Does somebody have experience with GoBIG network?

Because of the modeling portfolio site that I plan to launch I started to look for investors and I got across gobig. One time fee would be $176 and there are investors with bucks. I just need some accessories and a studio place to lease for which I have no budget at the moment. I’m not sure if these networking sites really work are they are just waste of time. I registered anyway for free, but to list anything I need to upgrade my account. Is it worthwile? Does it pay back? Any ideas how to get investors into new startups?

YouTube turns to green for St Patrick’s day

St Patrick’s day is everything Irsih and everything green and YouTube to it’s common habit changed it’s logo to reflect that idea. I don’t like this catholic stupidism, but I understand now why the logo turned to green (See YouTube logo turns to green – fool me once).

Saint Patrick’s Day (Irish: Lá ’le Pádraig or Lá Fhéile Pádraig), colloquially St. Paddy’s Day or simply Paddy’s Day, is an annual feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick (circa AD 385–461), one of the patron saints of Ireland, and is generally celebrated on March 17.

The day is the national holiday of Ireland. It is a bank holiday in Northern Ireland and a public holiday in the Republic of Ireland and Montserrat. In Canada, Great Britain, Australia, the United States, and New Zealand, it is widely celebrated but is not an official holiday.

Saint Patrick’s Day is celebrated worldwide by the those of Irish descent and increasingly by non-Irish people (usually in New Zealand, Australia, and North America). Celebrations are generally themed around all things Irish and, by association, the colour green. Both Christians and non-Christians celebrate the secular version of the holiday by wearing green, eating Irish food and/or green foods, imbibing Irish drink (such as Irish stout, Irish Whiskey or Irish Cream) and attending parades. – Wikipedia

That’s the common culture, the common devil. Just check YouTube.com and you’ll see.

Very bad if you can’t delete your account

You finally decided not to use the service you signed up any longer because, because… there are lots of reasons. And you finally want to delete your account but you can’t. You get angry and hot while navigating through the menu – and those who who have long and strong nerve the FAQ section – finally you find nothing. So you log out. FULL ARTICLE +

What are the WordPress subscriber benefits

Sorry for my late posting again, I had to move once again, ISP change etc. Days lasted I went through all my emails, packed out, packed in, cable out, cable in, horrible. Anyway, I’m back and that’s a good news. And you folks are awesome. You still read my articles and I realised some more subscribers to my not finished blog that gives me a push to write. Still, I was really wondering… Why on earth is good to be a subscriber, not to the RSS feed but to a WP blog.

So this is what I did, I signed up myself under barnabasnagy as a guest-subscriber and tried to look around what can I get there. Actually, I’ve set up 2 subscriber accounts already weeks ago and the only thing I found there is nude wordpress. FULL ARTICLE +

How to Use LinkedIn: invite with interaction

Social Networking is a seriously growing media on the web that catches the attention of both civil and business users and makes a totally new approach to how we interact with friends and colleagues. Previously, I wrote about my recent rediscovery of 2 sites: twitter and linkedin. I found both useful and I would like to tell you how I started to interact for my business needs on LinkedIn. FULL ARTICLE +

My Twitter trial – the “I like social media” tool

Twitter the microblogging site got my attention recently because I digged and mixxed more and more stories about how good it is for finding new friends and as a business tool. It was not my first time on posting tweets, no, but simply I did not get what on earth is good in twitter.

I’m not the kind of man to tell the world what time I go to poop. Don’t get me wrong, there are people really updating their twitter site with such nonsenses. From this you can see that the public usues twitter as social uniform to tell the world “what are they doing”. As I said I’m not that kind of a guy and I find irritating making “friends” digital. I think life is real and people trend replacing that real with virtually real AKA Virtual Reality (VR).

Not agreed. Social Media or Social Networking is a good tool for businesses to harness, even for organizations, and of course for social interactions as well. But first of all not as a replacement of the reality and getting into the “social trance”.

So I did not send an “I go to poop” tweet as a test but “I liked your post about…” That’s the way I learnt to do it and it worked and still works. I’m not saying that you can’t add any private non-business related post – I also added recently “I eat orange” for my wife’s sake – but if you are business oriented you should focus on that part of the twitter myth that makes sense.

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LinkedIn rechecked: a good Business Social Media site

I found my profile again on LinkedIn work well to be expanded for a broader Business Venture tool. After my Twitter trial I got some invitations so therefore I got caught on LinkedIn and on my for-months-not-updated profile to update…

So overall, I liked what I saw, I found some new tools they implemented on the site like WordPress blog badge, Poll, Twitter Buzz etc – great tools. I joined some groups as well for the expectatinon to extend my business realtions.

