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Taking trips during vacation can be an adventure, one of my trips was to Walt Disney World. This trip to Walt Disney World was so exciting, we could not sleep the night before, about half way there we stopped at a campground to relax and prepare ourselves to the final leg of the trip. When we arrived a WDW and went through the front gates it was like a different world that we every knew. There was some thing that all of could enjoy. From Adults to children there was something for all to see and take part in. Our first adventure was simulator that cover different countries enables everyone to learn something new about our counter parts in different countries of the world.

At night Walt Disney World had long parades on main street with music playing as the parade floats traveled down the street. Each float was covered with lights to be easy seen in the dark. The float riders were Disney characters, they had their costumes covered in lights, these characters were all of your Disney favorites and would wave and throw candy to the crowd that was watching the parade. After the parade we traveled back to our camp ground for a nap.

The next day the went on the adventure rides, include the adventure tour where you get to meet every single President of the United States, the stage show last about 20 minutes, I under stand that is one of Walt Disney’s favorite. Some of the other adventures we took was across the Rivers of America and then we docked at Tom’s Landing. Then we viewed the mysterious caves, the cool swinging suspension bridges, traveled some of the rugged trails and had a good time this exploring adventure. Oh yes one our favorites trips was on a glass bottom boat. This glass bottom boat would all you to view all the different species of fish. This was a trip of the lifetime. On my next trip of the life I would like to go with more of us. The next trip will be planned a long time in advance. If you are into saving money like myself, The folks at OrlandoFunTickets.com will help you save money with discount disney tickets for your next Disney Vacation. I will need them next time because I would like to travel with about 3 or 4 families and the more children the better.

StumbleUpon is getting more that Lipstick on a pig, so to speak. The new StumbleUpon wll become a toolbar-free version. The old design required thay you download a toolbar for StumbleUpon to function properly. The StumbleUpon homepage is receiving a complete makeover with a new innovative header to the StumbleUpon site.

StumbleUpon now lets us users able to check the most selected articles, top pictures and top videos that the StumbleUpon community has marked for you as popular.

When every a story or article is discovered via someone using StumbleUpon, it will be ranked on a scale 0-5 stars. The numbers are based of course on thumbs up, size of the website reviews, and other parameters. Cool stuff will have to start back using more.

Social Catalyst

We all like to have our website sell products and receive payments from customers. That is we got involved with the internet anyway. The shopping cart has been one of the biggest ecommerce tools used on our websites, next having your website to accept money for whatever your products are. I like to have payments come up in my account daily. You control of how your ecommerce business runs and its success is due to your ability to accept these payments for merchandise. Also merchant accounts makes accounting of income and expense tracking better.

Now there are some types of legitimate businesses that are considered high risk payment acceptance companies example, telemarketing, MLM, Adult Entertainment, all considered “high risk”. These High Risk business still need to be able to provide customers with safe secure and efficient payment methods from their customers. If you have a High risk business of need of a merchant account, with a better than industry credit card processing rate,  then check out the folks of Orbit Payments. Orbit will provide you with a dedicated merchant account for your business to accept the payment transactions that will be handled with a consistent level of accuracy and professionalism. Also putting money in your pocket. Orbit offers you the be benefits of multi-currency payments and settlements and customizable transaction descriptors. Making your business profitable.

The blog tracking firm Technorati has re-done its site to reflect which blog posts are most popluar duringa a certain time. That is a handy feature that would change just about every day. Now to out do Technorati, Google blog search has revamped there blog that provides blog posts organized  by topic(Google Clusters) are sorted by most popular stories.  Each Google cluster comes with the Google Trends-like graph that will tell you the quanity of posts from blogs that been created related to the given topic during each hour of the day. Google putting a little we can outdue your site on Technorati. Next I think we will see Technorati stepping up to out do the Google blog search site. It will be fun to track.

