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Everyone remembers the company name IZEA who developed PayPerPost which sparked a controversial argument with Google regarding advertising methods. Google (yes the same company that owns the search engine) developed a ranking system to rank websites against each other by checking linkage popularity on an irregular basis. Google deemed PayPerPost as an unethical way to advertise products and gave all websites that worked with the PayPerPost program, a page rank of 0.

Now IZEA is hitting back with it’s revolutionary new idea called SocialSpark. The first thing I noticed with SocialSpark is that it does not revolve around the Google PageRank unlike PayPerPost, SocialSpark revolves around a much better ranking system called RealRanks (which is also developed by IZEA). This allows us bloggers that were earned a page rank of 0, to once again blog about products and advertising for other companies. As soon as SocialSpark came out of ALPHA testing, it was an instant hit.

I guess the reason why SocialSpark is so popular around bloggers is that it allows us to gain money, it doesn’t pay a massive amount so don’t think you will make a living off it, however SocialSpark does offer a lot especially since there is not much workload and since blogging is what most people love anyway, bloggers do not have anything to lose by trying it out. However it can take some time to get adjusted to this revolutionary system.

Also another key feature that comes with SocialSpark that not many people know of are something I like to call, ethical features… They are as follows:

• 100% Audit-able In-Post Disclosure
• 100% Transparency
• 100% Real Opinions
• 100% Search Engine Friendly

To wrap this post up, not only is SocialSpark a cool way to get money for bloggers, it is also a cool way for advertisers to get their product known for a small price and tons of features. Sign up today by visiting the SocialSpark website using the link below and don’t forget to drop by my SocialSpark blogger profile!

Official SocialSpark Website

Wesimation Blog SocialSpark Profile

The Wesimation Team is proud to announce that planning for game hosting servers for clans, individuals and so much more will be going ahead. We hope to get this stage completed as fast as possible and hopefully we will also get enough investors later on in the game (no pun intended!)

I havn’t been doing much lately but I have found a website that a few people in the U.S. that might be interested in the following information.

Ever wanted cool Police Gear such as a, tactical holster, mag carriers and so much more can be found at LAPoliceGear.com.

Not a whole lot of information is given to us on the home page but after a bit of browsing they have some pretty cool holsters, flashlights and so on. There isn’t much more I can say except go visit the website and have a look at the cool equipment that you can buy from them.

Official LA Police Gear Website

We’re having our first competition and a free domain name and excellent webhosting is up for grabs. The rules are simple, you must tell me why you should be picked out of the possible millions that enter this competition.

This should be done by sending an email to support[at]wesimation[dot]com, (where [at] = @ and [dot] = .) This should be done in the following format:

Your Name:
Domain name (.com, .net, .org, . info):
What you would do with the free website:
If you win can we announce your name on our site?:

It’s that simple but submit your ideas quickly as I will select whatever sounds good straight away and there is no official close off date. The winner will be announced (depends on preference) in a separate post and will be emailed.

Update 18/05/08: Sorry I should have added the actual details of the WebHosting and Domain package, they are as follow:

Disk Space: 100GB
Bandwidth: Up To 5TB
Features:

• x1 Free Domain
• Zero Carbon Emission Hosting (Greenie Hosting)
• Unlimited MYSQL databases
• Email as much as you want
• Full Shell/FTP User Access
• PHP4/PHP5 Support
• One-click installer
• And So Much MORE!

All this for free! What more could you ask for, details on how to enter are still as above, keep those emails coming and it could be you who walks away with this free MASSIVE package! (Valued at around: $129.95 USD Per Year).

Update: This competition is closed as of 1/06/08, 11:54AM

Ever had an old bomb that just wouldn’t do what you wanted it to? Imagine a world with cool new shiny cars that look sleek in design, wonderful engineering and a large range of car model selection.

Look no further the new Chevrolet Europe models are here! The cars are just indescribable so if you want to check out the models go to the official Chevrolet Europe Website! You might also want to check out their hilarious new ad at the bottom of the post and pray that the following does not happen to you…

During my monthly windows update checkup on update Tuesday, I couldn’t help but notice that Windows XP SP3 had been released and yes I still run Windows XP on my other incredibly old PC, (if I could upgrade to Vista I could but the system specs. are just too old).

When I was installing SP3 on Windows XP, I was praying to god that there were major improvements, however I was let down as SP3 contains nothing more than all the old previous updates, that I already had and a few network improvements. Nothing major, however I do like how Microsoft updated their descriptions for a few security settings which now contains a hell of a lot more detail.

As you can see this post is very short as SP3 does not contain a whole lot, however I of course recommend you update to SP3 just in case you missed some updates in the past for whatever reason. However  SP3 is a major disappointment to users like me but then again there’s no point improving a product if there is something better (cough, cough) vista (cough some more).

