Yesterday, Twitter released Twitter 101 for Business, a guide for getting started and establishing your business using Twitter. It covers all basics of Twitter, how to get started, terms, keywords, and includes case studies. Here is what Twitter says about their business guide:

Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter.

This business guide would be a really important move as a big number of Twitter starters are quitting to use Twitter.

Making money is a dream for many, but it’s not as simple as many think it to be. It’s as hard as making money offline. There are always many ways you can make money online, you just need to find out what really suits you and where you picture yourself  working comfortably.

There is something for everyone on internet. Whatever you choose, it’s difficult to start earning good money straight away. Put some effort and reward would be furitful. We have included a few sites considered good for earning money.

1. Get Paid to Advertise

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Google Adsense – World’st most popular advertising program. Make Money from $0.01 to $5.00 plus per click on site relevant ads.

Chitika – Offers various types of advertising to suite your needs. Rated 2^nd best after adsense by ProBlogger.

BulletAds – Performance based online advertising network. Sell ads from $20 to $2000 per ad depending upon the page impressions per day.

Clicksor – Offers Inline text link advertising, underlining words in your posts. We do not encourage new bloggers to use them as readers get irritated.

Text-Link-Ads – Offers you to approve or deny the advertiser links that appear on your site. They pay you 50% of the sale price for each text link sold on your website.

BlogAds – You can sell your blog ads here. To participate in this program you will need to get sponsored by someone in their network.

LinkWorth – Too many options to fit your advertising needs. Choose text based advertisements, sponsored ads and paid blog reviews to appear on your site.

Vibrant Media – Offers in-text based advertisements.

CrispAds – Offers you the access to over six thousand advertisers in their pay-per-click program. You can choose advertisers that suite you the best.

AdBrite – Allows you to approve or reject any ads purchased for your sites. Also gives you the ability to sell ads direct with “Your Ad Here” links.

Yahoo Publisher Network – Offers you to pay targeted ads on your site.

2. Get Paid to Write

PayPerPost – Get paid as much as $500 or more a month writing articles and reviews of their sponsors on your blog.

BlogToProfit – Make $250 dollars or more by writing new posts on your blog.

Creative Weblogging – Write 7 to 10 posts per week for their network and they will pay you $225 per month.

Smorty – Earn $6 to $100 dollars per post you write on your blog. Amount paid for each post depends on the overall popularity and page rank of your blog.

Blogsvertise – Their advertisers pay you to mention and talk about their websites, products and services in your own blog.

Review Me – After your blog has been accepted in their network, they will pay you $20 to $200 per post that you write.

Squidoo – Earn money by writing your new blog, or choose to donate your earnings to charity. Referred by some bloggers.

SponsoredReviews – Offers you to write reviews for their advertisers’ products and services on your own blog. They also charge some transaction fee for their services.

3. Affiliate Networks and Programs

Commission Junction – Offers you good commission on sales in exchange to product promotion by different advertisers.

LinkShare – Offers you the facility to use individual product links on your site and generate revenue from sales.

ClixGalore – Allows you to advertise products from 8000+ advertisers.

ClickBank – Allows you to promote 10,000+ products with huge commissions.

ThinkAction – This affiliate network claims to have the top payouts and the possibility of earning over $100,000 dollars per month which me to seem not real. But do give it a try if you like J

Avangate – Allows you to make money selling popular computer software titles through your site.

LinkConnector – This affiliate marketing network offers a zero tolerance fraud policy to keep you safe while conducting business.

4. Paid Social Media Programs

JustAnswer – Help others solve their problems and earn money for your knowledge.

MetaCafe – Upload your videos and earn money based on the number of views you receive.

Dada.net – Social site with a revenue sharing program that pays you for referring friends and driving traffic.

Jyve – Pays you to provide answers, advice and peer support to people in need of some help.

Cruxy – Specializes in social video, but serves as a venue to sell your digital media.

BitWine – Get paid to give advice and answer questions for people, on subjects of your interests and choice.

Ether – Make money answering questions for your peers over the phone. You set your rates and call availability.

UpBlogger – Social network site that pays you based on the amount of visits you receive to your uploaded content.

ChaCha – Get paid to offer support to members of their community.

AssociatedContent – Earn money by uploading your videos, text, audio and images to their site. Earnings are determined by the exposure you receive from your content.

myLot – Pays you for posting, commenting and using their social network.

5. Earning Money Everyway

Google User Research – Google Pays you money to participate in their user research studies online.

Microsoft Research Panel – Get paid from Microsoft for providing feedback on their products.

Amazon Mechanical Turk – Amazon pays you to complete simple tasks that their computers can’t understand. Payments are a matter of cents.

eJury – Earn $5 to $10 dollars per verdict rendered as a mock juror for practice trials.

WorkingSOL – Get paid to provide technical support for many large comapnies all over the world.

Mahalo Greenhouse – They pay $10 to $15 dollars per site you submit to their directory.

Focus Pointe Global – Get paid to join their focus groups and voice your opinion. Available to teens and adults.

Agloco – Sign up, download their toolbar and get paid to surf the internet. This site has been criticized as a “pyramid scheme”, although the founders deny the allegation.

Arise – Make online money providing support via phone, email and web platform for various companies on this site.

Tutor.com – Tutor people online and earn money.

ForumBoosting.com – Allows you to make money posting in forums.

Share-A-Pic – Share your pictures by uploading on this website.

SlashMySearch – Get paid to search the internet with their search engine.

Germany, the regional court in hamburg has fined file-hosting service Rapidshare a huge amount of $34 million and has further ordered that rapidshare must now filtering certain content. GEMA a copyright protection association happen to be the ones who brought this case to court. GEMA believes to represent 65,000 composers, authors and publishers across the world.

