Personal Web

Looking to get a real web page up real fast?

Here are three instant solutions to creating a personal web page without having to learn a single line of web coding:

MySpace – This is the big daddy of personal web page solutions and the undisputed king of social networking. An email address and a name are all that is required to have your very own online presence on one of the most talked about sites on the net since Google. Once you’re signed up, you’ll be rubbing shoulders with 167 million –and counting– other MySpace users and you’ll have access to a personal home page which you can easily customize with a free MySpace layout. You’ll also have your own blog, photos page, inbox, calendar, address book and various other MySpace bells and whistles. A MySpace page can also double as a promotional tool if and when you get your own website. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s hard to imagine that there is anyone between the ages of 13 and 45 who doesn’t have a personal webpage. The staggering growth in popularity of social networking sites like YouTube, MySpace, Twitter and Facebook seems to have stirred the publisher in all of us. Facebook alone now has over 200 million users, with over 100 million people logging on at least once a day. (By comparison, the total population of Japan is estimated at roughly 128 million people.) This phenomenal growth is evidence of the general public’s increasing comfort level with the internet and technology.

The premise of social networking is simple-provide people with a free and easy means of communicating with each other and they will embrace it. In the process, these users become “virtual volunteers” for the social networking site; working tirelessly around the clock to create new content and promote the service. What most users do not concern themselves with is the means by which the social networking sites earn revenue-by selling ad space to corporations eager to market products to steady streams of highly targeted web site traffic. These ads have translated into billions of dollars in commerce for the social networking sites and the advertisers. And exactly how much are the content publishers (i.e., you) paid for attracting all of that targeted web site traffic? In the vast majority of cases, absolutely nothing. Read the rest of this entry »