The Sony Vaio VGN-TZ31XN is an awesome device, I wholeheartedly recommend a purchase. When you are able to pick one of these up and if you want portability you really can’t do any better!

My experiences: I recently bought one myself, and I’m totally lyrical about it!
I use it everywhere now. At home / in the train. I travel by train everyday (2 hours back and forth), and now I can use a mouse on the drop down table from the seat in front.
I had been watching the "Netbooks" hype, and I looked into these tiny machines, promising ultimate portability without sacrificing performance. Sadly I found out that most of these cheap netbooks do not live up to their promises. The most important thing I missed with these netbooks was a DVD drive / Writer. Advantages: Small, light, long battery life (5 hours!)

I made a new Squidoo Lens about it: Sony VAIO VGN-TZ31XN.

The ultra-portable Sony VAIO VGN-TZ31XN notebook delivers the power of a larger PC in an elegant 11.1" form factor.

I asked myself this question for a long time: Is article submission wrong? Can I submit my articles to multiple article sites? And how does Google see this? Do you get punished by Google with a "duplicate content" penalty if you do this? I found a very good answer here: Is Article Submission Equivalent to Duplicate Content?

One of the questions I ask myself since I started my quest to earn money on the internet:
   "Which money making site should I join?"
I found a few answers. Here they come.

Investigate the website
One thing you have to look out for when buying a product is "scams". If you don’t know what scams are, read this: http://www.squidoo.com/mlm_scams

You’ll need some sherlock holmes qualities and common sense for these.

- Google the website. Example: let’s say you see an interesting website.
Search in google: interestingwebsite.com scam
You might find information from people that complain about the website, but also people that have had bad experiences with the site.
- Do they sell a product?, or are they only selling you an opportunity to get other people join you?

Check scam information sites
Here’s a few good sites that tell you if programs are legitimate or not. Hover over the links to see a description.

http://www.ratingshub.com/review
http://www.scambusters.org

Check the internet marketing forums
These are forums about making money on the internet in various ways.
Some of the forums have members that are successful internet marketers / enterpreneurs themselves.

http://www.warriorforum.com
http://www.talkgold.com/forum/index.php
http://www.scam.com
http://www.scamfraudalert.com
http://www.wickedfire.com
http://forum.abestweb.com
http://netmarketingforum.com/forum
http://www.rolclub.com
http://www.dreamteammoney.com
http://www.im4newbies.com/forum
http://www.moneymakergroup.com
http://www.ewealth.com
http://www.netbusinesstalk.com

I see myself as a “white hat” internet marketer. I want my information to be helpful and valuable for everyone who reads it. I want to do internet marketing without:

- squeeze pages
- screaming sales pages
- selling people products I can’t stand behind
- empty promises of being able to earn millions in no time.  

"White hat" as opposed to "Black hat" means:

• A "White hat" website follows all the search engine rules. It has content that adds value for people who read it.
• A "Black hat" site uses many dirty / shady techniques:
  - Copying content from other pages.
  - Dynamically generating content using software.

The goal of a white hat marketer is to make money by creating real content that is valuable, while the black hat marketer is only trying to earn money, whatever means necessary.

Understandably, the search engines are not happy with these "Black hat" sites. They fill up their search results with "rubbish" that users hate.

"The perfect search engine," says Google co-founder Larry Page, "would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want."  (Source)

The most important thing google or other search engines want is to provide high quality results.

So my opinion is that attempts to fool people or search services online will only backfire in the long run.

I want this blog to help myself and other starting marketers to be successful in a decent way. Without fooling people, making empty promises or spamming them.