Metaltec Printer Can Make 3D Printing

A company using a technology developed over 10 years ago by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows it to make anything from a computer-aided design plan and turn it into a 3D product.

Early this year at the International Builders Show in Las Vegas, MetalTec Innovations, a division of Irwin-based ProMetal/Ex One Company, let visitors see what their finished product looked like after it has seemingly been cast in metal.

In this case the unique process is much quicker, doing in about 10 hours what traditional casting methods took from weeks to months to do.

What’s the criteria for being able to make a product? If it can be scanned as a virtual object, it can be made.

Because potential customers have had a hard time figuring out what the technology could do, the company focused on hardware to begin with and has moved into other products as people see their finished work.

Using a revolutionary printing process, artists there are able to take any computer-aided design plan and -- in a perfect marriage of art and math -- turn it into a solid, three-dimensional product.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09087/958816-30.stm

Ribbon Rows Necklaces

Ribbon necklaces from Danish fashion accessories designer Kantine. It’s a brilliantly simple and stylish piece of jewelry made from rows of satin. They come in different colors and you can choose between either one or two rows on your string.

I really like the look of the single row in multi colors, but then again, the black satin with two rows is also really pretty and classic. Oh no, can’t decide. Perhaps best to get both!

They are available for purchase online at the amazing artrebels site.

Make Money Online Real Deal

The last few days I have been involved in a bit of a controversy. It started off as a poorly done review (mine) of a product - I'll get to that in a minute. What it turned out to be was a master class in SEO and Adsense. I decided to make this hub which consists of snippets from the comments because around 167 comments in, I joke not, it became a complete master class which most beginners should see - and many won't because before that it had got really quite nasty and long and most people would have stared skipping.

Some of you may not be familiar with the jargon: I'll add a list of common abbreviations at the bottom of this post - if I've missed one just ask in the comments.

Make Money Online and Link Bait

The short version:

• I made a review - it included factual errors
• I was slammed by the owner of the product involved - that was actually fair enough
• He brought in the "Rapid Response Team" - to basically shut me up with threats of law suits and cancer (I am not joking). I call them trolls.
• I don't scare easily but I got angry. I really don't like bullies.
• I have some friends - they got mad to.
• The people who came to my aid all helped in their own way - the net result is that if you search for "Site Build It Review" or "Site Build It Scam" - you will find something other than scophantic affiliate sites.

The long version of what happened to to my Site Build It Review post is here.

This hub is not about free speech and the Internet - though it could have been. This hub is about how to really make money on the Internet. If you are struggling and frustrated and thinking that you are missing something, you probably are. But you don't need to spend money to learn from a guru - I know the best on the net - and all this information is available for free.

This is not even about link bait - the original post wasn't link bait because I didn't write it as such - it just turned out to be - getting "lucky" is not the same as planning something so I am not claiming that one either

SEO And Adsense

One of the supporters "yourmom" posted:

"If you want to see some SBI sites that make $10K+ month, check out: http://www.vacuumwizard.com For example, vacuumwizard ranks #3 on Google for the term "vacuum cleaners" (#1 and #2 are Dyson's and Eureka's homepages). Could these guys have done it without SBI and saved $200/yr? Maybe. When you're making $100k/$200k per year with affiliate programs with a single domain, do you really care about saving $200/yr on hosting?"

Now I think "yourmom" is not the owner of this site - she quoted a couple of others. I think she has fallen for the usual crap - that people quote unbelievable figures with authority and if they do it eloquently enough - they are believed. I'm not making fun of "yourmom" - she is hardly the first - unfortunately quoting these figures to experts is a really, really bad idea.

Now Vic was in fine, BloggerUnleashed, Make Money Online form, now and responded with (edited a bit to avoid the BAD words!):

"Real internet marketers make money from quality targeted traffic we do not give a about the high numbers we look at the stats to determine what actual keywords that you can monetize makes it worth it.

Again noob, Twitter has more traffic than most sites online but yet they just can not make money from the traffic because it is unmonetizable traffic. But I guess I am expecting to much from a noob to understand. LMAO!!!

Yourmom please tell me you have an original though and not the typical cookie cutter sales copy you have been fed at SBI? I actually give conferences on this subject so please again tell me you have something real for me LMAO!! BTW: I will probably be giving a conference on organic traffic and the needs and requirements to be able to make that into money in this years Blogging Expo You are welcome to come and learn something LMAO!!!"

