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Today I have the opportunity to review one of the most popular IT sites on the Internet, BT.com. BT stands for British Telecommunications, a UK-based company entirely owned by BT Group, a PLC (Public Limited Company) that is traded on both the London and New York stock exchanges. The company’s activities primarily encompass the fields of IT (Information Technology) networks, broadband Internet access, and worldwide telecommunications services that include operations in some 170 countries.

After looking deeper into their site, however, I discovered that in addition to servicing large corporations and small business, BT.com also offers various pc help solutions for individual home users as well. According to their Home IT Support page, they offer technical support over the telephone for issues related to computers and some peripheral devices such as printers, webcams, or iPods. This service can be purchased on a subscription basis for a 3-month period for less than £10 per month (approximately 20 USD at current exchange rates), or you can save a little by subscribing for 12 months at a rate of £8.99 per month. For those who do not want to be locked into recurring payments, there is also an option to pay a one-time fee of £25 if you just need to get help for one particular problem.

In addition to phone support, BT now offers home visits for the technically challenged. In this scenario, one of their IT engineers can come to your residence and perform various computer repair and setup services such as installing new operating systems or software, setting up wireless Internet access, or performing a “health check” on your PC to detect and remove viruses, spyware, adware, and other assorted nasties. Prices for these services normally range from £90-120, but from now until March 31, 2008 they are offering a discount of £30 for all categories. Interested customers can make an appointment with one of the BT technicians through their simple online ordering process.

Overall, BT.com has a well-designed site that is devoid of unnecessary clutter, loads very quickly, and is streamlined for e-commerce and rapid communication. It also has an impressive PageRank of 8 and two-letter domain name, features that are surely the envy of every webmaster out there who hopes to turn their website into a lucrative business. I haven’t even bothered to check the number of backlinks yet, as it would only remind me of how far this site has to go in order to catch up with the big guys. But if you happen to live in the UK, or live elsewhere but desperately need help with an IT-related issue, you can always tap into BT.com’s ample resources to alleviate your technically induced headaches.

This article by Carole-Anne Franco is a review of a website and online game called Flash Flash Revolution. While proofreading the text, I noticed that the basic mechanics of the game (using the numpad to time key presses with the game’s musical rhythm) reminded me of the little dancing sequences in Sid Meyer’s recent remake of Pirates! Gold. Although these dance scenes seemed too girlish for some players, they provided a nice distraction from what eventually became a rather boring (and sadly unmoddable) pirate game.

With a sudden rise in rhythm based games out there (Rock Band, Guitar hero, Dance Dance Revolution, Bust-a-move, etc…), when you can find a good free online rhythm game it’s a joy. Flash Flash Revolution is a website that offers two games: Flash Flash Revolution and Spin it up!. The games are completely free and always will be - so they claim.

Flash Flash Revolution is a reincarnation of Dance Dance Revolution, except you don’t play it with your feet. You play it with your fingers. The concept is to match the arrow keys on your keypad or numpad with the arrow keys in the game. You have to press them at the right time though. If you hit them exactly at the right time, you get a “perfect”; If you’re slightly off, you get “good”; if you’re a little more off and you get “average’; if you completely missed it you get “missed”; if you missed it by a lot you get “boo”. When you hit the arrow keys in a timely manner, you get life points added to you life bar. If you miss, you get life points deducted from your life bar. To win a level all one has to do is have a bit of life left in the life bar. Once you lose it all, you lose the game.

Beginners of the game don’t have to worry; there are skill levels for all. Usually songs are listed on order of difficulty. When you win a level, you earn credits. Those can be used to purchase more songs at the FFR shop. Once you beat certain songs you also become eligible for the Skill section. These are songs based on the skill levels you were able to beat. Sometimes you earn tokens or secret songs. Those are much harder to get but not impossible.

Other than these categories, you can also choose songs from certain genres. There are 2 sections for dance (it’s just too popular). There’s are also sections for rock, hip hop, classical, arcade and funk music.

The game also features multiplayer. While you can’t tag team with other players (unless you share a keypad), you can face off other players. You can either find enemies in the multiplayer room or challenge specific players in the Challenge room. Be careful of challenging though - you could lose money.

Unfortunately, since the game is online, having a bad connection could cause problems. Thankfully there is a low resolution version of the game if you don’t mind having to squint your eyes a bit.

Then there are two in-progress versions of Flash Flash Revolution, R2 and Resonance. Resonance isn’t an official game technically because these are songs whose arrows were designed by users. You can upload your own song and arrows for it by making a Sim file or you can play other people’s Sim files. Unlike the regular game where each song has only one skill level, these songs will have 4 skill levels each. You choose your level prior to picking a song.

Meanwhile, R2 is meant to resemble more its ancestor Dance Dance Revolution. Once again, you choose your skill level prior to choosing a song. However, the way this is setup it doesn’t really matter as you can easily choose a song beyond your abilities. Of course that is because this game is still being worked on.

For those who play R2 now, it can be noticed that the game seems harder to play. If you come in late or early on a key, you’re supposed to get a “good” or “average” rating. However, often the game won’t recognize slightly off entries and just categorize them as misses. Since the game is more like Dance Dance Revolution, it features its harsher grading system. You earn far less for each right entry and lose far more for each wrong one. Add that with unrecognized keys and you have one of the hardest rhythm games of all time. If you can’t hit at the exact time, you might as well not even bother.

Now it’s time for Spin it Up!. This is a completely different game. Spin it Up! is a game where you have a circle. You are given an arc as a playing field. (For those who don’t remember geometry, an arc is a section of the edge of a circle). In this game your arc is a quarter of the full circle length. You try to match up your arc with incoming arcs at the right time. In other words, you see a wave coming out of the center and you have to swing your mouse (but not the keypad) around in order to catch it before it leaves the circle.