Please Technorati this story. Thanks

Social Catalyst

One of the problems with the internet and usage is everyone has its own instant messenger, its own email and your favorite social network aggregator. So many so that it can get confussing. I know on the instant messenger services all act and perform different, it sure would be nice if all were the same. This also include email, email services are such a pain, sometimes you cannot send email between the diffent one for some reason.  Fast forward to the current state of the internet with Digsby, Digsby offers a universal instant messenger, universal email and a universal grouping social network aggregator. The Holy Grail of internet communication management. I am going to give it a try. Hope it reduces my headaches.

Two of the largest forces in Social media advertising, SocialMedia and Buddy Media are combining to become the social media advertising go-to outfit. Buddybrain has effect ways that allow brands to track their social media ad campaigns in detail. This detail tracking gives brands greater insight into how their customers use and view their ads and app-vertisements. The combined partnership will prepare the social media user onslaught of applications that are also ads and fast rising mobile ads.  I think there will be more partnership-mergers of this type as the Social media market matures.

Yes social media has found its way down to childern. Looks like the social media networks have adapted to a need of young children with their own social networking site. The site MyCBBC has even reached an amazing 100K registered users in four months. That is an amazing figure. One of their focus is for safe social media tools for younger childern. The eight to 11 year olds have been left out of Bebo, Myspace and Facebook. The MyCBBC Network is fitted with tigher safety demands for younger childern. What next 1 to 7 year olds?

Finally fall is on its way, we are just a few weeks away for the great month of October. In October you are just almost mid way into the football season, the weather starts cooling off and you get to decorate your yard with ghosts and the house with a Halloween tree. Yes a Halloween tree. Green tree with orange lights, different? or Something different. It does make the house look like fall because the weather will stay in the high 80’s until just about the end of October, then the cooler weather comes.

My family has already been shopping at the brick and mortar stores for fall/Halloween merchandise, the one thing I remember is the Nightmare before Christmas Halloween card that talks and wishes you halloween. The store have increased the shopping time for Halloween costumes by bringing them out in the stores in August. The Brick & Mortar stores have been promoting fall and Halloween for the last several years. I have noticed there are alot of Star Wars, Ironman, Kung-fu panda, Indiana Jones, Batman and many other costumes available for children and adults. The places I like to shop a larger selection of costumes form an online Halloween Costume Stores. You can view just about any costume known to man in a very quick time along with a few clicks have the costume delivered to the house. Sweet. Meaning more time to blog.

Maybe a Dark Knight costume this year.

It has been a few years since I have been to Los Angeles, LA has a lot to offer nice weather year round, lots of businesses and many people. With large LA populations you have many entertainment opportunities giving you the opportunity to get into a little trouble. If you get into trouble in LA, you must is it nice to have one of the Top 5% U.S. criminal defense law firms there, The law firm is Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin, LLP. These attorneys are former Los Angeles Prosecutors are Certified Criminal Law Specialists, with a combined 50 years defense experience specialize in defending all misdemeanor and felony criminal & DUI charges in Southern California Courts.

These specialized Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorneys | Frequently Asked California Criminal Law Questions, are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, these attorneys are just a phone call away for a confidential consultation, should you need them.

This is one of the numbers I will take with me the next time I go to and SEO/SEM or Social Media Seminar/convention in LA. Best to always be prepared.

Tired of reading lots of news and information websites. Want to filter kyour news and information that is personally relevant to you? Want to get personalized news via folks who share your topic of interest or interests? Then there is a new social news network site for you, SocialMedian. Social Median is news network connecting people with information and news that is personalized to your likes and or dis-likes. Save time and effort by setting your topics of interest. I been able to find more in one place than searching for an hour. Boy I save some time for blogging.

Once you sign up to Social Median and join some news networks The SocialMedian android starts to present you with stories on topic from thousands of sources worldwide.  Many hours of time savings.

Do you ever notice no matter how much you try to track something on the internet, there is always an addition and subtraction almost everyday.  Well is no different in the Social Media Industry, there is a new social site popping up everyday or should I say multiplying like rabbits. Then you will have a few drop as they get bored or just not making any money.

I have accumalated a list of social media websites. I been putting together this list for a long time. If I left off yours or one you know, please post them in comments so I may add them to the list. This list have gotten pretty massive over 200 links to social media sites. With this large number They will have a page by themselves.

Social Media Sites