Now "yourmom" is not be deterred and quotes these figures: which are what you will get if you do the research yourself: Vacuumwizard.com ranks #2 for "vacuum cleaner" and "vacuum cleaners" Those terms, according to google's keyword tool, get a combined average monthly search of more than 1.3 million, at an average CPC of $2.50 or so. Vacuumwizard is on the first page of google for "dyson vacuum cleaner" which gets 110,000 average monthly searches with a CPC of $2.80.

I'm liking "yourmom" by now cause she is actually thinking and arguing not just regurgitating preformed stuff. She reports that the owner of the site claims to make $15k/month from that site alone she adds " Maybe he's lying...but the numbers are what they are regarding the niche and his site's rankings within the niche"

Now I have the advantage here I know the Grizz and Vic are both subscribed to the comments - quite frankly I am now under the bridge with the troll, just pushing the "approve comment" button and waiting for Armageddon.

Make Money with Grizz

I may get done for duplicate content for this long quote - so be it - its worth repeating verbatim. If you think you could learn how to make money with Adsense from Grizz for free click on that link!

"Your Mom": Vacuum cleaners... lol. An oil filter keyword. A term searched by people who don't know how to define what they are looking for.

Once the serp page opens they realize that what is on the page isn't what they are looking for and type a new query like "how to fix my hoover" and then "who fixes hoover vacuum cleaners in timbuctoo". People don't buy vacuum cleaners online. They don't click ads either. The site you mention is a splog, poorly optimized for Adsense and the CPC you quoted would net a content ad 5 - 10 cents a click.

People type "cars" into Google all the time and then stop and think about what they are really looking for and then narrow down the search.

How do I know Vacuum cleaners is useless keyword? Look at the competing pages. Only 8 million. Lol. I could outrank that site in a month. There is no competition because there is no money in it - if there were IMers would be all over it and the competition would be in the hundreds of millions.

The site you mentioned is ranked number 1 in my DC based on 130 backlinks with so-so anchors. Anybody with a hint of SEO skills could outrank it in short order.

The "make money online" keyword has 244 million competing pages and there is a reason for that. Which keyword do you think is easier to rank for? Vacuum Cleaners or Make Money online.

The MMO keyword also has hundreds of related terms that people search for including "Money" with 3,000,000 searches a month. Vacuum cleaner only has 300,000 useful searches (targeted us visitors) and 4500 (targeted Canadian visitors) per month - the figure you used is worldwide and the advertisers will only be charged pennies for clicks from any other destination outside N. America.

Of the 300,000 searches 75% will never get past the Adsense ads on the serp page - they will click those or re-define their query. The remaining 25% will click through to the top site - see it and back out. Less than 1% will ever click through to ebay (and not buy) just curious and 1% of that 1% may make it below the fold and maybe click a 5 cent adsense ad.

That site would be lucky to make a few hundred bucks a month and I am being generous. You have been spoon fed the notion that all traffic is equal. It isn't and you haven't been taught how to do real research regarding keywords.

The term "how to make" gets 20 million searches a month. Another useless term to rank for - the searcher quickly realizes that they haven't defined the search and narrows it down on the next search.

The worst part of you trying to impress us is that it is obvious to those of us who dominate niches that have competition that SBI doesn't teach any of you about real SEO or monetization principles.

Those sites you use are cookie cutter, poorly optimized and show no understanding of how to funnel traffic to the money click. The content is thin and verge on splogs. You have yet to produce a site that ranks well in a competitive niche and based on what you think is research I don't think you know what a real competitive niche is.

Why is that? Search numbers are estimates that are rarely accurate - I know as I hold the number 1 spot in dozens of competitive niches. You think PR has any relevance? Huh? To what? Let the fact that my PR0 site ranks number 2 for a term that has 244 million other pages competing with me sink in. Do you know who I outrank for that term?

All your high PR gurus like Steve Pavlina and Darren Rowse and John Chow and every other blogger that sells crap to noob readers. The kind of crap that you must have read in order to think that PR matters.

