Paid Reviews
Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
at 5:50pm
The following is a sponsored review through PayPerPost. Although i’m getting paid to do it, i’ll give my honest opinion.
The Samsung G600 5 megapixel camera phone is serious piece of kit. Like more and more phones out there, it’s debateable whether or not you can call it a ‘phone’ anymore due to the 5mp camera and various multimedia goodies. My n95 also has a 5mp camera along with an endless list of stuff, and it’s great to see more manufacturers pushing the boundaries on phones with regards powerful camera/video/mp3 capabilities.
Anyway, the G600 is slim, sexy and Samsung are marketing it as ‘the image conscious phone’. I haven’t got my hands on one so obviosuly i can’t say much about it. The reason Samsung ordered this review however was more to publicize their ‘Queue Jumpers’ competition and the fun that this little beast of a phone captures on nights out clubbing 
Basically, 300 people were snapped in various clubs on a G600. Their pictures are up here and we, the public, vote for our favourite person/snap. The 15 people with the most votes gets a G600 for themselves. Some hot girls in there by the way 
In fact, 14 of the current top 15 are female 
Samsung also have a facebook poll running which will pick out 15 more winners of a G600, the full 30 winners are then put into a hat.
One lucky winner also gets a free photoshoot with a top agency worth £10,000 
So i guess we have the power to decided who wins what. It’s certainly an ‘out of the box’ idea for a competition and pretty clever as the competition fits in nicely with the brand image Samsung are trying to create, so hat’s off to the guys at samsung.
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
at 10:36pm
Lunarpages Coupons ordered a ReviewMe review, so this is a sponsored post.
Lunarpages: What are they, who are they?
Lunarpages are a web hosting company located in the US. As it happens, this site is currently hosted on their servers So obviously i’m a fan of Lunarpages, their prices and their service. If i wasn’t, i wouldn’t be a customer. For more info on recommended hosts check out my webmaster deals page.
They offer everything from basic shared hosting (a few bucks a month) right up to VPS and dedicated servers, so whatever your needs, i’m pretty sure you’ll find something to cover them with Lunarpages.
A lot of people harp on about how it’s best to have your site hosted locally (within the country)… that’s rubbish imo. People want the cheapest host, that’s reliable and provides good customer support when you need it. Lunarpages ticks all those boxes in my experience.
Lunarpages Coupons
http://www.lunarpagescoupon.net/ offer you discounts/coupons on all sorts of different hosting packages. You *can* find these coupons by googling and browsing about.. that’s the way i did it when i was first joining Lunarpages, but LunarpagesCoupon.net make life so much easier by displaying all the offers under the one roof :cool:The site itself is a blog, hosted by wordpress, with a few posts displaying the codes you need when buying anything off Lunarpages. Pretty basic, simple, but it’s useful and that’s the most important thing 
It helps us save money and therefore it can only get a thumbs up from me
Conclusion
Lunarpages Coupons provide cheap, reliable and a quick service. They are without doubt the best host i’ve used, and i’ve used a few. In bang for the buck terms, you’ll find it hard to beat them, and use lunarpagecoupons.net, and it stretches that bang for the buck even further
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
at 8:58pm
www.tigertom.org.uk ordered a review from PayPerPost, so this is a paid review but that won’t influence my opinion of it.
Introduction
Search engine = Google. That’s the way it is to put it bluntly.
I’m sure yahoo and msn might have a thing or two to say about that, but Google really have cemented their role as the no.1 search engine. Integrated with adsense across millions of sites, integrated into browsers like firefox, set as the default homepage for most PC’s…
So TigerTom will not replace google, it will not ‘beat’ google, nothing will… but then again i’m sure Tiger Tom doesn’t want to beat Google. The reality is google is great for most people, but there’s always a small group of people who complain about google’s love of wikipedia or blogs for example.. the integrated adsense on searches etc..
TigerTom
TigerTom offers something different, but with the same quick and simple style we’ve come to expect from search engines..
On their homepage, they display the most popular search terms, which is pretty handy if you’re up for some surfing around and want to check out what people are searching for.
TigerTom also have an audio, images, news and shopping search feature. At the minute, they all seem to be down or not working yet as the engine won’t return any results for common words like flower, eminem etc..
TigerTom displays a list of related searches along with 20 results per search. Google just displays 10 results per page.
Conclusion
Design wise and colour wise, it’s all a bit straight and boring, not very web 2.0. Results do differ from google, yahoo etc.. so if you can’t find what you’re looking for, it may be worth a shot..
The domain name, mixed with design mean TigerTom isn’t going rock the search engine world, but as i said before, i’m sure they’re just trying to get some exposure and establish themselves as an alternative to the big guns like google, msn, yahoo etc..
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
at 8:44pm
BlogRush is a new traffic networking service which i blogged about a couple of weeks ago..
You signup, display a widget and other members’s posts are then displayed on your widget and vice-versa.. the more people you refer to blogrush, the more you posts are displayed across the network.
These guys have the contacts and know how, that’s for sure.. it’s remarkable how quickly it’s grown since launch as i see a blogrush widget on about 90% of blogs i visit this is a sponsored review through PayPerPost so they’re certainly getting maximum exposure in the blog world 
At the minute, the stats section is down for maintainence so i can’t comment on my stats, but last time i checked i’d only received one or two click throughs from it from like 2000 impressions..
That’s pretty poor but then again we can’t be too critical here as BlogRush is literally fresh out of the box and they’re bound to have teething problems.. they’ve introduced new colours due to demand and they’ve also sent out an email to members, promising some major changes so i eagerly await those
Have a Blog? Join in and Get Massive Traffic
Friday, September 21st, 2007
at 11:56pm
About a week ago, i blogged about how i’d just ordered 250 business cards from vistaprint.
So when i seen they’d ordered a few blog posts through the PayPerPost marketplace, i was grinning to myself as i’m already a customer and have used their service, so less work for me Anyway, this is a sponsored post, but as usual i’ll be honest/neutral throughout..
Business cards were something i always wanted but never got around to getting.. they’re cheap, handy to give out to people and a great way to drum up extra business and awareness… but if you’re like me, you’re probably too lazy to go into the local print shop and get some
So like everything else, we can get them on the net cheaper and from the comfort of our own home All thanks to VistaPrint’s business cards online. Currently, they are offering 250 FREE business cards. You just pay for postage which is like $5. I guarantee you if you go in to a local shop and ask for 250 business cards, you’ll be charged more than that
They are also your one stop shop for everything printed related; t-shirts, postcards, folders, envelopes, rubber stamps… you name it.
The site is easy to navigate and very straightforward so ordering something is hassle free and just a few clicks away. Another sweetener is the fact they offer an affiliate system.. $2.00 per accepted referral, plus that referral gets 25% off all products 
So i’ve already ordered the free business cards from VistaPrint, and i’m sure i’ll be using them again in the future
