How many times have you been in public and heard three other phones with the same ringer you have? It’s as cliche as the older movies that have three doctors pagers go off and everyone looks. But your ringtone says as much about yourpersonality as the clothes that you wear. Ringtones are as wide and varied as the people in the world.  All of this is what makes ringtones a $1 Billion per year business.  Everyone is downloading them and putting them on their phone.

A great source for finding ringtones for your phone is My Ringtones Hub 

No matter what time of phone you have, who your carrier is, what type of music you like or what type of download you need, you can find it at  My Ringtones Hub .

Google sites captured 49.7 percent of the U.S. search market for the month of April, gaining 1.4 share points from the previous month according to comScore.

Yahoo by contrast lost 0.7 percent of the search market but still maintained the number 2 spot with 26.8 percent of the market share.

Microsoft sites also saw a drop in the search market losing 0.6 percent while the Ask Network fell from 5.2 percent in March to 5.1 percent in April. Time Warner held steady with 5 percent of the market.

Americans performed 7.3 billion searches online in April almost unchanged compared with March and up 11 percent over April of 2006.

Google sites led with 3.6 billion search queries performed, trailed by Yahoo sites with 2 billion and Microsoft sites with 757 million searches conducted.

Ask had 376 million search queries performed and Time Warner had 364 million.

Extranets is a technology word that’s been thrown around countless times over the last few years. It’s a word that has about as many different definitions as there are snow flakes falling in Montana in the dead of winter.

Although this article is not about what an extranet is, exactly, it’s important that we agree on a workable definition before moving into the meat of the article. For simplicity’s sake, we are going to call an extranet a semi-secure external network of networks that uses Internet technologies as the protocols for communication.

By definition, one of the greatest benefits of an extranet is that it allows certain individuals to gain access to information that you don’t want the public to be able to view. An extranet, in this example, will use the network of the Internet and its communication infrastructure and protocols, but will have an enhanced security level so that only specified individuals can access the information.

With the definition out of the way, let’s move onto what’s important… a highly useful way to utilize this technology. One of the best uses for an extranet is for enhanced customer support.

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What if I told you there was an online industry in which most of the participants are profitable, adopt the latest technologies in effective business practices, and use some of the most successful marketing principles to drive traffic to their web operations?

What if I also told you that this industry, until recently, netted more revenue than any other industry on the web? What if I also said that almost every “respectable” businessperson looks down on this industry and its operations?

Of course I am talking about the online pornography industry. In this article, I won’t address the moral aspects of this controversial industry. Instead, I will examine its business practices and what other industries might be able to learn from them.

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The Website directory known as Webspassage offers visitors a spamfree directory listing over 1000 websites.

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There are many tag clouds out there. It has become an immensely popular way for people to promote their sites, generate traffic, and help their PageRank.

SiteTagged is a tag cloud site put together by New Concept Factory

SiteTagged lets you buy permament links for as low as $.99 and you can buy any keyword that you want.

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