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Good News! We are giving away a free copy of Microsoft Expression Web to one random member of Zubby.Com This is the Full Version *Not An Upgrade* with a retail value of $299 according to Microsoft's Web Site [Microsoft Web Site] This software has never been registered or Opened We will determine the winner by December 1st 2007! The winner will be chosen at random. In order to qualify you must register for the Zubby.Com web site, & be at least 18 years of age. 
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Social networking sites offer several benefits to members, many of which are just plain fun. There are so many things to do once you register that it can take some time to get a taste of everything. For those who have not discovered social networking sites, it is definitely time to crawl out from under your rock.
What is Social Networking?
At the basic level, social networking is simply the process of interacting with those in your social group, as well as meeting new people to include in that group. Before the internet became a standard feature in many households, your social group typically included people you met at school or work, and they generally lived nearby. You went out to clubs and restaurants, or maybe had a barbecue in the backyard whenever you wanted to interact with each other.
Not to say that backyard barbecues and nights on the town are a thing of the past, but social networking sites have certainly changed the concept of social networking. Your network is no longer limited to the people in your neighborhood, or even people in your country, and socializing does not require one dime to be spent on food or fuel.
How Does it Work?
While every social networking site has its own special attractions, there are some basic features that carry across them all. Once you register for an account with a social networking site, you receive your own personal page within the site. That page serves as your portal to the outside world.
Every social networking page contains basic profile information, but not every page is the same. Remember that your page is yours, and you are free to decorate and design in any way that makes you happy, as long as you stay within the guidelines established by the site. What you put on your profile page, from your picture to your graphics, is the first glimpse that other people have of you.
Of course, graphics and text are not the only enhancements that you can make to a page. You can add videos, upload photo albums, and add music to your profile page. There are even free music players that will let you add a variety of songs to the player and then place it on your page.
Social networking sites also let you start your own blog with no extra setup. Blogs are your chance to let the world read your innermost secrets and mindless ramblings. Blogs can also be a way to market your business, promote your favorite cause, or rant about things that make you want to pull your hair out. Think of it as an invisible, non-judgmental therapist that is available at all points in time.
So, What’s the Point?
Social networking sites are just plain fun. Once you set up your profile page, other registered users from around the world can look at your profile and decide whether they want to get to know you. If they would like a chance to be friends, they simply request that you add them to your friends list. Of course, you can look at other people’s profiles and make requests, too. Where else can you make friends with a sales executive in London while getting to know an unsigned blues band in Colorado?
There is an old saying, though, that goes, “Make new friends and keep the old…” The same applies with social networking. You can look up a high school friend or a college roommate and have the chance to reconnect. Granted, you may quickly remember why you haven’t stayed in contact over the years, but you will at least have the chance to know how they are and where they have gone.
Social networking sites are also an excellent way to keep in touch with family members. While some families live in the same neighborhood, some do not even live in the same country. Profile pages can be used to give the latest news without a long-distance phone call, and family pictures can be shared without worrying about lost mail.
Some people even choose to use social networking sites to promote their businesses. Photos of the business or products allow people to see what is being offered, and the blog feature makes it possible to entice visitors to check out your business. This can be especially helpful for online businesses. Some marketers also use social networking sites to both increase their popularity and enhance their image as an expert in the field.
What’s the Catch?
Social networking sites are not perfect. Because they are free of charge to registered users, site owners must find other ways to cover the cost of the site. Typically, keeping the site free means displaying advertisements to users. Unfortunately, the ads can easily become too much, and the site becomes cluttered with advertisements. When that happens, profile pages become less attractive, and users tend to be unhappy with the view.
Another downside to social networking sites is the risk to children. Not all adults on the internet are child-friendly, and there are predators on social networking sites just as they are anywhere else. Some social networking sites require users to be a minimum age, and they allow users to block their profiles from the general public. In order to see the profile, send a message, or leave a comment on a restricted profile, you must be added to their friends list. Other sites have begun allowing users to not only block a harassing member from their page, but also to report the offender.
All in all, social networking sites are a great way to meet new people, make friends, and connect with people from your past. You can build relationships, build a reputation, or build a business with the click of a button. If you haven’t made the leap into the future of social networking, you may want to get started.
