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We’ve also created a new feed for XavierForum.com so you can subscribe to the latest posts about PHP, CGI, web design and other webmaster related stuff. The direct link to the feed is feed.xaviermedia.com/XavierForum

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ArticleFinders.com
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Entrecard Contests
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The Antivirus Bug

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Popularity: 18% [?]

Nouveau Riche (or “new rich”) is French for a person that earned all his money during his own life. It’s not enough with just money to qualify, you have to have made a fortune during the time of your own generation

Sounds hard, but a lot of people have succeeded and CNN got a long article about Nouveau Riche people which proves that if you got an excellent idea for a new service or product you should go for it since there’s a chance you may succeed (and also end up on the CNN list ). The requirements for the list are a bit of seed money, a little business savvy, and a great big appetite for adventure. Which means that that’s also what you need to succeed . You will need a lot of appetite for adventures, because otherwise you wont believe in your idea enough to dare to start your own company.

An example of a person that built his own fortune is Chung Ju-Yung from Korea who started Hyundai with just a grade-school education. He was especially aggressive overseas and was the first Korean to build bridges in Alaska, housing in Guam and highways in Thailand. So to succeed you need to do thing no one else has done before.

Another example is the, maybe, most famous man in the world Bill Gates. Gates and his friend Paul Allen founded the software giant Microsoft in 1975 after dropping out from Harvard. Like Ju-Yung they show that you don’t need to graduate from a fine school, just to have a good idea and to dare to do something with it instead of saving your ideas on your desk….

Check out the CNN article about Nouveau Riche.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Every month about 3 million people visit a site and directory called DexKnows.com according to Compete.com:

This is impressive since just from the name DexKnows.com it’s impossible to know that it’s actually a Yellow Pages,Phone Book,Online Directory and business search engine making it easy for users to find for example restaurants in Las Vegas. The name may not be the only thing for a successful site since the name Google doesn’t say anything about search engines either . So this must mean that people actually like their site and their directory.

Their web site design looks OK to me, but they should do something about the search results. Instead of listing all the results as a long list with really small text they should make it more easily to overview (and of course maybe in a little bit bigger text ).

Since they got the entire US covered when it comes to phone numbers and businesses you can easily search for City+Yellow Pages, City+Phone Book for any city you like. Like for example Las Vegas Hotels. The downside with their search form is that you have to select a city which means that you need to know the city where the company you’re looking for is located. In these Internet days you can use any company you like for most services you need, so you don’t have to order from a company in the same city as you’re in .

I was however able to find a used car dealer in Miami including a nice map so I can figure out which on is located nearest my current location .As a bonus you can also rate the companies listed in the search results, so if you find a really good company you can give them 5 stars to help other users find good help

At their site you can also download Yellow Pages Widget, Yellow Pages Gadget and add a search field to your own web site to make it easy for your own visitors to find what they need:

Popularity: 13% [?]

Entrecard.com was launched in the end of 2007 and got more and more members and visitors. If you just look at the graph from Compete you’ll see that they’ve increased the number of visitors every month since the start.

Entrecard has been ever since the start about visiting pages and “dropping” your on the sites you visit, but now it looks like Entrecard will start punishing members for dropping. We know since before that if you drop to quickly you will get punished by removal of credits from your account, but now you may also get punished by dropping on certain pages. This is from the email sent to all Entrecard members:

Additionally, members dropping on “quick drop pages” may start receiving stiff credit penalties for every drop they do on quick drop pages, as it is not a visit to a blog and thus an illegal drop.

How do you as a dropper know if the site you drop your card on is not accepted within the Entrecard community? You can’t really for sure do that. Of course you can avoid dropping at the pages with just the Entrecard widget, but how do you know that the page you drop at got enough content to be accepted within the community? You can’t! Because of this I will for sure stop dropping at all sites to ensure that I don¨’t get punished.

Entrecard earlier this month announced that they wont accept religious organizations any more. All these changes to the TOS is fine with me, but they won’t give the users any chance to adapt to the changes i.e. they announce the changes just a few days before they are valid which means that members will get banned because they didn’t have time to adapt to the changes. This way Entrecard is instable like a dictatorship, the laws can change over night and what’s legal one day may be illegal the next without any chance of appeal. This will of course make the members tired and soon people will leave the sinking ship……

Another of Grahams projects is the MillionDollarWiki.com. If you don’t remember it I’m not exactly surprised since I can hardly remember it any more….. It’s anyway  a wiki where you pay $100 for a page you can later resell (you can by the way get a free page at the much bigger wiki AboutUs.org if you just register your own domain name). As soon as MillionDollarWiki.com got enough sign ups the traffic dropped a lot making your invested $100 almost worthless. Just take a look at the Compete graph for MillionDollarWiki.com:

Dictatorships that change the rules over night and the history with Grahams earlier projects show us that Entrecard will hardly last. I’m really surprised that if they are still as popular as they where in May in the end of 2009. They may still exist like Blogrush, but at the declining part of the traffic graphs…..

Popularity: 81% [?]

I’ve just created a temporary summer headquarter for Xavier Media so that we can stay at the office even during the most wounderful summer days . With a good WiFi network you can work virtually anywhere and still access servers, printers and data at the winter office while you enjoy the fantastic weather outside. Just check out this picture of the summer HQ:

Just to make sure we don’t feel too lost I’ve also added the Xavier Media logo:

Popularity: 58% [?]

Today’s most popular search in Google is “green apple festival”. According to Google it got it’s peak about 2 hours ago and is extremely popular search in Washington, DC, so it must be a local festival. By searching in Google I found out that it must be about the Green Apple Music Festival at greenapplemusicfestival.com. Unfortunately the site looked down when I tried to access it so I wasn’t able to figure out anything more about the festival

Search results from Google Trends:

Popularity: 73% [?]

• lovoe #

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• @TheCuso Cool! Let me know how it’s working out. #
• @joetech TwitterTech invite, please #

Popularity: 77% [?]

• Oh my God, I jost got an email from Twitter that Problogger is following me #
• I’ve just started using Twhirl Let’s see how it’s working #
• @88michael Why oh why!!!! Are you using IE Change to Firefox instead. #
• @shoemoney No absolutely not. I think that’s easy enough to get a lot of response, but hard enough to be a lottery. I like the idea. #
• @johncow Is it possible to do that for a service? I was under the impression that only worked for products….. #

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• Party classics on the web radio #

Popularity: 71% [?]