Mammoth Blog - Technology

Energy without the Jitters Efusjon EDGE Energy Drink

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:30:00 -0500

Efusjon EDGE is the 100% all-natural alternative to today's unhealthy energy drink market. This delicious, caffeinated drink is made with Acai Berry - natures powerful antioxidant. Acai Berry, one of the world's most potent super foods, is believed to deliver up to thirty times the anthocyanins found in red wine (anthocyanins are said to help aid in the prevention of heart disease, fight cancer cells and reduce memory loss). Efusjon EDGE Energy Drink contains no additives or preservatives and is made from the purest ingredients. Young or old, Efusjon EDGE delivers your body the power it needs to thrive throughout your demanding day and life.

# Caffeinated
# Made with Acai Berry - considered one of the top 10 super foods
# Rich, smooth flavor
# Made from 100% all-natural ingredients
# Efusjon EDGE Energy Drink contains NO preservatives or additives
# Helps your body fight the free-radical toxins
# Twelve - 8.4 oz. cans

Get Healthy and Get Paid!

Not only does efusjon offer the healthiest energy drinks anywhere, but also provides a unique opportunity to make a serious income! At the efusjon energy club, we believe in healthy bodies and a healthy income. You can enjoy the delicious and nutritious virtues of our amazing energy drinks and reap the rewards from your very own successful efusjon energy club business. Under the efusjon energy club revolutionary new community compensation structure, you get rewarded in ways you never dreamed possible. It's a unique opportunity never before seen in the network marketing industry!

CLICK HERE - To Find Out More and How to Join!

Mangosteen Documented Health Benefits

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:24:00 -0500

1. Anti-fatigue (energy booster)

2. Powerful anti-inflammatory (prevents inflammation)

3. Analgesic (prevents pain)

4. Anti-ulcer (stomach,
mouth and bowel ulcers)

5. Anti-depressant (low to moderate)

6. Anxyolytic (anti-anxiety effect)

7. Anti-Alzheimerian (helps prevent dementia)

8. Anti-tumor and cancer prevention (multiple categories cited)... shown to be capable of killing cancer cells

9. Immunomodulator (multiple categories cited) - helps the immune system

10. Anti-aging

11. Anti-oxidant

12. Anti-viral

13. Anti-biotic (modulates bacterial infections)

14. Anti-fungal (prevents fungal infections)

15. Anti-seborrheaic (prevents skin disorders)

16. Anti-lipidemic (blood fat lowering, LDL)

17. Anti-atherosclerotic (prevents hardening
of arteries)

18. Cardioprotective (protects the heart)

19. Hypotensive (blood pressure lowering)

20. Hypoglycemic (anti-diabetic effect, helps lower blood sugar)

21. Anti-obesity (helps with weight loss)

22. Anti-arthritic (prevention of arthritis)

23. Anti-osteoporosis (helps prevent the loss of bone mass)

24. Anti-periodontic (prevents gum disease)

25. Anti-allergenic (prevents allergic reaction)

26. Anti-calculitic (prevents kidney stones)

27. Anti-pyretic (fever lowering)

28. Anti-Parkinson

29. Anti-diarrheal

30. Anti-neuralgic (reduces nerve pain)

31. Anti-vertigo (prevents dizziness)

32. Anti-glaucomic (prevents glaucoma)

33. Anti-cataract (prevents cataracts)

34. Pansystemic - has a synergistic effect on the whole body

Efusjon Breeze - 100% Natural Mangosteen & Passion Fruit (with caffeine)

Efusjon EDGE is the 100% all-natural alternative to today's unhealthy energy drink market.

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:35:00 -0500

Efusjon EDGE Energy Drink contains no additives or preservatives and is made from the purest ingredients. Young or old, Efusjon EDGE delivers your body the power it needs to thrive throughout your demanding day and life.

# Caffeinated # Made with Acai Berry - considered one of the top 10 super foods

# Rich, smooth flavor # Made from 100% all-natural ingredients

# Efusjon EDGE Energy Drink contains NO preservatives or additives

# Helps your body fight the free-radical toxins

# Twelve - 8.4 oz. cans

Get Healthy and Get Paid! Not only does efusjon offer the healthiest energy drinks anywhere, but also provides a unique opportunity to make a serious income! At the efusjon energy club, we believe in healthy bodies and a healthy income.

