If social networking hasn’t already dominated the news enough lately, it now has some more NEW news. Time Magazine has named Mark Zuckerberg as their PERSON OF THE YEAR! Interesting enough Facebook is being run by Zuckerberg and other management in a way that seems to be a little unique (and catching the attention of the outside world) from every other business. For instance, the Facebook office is one big space with no cubicles, no offices and no walls. All management and even Zuckerberg, do not have an office. This brilliant concept called Facebook was started in a dorm room back in 2004, and now look at what impact it is having on businesses and people around the world!
Some of the past recipients that have been named the Time Magazine person of the year were presidents, royalty and other prestigious individuals that had accomplished something very large in society. Therefore, Zuckerberg receiving this award brings not only attention to him and his brilliance, but also the award brings some more attention to social networking sites. I would like to know…. where will social networking sites and other internet related platforms be in 5 years… how about in 10 years?

It’s time to look back over the year at our accomplishments, as well as the things we wished to or still need to fulfill for ourselves and others. Our clients need us as much as we need them – we are all connected as a large network and our success is always dependent on the connections we have created and maintained. We can end the year strong and better ourselves starting today. Give back to all your partners and show them gratitude as each one of them helped you one way or another to get you where you are at. 2011 can bring you the opportunity to accomplish great things!

The anticipation of checking your email and finding out what the Groupon deal of the day will be brings excitement and many desirable discounts! If you have not heard of the website Groupon which offers 1 deal per day according to your zip code, you have probably been living under a rock.

Two years ago, 29 year old Andrew Mason founded Groupon and now employees nearly 1,000 people. The Groupon site emails its members daily with over 200 discounts on multiple retail websites – deals only become “active” or avalible to be purchased when the first person agrees to make the purchase – the deal expires if it does not reach the minimum number or people willing to purchase and becomes unavailable to anyone.

Groupon is currently described by Forbes as “the world’s fastest growing company”, which may give insight to Google placing an offer on the table to purchase the site for $5.3 billion. Yahoo reportedly offered Mason $2 billion in April of 2010, but the deal did not close because the dollar amount was not enough.

Groupon makes its money by taking a cut of each sale and has a projected turnover of $500 million this year. In June Groupon registered 8 million subscribers to its daily email, with nearly 12 million unique visitors monthly to its website.

CALLING ALL PUBLISHERS!!!!

Leadpile is looking for additional traffic to our holiday payday loan offer. This is the time of the year when trying to match up those consumers with the much needed holiday cash is important. If you are looking at generating additional revenue during this holiday season, reach out to your Leadpile Affiliate Manager. We will accept PPC, SEO, email, and banner traffic to this offer. Payouts are up to $96.00!

Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes has introduced a new site named Jumo, which will work much like Facebook only this site is to help a project or issue of your choice. As Facebook has become a very common social network, Jumo aims to be a social network that also gives back to your community. With Jumo, issues such as cancer, public schools, poverty and 3,500 other organizations are brought to light.

Each individual one has their own page with information on the cause like how to help, locations of these places, and who you would need to contact. Providing information or “likes” about yourself can connect you to issues that you personally are interested in or local areas that may need your help.

While Facebook is concentrated on things like friends and social gatherings, Jumo offers a place for people to gather to share or explore issues that others are also concentrated on. Although many focus on the Holiday season to give back, this new site is an outlet to bestow charity all year long.

This is the time of year when all of us start shopping for our holidays gifts. Unfortunately, some are not able to afford the holidays, so they are looking for a short term loan to get them by. Leadpile wants to be able to provide those consumers with the much needed loan.

If you are generating payday loan leads and are looking for an additional place to try and place those leads, please reach out to Leadpile.

GOT WEEKEND traffic too??

Leadpile is looking for additional WEEKEND traffic for our *exclusive* lenders!

Acceptance: 7-10%
Payout: $20.00 CPA
Schedule: All day Saturday and Sunday
Basic filters:
*No military
*Checking account with direct deposit only
*Employed ONLY
*ALL pay periods accepted
Allowed traffic: PPC, SEO, Display and email

Never give up on trying to build new business relationships. Keep in mind it sometimes takes many attempts for a new business partnership inquiry to turn one into a “live/working” relationship. Don’t give up on just reaching out to a few people a few times, because sometimes the best new business relationships take some hard work and patience with follow up.

If there weren’t enough search engines to try and keep up with, there is now one more to try out- BLEKKO. Digitaltrends.com is reporting that this new search engine is certainly unique compared to the others out there. Do you ever search for something on Google and a bunch of unrelated/unimportant websites appear in your search results? I know I have and now this new search engine is promising that this sort of thing is not going to happen when you perform your searches. Using “slashtags” is what is being said will differentiate Blekko from the other search engine’s search results. These slashtags will help to improve results in the initial search categories: health, colleges, autos, personal finance, lyrics, recipes and hotels. For example, you should be able to search amongst the millions of websites and be able to pull up sites that are not spam or unrelated websites. Blekko is currently in beta mode, but try it out. Looks like something totally different than Google!

Yesterday, Google announced that they will be paying their users when they come across problems that have to do with security and bugs. Varying on the specific problem someone discovers, they can be paid anywhere from $500-$3,000.

Google tried a similar program in January with the Chromium Vulnerability reward program which showed many positive results from users finding bugs. These bugs include things such as server-side code execution, bypass authorization errors and more. Google says they are trying to protect their web properties from bugs

“…which directly affects the confidentiality or integrity of user data may be in scope…”.

Aside from a cash reward, the user who discovers a bug will also be given the option to get twice as much money if they donate it to a charity, and they will also be given notice on the credits of the new program.

Being an online company, Leadpile understands the importance of having programs that operate smoothly with as little complications as possible. Having a user involved in the process can broaden their ability to figure these types of problems out.

To help get you into the spirit this year,  iphones are offering Halloween apps to make the day a little more fun. The apps range from scary to silly and a couple of things in-between. Here are a few of the apps you may want to try out yourself;

Zombie Booth: Take a picture of yourself and see it transformed into a zombie. The app is also 3D, causing your zombie self to look at you as you touch the screen.

True Blood Comics: This app offers 6 different comics based on the HBO series.

Devil Reverse: Lets you take any type of recording from songs to dialogue and plays it in reverse.

SceneIt Horror: Based on the popular SceneIt games, this app is a movie trivia game focused on details of scary/horror movies.

Halloween Postage: This app turns a photo you take into different Halloween-themed post cards.

Enjoy and have a Happy Halloween!

It seems the creator of the Facebook is not a fan of the recently released movie “The Social Network”. Many were curious to know if the new social network movie was in fact reality, or “Hollywood”? According to the Yahoo movie blog, Mark Zuckerburg, does not agree with a lot of what the movie depicts about his famous social networking site. One major thing that seems to be depicted wrong was the fact that the movie inferred that Facebook was created out of anger for being dumped by a girl, and that was not in fact the case.
Seen the movie??? What do you think? Thumbs up, or thumbs down?

According to new reports done by The International  Telecommunication Union, by the end of this year there will be 2 billion internet users worldwide. Although people all over the world are going online, the gap between countries that are still developing versus those that are more technologically advanced is still considerably large.

Just having access to high-speed internet is giving other countries more of an opportunity to connect. The ITU says that internet usage has actually doubled in the last 5 years. With only about 8% of the population currently using Broadband, it is supposed to help make an impact on the market by connecting more people in the future. Leadpile thrives on the usage of the internet as many from around the world are beginning to do the same.