A Place in the Sun, on the Cloud

Making money from my PC

Every morning, Monday through Friday at 7AM exactly, the Ether robot kicks in and my reminder call comes ringing. It's not a bother becaus usually I and the chickens, have already been up an hour or two. So the reminder is more like the school bell that the ring from hell. I keep thinking, that thi used to be a great way to earn a few extra bucks and it seems like the train has been off the tracks for quite some time. Occssionally, I look at the wreck that was a very good vehicle and all I see are remenants of success. Nobody over here but advisiers who consult on loneliness and dispair. I wonder, is this what our society has come to? The only way to earn money is by scring the heck out of people? I am not so sure, but I thought I'd pose the questionand see what came of it. Is anybody out there? Are are we really just winging it?

Entrepreneurial Opportunities

COMING SOON! Entrepreneurial Opportunities will provide a host of useful self-employment tips and services to people with ideas, products and skills. I have the experience you DON'T NEED to acquire from home business offers and solicitors. If you aren't really interested in another Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) membership, you may want to give this some attention. My objective is to assist serious entrepreneurs in determining how to go about starting up a micro-business. I offer a standard but restrictive non-disclosure to keep information you share confidential. My rates are reasonable and my objective is to assist, not compete with you. Cloud computing is about opportunities. You can determine your future by staking a claim and investing in yourself. Let me show you how to make the best of the current situation. Watch for the official announcement pending Ether's validation. ML Hayes

Music From the Cloud

Cloud Computing is affecting the way you acquire and consume. Are you onboard and simply being taken for a ride? The 'cloud' is all of the computing that happens behind the scenes when you click on an object in your browser. Until you CLICK you are basically in your own world. Each banner or link button is someone's attempt to contact you for the normal purposes of communication; that is solicitation, instruction and shopping cart. If you are still wondering what this has to do with music, then you are either not a musician or don't like music. Most of us feel that we should pay for the things we like and want to possess. Music belongs to the musician, but you can retain a copy if you purchase the right. You purchase those rights from music service providers like Sony, BMI & EMI via the online cloud computing vendors like Rhapsody, iMusic & Pandora. What they promise is that you will never again have to acquire a physical copy of your favorite tunes because you can access their vast libraries at any time you wish, for the price of a subscription. Well, you don't have to be an actuary to figure that $9.99 per month is about $120 per year and to make that purchase valuable, you would need to select about 10,000 tunes to add to your library per year. So, you have nothing to do but listen to music? The flip side of this coin is that many of us feel strongly that music from musicians that I am unfamiliar with should be "free." Why is a reasonable question here, and the answer is that if you don'y like it why should you be obligated to pay for it? There is no reason that anyone can present that can refute that logic. Music is so intertwinrd in the individual's expression of their identity that it draws people together better than any other form of human communication. Unfortunately, like beauty; good music is in the ear of the hearing. The same power that gives music its binding effect can be used to offend and antagonate, so in the public arena choice is a set of headphones. Cloud computing will add a dramatic addition to that choice. Artists and their fan followings who want to share a message should sit up and pay attention. Cloud computing allows you to provide listening rights your favorite tunes to whoever would like to listen for free. That't right, the casual acquaintence can listen to what you are fond of, but if they want to acquire the right to add a copy to their library they must pay for the file transfer just as they would purchase a LP in the old fashion record store. You don't have to become an Amazon Affiliate but you do need to consider setting up you own cloud server. For more insight on Cloud computing and what it means to you, visit my webpress blog at HTTP://mlhayes1.wordpress.com A cloud server empowers the owner to serve whatever community of users there are on the Internet that use those resources necessary to deliver the community's response to a query, command or purchase request. Hmm, yep you read that right. You can now afford put up your own cloud server to either learn and/or hire an expert (like me) to configure and operate the system for your personal gratification. This isn't just another webpage. Its industrial grade eCommerce for individuals and entrepreneuars who recognize that the world has changed and the people with the tools are the benefactors of the change. You may acquire more information on the rools of cloud computing from http://www.pixelgigs.com/aff_tools/metrolocal/tool/banners/12 Have a Happy Easter! MetroLocal