You can enjoy the delicious and nutritious virtues of our amazing energy drinks and reap the rewards from your very own successful efusjon energy club business. Under the efusjon energy club revolutionary new community compensation structure, you get rewarded in ways you never dreamed possible. It's a unique opportunity never before seen in the network marketing industry!

CLICK HERE - To Find Out More and How to Join!

Efusjon Home Run Club December Sales Contest

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:26:00 -0500

Efusjon Home Run Team, Starting today through December 31, 2009 every team member that personally enrolls 3 people will be placed in a drawing for a Framed, Ernie Banks Autographed, Chicago Cubs Jersey. This will be an incredible keepsake for our Home Run Club winner.

The Jersey is being provided by Mrs. Liz Banks, wife of Mr. Ernie Banks, of the 500 Home Run Club, and proud member of the Efusjon Home Run Club.

Each member of the Efusjon Home Run Club that enrolls 3 people in the month of December will have their name placed in a raffle.

Each time you enroll three your name will be entered into the raffle again. For example if you enroll 6 people in December you would have two chances in the raffle, 9 would give you three chances and so forth.

End the year with a Home Run for your Efusjon business, let's knock the cover off the ball!

"Power of 3" Challenge: Here are three simple steps you can follow to get off to a fast start

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:25:00 -0500

"Power of 3" Challenge: Here are three simple steps you can follow to get off to a fast start in Efusjon:

Step 1: Develop a deep-seeded belief in the Efusjon product by drinking it daily. Remember, people buy belief!

Step 2: Create a sense of urgency to immediately get your 3 and make yourself an Executive within hours or days. Congratulations! You have now earned $225 in Associate Product Volume Bonuses that will be paid to you the following week and you have a 115% return on your initial investment.

Step 3: You are also able serve as the Coach/Trainer for the 3 people that you personally sponsor into the club. For each of these 3 people that you help get to Executive within 30 days from the date they join, you will receive a $200 Coaching Product Volume Bonus paid the following week. Simply put, if you help each of your 3 personally enrolled members reach Executive within 30 days, you will receive a total of $600 in Coaching Product Volume Bonuses and you now also qualify to receive 100% of the money due to you in monthly matrix residual income ($5.10/month for direct distributors and $1.50/month for overlap distributors).

Following the above 3 steps will have made you $825 in total Product Volume Bonuses, and you will also be receiving $60 in monthly matrix residual income starting the following month. How powerful that all of this money is paid to you off of only having 12 people in your matrix (3 + 9 = 12)

http://www2.seemymatrix.com/forums/index.php/topic,350.0.html

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:30:00 -0500

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbor http://twitter.com/efusjonmmi

Teamplayer: Once who unites others toward a shared destiny through information & ideas, empowering others & developing trust. D Kinlaw http://twitter.com/efusjonmmi

The greatest danger a team faces isn't that it won't become successful, but that it will, and then cease to improve. Mark Sanborn http://twitter.com/efusjonmmi

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team. John Wooden
http://twitter.com/efusjonmmi

500 Homerun Club & Efusjon Invite you to come hit a home run

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:28:00 -0500

Welcome to the 500 Home Run Club®, LLC, the exclusively authorized, internationally recognized organization founded to celebrate the awe inspiring achievements of the greatest home run hitters in baseball history. The club operates with the endorsement and support of both Major League Baseball and the Baseball Hall of Fame.

The Dam Letter This will make you laugh Out Loud

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:13:00 -0500

The Dam Letter This is an actual letter sent to a man named Ryan DeVries

If you are not making money on the internet, you really need to be kissed!

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:30:00 -0500

If you are not making money on the internet you really need to be kissed

U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:17:00 -0500

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

The new version would allow the president to "declare a cybersecurity emergency" relating to "non-governmental" computer networks and do what's necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for "cybersecurity professionals," and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.

