Amazon.com has a storage service for web businesses called Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3). They utilize their world wide distributed
servers that load balance the network giving Amazon very fast download
speeds.

From a customer standpoint its wonderful because their user experience is
good and their is no concern about overloading a hosted site server. To
make this even better, as of November 1, Amazon is lowering their prices
to - get this - $.15 per 50 Terra Bytes. After the first 50TB, it drops
further.

You can find out more about their service at aws.amazon.com/s3/

When I first saw the people were starting to use something called Twitter,
I thought the concept was really dumb. After all, why would I want to read
micro-blogs that allow only 140 characters? Who would want to read what
other people are doing?

After reading what several people said about Twitter on the Warrior Forum,
and having made a comment that I couldn’t see the use of it, I decided to
try it anyway.

Here’s what I found:

I found people who I am interesting in who use it and make interesting
tweets.  These are people like Frank Kern and Andy Jenkins to name just
two of many.  Both Frank and Andy give heads-up on Twitter of their most
recent posts and website offerings.  It’s a great place to be among those
who get information first.

You can find many interesting people on Twitter and you can choose to
follow them or not.  Just by seeing who other people follow I’ve been able
to find some these really cool people.  It becomes very viral and
addictive.

There are people I didn’t even know existed that I now follow because
they are interesting, have interesting opinions, and add links to other
interesting things.

Without even trying, you can get people to follow you because they are
interested in what you’re doing.

Here are some things that you can do:

You can get breaking news.  Even CNN has Twitter links.  You can share
your photos with a Twitter application.  You can alert people when ever you
make a blog update.  And, whenever you make a new Twitter post, you can
have it update your FaceBook account.

Some of these things are possible because of fancy applications that have
been written for Twitter.

You can find out more about it by checking out my Twitter account.

If you are working on a project you may want to collaborate with others even if it’s something as simple as an article where you could communicate and make changes with a ghost writer.  If you’re putting together a launch then it can become complex and collaboration becomes more important.

You have probably been aware of Google docs but may not have used it.  For instance you might have Microsoft Office and don’t think that Google docs would be of value to you. That is the way that I was thinking I was thinking about it. But somewhere along the line someone pointed out to me that by using Google docs then Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint documents could be shared with others.

Lets say you were having a seminar and you wanted to keep track of hotel room availability and let your attendees know how many and what rooms they could get, you could put a spreadsheet on your site that they could check. Maybe you could get the hotel to update it for you as reservations come in.

Now you can let your imagination run a little bit and see how you could work with others to improve whatever you are doing quite easily.  Combined with something like Instant Messenger or e-mail, you can rapidly improve what you are doing.  You can find out more about Google docs at docs.google.com.

Have you ever sat down to write an article, opened up your web browser, opened Google do your research and wished that you could have saved webpages in a file somewhere? Have you also wanted to save some your Word documents there also? How about a couple of e-books and reports?

It’s nice to be able to save everything in one folder. What if you could save them all on-line for no charge?

There is a Web 2.0 service called esnips.com. I’ve been using it for about two years now and it works perfectly. While you can use it to share all kinds of things with others, I’ve been using it is a private place to save my research.

They even provide 5 GB of free storage.

You can use it to:

• Save webpages
• save Word documents
• save PDF files
• save spreadsheets
• save graphics
• save text documents
• save pictures same video
• same links

Because you save everything in different folders you can save as a project, you can build swipe files, you can just save your thoughts if you want to.

Since this is a free service you might want to go to esnips.com set up a new account. Read the rest of this entry »

A couple of months ago, I did a survey in which I asked my subscribers
about what they were doing with Internet marketing and what problems they
might be having.

A recurring theme that I saw in the individual notes is finding time to
do things. Since that time I’ve been looking for an application that would
help people save time.  I found one.

There is a new free application called Jott.  It is very cool.

What it does is it allows you to call their 866-number and leave a
message to send to your self or to others.  It then sends an e-mail having
translated your speech to text on a date and time that you designate.

Some of add things you can do are Jott to yourself, get text in e-mail
reminders, create a to do list and add items to it, send e-mails and text
to your subscribers, and even send messages to a Web service.

I’ll bet that some of you are already paying for a similar service and
now you don’t have to.

You can get this at http://jott.com/