You show no knowledge of "targeted search traffic" or "anchored backlinks" - why is that? You quoted CPC estimates and didn't know that those are just estimates and that they only apply to "sponsored ads" on Google's own serp's. Content ads get 25% or less on your site and then only for targeted converting clicks coming from N.American visitors. (in most cases as the advertisers are targeting those visitors) All other visitors will produce pennies. The CPC you quoted will translate into pennies on the content ads on that site.

Btw - I have several sites in that niche and know the real CPC and CTR for targeted visitors to specific related keywords (I didn't bother with a generic term like Vacuum cleaners lol) and there is no money in it. And you spend $300 a year for a canned splog, learn the basic SEO BS found in garbage ebooks and are trying to tell the rest of us that it is worth it. Maybe you should read my blog and find out how to take a free blogspot blog and make 6-7 k a month with it - or make 30k a month with several of them.

Oh and for free. Stop trying to impress us - you only show your lack of knowledge and give people like Vic and I fodder - and trust me on this - we are going easy on you.

Grizz runs a real world fishing lodge and his own money making niche empire. He also spends considerable time teaching people how to make money with Adsense - apparently people don't get it because he gives the information away for free - go figure - I can't!

Buying Traffic and Keywords

So now you know probably a lot more about buying traffic than you used to.

Analyse A Sites Profit Potential with Adsense

But keep reading because then Vic added a video explanation of CPC Click and Adsense Pricing - the video format isn't supported here but please do yourself a huge favour and listen to this 30 minute video. The title is misleading -the first part of the video will explain to you how to work out what money a site is making - the second part may change your attitude to making money online.

I don't believe in much - but Vic is one person I do believe in pretty much unquestioningly - and its because of videos like this. The guy can't write for shit - he's the first to admit it but as a speaker he's amazing, but more than amazing he actually speaks about stuff he knows.He talks about not only why the above exampled is flawed and the figures almost certainly bullshit- he explains what takes to make real money online.

Grizz is a big friend of mine - but he's never met me and I've never paid him a dime: we are all lined up to buy his e-book - but the bugger can't be bothered writing it!

The simple reason that Grizz (Make Money)and Vic (Make Money - Video mainly) are believable and authorative in terms of make money online, is simple. They don't make money from their "make money online sites" - in fact Vic it costs him - at the amount of traffic he gets hosting is a little more than $5/month.

Next time you are considering a new make money online guru, ebook or video course, consider this: how is this person making money? Is he teaching me how he/she makes money or is he making money from teaching me?

SEO Abbreviations - and I few others

CLR - click through rate - percentage of visitors who will click the ad.

CPC - cost per click - how much Google charges the Adsense advertiser

DS - data centre - Google has different servers around the world so google search results vary a little depending on where you are searcing from.

LMAO - laughing my arse off; like more than LOL

SBI - Site Build It - don't buy it :-)

PR -Page Rank - a figure from 0 to 10 (best) that google assigns to every webpage

SERPS - Search Engine
Results PageS

Burn Calories by wearing Underwear

Lose that ugly body fat by wearing clothes that scrape it away! The more you move, the more you lose! New from Japan, it’s Nanofront. Nanofront is a polyester originally designed to polish industrial tools, but now the makers of Nanofront offer it to you for scraping away at your body.

Did anybody see the new TV show “Better Off Ted” where the chairs were so uncomfortable that people squirmed their way to higher productivity? Art imitates life.

The fabric is based on a polyester nanofiber, which is supposedly very soft and was first made public by Teijin last year. Usually, the so-called Nanofront fibers are used for industrial polishing cloths and are just 700 nanometers in diameter (a strand of hair is 7,500 times thicker). Teijin claims that people who have worn the Nanofront underwear in experiments for 40 consecutive days lowered their body fat by “several percent” and consequently reduced waist size by several centimeters.

http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/03/20/new-underwear-burns-body-fat-when-worn/

Ways To Invest and Make Money In Stock Mark

The Stock Market

The economy these days seems to be constantly declining. Everyone is asking the same questions; "how can I make more money," "how will I survive financially," "what should I do with my money, who can I trust?"

The economy is bad, but you can still thrive in it. You have to be smart with your money, contrary to what many believe the stock market is still a great place to invest as long as you know how.

Who To Choose

With all the financial scams and government bailouts spreading around, how can you know who to invest in?

To start with, you want to invest in companies that are well known and are not likely to crash. The companies you pick don't have to be large, million dollar, businesses, and they don't need to be centuries old. You should think of companies that you believe will be able to thrive even in this economy.

