Iminta - it's yet another lifestreaming site but with a difference. I've reviewed it on PiggyBankPie and it has one killer feature that makes it worth signing up for, in my opinion at least. See how it compares with other lifestreaming services.

'Like other similar sites, you can add friends from your email address books

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Is Plurk a Twitter killer? Some people love it, some hate it, some are baffled by it. I've been exploring Plurk for the past month and this review gives my take on it. Plurk has a lot to offer. I've been on Twitter for a while but Plurk offers some improvements on the interface, especially in terms of conversation. See what y

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I've been playing with Plurk and so far I love it, though I miss my Twitter friends. It has a lot of good features and seems slightly more stable than Twitter has been recently. I haven't given up on Twitter, but Plurk looks good. Here's an excerpt from my review:

What I like about Plurk is that you can use lots of differ

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Working in the Caribbean has got to be a dream, right? Wrong. Like anywhere, there are joys and pains when working in this idyllic setting. This post gives the good, the bad and the ugly and tells how the writer solved some of the major issues to create a freelancing paradise. If you want to know how to cope with creepy crawlie

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How do you handle it when someone criticises you? If someone rubbishes your blog post do you behave like Tyrannosaurus Rex? See what a great children's story can teach us about taking criticism from those who buy our writing and blogging services. See how you stack up against the big lizards, and find other ways of dealing wit

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Are you a bandwagon blogger? This post says: I’m tired of reading about crap that people don’t put into practice.' In other words, if you're going to blog about it, it had better be real. Harry of Men with Pens tears a strip of bloggers that fake it in this thought provoking post. Check out the comments thread. It is certainl

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The Parents' Guide To Blogging is loosely inspired by the book Everything I Need To Know About Life I Learned In The Playground, which I've never read. This post highlights how the lessons I learned as a child can help with having a successful blog. What does it mean to play nicely in blogging terms? Is it a waste of time to

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Can you plagiarize without even knowing it? For some people, it can be difficult to make the distinction between quoting and copying. Using just a bit of someone else's work may not seem like a bad thing, but if you do it without saying where it comes from that's stealing. This is one of my all time pet peeves, so here's a m

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I love Firefox and consider it the best browser ever. That's why I wanted to record some of my favourite add-ons, but in a specific category. Have you got some favourite Firefox plugins for blogging? I certainly have - and some of them are not what you might think. Here are the plugins that help me blog better and why I like t

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Have you ever wondered why MS Word makes some truly appalling suggestions on the grammar check. This post tells you why it's a mistake to count on Word exclusively to tidy up your writing and points out some researchers who have put Word's grammar check to the test and found it wanting. There are some hilarious examples of e

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Writers and bloggers - have you ever been scammed? Sucks, doesn't it? Read this roundup of common scams which affect those who write for a living. I tell you how I've been burned and the tricks I use to avoid being scammed again. I've even had to send in the heavies to get my money back. My top tip is to listen to your BS-om

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Adsense? YPN? Kontera? Commission Junction? Clickbank? How do you make money from your blog. I've been checking out some of the popular advertising methods to see which ones paid off. Read about my experience with Adsense, what turns me off about Kontera and the pain of the search for affiliate products that really work for my

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How do you really spend the time when you should be working? I bet you do less actual work than you think. That's what I found when I tried an unobtrusive time tracker called RescueTime. There are all sorts of tasks that go into making successful writers and bloggers, and only a few of those are the writing themselves. There'

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Is it possible to write a decent travel piece about somewhere you've never seen? Some people ask freelance writers to do just that. That's the fun of being a web content writer.

So how do you do it? This post outlines some of the sources and techniques used to write a competent article on unseen cities. It also shows how you can improve

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It couldn't have come at a worse time. The end of the year always brings a rush to get things accomplished and I, like many others, am busier than ever. I could type one-handed, but it would take hours and I might ruin the other hand. So what can you do in a situation like this? Here are some strategies for keeping your busine

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