"I think the redraft, while improved, remains troubling due to its vagueness," said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which counts representatives of Verizon, Verisign, Nortel, and Carnegie Mellon University on its board. "It is unclear what authority Sen. Rockefeller thinks is necessary over the private sector. Unless this is clarified, we cannot properly analyze, let alone support the bill."

Representatives of other large Internet and telecommunications companies expressed concerns about the bill in a teleconference with Rockefeller's aides this week, but were not immediately available for interviews on Thursday.

A spokesman for Rockefeller also declined to comment on the record Thursday, saying that many people were unavailable because of the summer recess. A Senate source familiar with the bill compared the president's power to take control of portions of the Internet to what President Bush did when grounding all aircraft on Sept. 11, 2001. The source said that one primary concern was the electrical grid, and what would happen if it were attacked from a broadband connection.

When Rockefeller, the chairman of the Senate Commerce committee, and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) introduced the original bill in April, they claimed it was vital to protect national cybersecurity. "We must protect our critical infrastructure at all costs--from our water to our electricity, to banking, traffic lights and electronic health records," Rockefeller said.

The Rockefeller proposal plays out against a broader concern in Washington, D.C., about the government's role in cybersecurity. In May, President Obama acknowledged that the government is "not as prepared" as it should be to respond to disruptions and announced that a new cybersecurity coordinator position would be created inside the White House staff. Three months later, that post remains empty, one top cybersecurity aide has quit, and some wags have begun to wonder why a government that receives failing marks on cybersecurity should be trusted to instruct the private sector what to do.

Rockefeller's revised legislation seeks to reshuffle the way the federal government addresses the topic. It requires a "cybersecurity workforce plan" from every federal agency, a "dashboard" pilot project, measurements of hiring effectiveness, and the implementation of a "comprehensive national cybersecurity strategy" in six months--even though its mandatory legal review will take a year to complete.

The privacy implications of sweeping changes implemented before the legal review is finished worry Lee Tien, a senior staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. "As soon as you're saying that the federal government is going to be exercising this kind of power over private networks, it's going to be a really big issue," he says.

Probably the most controversial language begins in Section 201, which permits the president to "direct the national response to the cyber threat" if necessary for "the national defense and security." The White House is supposed to engage in "periodic mapping" of private networks deemed to be critical, and those companies "shall share" requested information with the federal government. ("Cyber" is defined as anything having to do with the Internet, telecommunications, computers, or computer networks.)

"The language has changed but it doesn't contain any real additional limits," EFF's Tien says. "It simply switches the more direct and obvious language they had originally to the more ambiguous (version)...The designation of what is a critical infrastructure system or network as far as I can tell has no specific process. There's no provision for any administrative process or review. That's where the problems seem to start. And then you have the amorphous powers that go along with it."

Translation: If your company is deemed "critical," a new set of regulations kick in involving who you can hire, what information you must disclose, and when the government would exercise control over your computers or network.

The Internet Security Alliance's Clinton adds that his group is "supportive of increased federal involvement to enhance cyber security, but we believe that the wrong approach, as embodied in this bill as introduced, will be counterproductive both from an national economic and national secuity perspective."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

Techs Stocks Slip As Apple, EBay Retreat

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:41:00 -0500

Tech stocks reversed course Wednesday morning, slipping into the red as shares of Apple Inc. and eBay Inc. chalked up losses and chip makers turned in a mixed performance.

The sector earlier had posted modest gains as semiconductor shares rose after technology researchers Gartner Inc. updated its 2009 forecast for the chip industry and now foresees a smaller-than-expected revenue decline.

But the mini-rally lost steam by late morning as the Nasdaq Composite Index ( RIXF) fell 0.2% to 2,021, while the Morgan Stanley High Tech 35 Index (MSH) eased 0.1%.

Meanwhile, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index (SOX) held on to a 0.2% gain.

As revised, Gartner sees the sector's revenue totaling $212 billion for 2009, down 17.1% on the year. Its prior projection had been for a 22.4% decline.

"The semiconductor market has performed better than expected, as was evident when second quarter semiconductor revenue increased 17% in sequential sales," Gartner Vice President Bryan Lewis said.

Shares of chip giant Intel Corp. (INTC) traded up about 0.6%, but other chip makers were in the red, including Texas Instruments (TXN) and SanDisk Corp. ( SNDK).