Do some research

You can see a company's previous stock levels. Look for patterns and trends that seem to repeat each year.

A company like Hershey probably hits it's peak during holidays like easter and halloween.

Many stocks change according to the season.

When you buy a stock you should make a chart that shows how much you paid for the stock and update it every week or even every day and track your profit/loss so you'll know when to sell.

A Stock Market Minute

Notice I said the "companies" you choose. You should invest small amounts of money in many companies. Don't throw all your money into one hole. That hole might grow quickly, but remember it can disappear completely in a stock market minute!

Don't spend it all in one place

If you invest in several companies and one of your stocks crashes, at least you still have others. That is why you should split up your assets.

Also, invest in small amounts at first until you learn the market better.

How Long To Invest

You also need to decide if you want to invest short term or long term. If you are looking to make money now, you'll want short term.

Short term is where you find cheap stocks that are likely to rise in the next few weeks. You may only make a small profit, but you take the profit and invest it along with your capital and after a while you have doubled your money and then you double it again, again, again, etc.

Long term investing can take several years, but may pay out better in the long run. Also you don't have to keep finding new investments, you pick a few to invest in, buy more shares every month or so, and cash in after a year or more.

The Wild Stock Market Roller Coaster

When you buy into the stock market you hop on a roller coaster, hold on!

Sometimes the ride will go lower, sometimes it will peak out.

Don't get discouraged if the stock drops lower than when you bought it, wait it out until it rises again. Many people will take a small loss because they are afraid that it will drop lower. Often times a stock will drop, drop, drop and then rise, rise, rise, rise, rise!!! Be patient.

And of course, when you get to the top SELL SELL SELL!!!

It is a very wild ride, but if you strap yourself in and wait it out you may find yourself rolling in dough!

Invest

These tips will help you learn to invest, and make money, in the stock market.

Just remember:

-Invest small amounts
-Research well known companies
-Buy low
-Sell high
-Have fun!

Undulating Plywood Materials

Henrique Oliveira’s eco art is comprised of plywood he sourced primarily from Sao Paulo dumpsters. The undulating forms are impressive, both in their size and overall aesthetic. Since most of the plywood comes from fences that have been dismantled, Oliveira’s pieces are insights into both urban decay and the spirit of reuse.

The first four images come from Oliveira’s ‘Tapumes’ exhibition at the Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas; the remainder are from Henrique Oliveira’s past collections.

From Sao Paulo Dumpsters

College Entrepreneur Pro or NOT

Man oh man! What Pandora’s box have I opened? I’ve been out of touch with business for thirty years! How can that be you ask? Well, when you are a dedicated teacher, and spend all your time since graduating high school in a classroom, it is easy.

I recently, in the last year and a half, have ventured outside of my classroom because someone shared something so powerful with me that I had to get involved. I am still teaching full-time, which makes becoming an entrepreneur in this arena challenging.

I am literally reeling with all the: join my social site, be an affiliate for that, get free info here, follow me I’m the mastermind, There will never be a better time, DO it now, cash funnels, too good to be true?, Hurry time is wasting, and Last chance offers hitting my in-box daily since awakening the internet and allowing it into my universe.

Not having been part of corporate America, ever, has been an eye opener for me. Many people ask me, “How do you work with those children day in and day out, year in and year out?” Well, I have to ask a similar question. How do you work with the incredibly frustrating masses that you come into contact with on a daily basis? I never realized people could be, and are, so rude, self-serving, and manipulative. Of course I am not speaking of any of my followers but rather, of those whom I try to educate and SLAM me for my efforts. I guess I have been blessed to have escaped this genre of the population for as long as I have, but now I must move in and among those whom I wish to help. I have supported my community for thirty years. Even when my own family moved away, I stayed in order to help the children and families with special needs. I would never do anything to mar my professional name in the education field yet some people actually think I would try to run a scam on them. I’m afraid I just don’t get it. I’ve even taken extra classes in personality traits and read How to Win Friends and Influence Enemies.

Not having a ‘warm’ market has forced me into Cold calling, approaching strangers, and attempting to ‘BRAND’ myself on the internet through social media and networking sites. Okay, I’m not a financial wizard, a real estate mogul, a retail sales or on-line marketing guru, but I do have true value to offer my clients and I know my product and its service benefits like the back of my hand because I walk the walk.

