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Courtesy of Facebook: Zero-Rated Apps for Airtel Zambia

Posted by Unknown in 1-800, Airtel, Facebook, Onavo on Saturday, August 2, 2014

Facebook launched its first "Internet.org" service, based on the acquired Onavo technology [see "Facebook Acquires Onavo for $100M" - here] in Zambia.

Internet.org defines "Efficiency" as one of the solution they look for: "Transmitting data—even a text message or a simple web page—requires bandwidth, something that’s scarce in many parts of the world. Partners will invest in tools and

Allot Wins EMEA MNO for Zero-Rate Video Streaming and Social Media Services

Posted by Unknown in 1-800, Allot, DPI Market, Facebook on Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Allot Communications announced today that it "received an order from a Tier-1 mobile operator in EMEA for the Allot Policy Control and Charging solution. The operator is leveraging Allot’s policy control and charging solution to provide 4 million subscribers with application-centric plans that fit their digital lifestyle.

The solution will allow the Tier-1 mobile operator to conduct in-depth

[Study]: 85% of Operators are Leveraging OTT Apps to Attract Customers

Posted by Unknown in 1-800, Allot, Charge by Application, Facebook, OTT, quota, Usage Based Billing on Monday, July 21, 2014

A new study by Allot Communications (surveyed the data plans and charging trends of 175 mobile operators worldwide) finds that "85% of operators are leveraging apps to attract customers and increase ARPU .. Facebook is mobile operators’ top choice for zero-rated apps and Unlimited data plans are in decline".

Some examples of Zero rate programs:

Facebook Offers Free Messaging Through 18 MNOs

Success for Application-Based Service Plans in Zimbabwe

Posted by Unknown in Application Aware Networking, Charge by Application, Econet Wireless, Facebook, Sandvine, Telecel Zimbabwe, Zero rate on Thursday, July 10, 2014

According to Dan Deeth, Sandvine, post to the vendor's blog, Econet Wireless' offering of WhatsApp and Facebook bundles [see "Econet Wireless [Zimbabwe] Uses Sandvine for Application-based Charging" - here] is "continuing to out-maneuver and out-innovate competitors. These unlimited bundles allow subscribers to purchase unlimited usage of their favorite service for a day, week, or monthly for a

[Chile]: No Compromise on Net Neutrality

Posted by Unknown in 1-800, Chile, Facebook, Net Neutrality, Wikipedia, Zero rate on Saturday, June 7, 2014

While the Net Neutrality on the US goes towards "Fast Lanes", Chile, the first countries to adopt a Net Neutrality law (see "Chile: First Country to Legislate Net Neutrality" - here) does not compromise on any aspect of Neutrality.

Leo Mirani reports to QUARTZ that "A surprising decision in Chile shows what happens when policies of neutrality are applied without nuance. This week, Santiago put

[TeleGeography]: Private Networks Drive Demand for Int'l Bandwidth (+39% in 2013)

Posted by Unknown in broadband statistics, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, TeleGeography on Sunday, April 27, 2014

TeleGeography reports that ".. demand for international bandwidth grew 39 percent to 138 Tbps in 2013, a 4.5-fold increase from the 30 Tbps of bandwidth used globally in 2009.Internet backbones remain the primary users of international bandwidth, accounting for 75 percent of demand in 2013. However, the drivers of international bandwidth demand are changing.

As private network operators,

Aircel [India] Offers Facebook Aware Service

Posted by Unknown in Aircel, Charge by Application, Facebook, Zero rate on Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Rajesh Kurup reports to The Hindu BusinessLine that "Telecom service provider Aircel has launched a service - Facebook for All – that provides free access to the social media platform for its customers. Under the service, Aircel enables its customers to network and be socially active on Facebook in nine different languages. Customers can have free access to Facebook Application, Facebook

Uninor [India] Shifts "from data to Internet"; Charges for Facebook and Whatsapp Use

Posted by Unknown in Charge by Application, Facebook, Telenor, Uninor on Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Uninor, a subsidiary on Telenor announced that it has "decided to shift from volume based Internet offerings (MB and GB offerings) to service based Internet offerings (Facebook and Whatsapp). This will change the way in which Uninor offers Internet to its 33 million current and all future subscribers".

Morten Karlsen Sorby, nominated CEO of Uninor. said: “We are moving out of data and moving in

[Analysys Mason]: Business Models for Application-based Pricing

Posted by Unknown in Analysys Mason, Deutsche Telekom, DTAC, Facebook, OTT, SingTel, Telefonica, Telenor on Monday, December 9, 2013

As it seems that the FCC is considering more flexible Net Neutrality rules (see "FCC Chairman re-defines Net Neutrality: 'we're going to see a two-sided world'" - here), it is time to evaluate the business models for the relations between the customers, carriers and OTT content providers.