The tech sector was also weighed down by losses in shares of such bellwethers as blue chips Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) and Cisco Systems (CSCO) as well as Google Inc. (GOOG) source>>>

Advanced Wi-Fi Sinks Old Ship's Network Barriers

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:39:00 -0500

If your hotel is an antiquated, out-of-service ocean liner that's crossed the Atlantic 1,001 times, it's nice to know that the place has steel walls as much as 3 inches thick. On the other hand, if you get there and want to fire up your Wi-Fi-equipped laptop to shop for Titanic memorabilia on eBay, those walls had better not get between you and the nearest access point.

The Queen Mary, a 1936 luxury liner that's now a floating hotel and tourist attraction in Long Beach, California, takes guests back in time but doesn't want to strand them there. So last year, the IT department started to look for a way replace its powerline Internet access system with the Wi-Fi service that 21st-century guests expected.

There were already a few hotspots around the ship, but they were small and only one was open for public use. Covering all 314 guest rooms and 80,000 square feet of meeting space and restaurants would have proved difficult, because in addition to 3-inch-thick bulkheads -- which no Wi-Fi signal could ever penetrate -- there are many other metal walls that are an inch thick or more, according to Queen Mary IT Systems Analyst Edgar Stevens. It would have taken more than 90 access points to unwire the ship using conventional technology, Stevens said.

Instead, the hotel chose gear from Ruckus Wireless, which uses flexible beam-forming technology to get around normally daunting obstacles. Using just 33 Ruckus access points, system integrator Hotel Internet Services (HIS) was able to provide Wi-Fi to about 80 percent of the ship, and at least 95 percent of the areas the hotel needed to cover, Stevens said.

The Queen Mary may have been the state of the art in its time, but today it has several disadvantages when it comes to communications. Though a phone line could be pulled to the docked ship, it's too far from the nearest carrier central office to get DSL (digital subscriber line). Leased T-1 lines are too expensive for the 1.5Mb per second (Mbps) speed they deliver, so the ship's lifeline to the Internet is a microwave line-of-site connection that delivers just over 2Mbps each way. Power is also a problem: Harking from an age when cameras used film and pinochle was a major form of in-room entertainment, the ship has very few electrical outlets.

As for using 3G mobile data in a guest room, the networking team said visitors would have better luck tuning into Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air. Steve Dobbe, vice president of operations at HIS, once had to spend a night on the ship while working on another project and tried to use his laptop and 3G card to quickly check e-mail.

"I was standing at the porthole trying to hang my computer out the window, trying to get enough signal to pull in an e-mail, and I couldn't even do it," Dobbe said. "With that metal hull, there just isn't any cell service inside that ship."

The new in-room Wi-Fi service replaced a wired system, installed more than two years ago by HIS, that required hotel guests to check out a powerline-to-Ethernet adapter using a credit card. They had to plug that adapter into an electrical socket and plug an Ethernet jack on the other end into a laptop. This was inconvenient and frustrated guests who were used to simply hopping onto a Wi-Fi network, said Gary Patrick, president and CEO of HIS. It also left out iPhones and other Wi-Fi devices that don't have Ethernet jacks.

The Ruckus ZoneFlex 2942 802.11g access points that HIS installed on the Queen Mary have a built-in array of antennas that can direct the Wi-Fi signal around obstacles and interference, according to the company. HIS installed Ruckus ZoneDirector 1025 controllers with Power Over Ethernet capability to manage the access points, running standard Ethernet cables to most of the devices. In a few areas where cables couldn't be pulled, they linked the devices in a wireless mesh, Patrick said.

The connectivity challenges on board force the Queen Mary to throttle users' speed on the wireless LAN. Guests pay US$9.99 per day for a 512Kbps connection intended for e-mail and casual browsing, and $10.99 for 1.5Mbps. There are also hourly and weekly options. In the two months since the new Wi-Fi network was installed, it's been a hit: Even before the hotel started to advertise the new service, guests found it, asked about it, paid and logged on, doubling the number of Internet users from when the powerline system was the only option, Stevens said.

