This is just another way that that PayPerPost has offered for me to promote my blog.
All you have to do to start is… read my blog (which I wish you would do, regardless of whether you wish to respond to my posts or not :)). If I’m talking about something you find interesting, or maybe you disagree with my view on it, and you think you’d like to talk about it (for example: my post earlier today expressing my views about Giveaway of the Day) as a response to my post, then you click on the button, get yourself signed up with PayPerPost, and just write about my entry. You make money, and I also make money.

What happens is, when you click on that link, a special opportunity is made for you, and you alone to take. You simply write about the post that interests you in your own blog, submit to PayPerPost, and in thirty days, they pay you for your post. I get a little out of it for having referred you, and you’ve got a little cash for replying to content from my weblog.

This does not seem too bad now, does it?

[tags]PayPerPost, Review My Post, Make Money Blogging, Promote My Blog[/tags]

I was very gung-ho about it, and even had their feeds on my sidebar to show visitors the goods.

I removed their feeds a while back, when their site’s outage was taking out my blog (bad plugin design, I guess), and I was considering whether I would place their feed back here. The reason I was considering this, instead of automatically doing it is, there hasn’t been much of a variety in software submitted, and very little was making me say “wow!” on their releases.

On the software side, a lot of the apps they were releasing had freeware, or open source alternatives that I use on a normal basis. For example, today’s giveaway (Premium Booster) is stuff that I can duplicate with Piriform’s CCleaner, which is free (though that’d be something worth donating a little cash to).
Some of the software was plainly useless (Elprime Clock Pro comes to mind — Windows has a system tray that has a clock in it. Most alternative shells have at least one good analog clock widget, for those who absolutely need one), and to see that the software has a price tag is somewhat disturbing.

On the games side, unfortunately, the majority of the released games have either been some variation on matching bubbles (I love puzzle games, and Sky Bubbles Deluxe was happiness. The rest of the games in this same vein were mediocre), shooting bubbles (There has been at least one Bubble Bobble clone, and at least one Puzzle Bobble clone), and almost no engrossing RPGs to draw in the geekier crowds.
While it’s good for the children (They get something fun to play nearly every day, and can rarely tell the difference in games), it’s not so good for the adults who still play games.

Watching the commentary on each piece of software there is getting a little annoying, though. It’s always a “This sucks! I can do this for free!”,without any sort of meat to the comment.

Right now, it is my hope that Giveaway of the Day starts to grow again, and gets titles that are worth their weight in the price asked for them normally. The lack of variety in applications is making the site stale, and unappealing enough to warrant me not talking about it frequently.

Things I’d love to see for free, even for a day:
Khaled Mardam-Bey’s [tag]mIRC[/tag]
RitLabs’ [tag]TheBat![/tag]

Both are software that I’d love to see appear on the list.
I’d also welcome similar applications, but the point is, it’s nice to offer software that people become dependent on. It’s easier to hook the willing into buying the software willingly for replacement purposes.

Some of them may be complete novices to computing and may not understand the importance of, or not even know the first thing about backing up important files and folders on their computer. Others may be of the “Ah, I’ll do it later…” group, constantly putting off backing up important content. I know the latter group quite well, as I used to be one of those types.

Some of these users might not even know that there are Free Online Backup Services available to them, such as the one offered by IDrive.com.

IDrive is a free, two gigabyte online storage solution that is able to do automated backups, taking most of the work out of your hands. Simply define folders to the application for safekeeping, and let the program do the rest.

Need to restore content? Simply launch the application, and select what you need restored.

It removes the excuse of “Well, I’ll do it later…” from your hands, and is easy enough to teach anyone how to do.
(The best part is, there’s no sorting through stacks of DVDs to find the recent backup of pictures of your family to share. :))

[tags]Data Backup, Online Data Storage, Internet File Storage, IDrive, Internet Drive, Automated Backup[/tags]