Doteasy - Get a Free iPod Shuffle When Signing up Thru June 30th

Free iPod Shuffle I love Doteasy. I host a lot of my mini sites with them. They're very reliable, and inexpensive if you need to host multiple website or even a single one. Until June 30th if you register a new unlimited hosting account with them you'll get a free 512 MB iPod Shuffle. How cool is that......better hurry though not much time left.

Free WebBased Email- Mailinator- No Registration Required

Mailinator OK, so web based email addresses are a dime a dozen, but this one is different. No registration is required and you can make up any email address on the fly. For example if I want to be merleATmailinator or contactATmailinator.com then I log into their site using the beginning part of the email address and there's the email. This would be perfect for those times you want to download a free product but don't want to use your business email address and still be able to get the product delivered to your inbox. Very cool! Check it out ...

Third Party Programs Based on Google Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps With the release of Google's new SiteMaps other third party services have relased generators and validators to assit you with this new too. The following are links to programs that support SiteMaps.

Merle's Mission Ezine Posted Online

Today's issue of Merle's Mission Ezine is now posted in PDF format at
http://www.merlesworld.com/archives/MM061505.pdf

This week's issue looks at alternatives to PayPal for your online business. If you use PayPal and no other third party provider you'll want to make sure you know what options you have. Enjoy!

Create Google Sitemaps Online

SitemapsPal Google announced last week a new service called "SiteMaps"....see it here http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps. The intention of Site Maps is to enable Google to crawl your site more often and faster when you make changes to it. Well, to use SiteMaps you have to use a certain format of code and upload it to your website. My question was how do I make the file? No longer a problem. Today's site, SiteMaps is an online generator that will create the needed file for you. Just enter your domain and generate...check it out...

Where To Submit Your Podcasts

Podcast Directories Robin Good has the skinny on Podcast directories. If you have a podcast you need to get it listed in the various directories that exist for this purpose so people can find you. Robin has collected a nice list to get you started so get busy!

Google AdSense - New Ad Formats

Google Link Units For those of you who run Google Adsense Ads on your websites for some extra cash you know about link units. They came out not too long ago as another format in which you can place ads on your site. Now Google has added to their new family member with some horizontal link units, before they were all verticals. Check it out...

No Time to Listen? Have Your RSS Feeds Read to You

Speakwire RSS newsfeeds Yea, yea, I love RSS feeds and subscribe to about 30 or so but the problem is finding the time to read them all. Enter Speakwire. This new service will read feeds outloud to you. You can choose from the feeds they have listed or copy and paste any feed into the box and prepared to listen. It's pretty cool even if the voice is a bit robotic and stiff. Just think of the benefits you can surf the net or do other work while Speakwire reads the latest updates from your fav feeds. Check it out...

Netimperative - Google works with Web publishers to improve search

Netimperative - Google -New Service: Google has launched a new service called SiteMaps as an additional way to get your website content indexed faster. You can find out more at http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps.

Google Code: Summer of Code

Google Code: Summer of Code: Calling all wannabe programmers. Google will provide a $4500 award to each student who successfully completes an open source project by the end of the Summer. Google's Summer of Code is now open....."

Google- Personalized Pages

Google- New Service If you like portals like Yahoo's or MSN's then Google's new offering might just be the thing you've been looking for. Take all of the Google features you use on a regular basis and put them all on your very own personalized home page. Add stocks, weather, quote of the day, even drivng directions and more. To register visit the link above.

Merle's Mission Ezine- Latest Issue

If you're not a subscriber to my ezine "Merle's Mission" you should be. You'll love it! Just my opinion of course but I'm full of those. The latest issue has been posted online in PDF format for your reading pleasure, print it out and enjoy!
http://www.merlesworld.com/adtracking/lm.pl?mm051505

Open Media Network- The Future of Public TGV & Radio

Open Media Network: "OMN is a free public service designed to help you enjoy a broad selection of movies, public TV and radio, video blogs and podcasts while protecting producer's copyrights." If you have a podcast you can submit it here.

FTC Seeks Input on CAN-SPAM Tweaks

CAN-SPAM Tweaks Can Spam, did it help? There are people on both sides of this issue but I don't see any improvement on my end. Hundreds of junk emails flow into my inboxes daily. Yikes! Read over some new proposed changes to the act...

Blogger Help : On the Go with Blogger Mobile

Blogger Mobile Want to have some fun with your cell phone? Now you can email your pictures and posts right from your cell phone to your very own Mobile Blog. Leave it to Google to come up with such a cool, fun service. To get your own Blog send an email from your cell phone to go.blogger.com but be aware at this time not all carriers support this service. Read more at Blogger Help...

The Latest Issue of Merle's Mission Ezine Now Online

The latest issue of Merle's Mission Ezine has now been posted online. It's in PDF format so you can print it out easily and at 14 pages you might want to. This week's issue reviews Joel Comm's ebook that explains how to make more money with Google Adsense.

Read it now at
http://www.merlesworld.com/archives/MM_043005.pdf

Yahoo! Search - Video Search

Yahoo Now you can search the web for videos with Yahoo's new video search capabilities. If you fancy yourself some sort of artist you can even upload your own home made movies.

eVoice - Voice mail to Email, Local phone numbers

eVoice Need a phone number for your web based business? Evoice gives you your very own number that takes voice mail messages for you then sends them to you by email. The free service has limitations but if you want more options such as checking your messages from a touch tone phone you can upgrade to the premiun service for only 4.95 a month.

Audioblog.com - Create&Publish Podcasts and Videoblogs

Audioblog.com Podcasting is cool right now. If you'd like to give it a go Audio Blog has a new service that allows you to easily create your own Podcast only RSS feeds that is also compatible with most major blog services. You can Podcast by p hone for up to 60 minutes, record videoblogs using their BlogRecorder, add multiple weblogs and much more. Try it free for 7 days and if you like it a basic account is only 4.95 a month.

GasBuddy.com - Find cheap gas prices in your city

GasBuddy.com The price of gas is rediculous lately. We all know it but unless you want to get out your bike or walk you have to buy it. Believe it or not the price does vary widely depending on where you fill up. Here's a handy dandy search function that allows you to put in your zip code and it comes back with the prices of gas in your neighborhood. Next time you're pinching pennies, try to get the best deal on gas you can.