A new report by Ronan de Renesse, Principal Analyst, Glen Ragoonanan, Senior Analyst, Eva Weidinger [

Reasons Why I Stopped Reading Your Blog

Posted by Unknown in Blog, Business, Corporate blog, Directories, Facebook, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Google, Social media, Twitter on Friday, February 17, 2012

I enjoy reading different blogs everyday. I read almost everything from blogging ideas, fashion blogs, historical, musical and even showbiz blogs. The internet is just so vast that one can learn all sort of things in just a matter of short time. Anyway, there are several blog sites that I have bookmarked for years now. I still have some of those interesting blogs while I deleted those blogs that I lost interest reading. I posted here my personal reasons why I stopped reading those blogs.

1. Your blog takes several minutes to load up.

Readers do not like to keep waiting on a blog site that would load up too long. You may have uploaded several widgets and other stuffs that may not be important in your blog. When things like this happen, I readily cancel loading up the blog site.

2. Your blog is unreadable.

Sometimes, you think adding several colors would entice your readers to follow your blog. In fact, this is the exact opposite. I do not want to strain my eyes reading on something that is too splashy nor too dark. It is also difficult to read blogs with small fonts and those with overwhelmingly huge font size. I would prefer to read simple text font and decent color blogs that are not eye straining. After all, simplicity is beauty.

3. Your blog is simply a total mess.

I cannot locate where your latest article is. There are just too many ads and other stuffs on your blog that it distracts me from reading your latest article.

4. Your blog has so many pop-ups.

It is quite frustrating that instead of reading your article, all I can see are those annoying pop-ups. There are some blogs with simple pop-ups on the side. However, there are blogs that have several pop-ups that would occupy the entire blog platform. It leaves the readers getting annoyed and would never return to your blog site.

5. Your blog is not updated.

The latest article on your blog is dated two or three months ago. Either you are too busy with your life or with other jobs or you simply drifted away. I love to follow your blog when you keep fresh contents every week. It is something that readers are looking forward to.

6. You simply do not reply to comments.

I love leaving comments to interesting articles on your blog. However, you are not quite interactive or you simply do not care. Isn't it exciting and wonderful knowing that someone took the time reading your blog? I guess out of appreciation or letting the reader know that you are indeed alive and kicking, why not reply back to those comments? Not only will your reader appreciate your effort but you gain avid readers, too.

7. Your blog does not have a particular subject.
One second you talk about blogging ideas, then the next, you give your thoughtless bickering about the world and the people around you. I would definitely get lost on that one. In the first place, I visited your blogs because I want to learn interesting ideas from you, not about your personal problems. I guess there is a specific place on that one.

8. Your blog is a product of plagiarism.

This is very disheartening. There are several bloggers out there who make extra effort and time to research on certain topic that they want to post on their blogs. Now, here comes a lazy blogger who simply wants to copy other's content. I read two or three blogs in the past that literally copied one's blog word for word. I never visited those blog sites again.

I am not an expert on these stuffs. I also had my shortcomings regarding my blog. However, I try to reinvent so I can gain more readership. After all, I put up this blog not just for my personal use but to share to everyone. Anyway, feel free to share your reasons why you stopped reading other blog sites.

Feedburner Stealing My Backlinks

Posted by Unknown in Backlink, Blog, CommentLuv, Directories, Facebook, FeedBurner, Google, RSS, Search, Search engine optimization, Tools, Twitter, WordPress on Monday, February 13, 2012

FEEDBURNER STEALING BACKLINKS??? I really do not have any idea regarding this stuff until a fellow blogger emailed me about this problem. I have been leaving some comments on his interesting and informative blog for a few days now. Then, I was surprised when he informed me that my CommentLuv link on his blog is giving a link back to FeedProxy.google.com instead of a backlink to my site. I really do not have any idea what he was talking about at that time. Fortunately, he was kind enough to send me a great article that would explain thoroughly on how to rectify my problem on feedburner settings. The site link is http://www.synactable.com/blog/charleston-sc/feedburner-commentluv-backlinks/. Once you read the article, you will understand how much you have lost by not paying attention to your feedburner settings just like what I did. You will lost valuable backlinks on your site. I really would like to thank Peter for this valuable information.