Therefore, the hamburg court rules that Rapidshare is not allowed to make these all claimed music tracks from GEMA’s collection available on the Internet. They have also been ordered to remove all these tracks immediately from there servers and also to stop users from further uploading it to there servers. Now its a challenge situation for the Rapidshare to comply with this rule by court. Because 90% of such files are Zipped, compressed and password protected.

Rapidshare does run such search algorithms already which search through the ZIP files in order to trace copyright material. But since the quantity is in millions so the company will have to make some quick dicisions to further save itself.

Rapidshare is one of the most popular sites on web today, with an Alexa rank of 14 (huge) and millions of unique visitors per month

This is also not the first time such claims have been made against rapidshare, earlier in January 2008 the lost a smiliar case in german court. For this case, Rapidshare will appeal to higher courts and most likely restrict the scope of the decisions made by the Regional Court in Hamburg

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This is a revised tutorial from my previous blog. Often i find people still looking for “SVICHOSST.exe virus removal guides” here goes this post again:

This Virus is detected by only the following Antiviral Software:

1- BitDefender .. it detects it with the name “Win32.Worm.Sohanat.S”
2- Dr.Web .. it detected it with the name “Win32.HLLW.Hang”
3- FortiNet .. it detects as “W32/Dloader!tr.dldr”
4- Kaspersky Anti-Virus .. it detects as “IM-Worm.Win32.Sohanad.t”
5- Norton Anti-Virus 2007 (fully updated) .. detects it as “Win32.FunLove.4099″

I Got Norton Anti-Virus 2008, still this virus infected my system!

As soon as i inserted my friends USB, NORTON DETECTED THE VIRUS and gave me the message(as per my habit, before opening any USB from outsider I run a virus scan and then open it). It detected SVICHOSSST.exe in almost all the folders of the USB, plus, it detected NEW FOLDER.exe and then all the folders had a file inside them with the same name as the folder’s name.

Norton Anti-virus 2007 detected all the infected files, gave me the report that all viruses got FIXED. But nothing was fixed!

First of all, symptoms of this Virus:

- TaskMgr disabled
- RegistryTools disabled
- NoFolderOptions- Command Prompt(CMD) sometimes disabled one minimized when you attempt to open it
- Slow Windows performance, boot, shutdown
- new Folder look-alike files in your removable storage devices, eg.Pendrive, Ex-HD,etc

Ok so here is the GUIDE HOW TO FIX SVICHOSSST.EXE or SVICHOST.exe

1- You need a tool called “HiJack This!” (Click here to Download it)

2- Run it and click “DO A SYSTEM SCAN ONLY”. With that you can see all the current processes on your system (as task manager is disabled so you are not able to see the processes from there).

3- You will find these three following things in there.
F2 – REG:system.ini: Shell=Explorer.exe SVICHOSSST.exe
O4 – HKCU\..\Run: [Yahoo Messengger] C:\WINDOWS\system32\SVICHOSSST.exe
O7 – HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableRegedit=1

Check these three and click “FIX” button. It will remove these entries from your Processes.

4- Restart your system (its not yet fixed).

5- Now you would be able to run REGEDIT.

Goto START MENU > RUN and type REGEDIT and press enter.

6- Okay, next, open Regedit, by navigating to Start > Run > Regedit

Then go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>System
&
HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer

Look for values like No FolderOptions, DisableRegistryTools, DisableTaskMgr and so on on the left side of the Regedit.

The REG_DWORD value of these would be ‘0×00000001 (1)’ Right-click it and use the option MODIFY and make the value ‘0′. Now you would see it as ‘0×00000000′

7- Next go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run

Locate the entry ‘Yahoo Messenger’, note the wrong spelling of ‘Yahoo Messenger’? Delete it right away. Leave the other keys alone. The fake ‘Yahoo’ entry tells the system to run the virus every time you boot(start) Windows.

8- Now goto the EDIT menu and choose FIND.

Search the keyword ‘SVICHOST’ and then try ‘SVICHOSSST’

If you find any entry with this following keyword, simply remove it! and close Registery Editor.

(Still we have work to do! Don’t be so happy)

9- Right click on your MY COMPUTER and choose “EXPLORE”

Go to the menu TOOL > FOLDER OPTIONS >VIEW and select “SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS” and un check “HIDE EXTENSION FOR KNOWN FILE TYPES” and press OK.

NOW REMEMBER … whenever ask you to goto some folder or drive. USE THE MENU AT YOUR LEFT SIDE. DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK THE FOLDER OR DRIVE ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE.

Svichossst Virus Removal Guide

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Go to C:\WINDOWS and locate the files named SVICHOST and SVICHOSSST (first thing I said LOCATED, I never said SEARCH so donot use the SEARCH feature. You have to manually open the drive or folder and look for these files) (secondly both the files looks like a folder, their ICON is of a folder and you will feel like its a folder but its not a folder its a file)
Delete them using SHIFT+DEL (so that it does not go into your recycle bin).

Now go to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and look for both the files again and delete them if found. (again using Shift+DEL)

10- Ok we are almost there but dont be excited what to do with the infected USB or Removable device drive which infected your computer? Ok so same goes for it. Go to your remove able device drive. (Remember using the LEFT SIDE OF THE EXPLORE, do not double click on the right side). Locate the files SVICHOST.exe and SVICHOSSST.exe and delete them (using SHIFT+DEL).

Voila! You are done! TO HELL WITH SVICHOSSST virus Restart your system and enjoy your life