, choose to post a regular interval so – a visitor would be able to always see some fresh content on your blog page.

12. For whom you must write?
It is interesting to note that who stays longer and who visits more pages – Americans or Europeans? Write for the people who respects you (:p)

13. Are they coming back?
Loyal readers come only for good content. Skip to next point.

14. How long they stayed?
Redesign your home page to show key articles – add a link o your key articles at the end of every blog post such as “Table of Content” or “Complete List of Blog posts”.

It also depends on the quality of individual posts – if someone doesn’t like the way you have written in the current post, they wont bother to check the complete list – whatsoever.

15. Does your blog speak multi-language?
Do you have a translation tool for “the foreigners”? Get some language translation tool and install in your sidebar prominently. I promise it would increase the number of visitors.

16. How to increase pageviews?
Create flagship content (free e-book for download) as discussed by Chris G and develop them and post it prominently on your blog page so readers cannot miss them at all.

17. Did they go deep enough?
Also, check how easily navigable your blog is – can the readers come to the main page with a click? If the readers are frustrated about finding things, then you will loose them.

Content by far the most important element in a blog. Strike a balance between what you love doing and what sells in the market. Follow your readers but don’t loose your inner passion.

18. What sells?
Content by Title will tell you what your readers found most interesting of all your blog posts. Occasionally, refer to the list and produce similar posts. Add a ‘If you like this post, you may also like these’ type of addendum at the end of such famous posts (flagships posts, remember?).

19. Why did they come and why do they leave?
Which pages have more entrances and from where do they leave – Landing pages and Exit pages – will give an indication of what sells and what doesn’t.

20. How your blog looks to them?
Does your blog look good in this? Check with IE, Firefox and other browsers – check with Browser Shots.

21. What should you write in the future?
Align your future content to key words. Make it a point that at least for a few set of keywords, your blog should rank first in the search engines. Cleverly emphasis on the keywords. Do you know how make money online become famous?

22. High bounces no good for you
A high bounce rate (above 80%) indicates people are leaving your site very quickly. Either they are impatient for your site to load, or they didn’t like the design or some reason that you have to figure out. Keep the bounce rate to the minimum – it needs lot of work.

23. Other factors:
Screen resolutions, support for flash, javascripts etc also makes a lot of difference. So, watch the trend – retain your first time visitors.

Study your Analytics in detail and not down these things.
Then, work out a plan of action.
All the best for building a successful blog and make a living online.