For all its headaches, the old ship has some advantages as a place to roll out a network, Dobbe said. The same steel barriers that complicated the Wi-Fi deployment also prevent all other radio interference. It was easy to install Ethernet cables down the hallways because the ceilings are so low that no one ever needed a ladder. And there were some unexpected finds in the old liner.

"There's all these kind of weird, hidden compartments, which is good for when you're trying to find a place to put a switch," Dobbe said.

In addition to all the Queen Mary's antique fittings, past glories and rumored ghosts, there's a bit of LAN history, too, according to Stevens, the on-board systems analyst. When he was hired in 2004, there were still remnants of a Token Ring network left behind by the Walt Disney Co. when it gave up its lease in the 1990s, he said. The IT staff kept some hubs in place as a tribute to a bygone era of networking. source>>>

Make Money With Social Networking

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:10:00 -0500

KISS It

In a world where we are bombarded from every angle with one complexity after another, sometimes the only antidote is something basic and simple. You know what we're talking about; it's the KISS philosophy:

Keep It Simple, Silly!

And when it comes to making money on the internet, now is definitely the time for simple. Sure, you could spend thousands of dollars buying lists with tens of millions of email addresses on them. You could spend thousands more on software to spam the entire list. You could spend tens of thousands building your new uber cool online store attempting to sell your uber cool new product that no one seems to want to purchase. You could spend hundreds of thousands more attempting to get your site listed number one with all of the search engines. Continue>>>>

Make Money on Facebook with the KISS QUIZ

sometimes the only antidote is something basic and simple

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:22:00 -0500

KISS It

Keep It Simple, Silly!

KISS CLUB, where it actually pays to Kiss and Tell!

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:20:00 -0500

KISS CLUB, where it actually pays to Kiss and Tell!~

KiSS Identity" is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Using the communication power of the internet you can create an income stream

WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

WITHOUT having scientific knowledge of unknown products,

WITHOUT buying an expensive starter pack, or business builder system,

WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

Why I joined KiSS Identity" as soon as I found out...

1. It will be affordable...$10 for the first and every monthly order.

In our present economy, virtually everyone needs additional money. KiSS Identity" will be an affordable option to generate income because it is based on a minimum $10.00 per month purchase requirement while building a substantial brand... together.

2. No games in the compensation plan...it is simple and rewarding

There will be no requirements beyond the $10.00 per month to qualify to be paid on all the people in your organization down to the total depth of the plan limits. You will be paid $1 each month for everyone you personally sponsor. 50 cents for each additional person that is recruited by your team members within your 3x9 matrix. *Special enrollment bonus within the first 30 days is $4.00 for everyone you personally enroll. The plan is simple and deep. Barriers to entry are thereby eliminated and barriers to retention are destroyed. Want to do something fun? Do the math on a 3x9 matrix and see what your income could be! The answer....$14,500 per month!!! More details on the comp plan here: http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

*Here's a tip...Own multiple spots and earn up to $14,500 with every spot you own. Yes you can actually get paid on the same people in your matrix with multiple ownership. Just make sure you recruit atleast 3 people with every spot you own.

3. Products that are fun and don't have to be defended or explained.

Over the years marketing people have to exaggerate, falsify, embellish or just make up stories to sell their products. And even if the claims are true...you have to be able to understand and explain them. KiSS Identity" will be marketing fun, everyday, consumable products with a zing or twist to enhance the emotional experience of using those products.

4. The marketing will be done with the latest technology. The goal: TO HAVE FUN!

The sales vehicle will be video links that you email to your contact list. The website will have simple, self-directed training and duplication videos. Viral Marketing on the internet will generate interest and fun. The recruiting, training and motivating of people will be done by the videos and the Website. Your success will be dependent on the level of effort you put forth sharing the available tools.

5. It pays to be involved.

The sooner you start the sooner you get rewarded. Earlier you get the higher up you are in the matrix. That means you have a better chance of participating in the growth of the company!!! You can build a business no matter when you get involved. BUT, the simple truth is, the earlier you get in the fewer existing distributors you run into. There will be fewer people that you contact that will have already joined or looked at your business opportunity.