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Due to this incident, I learned how important backlinks are. Those established webmasters and bloggers may give credit to any blogger who would frequently visit or comment on their blogs. This thing is a great advantage especially to newbie bloggers like me. This would mean that those search engines would give a higher status from the quality backlinks one would get from those webmasters. I also learned that a blog site may gain higher status if you get quality backlinks from blogs with the same niche. So, in my case, I was lucky enough to get quality backlinks from some established websites which has the same niche as mine. When you get more backlinks, your blog site will also improve its rank. Remember, these backlinks are freely given by the site administrators especially when they appreciate your efforts on taking the time to read and browse over their sites and leave interesting comments.

How about you? Have you ever encountered such problem with Feedburner?

CentWorkers.com Review

Posted by Unknown in Business, Employment, Facebook, Facebook features, FAQ, Full-time, Job (role), Job Search, Microworkers, Online Communities, PayPal, Percentage, Personal identification number, Twitter on Sunday, February 12, 2012

I revisited some of the sites that I signed up before. One of these is CentWorkers.com. I have been a member of this site for almost 6 months now. Unfortunately, up until now, I have not received any payment yet from the site. Anyway, here are some interesting information about CentWorkers:

What is CentWorkers?

CentWorkers, a website which caters both employers and employees. Employees begin some job campaigns and look for workers to do some micro jobs which include writing articles, uploading videos, joining a Facebook group, voting, following on twitter and several other tasks. CentWorkers is almost the same as Microworkers. I did a separate review on Microworkers. You might want to read it as well.

Who can apply on CentWorkers?

Anyone can apply as long as you can do those micro jobs efficiently. You are only entitled to use one user account within your household so you will not be banned from the site.

How and when do you get paid?

There are several tasks that a worker can choose from the platform. You click any of the available tasks, follow the instructions carefully and submit your task. A worker should get a "satisfied" rate from the employer before earning is approved. If you get a "not satisfied" remark, you will not get paid for your task. According to the site, workers can withdraw money through PayPal account. However, just like Microworkers, I do not understand why they still ask for a PIN number. On the site, you can read words like these:

PIN will be sent to your mailing address after placing first withdrawal request.
Once you submit correct PIN we will start sending payments to you.

I tried requesting for a PIN on my Microworkers account but it never went through my mailing address.I noticed that both sites, Microworkers and CentWorkers, have almost identical rules and style.

My verdict:

I cannot attest whether this site is a scam or not. I stopped working on CentWorks since I also got busy from my full-time job. I revisited the site a week ago. It is still working and there are still available tasks. I just hope that the PIN number can be sent through email. There is a big chance that the post mail will not reach its mailing address just like what happened when I requested for a PIN from Microworkers. This is my main concern from the site. What about you? Got some interesting ideas to share about CentWorkers?

CloudCrowd.com Review

Posted by Unknown in Big data, CloudCrowd, Facebook, PayPal, Salesforce.com on Friday, December 9, 2011

I am an on and off member of CloudCrowd. When I am not busy from other tasks, I spend some time on this site. It is a good source of additional income especially during my free time. Anyway for you to get started, you go to CloudCrowd and then click the tab, Earn Money Now. It will lead you to your Facebook account. CloudCrowd has a Facebook–based application. After linking on your Facebook account, you will fill out a form and you are ready to go. You just need to read the rules first before you start working. Anyway, there are available credential tests that you can take on the platform. You can see these tests on the Credentials tab. You will be notified of your test results through email. Credentials are only taken 4 times and if you do not pass the first time, you have to wait another month before you can take the same credential test. The tests include write product descriptions, grade written English test, write product titles, edit documents and more. Once you passed all these credentials, then more tasks are available for you which means more chances of getting income. However, you do not have to worry since there are available tasks that do not require credential test. The pay rate varies accordingly. You can also earn by referring your friends on CloudCrowd. A small percentage will be paid to you every time your friends completed a task on CloudCrowd. The good thing about CloudCrowd is that they pay promptly through PayPal account. In my case, once I completed a task, I got my payment the next business day. Isn’t it amazing?

Moving on, there are things that you need to remember while working on CloudCrowd. You need to keep a good credibility level. Your level starts from 30 and then it goes up when you start getting good task approval. You need to do well on each task you do since one wrong task and your credibility level will go down. If you reach a very low level, you will be put on probation and you are monitored carefully. Well, it also happened to me several times in the past, making some errors in my work. Now, I am careful in choosing tasks in which I can totally give a good result. If you continue to do a bad performance, there is a high chance that your account is suspended.

If you find this site quite interesting, you can always sign up for free. Review everything and do your work carefully. Enjoy and earn more while using CloudCrowd.

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