This is just a short post to say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY JANSON!” For all those that do not remember Janson Cheng here is a brief summary quoted from his Myspace page…

Janson Cheng. 18 years old. Year 12 Student at East Doncaster Secondary College. He is:
An anime freak. Lazy. Annoying. Arrogant. Boring. Obsessive. Lazy. Sarcastic. Ignorant. That pretty much sums it up. Did I mention lazy?

Favourite animes include:

• Naruto (OMGSH Shippuuden is like OMFG AMAZING!!!! It is soooo good)
• Bleach (Kickass!!! no fillers!! Not as good as Shippuuden though)
• Deathnote
• Ouran High (Funny as hell and sweet at times. lol Tamaki Senpai)
• KEKKAISHI!!!! Houi! Jouso! Ketsu! Metsu! lol.

I’m not too sure who made that list of descriptions for Janson but I am sure of one thing and that is, Janson always knows what to say at difficult times and always cheers up people around him with his jokes. Also Janson owns a division of Wesimation.com which is called Jansonsays.com, I wish Janson luck in the future and hopefully he has had an eventful day.

If you read my previous post about the Asus M51SN then you will have noticed my rampage about how people can’t be bothered learning how to use Windows Vista and therefore say crap all about it. However this post will not contain another rampage, rather it will contain the fantastic features included with Windows Vista Ultimate.

The best thing about Windows Vista Ultimate is that people can now use a feature called the ReadyBoost feature. This uses a spare USB key or memory stick in order for more virtual memory, however a word of warning, this is only good if you have a spare USB key and I wouldn’t go to a shop and buy one just for this feature. Buying more RAM is always good but if you have a spare USB key this feature is for you! Even though my laptop (Asus M51SN) has 2GB of RAM, this feature did actually help speed up my system quite a fair bit.

Windows Aero is another good feature, although it does not seem like much, this feature makes your PC look good with minimal performance impact. This can be enabled (must have a supported graphics adapter) or disabled via the cool new and much more logical control panel. The control panel may seem hard to use at first because of it’s new logical design however this is simply solved by using your brain more often and thinking logically. As if these features weren’t good enough for some reason certain applications such as Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) run a lot faster in Windows Vista, this is incredibly weird but also incredibly cool.

If you haven’t used or picked up your local version of Windows Vista Ultimate then you are definitely missing out on some pretty cool stuff. The ultimate edition is recommended even though it costs more as there are no limitations regarding the use of the Operating System (OS). Windows Vista Ultimate receives a 5/5 star rating and is recommended to people that have an open mind, can figure things out for themselves and want to have heaps of fun!

Before I start with this review, I should probably notify you all that Justin Lowmaster has officially left the team due to personal commitments which I don’t think I am liable to discuss. It was great to have Justin on the team even if it were for only a short amount of time, however he has completed his writing work up to Issue #9 which The Wesimation Team will be working on soon.

Anyway to kick start this review off, I must say the Asus M51SN has amazing specs and firepower. First off it can run Counter-Strike: Source at around 200FPS (Frames Per Second) with having the default settings, just keep in mind that the human eye can only see around 60-70 FPS. The GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) to accomplish this is of course the 9500m GS. This notebook also comes with Windows Vista: Ultimate Edition which everyone hates (probably because they have no clue how to use it). In all seriousness, Windows Vista has no issues as long as you keep up to date with the updates. Enough about the performance, the real question is, does everything work?

From what I can see absolutely everything works as long as you have the time to set it all up. These days people are quite lazy, when something doesn’t work the way they intend it to, they simply give up and bag the crap out of the software/hardware. Hopefully the people that bag the crap out of Vista eventually grow up and face that its the best operating system EVER!

Enough of my Vista rampage, you say? Okay, lets move onto… THE SUMMARY! YAY! The Asus M51SN completely owns all notebook out there and much cheaper than a MacBook Pro (priced at around $1,900 AUD). This notebook is recommended for games and anything else you could possibly use a notebook for!

Australian Asus Official Website
Complete Asus M51SN Tech Specs

While waiting for dinner, I was looking for something to post about and just happened to find a website called Just Tell Me Why! This website seems to be a new craze among people where one user sets up an argument and the other users have to give their views/opinions about the argument with a justification.

If you visit this site, it may seem at first a little hard to understand as the web design is sort of all over the place and should really be revised relatively soon. At least they have a really cool tag cloud that rotates, fades and looks pretty damn attractive, this shows that the people that made this website at least have some knowledge of new up-to-date coding skills. The websites structure is probably the only downfall as everything seems to be all over the place and the search bar is a little bit hidden which makes it hard for new users. 

Not only is the web design structure a little out of wack but also the paragraph structure for the instructions needs to be worked on just a little bit. Bigger paragraph breaks are needed as it sort of looks like just one clump of text which can intimidate new users.

All in all if you love to argue/debate with people that you have never met and have some time on your hand then this site is for you!

Just Tell Me Why Official Website