The Net Vol. 6

Another week has gone by and I’m glad to say I have been working a lot on my time management and I am getting a lot more work done. I’m gradually adapting myself to working more hours and doing more things in one day. With the holiday season coming up I will need to work a lot more if I want to stay on top of things and of course make money! Over the weekend I think I took close to 500-600 product photos for ThinkComputers. You can check out some of the new stuff in the Product Inbox section of the ThinkComputers forums. I will be updating it all week so check back often. So what’s the news on the net this week?

Shoemoney wins the RSS Competition
Well the contest is over and Shoemoney is the winner. When the competition first started things were pretty close, but then John started to take over. Towards the end it looked like John was the clear winner, but then on the last day Shoemoney had a crazy amount of new RSS subscribers (more than he gained in the entire month). Some say he cheated, but we will never know. No matter who the winner was they both gained a lot of exposure and new RSS readers out of the competition. Also a lot of people, including myself got some pretty cool prizes!

Airbus A380 makes its First Commercial Flight
The Airbus A380 “Superjumbo”, the world’s largest passenger airliner made its first commercial flight on October 25th, flying from Singapore to Sydney. All tickets for the flight were auctioned off for charity. Most passengers were amazed at the shear size of the plane, being able to fit 72 cars on each wing! I’ve only been on a 737 and an Airbus A320 so I cannot even image how large the A380 is! Besides being the largest passenger airline the A380 features 12 first-class cabins. Each cabin is outfitted with double beds (world’s first on an airliner), flat screen TV’s, and endless champagne, but that ask that you don’t have sex!

The Current Market Value of Make Money Online Blogs
45n5 has a really cool article on the market value of make money online blogs. They have looked at what make money online blogs have been selling for and came up with people are paying $30.98 per RSS subscriber! That would make this blog worth $4647 at 150 RSS subscribers (we are showing 77, because Google reader isn’t registering today, you might notice this on your blog too). Here are some interesting estimates: Shoemoney: $622,264.28, John Chow: $424,240.12, Earners Blog: $47,337.44, Nate Whitehill: $26,487.90. Of course estimating a site solely on RSS count is not that accurate.

Ice Skating on Lake Las Vegas

It is the holiday season and being from the northeast part of the U.S. it brings thoughts of Ice Skating outside and snow. Lake Las Vegas is about 17 miles from the Las Vegas strip and you wouldn’t even think that you are in the desert. It features world class hotels, spas, golf courses, and amazing residential communities. It is all centered around a 320 acre privately owned lake. What better way to bring in the holidays than turning the lake into an ice skating rink! It is actually a floating rink; the rink uses an ecologically safe glycol mix to freeze the surface of the water. Then they use 110 5-gallon buckets of water and a 12,000 pound freezer to help keep the ice cold. The floating rink is open November 16, 2007 through February 17, 2008. I might have to check this out when I’m in Vegas for CES.