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Well, Zubby has 986 more available positions open for someone just like you to join in on a revenue share with the web site once it is successful.
Each day more & more people are visiting and we hope to grab them and build a real community.
If you are interested in becoming one of the 1000 members who will share revenue once we begin making money than sign up today and try to get some of your friends to join you. If myspace offered this, can you image what the first 1000 members would be making right now?
Think about it and why not give it a shot?
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Zubby.com will reward it's first 1000 members financially as Zubby.Com becomes successful.
Zubby.Com has decided to reward the first 1000 members financially for their hard work and efforts in getting new people to join the web site.
We do not know exactly how or how much yet but we can tell you that it will be a residual reward which means as Zubby makes money through various avenues you will begin to earn money as well. We do not have anything in place yet but once we do you will find out exactly how through the special group created here on Zubby.Com.
Now, please understand that we can not make any Guarantees at this time as to what you would receive if anything. Zubby needs to begin signing up new members and implement some sort of advertising structure to make money itself. However, we can guarantee that if we make money than so will you & in order for us to make money we need your help. We need you to begin promoting Zubby.com and getting people to join. Please do not spam anyone as we do not allow spamming and if you are found spamming than you risk the chance of losing your first 1000 member status and will no longer be allowed to receive any of the benefits or rewards that we decide to offer.
At closing: once you have signed yourself up, please be sure to join the First 1000 member group when we send you that e-mail. You will not be a part of the first 1000 members until you do join that private group.
So, we look forward to having you join and welcome you to the family.
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Just about everyone who uses the internet has heard of MySpace, but did you know that the internet offers a smorgasbord of social networking sites to choose from? One of the newest of these community sites is Zubby.com, designed as a safe, easy to use, community meeting place which has all the bells and whistles of the larger sites and none of the problems. If you are looking for a social networking site that offers all the tools the larger sites offer without the excessive advertising or the intrusion of government monitoring (warnings are surfacing regarding MySpace), then Zubby.com may well meet with your approval.
Zubby has all the features necessary to make social networking easy. Its central feature is its ‘add friends’ feature which is linked to an email facility which allows you to email friends and relatives to invite them to join you on Zubby. Zubby provides a forum that allows people to post comments and become involved in discussions. It also provides a blog so that members can post articles and comments on issues that concern them. Chatting and the ability to send messages also increase the usability of this new site. An easy to use upload feature for photographs and the creation of galleries assists in the creation of the Zubby community. The addition of quizzes and polls adds to the enjoyable experience offered by this new social networking site.
Social network websites have become a very popular way to create online communities, stay in contact with friends and make new ones. Gone are the days when chatting on the internet meant entering chat rooms and ‘talking’ with strangers which can pose grave risks particularly for young people. Chatting on social network websites is a much safer option since you choose the people you will converse with upfront and have the choice as to whom you add as you go along. Usually, the strangers you meet on social networking sites are added because someone you have included knows them and can vouch for them. This provides a largely safe opportunity to develop online friendships.
Social networking sites are designed to provide social interaction in an online environment you can control. Unfortunately, they seem to have become marketers’ dreams and members are constantly bombarded with advertisements or less obvious marketing strategies. With Zubby, you don’t have to face this busyness or harassment and can simply relax and enjoy the experience on your own terms.
Larger sites like MySpace (pulling in around $30 million a month) have grown like Topsy and do not offer the sense of intimacy that a small, boutique site like Zubby.com provides as a matter of course. Yet Zubby.com is no pale imitation of ‘the real thing’; it offers all the main options and services MySpace and others offer but it does so in an environment unfettered by excessive commercialism. For example, you can download YouTube videos while on Zubby.com or music from registered artists. The set-up process is quick and easy and once a member, the site is easy to navigate.
The best way to discover the benefits of joining Zubby.com is to actually join it, use it for a while and see how it goes. Zubby is a brand new site, so don’t let its newness scare you off. The fact that it is new allows you and other ground floor members to stamp it with your own flavor and point it in a unique direction.
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By: MAY WONG - Associated Press
SAN JOSE, Calif. ---- Apple Inc., the company that popularized selling songs online for 99 cents apiece, now hopes to buoy interest in albums, giving customers credit for purchases of full albums from which they have bought individual tracks.