6. The business philosophy.

We will be cooperating in the development of a KiSS Identity" Brand Name. The business model, compensation plan and marketing strategy are all centered on management and distributors working together to use modern technology to accelerate word of mouth marketing to a faster rate of growth. The things that stop people from joining, make people quit or cause people to fail have been removed.

http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

Make Money on Facebook with the kiss quiz

The application works like this; after taking the quiz you will see a pop up video with your results. (Ex. Kiss Me Cool, Kiss Me Strong, Etc.) Once you click "OK" it will post the results to your wall. (This is great exposure for your business!!!)

Once this is complete you will be prompted to check out a brief video. After viewing this video it will take you to another page which is the Corporate KiSS video. This allows those that are interested to enroll, and then come back to the site and enter in their new KiSS identity.
The KiSS identity is crucial if you want to get credit for anyone that signs up after your forward on the application!!! Everyone that chooses to join, as a result of you forwarding on this quiz will be placed automatically in your organization. Pretty cool huh?

Facebook will initially allow you to share this quiz with 24 of your friends after completing the quiz. I would recommend bookmarking the quiz so you can return to it each day and invite a new group of friends. For maximum exposure make sure to hit everyone on your friends list!

This is just one of many ways the KiSS corporate team is working hard to help our Driver's build their business.

http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

Make Money On Facebook With the KISS Quiz

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:33:00 -0500

If you go here and sign up for ten bucks a month, you can use that quiz as a money maker

http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

This is just one of many ways the KiSS corporate team is working hard to help our Driver's build their business.

KISS CLUB, where it actually pays to Kiss and Tell!~

KiSS Identity" is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Using the communication power of the internet you can create an income stream

WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

WITHOUT having scientific knowledge of unknown products,

WITHOUT buying an expensive starter pack, or business builder system,

WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

Why I joined KiSS Identity" as soon as I found out...

1. It will be affordable...$10 for the first and every monthly order.

2. No games in the compensation plan...it is simple and rewarding

3. Products that are fun and don't have to be defended or explained.

4. The marketing will be done with the latest technology. The goal: TO HAVE FUN!

5. It pays to be involved.

6. The business philosophy.

http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

KISS ME YOU FOOL

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:33:00 -0500

KISS ME YOU FOOL

KiSS Identity" is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Using the communication power of the internet you can create an income stream

WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

WITHOUT having scientific knowledge of unknown products,

WITHOUT buying an expensive starter pack, or business builder system,

WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

http://www.mykissid.com/kissingisfun

KiSS Identity" is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:03:00 -0500

KiSS Identity" is an internet based viral marketing company with a twist.

Using the communication power of the internet you can create an income stream

WITHOUT attending any meetings, conference calls or trainings,

WITHOUT having scientific knowledge of unknown products,

WITHOUT buying an expensive starter pack, or business builder system,

WITHOUT committing to purchasing hundreds of dollars of product every month,

WITHOUT having to figure out how to get paid, or qualifying for pay,

WITHOUT spending hours and hours recruiting, and

WITHOUT spending hours and hours of training and encouraging others

Why I joined KiSS Identity" as soon as I found out...

1. It will be affordable... $10 for the first and every monthly order.

2. No games in the compensation plan...it is simple and rewarding

There will be no requirements beyond the $10.00 per month to qualify to be paid on all the people in your organization down to the total depth of the plan. : $1 first level... $0.50 levels 2-9. No limits on width and no width requirements to be paid on depth. The plan is simple and deep. Barriers to entry are thereby eliminated and barriers to retention are destroyed. (Want to see something fun? Do the math on an organization 3 wide on all 9 levels and see what your income could be!)

Additionally there are some very significant bonuses added when you build the brand bigger. See the brand builder bonus, where you earn monthly shares of an additional 10% pool.

3. Products that are fun and don't have to be defended or explained.

Over the years marketing people have had to exaggerate, falsify, embellish or just make up stories to sell their products. And even if the claims are true, you have to be able to understand and explain them. KiSS Identity" will be marketing fun, everyday, consumable products with a zing or twist to enhance the emotional experience of using those products.

