Review of Rentacoder.com

Rentacoder.com (RAC) is a beautiful concept of online marketplace where buyers can hire sellers for various types of jobs and safely work on projects in quite a business-friendly environment that you love while working on any job.

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If you have heard about off-shoring or outsourcing, this is what is being done on Rentacoder.com. there is no limitation for buyers to choose the local providers but they can hire professionals from across the globe and can save a lot of money.

Review of Stumbleupon.com

Stumbleupon.com

As clear from the name itself, stumbleupon.com is a site that allows the users to mark a website or a webpage that they have stumbled upon and have found interesting. They can bookmark the page for future reference; to share with friends; or just to make it more popular for its credibility. The popularity of the site that makes other sites popular is getting up higher and higher everyday.

Home Page of Stumbleupon.com

Stumbleupon.com is one the most popular bookmarking of social bookmarking sites that you can find around on net. With around 7 million users, this site is growing in popularity and usability among the internet users.

Ban on Chinese Toys in India

India bans Chinese toys for six months

So you are fearing how Indian economy is going to survive and what Indian manufacturers will do with the cheap toys from China rocking the Indian market and letting local manufacturer see what it feels like when the applecart is gone!

Indian government has offered you a ban on such products. Yes, on Friday, India imposed a ban on the import of toys from China. The ban has been imposed for six months. There is no specific reason given by the government as to what made them impose such a ban.

Australian Open Updates–Leander Paes moves to the third round

Australian Open Update (January 28, 2009):

Leander Paes has reached the semi-finals of Australian Open Men’s Double Event.

Mahesh Bhupati has also reached the semi-finals of Australian Open Men’s Double Event.

Mahesh Bhupati has paired with Sania Mirza for Mixed Doubles category and has reached the semi-finals of Australian Open.

Serena Williams has defeated Svetlana Kuznetsova to reach the semi-finals of Australian Open.

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Leander Paes moves to the third round of Australian Open Men’s Doubles

After the fall of Venus Williams, it was the time for Ana Ivanovic to go. Russian Alisa Kleybanova has pricked the top ranked player out of Australian Open.

Australian Open Update

Australian Open

Australian Open

What you thought about Marat Safin–defeating Roger Federer in the Semifinals of 2005 edition of Australian Open? Do you expect the repeat performance in as early as the third round of the Grand Slam?

Mixed day at the Australian Open

Australian Open

It was a day of some obvious victories and some upsets.

In the first round matches of their bid to add another Grand Slam, Williams Sisters posted their respective victories.

Rafael Nadal sent a strong message to other contenders that he could do it this time with a facile win over Christophe Rochus of Belgium 6-0 6-2 6-2 on Tuesday night. This is termed so far as the most convincing victory of 2008 Open.

Review of Paypal.com

Well, you have heard about Paypal? Haven’t you? If yes then it will be easier for me to present some features of Paypal to you; if not, then let me warn you that you are missing out on the most important factor for online money transactions and a tool that made it possible for service provides around the world to offer their expertise to potential buyers and get paid online. If you really do not know anything about this fantastic website, you need to keep reading this article for good!

Home Page of Paypal.com

As in the words of Paypal itself: PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information.

Paypal.com was founded in 1998 and it was acquired by eBay in 2002. Millions of users around the world use this website to make online transactions and it is continuously increasing its services to different countries where it was not easy to get paid through banking systems from your overseas clients. There are various features offered by Paypal that make it unique. It has made itself one-stop solution to send money, receiving money online. You can check your history of transactions and can also download it for book-keeping or for other uses. It is not wrong to say that Paypal has provided the best tool for online money transactions.

Main features of Paypal.com

1. It offers transactions in 18 currencies. 2. You can send and receive money through its online account. You can send invoices or requests of payments using Paypal. 3. Three types of accounts serve the purposes of different users. 4. You can use your credit cards to pay online through Paypal, which makes it more secure. Paypal serves around 190 markets. 5. You can withdraw money through checks or directly to your own bank account (available to limited countries). It is free to withdraw money in US Bank account though transactions to other countries might involve some fee.

Types of accounts on Paypal.com

Types of Accounts

Paypal offers 3 different types of accounts to its users based on their requirements and needs. 1. Personal 2. Premier 3. Business Personal account is ideal for people who want to shop online and make it sure that they can pay through Paypal, which happens to be the safest way for online transactions. There is no fee associated to this account and you can receive money from registered users for free. If someone sends you money using his credit card, you will need to change your account type to ‘premier’ and pay the transactional fee also. Permier account is ideal if you are also selling something. Freelancers get the maximum benefit from this account. There is a very small fee associated with this type of account with every transaction; however, unlike the personal account, you can receive money from credit cards of other users. Business account is geared more for websites and online stores that have e-commerce or are selling on a large scale. They can even embed the Paypal system in their websites and can make their customers pay using Paypal. This is ideal if you own a store or e-commerce site.

