Working Online

As a continuation of the previous post, this article will give you hints on how to work online as a contractor. There are many ways you can work online. You can register to outsourcing websites, or to pay per click websites, or simply find direct clients in the Internet.

The best example of outsourcing websites are Odesk.com and Freelancer.com. This websites allows you to sign up as a person looking for a job (contractor). You could also register to post jobs for people to work for you. But what we will be concentrating on is being a contractor. 

In Odesk, after registering, they require you to take exams in order for them to evaluate your skills. They also let you download there software used for monitoring by your employers. Everyday, more than a hundred jobs is posted in Odesk. Jobs where you are asked to encode, collect Facebook likes, virtual assistant, programming and a lot more.

And for pay per click jobs, the best example would be Clixsence and NeoBux. By registering to this websites,they give you a list of links to certain websites. By clicking on it, they will show the website on a frame which most likely shows a timer when you can leave the page. Mostly, they give 0.001 USD to 0.05 USD per click.

Another way of working online is finding a direct client. Its hard to find direct client if you haven't built a good profile in the net. My advice is try to work on outsourcing websites then build your portfolio. The more experience you are, the more people would want you to work with them. 

In terms of compensation, no doubt working with a direct client will give you more income than working on an outsourceing website compony which takes percentage from your earnings. While pay per click is considered as the lowest income hence it only gives a few cents per click.

However, always remember that by finding work online, you have to be aware of scams. One example is the work at home scheme. This scheme is also a get-rich-quick scheme, where you are employed at home given light tasks with high income that exceed the market rate. This people may require you to invest on products which prices is misrepresented.

It actually depends on what you like. However, always remember to be vigilant and keep in gourd against online scams.

Earning in the Internet

There are many ways you can earn in the Internet. You could either be a contractor, an entrepreneur or a website owner.

When we say contractor, it's a person who accepts works from other people and is compensated on the work done. In the Employer-Employee relationship, the contractor is the employee which accepts jobs from an employer, which could be an entrepreneur, a website owner or simply another contractor. As a contractor, you could either be a web designer, web programmer, host maintenance manager, a tech support and a lot more.In terms of the requirements needed, It would depend on the skill you have. There are websites like odesk.com that allows you to register and accept jobs from employers of free registration.

On the other hand, an entrepreneur is a person who does business on the Internet. He could be a person who buys and sell products or creates and sells his own products. Being a Web Entrepreneur the same as being a business man on the market. The only difference is your market would be the Internet community.As for the requirements, you would probably need a capital just like any ordinary businesses.

The website owner is a person who owns a website. Either an auction site, a forum site or a blog site. This people earn through advertising and review writing. They could either sign up to advertising websites like Google Adsense or simply offer a space in the website where people can advertise there product. Some instances, there are people who asks a blog owner to right a review on their product and that blogger is compensated according to what is being agreed. On having a website, you could either buy your own domain and rent a web-host, or ride on to those who offer free domain and hosting. An example is blogspot.com.

Furthermore, a contractor could also be an entrepreneur and a website owner at the same time. It would actually depend on you on which your are comfortable with.

Internet vs internet

I met a friend of mine in an Internet Cafe just this morning. While I was drafting on an article about handling an internet then connecting it to the Internet. He asked me what is the difference between the word "Internet" (with the capital "I") and "internet" (with the small "i"). Most people thinks it meant the same, but technically, there's a difference between the two words.

Internet refers to the whole network which was started by ARPNet. Or rather the main or the whole internet. On the other hand, internet refers to a network either composed of multiple networks following the same TCP/IP protocol. Most basic is example of an internet is an intranet.

It might not look that much significant. However, misuse of this words could be technically misleading.

Popularity from Insensitivity

The Internet is a wide area connected through cables and wireless technology forming a community. It is where people from various parts of the world share interests and information vice versa. A week ago, a friend of mine asked me how to be popular on the Internet. I'm pretty sure what he was up to but he sure was curious about. So I told him to join a social network, mingle an make yourself interesting. Then He asked me, how long would it take? I told him a month or a year depending on how he handles him self on the Internet crowd. Then he asked me again, is there any faster way? I told him, be a showbiz icon or something then you could be popular in an instant.

A week later which was today, he sent me a personal message saying "I know how to be popular in the net in just one day!" I went online and chat with him right away. Then he gave me this various link about a certain Ahcee Flores. Not much in the world knows this young lady, I do wounder if she's young, but she surely did made a fuss in the Philippines. And in just more or less 24 hours she become one of the top trending person in Twitter and had become an interesting topic in Facebook.

Do you know how she did it? She made herself be hated. Yup a simple as that. Just make everyone hate you and let there frustration rang into all the social networks. What Ahcee did was offend a whole region in the Philippines. yesterday, an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 hit the Visayas. Ahcee posted on yahoo to "pray for a tsunami on Cebu so people would die". She even mocked the Cebuanos prayerful culture which ofended the whole Bisaya community (those who speaks Visayan langauge/s). 

This event reminded me of the Earthquake and Tsunami that hit Japan March last year. It was a disaster yet there are some people who wished same as Ahcee did. That person also become very popular that time. But only for that time. Same as Ahcee, sooner or later she would be forgoten. When another calamity is again to come, theres a big chance another person same as Ahcee sprouts once again. Another person to be hated. I do wish its not my friend shared me the idea of being popular by being hated.

But what does this indicate? As the Internet changes to a higher level, our sensitivity lowers as well? We might think apart from others, or feel different from others but shouldn't we be considerate? The world sure is changing in a fast pace. But let us not let our feelings be drifted away. Cause this feelings is what makes us human. 

You can customize Facebook Fan Page using JQuery

Everyone is familiar of Fan Pages. Before, I posted an article about customizing your page using Static HTML application on Facebook. Now we'll be customizing our page using JQuery. In order to do this, we need both the Static HTML application and an online JQuery plugin repository. You can use the following link.

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js

Now lets start if putting it into our page.

Now add as much JQuery plugins you like next to the script. As easy as that, you'll be able to use JQuery plugins like datepickers and modals on the page. As long as you know how to code traditional HTML-CSS-Javascript coding, it wont be that hard to test on this.However, it is only limited on the content frame of the page. I doubt if Facebook would allow us editing its main frames.