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1. 100 Words and 100 Images
2. 200th Fun thing:Online Calendar
3. A Free Online Calendar
4. A wish message
5. Access Premium Websites
6. Access your PC
7. Add a Chat for your site!
8. Advertise all over the world!
9. Advice for Parenting
10. An Idea a Day
11. Another fund raiser
12. Ask a Question
13. Attend Conferences
14. Audio and Video Mails
15. Babbly Gabbly Chat
16. Become Photogenic!
17. Best Videos
18. Bet on them
19. Bet on Trends
20. Book a Hotel
21. Bookmark buddy
22. Bookmarks
23. Break a weird music record..
24. Broadcast
25. Browse Amazon
26. Build a virtual Hotel
27. Build a Wiki
28. Build vocabulary
29. Build your Business Network
30. Buy or Sell
31. Buy or sell your car!
32. Buy Realestate
33. Celebrity Face Collage
34. Claim your ID
35. clip marks
36. Clone a website!
37. Cmmunity Online Planning
38. Collect Miniature Landmarks
39. Colloborative spreadsheet
40. Comment on others!
41. Communicate with ease!
42. Compress your files Online
43. Conduct a Poll!
44. Convert Media
45. Cook (and eat too!) a new Dish
46. Cook with what you have..
47. Count your visitors
48. Coupons Galore
49. Create a Chat Room
50. Create a colourful ASCII image!
51. Create a content-ready Webpage
52. Create a forum
53. Create a funny Notice
54. Create a Map
55. Create a Portfolio
56. Create a RadioShow
57. Create Maps
58. Create Presentations
59. Create your Own Newspaper!
60. Create, Share your Videos
61. Deal King
62. Decide which is Good News
63. Delicious
64. Demotivation Site
65. Design a garden
66. Design a Logo
67. Desktop on Web
68. Discover GPS
69. Discover Videos
70. Download Club
71. Drive Search Engine Traffic
72. Earn with your Photos!
73. eSnips – Get Free Content
74. Everything for FREE
75. Exchange favours
76. Fight Spam
77. Find a date!
78. Find and be found!
79. Find Anyone
80. Find Jews
81. Find Real Salary
82. Find source codes & projects
83. Find the perfect Gift
84. Find websites that match your ‘taste’
85. Find what’s Hot
86. Find your Forebearers here!
87. Flickr
88. Free Dating
89. Free home tips!
90. Free Photos
91. Fun with customers
92. Get a free book!
93. Get a Job
94. Get all in one!
95. Get Discount Coupons
96. Get free articles!
97. Get Help to win in Online Poker games!
98. Get help:PayPerPost Forums
99. Get in a Conversation
100. Get inspired by a Logo
101. Get linked with Pros
102. Get money
103. Get Paid for Blogging
104. Get Parking
105. Get scribed
106. Get Stars
107. Get Tech Support for PC
108. Get the best talent
109. Get to know People
110. Give away of the Day
111. Guess Bluff or True?
112. Guess-the-google
113. Hello, World!
114. Hire or get hired
115. Host a website for free!
116. How do you send anonymous messages?
117. How to live 99% on Internet?
118. How-to Guides
119. I used to believe
120. India Jobs
121. Jason’s brushes
122. Keep things safe
123. Kill some time
124. Know about a Religion
125. Learn cooking
126. Learn good English
127. Learn Music
128. Learn to make a Balloon Toy
129. Let the interesting contents reach you
130. Life is a trip.Take it.
131. Limewire:Share Anything
132. Listen Music with last.fm
133. Listen to IT Gurus
134. Listen with Juice
135. Make a Comic Strip!
136. Make a Drawing!
137. Make a dumb photo (of your enemy!)
138. Make a Top10 list and let others vote..!
139. Make Community Decisions
140. Manage Karma
141. Manage your tasks
142. Meet Geeks
143. Meet Someone!
144. Mix Movies
145. My first Pay as a Blogger
146. Narrow your Search
147. Newgie
148. News on a WorldMap
149. No e-Mail, theres only g-Mail
150. One number for Life!
151. One search.All Jobs
152. Open your shop
153. Optics Planet
154. Organise Everything!
155. Personalize Internet
156. Pickle it!
157. Pingo
158. Play Babble
159. Play Bunchball
160. Play Golf
161. Play likebetter
162. Play Sudoku
163. Play with words!
164. Poll Daddy
165. Popular Urls
166. Pray for them
167. Project 360
168. Provide your Expertise!
169. Publish a book!
170. Qip it; Get PDF
171. Quick cartoon
172. Raise money
173. Really want a job?
174. Record your Voice!
175. Remember Passwords
176. Rent a Postbox
177. Resize Images
178. Review a Product!
179. Review and earn
180. Review my posts
181. Roll your own search engine!
182. Save Money
183. Save your favourite websites
184. Schedule a Dinner
185. Search blog posts
186. Search Jobs
187. Search shops
188. Search Videos
189. Search Visually
190. Search with Tabs
191. Seating Plans made easy
192. Send files or folders
193. Send Reminders
194. Share bloglinks
195. Share expenses
196. Share files with your Peers
197. Share things via Widget
198. Share your look
199. Share your mistakes
200. Shoot and Sell
201. Shoot videos and earn money
202. Shop for Kids
203. Showcase your design
204. Snap your Visitors!
205. Social Networking Conference
206. Socialize with a purpose!
207. Song bird web player
208. Spell Check
209. Spotback News
210. Start a Community
211. Start Page
212. Stop viruses
213. Store files with Gmail
214. take 25 shots
215. Talk Global
216. Taste Wine
217. Tell a story with Photos
218. Things my girlfriend & I argued
219. Track and save Time
220. Track your Diet
221. Tutorials for designers
222. Upcoming
223. Useful Tools
224. Valentine’s Day Cards
225. Video Blog
226. Visualize words..
227. Want some free photos?
228. Want something? Get it
229. Web is a Magazine
230. Web publishing
231. Web Reality TV
232. Wedding Gifts
233. Whats on your Clipboard?
234. Whats your weekend plans?
235. Winter Troubles
236. Write anywhere!
237. Write articles to earn money
238. Write Tutorials
239. Write your Autobiography
240. Yes, they are Worth 1000
241. Zoto