4. The marketing will be done with the latest technology. The goal: TO HAVE FUN!

5. It pays to be involved.

The sooner you start the sooner you get rewarded. Earlier you get in the greater the reward for your efforts. You can build a business no matter when you get involved. BUT, the simple truth is, the earlier you get in the fewer existing distributors you run into. There will be fewer people that you contact that will have already joined or looked at your business opportunity.

6. The business philosophy.

We will be cooperating in the development of a KiSS Identity" brand name. The business model, compensation plan and marketing strategy are all centered on management and distributors working together to use modern technology to accelerate word of mouth marketing at a faster rate of growth. The things that stop people from joining, make people quit or cause people to fail have been removed.

Will Apple kill off the iPod Classic?

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:50:00 -0500

If you've read the stories on Apple's latest earnings, you may have noticed that Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer took the time to break out the sales of each model in the iPod franchise, which is seeing year-over-year declines for the first time in its history. In her piece, our own Erica Ogg wrote:

"During the third quarter, Apple sold 10.2 million iPods, compared with 11 million a year ago. It turns out that the shifting appeal of the Shuffle, Nano, and Classic model iPods are to blame. But Apple apparently saw this coming." She then goes on to quote Oppenheimer, who says those declining sales are "the reason we developed the iPod Touch. We expect our traditional MP3 players to decline over time as we cannibalize ourselves with iPod Touch and iPhone."

As rumors continue to circulate that Apple will introduce new iPod models this fall (as it traditionally has), the big question is whether the iPod Classic becomes the odd iPod out. In a recent MP3 Insider podcast, CNET editor Donald Bell points out that orders for new Samsung hard drives that would go into an updated Classic appear to be nonexistent, according to Ars Technica and Apple Insider. And shortly after the earnings were posted, TechCrunch writer MG Seigler asked whether the iPod as we know it is dying.

The prevailing bet among iPod followers is that the Classic may stick around for a little while, but it probably won't be upgraded and will be quietly put out to pasture. The fact is that the iPod Touch offers a lot more functionality and, most importantly, it can run iPhone apps, which people find appealing, and they generate revenue for Apple.

Of course, there's a lot of folks out there who need a high-capacity iPod to store all their tunes and videos. The Classic remains a pretty decent value from the standpoint of a storage player, and we're seeing great deals on refurbished fifth-generation video iPods. If indeed Apple comes out with a 64GB iPod Touch this fall--as we expect it to--it will still cost quite a bit more than a 120GB iPod Classic. And that will keep Classic owners clinging to their antique iPods.

Personally, I hope Apple keeps the Classic around until the prices for flash memory drop enough to make a high-capacity Touch affordable. But I have a feeling the Classic will be gone by then. source>>>

Scareware's pitches for fake security showing up everywhere on the Internet

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:26:00 -0500

Scareware has become the scourge of the Internet.

Those deceptive promotions crafted to panic you into spending $30 to $80 for worthless antivirus protection can hit you just about anywhere you turn on the Web. They arrive as booby-trapped Web links in e-mail and social network messages. They lurk hidden, and set to activate, when you click to popular, legitimate websites.

And now scareware purveyors are embedding triggers in places you wouldn't expect: on advertisements displayed at mainstream media websites; amid search results from Google, Yahoo Search and Windows Live search; alongside comments posted on YouTube videos; and, most recently, in "tweets" circulating on Twitter.

"Scareware is becoming a dominating force," says Joe Stewart, director of SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit. "There are hundreds of criminals using every tactic they can think of to push these programs."

a trigger and you'll get caught in an unnerving loop impossible to abort. A scanner window will appear with red-letter warnings listing viruses purportedly infesting your hard drive. A series of dialogue boxes will follow giving you choices that all lead to the same screen: a sales pitch.

Make the purchase, and you get a bogus inoculation. Try to cancel it, and you'll get repeated offers. "It's like stepping into quicksand," says Paul Royal senior researcher at security firm Purewire. "The more you try to get out of it, the deeper you sink."

Scareware has been a prominent part of the Internet since 2004, when a cybergang based in St. Petersburg, Russia, launched the iframecash.biz website and began offering commissions to anyone who helped them spread the SpySheriff fake antivirus program. Hackers began to taint legitimate websites so that pop-up ads for SpySheriff would launch on the PC of anyone who visited a corrupted Web page.