Sign-up fee at Paypal.com

It makes an obvious question while you are dealing with a transactional website as to what would be the charges of such transactions. Paypal outgrow every other service by providing you free sign-up for using their services.

Fee Structure of Paypal.com

Paypal does not charge any fee when you sign up for a personal account. There is no sign-up fee for premier or business type of accounts either. However, the latter two does involve a pre-disclosed transactional fee

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Is Paypal Safe

It makes a good question to ask whether whatever transactions you are going to do online are safe are not. What types of protections systems are involved by the website; what about encryption system; what about phishing and fake mails that you may get in your mailbox? All these questions are necessary to ask before you make a Paypal account.

Encryption System of Paypal.com

Paypal is believed to be the safest way for online transactions. The encryption system is quite good. Paypal offer a Security Key System that allows the users to generate a security key for their accounts and make it safe. You can order your security key on Paypal and keep it with your key-chain. It is that small but keeps your online Paypal account safe from theft.

Security Key of Paypal.com

Paypal.com gives you a sort of online bank that handles almost all your needs for online business: whether it is shopping, selling or just transactions of money, you can rely on Paypal.com for its services.

What you require to make a Paypal.com Account

Basically you require 3 things to make a Paypal account and receive/send money: 1. A credit card 2. An e-mail address 3. A physical address If you have all of these, you are ready to make a Paypal account and start using its features.

Transactional Limits

Paypal accounts have transactional limist and also limits on the money that various types of accounts can receive and withdraw. A Paypal account holder can make a maximum single transaction of USD 10,000. If you do not have a Paypal account, you can make a one-time, single transaction of USD 4,000. There is a receiving and withdrawl limit for personal types of accounts. So you need to check what type of account would suit your needs.

Review of Digg.com

Bookmarking and social sharing of your favorite webpages have sweeped the Internet like nothing else. It has a great power of sharing your articles, news, whitepapers, images, videos and what not.

Digg is a great social bookmarking site and has steered its way ahead from almost all other sites like stumbleUpon, technorati, etc.  You can share a good or favorite article, image or a video with other users of Digg who can peep at the shared URL by clicking on the link that you provided.

Home Page of Digg.com

You can comment on others’ URL, you can post shouts to other users and you can browse through a wide range of categories in which these URLs are shared. It is quite obvious now that if you have submitted your URLs to Digg.com, you can rest assured that Google bots would index them and your website is included in Google Search Engine. It is also quite common among the SEO experts to use Digg.com for making the site more indexable and having some good links coming from higher PR pages of Digg.com.

For last couple of years, Digg.com has emerged as the hot spot for people to know and share their favorite URLs.

The idea behind Digg.com is very good but like all other good things online, it is also being used for spamming and more marketing scams. You will notice that there are people sitting on messengers and asking their so-called friends (so-called friends because they know each other just to dig out their stories) to click on the links that they have submitted to Digg.com. This alhlow their story or image to get more clicks and to creep to the top of list, which gives a good visibility to the website on such a high PR page of Digg.com.

Though there is not so much wrong in this but still lots of good stories are pushed back due to this. Quite recently, you won’t get a good story to read in the top shelves but only the ones that have been worked out to the top.

Your Account page in Digg.com

Apart from this issue, the usage of Digg.com is so easy and great that you can spend your whole day visiting various URLs and reading the good stuff that others want to share with you.

Positive points about Digg.com

1. It allows you to check good stories being favorites of other readers.
2. It allows you to post comments and shouts to others.
3. Good segregation of stories into different categories and you can check them easily.
4. Foul language is not allowed.
5. Digg.com is quite famous and people around the globe are using it making it possible to read stories from wide range of topics and regions.

Negative points about Digg.com

1. There is little censor upon the stories that are worked out by people who have made lots of friends on Digg.com. The stories that are shown on the top of any category are sometimes not due to the value of their content but through spam-ful marketing methods.
2. If 2-3 people report you spam, you will get banned. There is no full-proof criterion for banning a site.
3. It is basically been used for marketing and not for genuine bookmarks.
4. People even pay freelancers to get their stories riding to the top.
5. The topics are not widely spread-out: some important topics are totally missed.

It can be easily said that like many famous sites where people like to meet and share ideas, Digg.com has carved out a niche for itself. But its use is being done mostly for marketing and not for genuine purposes. The administrators of Digg.com should check if they can do something about it.