SEO Original Articles - Pushing the Ratings Envelope

You would thing everyone would be used to the rapid pace of changes in the way we communicate, but it just ain't so. The major search engine companies like Google and Overture are constantly trying to find a way to deliver some value to their paying clientele. Thats a good thing! The latest turn actually is even better than that. We all hate spam and some IT scientist got together and came up with a way of putting some serious pressure on the organized criminal element that rules the dark side of cyber-space. The key word is "semantics." Yep! that is the old-fashion word for making sense. Now the crooks have to make their scams make sense. You can imagine this is a harder that stuffing a bunch of keywords into a webpage, watering it with nasty Trojans and ID stealing viruses then sending out a Kajillion bogus emails with phishing hooks attached. This semantic stuff works because the commercial appeal of the Internet is making cloud computing more attractive to the independent entrepreneurers, better known as the in-between employment set. Global competition isn't exclusively a corporate game anymore. Everyday people are finding pickings are getting slimmer in the neighborhood so there is a need to reach further out than ever. The new search engine optimization semantic ranking scheme makes it easier to compete on what you know as opposed to who you know. It doesn't eliminate personal networking, but when applied to the Social Networking tools like FaceBook, Twitter, and LinkedIn the ability to tell a story in a friendly informative way becomes a very positive asset to possess. After twenty-five years of chasing electrons through networks, I gave writing about them a whirl. In thirty days, I wrote over fifty articles and of which twenty-five (25 = 50%) ranked in the top 10 of (page one results) of the top search engines (MSN Live, Google, Overture, YP, AOL, etc...). To say the least, I surprised myself. The top scoring article were things I wrote about thats I understood well; Cloud Computing, Gaming, Storage, Backup, Restore, Networking. The other 25 articles were actually even more of a surprise! Topics ranged from politics to restaurant reviews. Every last article ranking came back in the top ten percent (10%) of its keyword category. What does this mean? If it were baseball, I'm batting 775 one month into the season and they are still pitching to me. Well, to be very honest, it means that the marketing budget of more than a few of my clients was busted by the responses that they received online. OK, enough patting myself on the back. Here is the bottom line. If you are online and having a hard time attracting customers, give me a call. Right now I'm cheap and affordable but if this keeps up I won't stay that way long. Give me a call http://www.ether.com/Mail/Action.aspx?mailId=185462&cd=vF5dnFF2sMSJsGwRC0%2fyzw%3d%3d

Hello World! What's in A Name - MetroLocal vs. Cloud Computing

Hi, I have been waiting for this day all year. No... not to pull a prank, but to add significance to the effort that I will begin here, today April 1, 2011. As my title suggest, What is the point of defining something very important to thousands, if not millions of us with an oxymoronic term like "Cloud Computing"? Cloud Computing... what does that mean? We are getting a lot of hyped nonsense lately from almost every quarter, but very little fact. I hope to shed some light on the subject in this forum and will make myself available to help anyone who has a doubt about the subject. Additionally, I will bring my knowledgeable friends to this space to shore up the areas outside of my personal expertise. Hopefully, in the course of mutual education, we will all have a great time! "MetroLocal" support is my term that I coined and I use to describe cloud computing. It is a compound abbreviation of" Metropolitan" & "Localized" support. In it's simplest meaning, it describes what the cloud does for your computing facilitation. In metropolitan communities, it localizes your support to those qualified and actively participating community resources regardless of ownership or proprietary implementations. What this means to you is more than a simple improvement in upgrading the way we connect to each other to exchange ideas, instructions, orders and requests for services. One way to think of it is like the difference between gills and scuba diving equipment... yeah, its that dramatic. In the next few posts, I will provide even more insight into how, what, who, and why this change to your everyday computing will make or break commercial efforts and personal associations. Stay tuned in. Everybody deserves a place in the sun, and the sun is always shining atop the clouds. MLH