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Now, the count has crossed 240, but, here we present a first 100 things as a list of 101 fun things to do online for convenience. You can also find a web-page here.

Soon, we will post 250 fun things to do online!

0 How to live 99% on Internet?

1 Get Free Content

2 Save bookmarks

3 Organize photos

4 “No e-Mail, there?s only g-Mail”

5 Socialize with a purpose!

6 Listen to IT Gurus

7 Free home tips!

8 Visualize words..

9 An Idea a Day

10 Break a weird music record..

11 Save Money

12 Learn to make a Balloon Toy

13 Track your Diet

14 Make a dumb photo (of your enemy!)

15 Ask a Question

16 Clone a website!

17 Create your Own Newspaper!

18 Cool photoshopped Pictures

19 Get inspired by a Logo

20 Become Photogenic!

21 Learn good English

22 Make a Drawing!

23 Babbly Gabbly Chat

24 Access Premium Websites

25 Everything for FREE

26 Cook (and eat too!) a new Dish

27 100 Words and 100 Images

28 Listen with Juice

29 Create a Map

30 Get a free book!

31 Know about a Religion

32 Open your shop

33 Whats on your Clipboard?

34 Audio and Video Mails

35 Limewire:Share Anything

36 Upcoming

37 Find a date!

38 Write anywhere!

39 Want some free photos?

40 Find source codes & projects

41 Life is a trip.Take it.

42 Showcase your design

43 Write your Autobiography

44 Create a content-ready Webpage

45 Decide which is Good News

46 Comment on others!

47 Let the interesting contents reach you

48 Share files with your Peers

49 Narrow your Search

50 Build a virtual Hotel

51 Build your Business Network

52 Listen Music with last.fm

53 News on a WorldMap

54 Find your Forebearers here!

55 Create a funny Notice

56 Advertise all over the world!

57 Cook with what you have..

58 “Create, Share your Videos”

59 Create a colourful ASCII image!

60 Find websites that match your ‘taste’

61 Send files or folders

62 Pickle it!

63 Search Jobs

64 Start a Community

65 Meet Geeks

66 Discover Videos

67 Build a Wiki

68 Access your PC

69 Create Maps

70 Buy or Sell

71 Publish a book!

72 Advice for Parenting

73 Review a Product!

74 Play with words!

75 Record your Voice!

76 Personalize Internet

77 Get free articles!

78 Spotback News

79 Blogger Poker Tour

80 Start Page

81 Collect Miniature Landmarks

82 Advert:Promote your website!

83 Find and be found!

84 Get Help to win in Online Poker games!

85 One number for Life!

86 Resize Images

87 Compress your files Online

88 Advert:Pay your Credit

89 Discover GPS

90 Guess Bluff or True?

91 Claim your ID

92 Snap your Visitors!

93 How-to Guides

94 Make a Comic Strip!

95 Whats your weekend plans?

96 Create a Chat Room

97 Hello, World!

98 Search Videos

99 Get linked with Pros

100 Roll your own search engine!

101 Save your favourite websites

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The dating sites are great. They provide instant connectivity, real-time chat, huge pile of profiles that you want (ofcourse, with pics) and etc etc. There is only one problem with all the dating sites. They charge you like hell for even sending a private message let alone chatting or getting introduced to your perfect matches. Justsayhi.com is yet another dating site with all the above mentioned features but, this Online Dating comes absolutely free of cost. You dont even need to have a Credit Card. Believe me. What are you waiting for? Just jump in, get some fishes!

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