The Lady Programmer

Most of the successful websites that I’ve seen around often elicit the participation of the community to get the best content. Social bookmarking services like Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon are mainly powered by the community. Even Google’s pagerank technology is based on other people’s linked content. People remain the life-blood that powers up these successful websites.

Now 10to1 introduces a new way of doing things: by encouraging people to create lists and add up items. Members can get to vote up or vote down an entry. It is a way to ask the community which items are really cool or not. The most positive votes get it straight up to the top ten.

The most entertaining list that I’ve seen is the list of funny license plates.

The press release below explains the mechanism of this top ten voting lists.

Press Release

PHOENIX, Arizona – September 9, 2008 – 10to1.com, a technology company pioneering a new way to organize data and create collaborative authority, unveils its ranked list voting site offering. The site allows users to create, vote and comment on lists for any category. Categories include tech, environment, entertainment, sports, gaming, business, health and politics.

The process is simple. Each user-generated list, from 1 item to 101 items, will begin as one person’s opinion of a ranked list. The user community will then build and shape that list through voting, comments and adding new items which creates a consensus of the best version of that list.

“There is a lack of order and authority online. It is hard for users to get trustworthy information searching through the billions of pages found on Google and Yahoo. The user generated content and unbiased opinions found on 10to1 help users to find the best information based on collective user’s consensus and it aids in discovery of items that they may not have considered before,” said Korey Bachelder, President of 10to1, Inc. “We took a look at Digg and saw that people love to offer their opinions by voting and commenting. We decided to take the idea and make it better by creating order, ultimately creating winners in every category.”

Why Lists?
10. Easy to digest and remember
9. Encourage debate
8. Creates order
7. They will spread and be shared
6. Easy to write
5. Insightful and interesting
4. They aid discovery
3. People love stats
2. They assert authority
1. Lists are interesting!

10to1.com is a website destination that allows users to create, comment and vote on lists for any category. The lists become more powerful and resourceful with each vote as users collectively create the best list based on individual opinions. The company is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona.

“All that live must die, passing through nature to eternity.” – William Shakespeare

Diamonds are often perceived as a symbol of eternity. People often say these gems are forever. This is now literally possible.

A small company in Switzerland had been creating diamonds from the ashed remains of dead loved ones. Most of its customers are Christians.

General Electric first explored this technique in the 1950s where carbon is subjected to heat and pressure extremes to mimic nature’s way of producing diamonds. The technique has improved over the years, including creating diamonds from hair, buried persons and dead pets.

These “remembrance” diamonds takes between three weeks to three months before the customer gets to wear these.

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Most people locator services that I’ve seen around charge competitive rates, but I’ve noticed Public Records Pro got lower rates. Its Gold Membership costs only $2.95 per month for an unlimited search among the 400 public records databases in the US.

Like other people locator services there is no trial period for this, but paying for an annual non-renewable membership is surely a great option than the existing services that go around.

UPDATE: It seems to me that there are a lot of tech bloggers who are posting out humor posts today. I’m beginning to think that there’s a humor virus in the wild!

I think this is why there will be some people who remain to be skeptical about the possibility of making money online. People with simply an email to communicate with other people often receive “make money messages” in their Inbox email. Surprisingly, no matter how fishy it sounds some people fall for it, while others shrug it off because it is simply too good to be true.

There are some really “creative” people who can come up with new systems to convince people to give out money. People often receive emails that sounded like this:

The message is too long so I’ve decided taken out some important snippets from that message and put some comments along.

How to turn $5 into $10,000 in 14 days with Paypal!!

It works!

GIFTING MADE EASY, PLEASE READ ON TO FIND OUT HOW This is a new program as you will see. It can be done from anywhere in the world This is a fantastic opportunity, try it for yourself!! EVERYTHING DONE ONLINE. With just $5 and a Paypal PREMIER or BUSINESS account, you could make Thousands in 2 simple steps READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY THEN READ IT AGAIN.

Would you believe this?

…this is the FASTEST and EASIEST way to earn serious money online that you’ve ever seen so far in the history of the Internet!

You need proof?

TRUE STORY –> June Alscar tells how she ran this gifting summation four times last year. The first time, she received $6,000 in cash in two weeks and then $14,000 in cash the next three times.

How to do it:

Simply send a $5 gift to the person at POSITION #1, if your birthday is BETWEEN JAN 1 THRU JUNE 30, OR, if your birthday is BETWEEN JULY 1 THRU DEC 31, send the gift to the person at POSITION # 2.

Ok, if you’re not already a PayPal user, the very first thing you need to do is use the PayPal link below and SIGN UP.

Quotes to live by (I love these!)

It is an undeniable law of the universe that we must first give in order to receive.

…do it with a great big smile on your face because ‘as you sow, so shall you reap!’

It gives you an indescribable, overwhelming sense of certainty, belief and conviction in the system.

Send some nice spam to your friends

Paste your newly typed email address over the old one and then post to 45 Message Boards, Chat Rooms, or Newsgroups. 

Do these or your conscience will suffer

HONESTLY AND INTEGRITY MAKE THIS PLAN WORK!! DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU.

How thoughtful!

YOUR NAME COULD CYCLE FOR A LONG TIME!! THIS MAKES IT THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING. This is excellent seed money to start or expand a business, buy you dream home, car, and pay off what ever bills you may have. Good luck and God Bless. Play fairly, Good fortune will follow.

Don’t ever forget

REMEMBER TO COPY THIS WHOLE POST

Would you ever try out this gift?

When I went to do my rounds of visiting other tech blogs, I feel the excitement of everyone peeking under the hood of Google Chrome. It seemed to me that the tech community had been excited to see this new browser. But it seemed that people had divided opinions about this.

Everyone noticed that this new browser loads up fast. I agree. Perhaps its minimalist design gives it its speed. Or maybe the decision of the Google Chrome team to write the browser from scratch made it the speediest browser at this time.

Not all are happy. Some people encountered some problems with it.

I got the opportunity of having this one brief date with the browser. Check out that experience.