I have immersed myself in valuable training in order to be an expert in presenting myself and my products available services. I am prepared to teach others how to duplicate the system and create sales for themselves. Bottom line: If you would like to see if I can help you or someone you know contact me for an on-line appointment. The analysis is free. You will only lose about 1 hour of your time but may lose all of your debt as a result of that free analysis. You owe it to yourself and your family to take advantage of my opportunity. If it isn’t right for you, then at least you will have made a friend and we can part on those terms. If it is the answer to your prayers, as it was for me, then we can continue on and build a lasting relationship and celebrate with each other every time we see the power of my product at work for you.

Making Sense of Adsense in Quick Easy

The Google Adsense program is a main online income source. It truly is really simple to use and is minimal in upkeep and maintenance which is perfect for online businesses.

The best way to get started using Adsense is with a blog. You start a blog and write about something you are very interested in. That makes it easy to write multiple entries about the same subject. Your blog should focus on one theme. In other words, don't create a blog or site and add multiple interests or hobbies on the same site. Create one blog or site per interest. For example, let's say you love dog breeding and you also love sky diving. You would not combine your two interests on one blog. That confuses your theme and you would not get proper adsense ads targeting from Google based on your content.

Google owns Blogger and of course, it is ready to go with Adsense right out of the chute. All you have to do is sign up for a Google Adsense account number to plug into the system.

If you don't like the idea of using Blogger, you can buy a domain for your theme (like www.JaniceLovesDogs.com) and start a blog using a free blog software like Wordpress. You need to be just a little more tech-savvy in order to set up your software the way you want it on a server, but it is worth it since you actually own your site and you can sell your site later, if you want to. But you probably won't want to after you build up your content, traffic and sales from Google Adsense!

Adsense is pretty straightforward.

Google has a database of content that is based on what people post on their websites. In order to determine what a website is about, Google uses a series of techniques that basically counts the related terms on a website based on repetition of the terms and the definition or correlation of those terms.

Google also knows what popular search terms people use when searching for products, services or information. They maintain a database of this information also. When words or specific phrases are popular and used a lot, these are described as "key words" and "key phrases'.

When Google wanted to start a program to make money for Google, they came up with Adsense. They sell the popular key words and key phrases to the highest bidders.

In order to advertise these ads, they started showing the ads on search engine results pages when average web users searched for those terms. In order to make even more money, Google decided to expand their ability to make money. The ads would be allowed on web sites that had content the same as the key word ads so that visitors to the individual websites would see ads that were relevant to what they were looking for on the website.

Google established a huge presence on a good number of the websites across the globe by establishing the Adsense program. The program is much more far-reaching than just displaying the ads on Google search engine search results pages.

The Mechanics of Google Adsense

1. You sign up for a Google Adsense Account and you are assigned an account number.
2. You establish a site or a blog that will serve your content and your Google Adsense.
3. You log in to your Google account and pick the Google ad structure you would like to display (horizontal, or column, number of ads to show, colors, etc.) and Google then generates a code for you to paste into your web page(s).
4. After you add the code, Google may take a few hours or so to scan and "experience" the type of content on your site so that it can match ads to compliment that content. For instance, if you have a camping site, Google would perhaps send Adsense ads that Coleman bought or ads that a tent manufacturer bought to be displayed for the users on your site.
5. If someone clicks on an ad on your site - you make a percentage of the ad price paid by the advertiser to Google. Google shares their ad sale with you because you are helping them to distribute the ads to targeted, interested potential customers.

Sell Rice with Anime

It seems Japan uses manga cartoons to sell just about anything—including food!

My good friend Danny Choo is traveling again, but before he left he served up a nice bowl of Manga packaged rice. This proves how the colorful cartoon characters are so pervasive in the land of the rising sun. The one kilo package was decorated in illustrations by Tsudotei. As it says on his website, (Google translation) “The taste is confident!

With a beautiful bag, I want to taste the delicious AKITAKOMACHI.

Bamboo Hand Carved Bugs

Available at Tortoise Life, Bamboo Insects are hand carved bugs made from tiger print bamboo. The bamboo insects may be one of the first decent examples of fake bugs as art.

There are five different bamboo bugs available at a cost between $55 and $85 per bug. You can also buy a bamboo cage to trap your fake little friends.