{EAV_BLOG_VER:e85d933c8c0cd8af} I was recently pointed to Empire Avenue by John Chow and have become thoroughly addicted to it. Empire Avenue is a social networking stock exchange where your value is determined by your social media influence via platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr and personal blogs. Shares of mine are currently trading at 26.34 and have been appreciating at a [...]

I received an e-mail last week that ShaunCarter.com was selected and featured as a top 100 best blog for young entrepreneurs by onlinecollegedegree.org. The site itself appears to be a landing page for generating online college leads through an affiliate program. I am happy to receive the link, even though they got my name spelled wrong. My spring break trip [...]

As part of Jeremy Schoemaker’s free shirt Friday shout-outs, he featured a company called Go Girl. The offer a product that lets women pee standing up, or as the company’s official statement says “It’s a female urination device (sometimes called a FUD) that allows you to urinate while standing up. It’s neat. It’s discreet. It’s hygienic.” Upon reading more about [...]

Finding the perfect webhost for your project, whether it be a WordPress blog, e-commerce site or affiliate marketing portal can be a challenge because of all the different options out there. Some of the biggest problems that website operators like us deal with is uptime, hosting costs and support. Most beginning Internet entrepreneurs and hobbyists are looking for cheap web [...]

Cuil (pronounced “Cool”) is the newest search engine to hit the Internet. Cuil was created by some former Google engineers and has a goal of indexing more pages than any other search service, which it claims to have already done. I’m really not a fan of “more is better” because I’d rather get relevant results rather than hundreds of thousands [...]

I believed when Google announced their purchase of YouTube that they would be able to monetize the video sharing site very well and make considerable amounts of cash, however I was a little too optimistic. Google is reporting that the income from YouTube is much lower than its initial estimates used when valuing it’s buyout of the company. Revenue on [...]

I applaud Microsoft for standing firm on their earlier announcement that they would not continue negotiating with Yahoo after their offer deadline had passed. Jerry Yang’s own ego got in the way of what was in the best interest of the shareholders and his days at Yahoo are surely numbered, despite the fact he is a company founder. Yahoo is [...]

eBay’s new CEO recently announced an overhaul of site fees and policy shifts that greatly reduce the profitablity and safety for sellers. I recently blogged about the large increase in Final Value Fees being assessed by eBay that began recently and now eBay is also not allowing sellers to leave negative comments on deadbeat buyers profiles, making selling on eBay [...]

Ebay has once and for all destroyed their business model by rearranging their fee structure charged to sellers. Ebay is promoting the fact that they are reducing up-front listing fees – very, very slightly I might add. Ebay has long been criticized for taking too much of the final value of a sold auction item, but beginning on February 20, [...]

I’ve been working on setting up my new VPS, Virtual Private Server, so I can begin building a proxy network. I’ve owned the domain UnblockYouTube.com for a while now and had dabbled in proxies before, but now I plan to take on the project seriously and look to make a respectable monthly income from it. But the income part of [...]