Next to this I was keen on finding this little LinkedIn badge that I saw on several sites but have not found among the LinkedIn tool library. Bad on them! They should harness a bit more the Open Source internet. So after a short search I googled on this:  http://wp.gdragon.info/plugins/gd-linkedin-badge/ – and now you can will see on my site that tiny shiny icon on the right.

Are you Linked In? Let’s connect, here is my profile: link

A Future for JPG Magazine

I got an email some days ago titled: “A Future for JPG Magazine” and was wondering what it contains. You know I wrote about the marketing tactic of JPG Mag saying they are closing. Such cheaters! And now of course the good team of photographers saved the entire magazine and we can all enjoy JPG mag. I really wonder how much minus JPG was was for 8020 Media… I think they would not bag for food. The marketing and surviving technique worked out, but I’m not sure it is the right way to do it. FULL ARTICLE +

Delete 10 friends to eat Burger King Whopper

For sure you’ve heard about the big action of Burger King that tried to get some more clients and sell their whoppers. But what the hack is this? At the financial crisis you can eat only if you delete some friends? Is that normal?

This is like guerilla marketing like the one that happened in hungary last year. MTV hungary to launch their service put guitars into the neck of historic statues around the country making an indignation. I don’t know what is it good for but I don’t think that’s a good marketing strategy or advertisement. There are other ways than such a low profile ad.

I hate Burger King! And I think facebook does as well.

Can someone make me understand this article?

I have been watching people use various networks for years and for the average user their contributions and participations have multiple motivation factors. For the power user, the marketer, the brand, or the promoter it seems clear to me that their goal, even though they don’t actually know it or define it as such, is to get to the broadcast position.

Clay Shirky talks about the broadcast position in his book “Here Comes Everybody”. In his breakdown of the power law distribution and the impact it has on communication Shirky talks about how conversations shift. FULL ARTICLE +

MTV plays me Britney Spears!

My apologies Mr MTV CEO I went to mtvmusic.com and it played me successfully Britney Spears – Circus Music Video. But, at that music video you did restricted me on Current! You probably give some content to everyone and some to the only race “American”. It was not funny, but Briney played well fullscreen.

The other thing I wanted to share with you guys, if there is one who reads me… that this despite the really good quality of the video Britney made me mad. Is that something like music? But really I’m musician – so called – check out lookingdoor.net What Britney does only is really Circus not more, have you heard of that “song” (they call it song) in what I don’t find and musical whatever melody or.. ok, I know sex sell well and that’s it. Right? Right? Pls be kind and answer me. Halo? Hey there!

MTV’s big socially free movement for music videos – hack inside

I was really pleased reading on Current that MTV puts every videos online. Yep, so I voted it up and got to play the music in the comment section. Hey, but none!!! Restricted to US users!!! Losers. We are here in EU and just because we live somewhere else than obama we are the sick youtubers and illegal downloaders. I’d stop the world for a second and take some minute finding to figure out who is the CEO chair in MTV, I could actually google it out within a sec but I don’t care. But I would tell him some words, I’m a polite guy so just like a polite guy.

So I assume that I’m not the only hack who finds this hack in the whole story and still sticks you youtube and joost rather than FULL ARTICLE +

I am an abuser of Tip’d

I got a nice email from a Tip’d moderator:

Hello,

This is a friendly warning from your Tipd moderator that your submissions about Zemanta have no value and do not relate to business or finance. Please keep your submissions on topic.

We reserve the right to terminate any accounts that continually use the social news site to promote their own blog with off-topic content. Please note that we will block barnabasnagy.com completely from our system and terminate your account if the submission pattern continues.

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Do you know the site by it’s logo?

This great quiz asks you this, how visually do you remember the names of the sites or services you use. In fact, we all have certain visual memory by what we associate things in the world such as websites. I got score 20/30 but I must say for my sake that only 1 or 2 I could not guess though logos were known to me, the rest of the services are mainly unknown for me. So have a check of your knowledge: How Web 2 are you?

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Hello world!

This is my first post and I wanted to tell you what I’m going to write about on this blog and first of all, why did I started it. I started this blog because on the blogs I have I feel a bit imprisoned to the topic of the blog, so I wanted to at least express myself in a variety of areas of life. Mostly in web design, media, graphics and such. I’m driving an official design showcase site that is well user experience and sales centered but I feel inappropriate to write there about my sometimes hardship with coding, debugging, “begging” for programming help and such. FULL ARTICLE +