That simple arrangement has evolved into a steadily growing industry that marked a banner year in 2008. By late last year, more than 9,200 different types of scareware programs were circulating on the Internet, up from 2,800 at midyear, according to The Anti-Phishing Working Group. Microsoft recently reported that scareware infections rose 48% in the second half of 2008 vs. the first half. Microsoft analyzed data collected by use of its Malicious Software Removal Tool and found one specific fake security program on 4.4 million PCs.

"These guys are very innovative," says Roel Schouwenberg, senior virus researcher at Kaspersky Lab. "They're constantly looking for newer and easier ways to make money."

Cutting-edge scareware marketing campaigns are being delivered via:

-YouTube and Twitter. The bad guys sign up for a handful of new YouTube or Twitter accounts. In the case of YouTube, crooks recently used about a dozen new accounts to begin posting comments on 30,000 videos, says Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs. The comments enticed users to click on a link that triggered a scareware promotion.

In a variation of this ploy, crooks in late May created new Twitter accounts and began broadcasting tweets declaring "Best video" with a Web link of http://juste.ru, says Schouwenberg. Clicking on the link launched a sequence that replicated the message to everyone on the victim's friends list, then launched a scareware promo.

-Search results. The bad guys create malicious Web pages and fill them with words and phrases that are likely to be popular search queries, such as "American Idol winner" or "NCAA tournament bracket," says Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO of security firm Finjan. Next they insert tiny copies of their bad links on popular, legit websites that don't do a thorough job of preventing such hacks.

"Search engine optimization" then takes over. SEO is the technology that determines the relevance of Web links to search queries. By embedding a malicious link on a popular website, the hackers imbue their Web page with high relevance. So when the legit site turns up as the No. 1 or No. 2 result for a popular search query, their bad link turns up as the No. 4 or No. 6 result. Anyone who clicks on the bad link gets a scareware pitch.

-Online ads. The bad guys purchase blocks of ad space on popular websites through a legit ad agency, says Roger Thompson, senior researcher at AVG. Next they instruct the ad agency to begin posting innocuous ads. To avoid detection, they only sporadically feed a corrupted ad into the mix. The bad ad looks safe, but carries instructions to route anyone who clicks to a scareware pitch. "It's the most common attack we see every day," Thompson says.

Mind-boggling profits

Powerful incentives undergird scareware. Security researchers say the industry is run by no more than a dozen or so top-level suppliers orchestrating the activity of several hundred "affiliate" distributors.

The top-level groups supply bogus scanners and cleanup tools -- actual software -- and collect payments and pay commissions. Bonuses can be generous. One top supplier, for instance, recently ran a contest offering a $36,000 Lexus sedan to the top-selling affiliate, says F-Secure senior researcher Mikko Hypponen.

"The top-level groups incentivize the affiliates and don't get their hands dirty," says Hypponen. "If they get any complaints, they can just blame the affiliate."

Top-level groups typically work with 100 or more affiliates, who can earn commissions many different ways. Last fall, SecureWorks researcher Stewart infiltrated a Russian group known as the Baka Software gang. He accessed documentation showing one affiliate earned $146,525 in 10 days by spreading promotions for a worthless program, called Antivirus XP 2008, to more than 154,000 people, and closing sales to 2,772 of them. Another record showed five top Baka Software affiliates earning weekly commissions averaging $107,604.

"The sheer amounts of money involved in installing just one rogue program are mind-boggling," Stewart says.

A few scareware affiliates have been slowed by regulators. Last fall, Microsoft and Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna filed civil lawsuits against Branch Software, of The Woodlands, Texas, and Alpha Red, of Houston, charging that they were marketing scareware. And last December, the Federal Trade Commission obtained court orders prohibiting Innovative Marketing, of Belize, and ByteHosting Internet Services, of Cincinnati, from selling WinFixer, WinAntivirus, DriveCleaner, ErrorSafe, and XP Antivirus, all worthless.

The top-level suppliers, however, continue to operate with impunity, mainly based in Russia. And new affiliates crop up every day, full of fresh ideas to spread increasingly invasive promotions, security researchers say. source>>>