Apple introduced the "Complete My Album" feature Thursday on its iTunes Store. It now gives a full credit of 99 cents for every track the user previously purchased and applies it toward the purchase of the complete album.
For instance, most albums on iTunes cost $9.99 so a customer who already bought three tracks can download the rest of the album for $7.02.
Previously, users who bought singles and later opted to buy the album had to pay the full price of the album and ended up with duplicates of those songs.
The album price reduction is good for only 180 days after the initial purchase of individual tracks.
Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes, said the new feature should help eliminate the resistance that customers, including himself, may have felt in buying an album after they had already bought a single from it.
"Once we bought a song, we wondered why we had to buy it again if we wanted the album," Cue said. "We hope it helps us sell more songs ultimately, and from the customer point of the view, we think it's the right thing to do."
About 45 percent of the nearly 2.5 billion songs sold on iTunes were purchased as albums, Cue said.
For a limited period of 90 days, Apple said it will make the "Complete My Album" offer retroactive to users who purchased tracks dating back to the launch of the iTunes Store four years ago.
Apple dominates the online music market and is a leading music retailer worldwide behind only Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Best Buy Co. and Target Corp.
Some record label executives have complained about Apple's one-size-fits-all model of 99 cents a track; they would prefer flexible pricing, such as charging more for new releases. Some also contend today's easy access to single song downloads ---- versus the more lucrative method of selling albums ---- hasn't helped the industry's declining sales.
In addition, some artists have complained about how a la carte downloads have wrecked the integrity of albums that are meant to be enjoyed as a single work of art.
Apple plans to maintain its groundbreaking 99-cents-per-download model because "it's exactly what consumers want," Cue said in an interview.
He also said the concept of "albums should exist forever," though they're being redefined in the digital era. Some albums sold on iTunes, for instance, include music videos as part of the package.
Digital technology allows for that kind of flexibility, Cue said, in the same way it allows iTunes to sell a single song and then apply the purchase toward a full album later.
Thomas Hesse, a president of global digital business at Sony BMG Music Entertainment, called "Complete My Album" another "revolutionary" offering from the Cupertino-based company. "ITunes is giving music fans the best of both worlds -- the ability to discover great new music by buying just the single and a credit toward the purchase of the complete album," he said in a statement.
Shares of Apple climbed 51 cents to close at $93.75 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
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According to analyst Richard Greenfield, MySpace generates "in excess of $30 million" a month in revenue, with about $24 million in domestic revenue and $6 million internationally.
Even more impressive, Greenfield estimates that this will double in the next twelve months to $60 million per month.
It certainly pays off to be the number one social networking site in the US. Maybe Google CEO Eric Schmidt was right when he (allegedly) told Murdoch that the MySpace acquisition will prove to be the best deal of his life.
I just started my site and am doing it for fun... I have some Google ads on there but that's about it! I just started today and then I read this... I can't believe the money they are estimating... God, just 1% of that and all I'de have to do is sit home and run the site having fun with all my members! Throwing some kick A** parties with all of you!!!...
Unfortunately my luck has never been that good so I'll stick to my little site, who knows maybe one day right!
If I ever made that kind of money, I would definately give some of it to the members who first helped me get the site going.. Maybe MySpace should look into doing something like that. take say the first 5,000 people who really got them to where they are and give them some of the Pie...
You can bet if Zubby ever made it that's exactly what I would do no question in my mind!
So for ???s and giggles I am going to try my hardest to get 5,000 members and if I do get that many, I am going to put that list aside and keep them in a database and keep close contact with them.. This would actually be a great idea the more I think about it because out of 5,000 people all of the ideas they would have Zubby could really be a kick A** site and built with all the feedback from those first 5k members..
Anyway, I guess I'm dreaming now but wish me luck and see you when you join!
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Zubby. Com Official Launch Date is Coming...
Although Zubby.Com is up and running there are still things that need to be configured and implemented.
Check back here from time to time to see the latest news and information on Zubby.
Tonight I will implement a way for users to add YouTube videos to their profiles.
Many more to come soon....
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