As you go up in levels, you will need to move a lot faster and have odd movements. This will require some thinking because sometimes it will look as though it releases two or more waves at the same time, but they’ll actually have a small time difference. You have to figure out which one hits the circle first in order to get to them all in order. The game has a rather high learning curve and is pretty difficult. The easy levels are more adapted but also are far more boring. Once again, multiplayer is available.

If you look at the end of the navigation bar on the website, you’ll also see a link to another game called MeTrivia. This game is actually not held on the FlashFlashRevolution website and has nothing to do with rhythm based games. It’s a trivia game. Since it’s not on the same site, you’ll have to make an account on metrivia.com to play it; you can’t use your FFR account.

However, you are not required to make accounts to play on either website. Accounts are good if you want a profile and for the website to keep a ranking. Otherwise you can just play without an account as a guest user. Whether you’re in for a numpad game or a mouse game, this site offers some interesting choices.

This article by Jennifer Young is a book review of Las Vegas: An Unconventional History, a historical account of the rise of Las Vegas, Nevada as a city that has become famous for its casinos and night life. Although I have not read the book myself, this reviewer makes it look like a pretty good read. Relatively speaking, Nevada is one of the most libertarian states in the USA, and since I like reading about historical topics as well, I might want to put this one on my future reading list.

Written as a companion to the PBS American Experience series and anticipating the 100th anniversary of the city’s founding, Las Vegas: An Unconventional History by Michelle Ferrari with Stephen Ives is as close to the city as you can get between two book covers. It is a riveting account of a city that stands as a “monument to reckless abandon and unbridled excess”. From the lights of the casinos to the mobsters and glamour girls, this is a spectacular account of an American dream-come-true and for some, a dream-gone-bad.

This coffee-table book published by Bulfinch Press would make a great gift for Vegas lovers, gambling enthusiasts and even American history fans. Divided into thirteen chapters, it begins at the dusty beginning of this desert town, a mere outpost that was not even listed on the 1900 census. Even at its earliest stages as a small settlement, however, it seemed like a haven for prospectors, drifters, cowboys and rail passengers congregated for liquor, gambling and sex at ramshackle saloons and prostitution “cribs”.

The notorious history contained in this volume is extensive and coupled with advertisements, postcards and other visual memorabilia from the early days of the Flamingo onward to today’s extravagance and neon-lit casinos and hotels. The old photographs published here include the two-story Hotel Nevada, Fremont Street in 1905, the infamous Block 16, The Arizona Club, Hoover Dam construction and many more.

What’s more, this book offers a glimpse into the personal lives of people who passed through the city which seems always a place for transient populations—celebrity and tourists alike. It talks about the crooked vice squad commander married to a Hollywood madam, about Clark Gable’s divorce, about the mobsters who propelled the city onward in all areas of vice.

Naturally, there is a rather large section of the book devoted to electricity; that is, the infamous lights of this city that when lit, can be seen from space—according to astronauts. Cheap electricity generated by Hoover Dam has made Las Vegas the neon capital of the world, boasting literally millions of bulbs. Even the McDonald’s on the strip is lit with neon.

Not surprisingly, this history also showcases the shows and show-stoppers. Everyone from Esther Williams to Sammy Davis Jr. to Elvis to Frank Sinatra is included. Show scenes as well snapshots add much to capture the majesty of the show business stage.

From Siegfried and Roy to Liberace, this book doesn’t leave much out. It is a standout in terms of both text and photography. It has a lot to say and equally as much to show. A must read before your next visit—to the most visited American city.

Although wine making can be a tricky process, using grapes or other fruits to make vinegar is actually pretty easy, as this article by Kristie Leong points out. As long as you can obtain some kind of unpasteurized vinegar solution to use as a starter culture, a suitable container, some fruit juice, and any other ingredients you might want to add for flavoring, you’re good to go.

The only difficult part might be the waiting time required to allow the vinegar to oxidize to the desired strength, but you can compensate for this by making larger quantities to store for later use. Meanwhile, the chemical formula and molecular bonding structure for acetic acid, the active ingredient in vinegar, can be found in the upper left corner of the post.

Why settle for store bought vinegar when you can make it fresh in your own home? The chemical reaction needed to make vinegar is the oxidation of an alcohol (oxidation is simply the addition of oxygen to a chemical group). The simplest way to do this is to convert a sugar into alcohol and then oxidize the alcohol to create vinegar. One of the easiest sources of sugar to use for the fermentation process is fruit juice. Here are easy instructions on how to make vinegar in your own kitchen at home:

Things You’ll Need:

1. A large glass container with a wide mouth. Don’t use metal or plastic as the acid can interact with these materials and ruin your vinegar.
2. Fresh fruit juice. The fruit juice you select should be free of additives or preservatives. Fresh apple or grape juice are good choices.
3. A bottle of unfiltered vinegar. (You can purchase this at a health food store.) This is a source of bacteria for the fermentation process.

How to Make:

• Lay your clean, glass container on the table.
• Pour about a quart of the unpasteurized, unfiltered vinegar into the glass jar.
• Add an equal amount of your chosen fresh fruit juice.
• Mix the two ingredients thoroughly and place the container into a warm, dark place. The temperature should be between 75 and 85 degrees in the storage area.
• Taste your vinegar periodically until it’s the appropriate strength for your particular taste. This process may take up to 4-6 months to be complete, but remember to check it periodically to assess its taste.
• Once the appropriate vinegar strength is achieved, you can package it into bottles.

What could be easier than this? Plus, you’ll have the thrill of knowing you made it yourself.

What kind of fruit juice works best for making vinegar? This depends on the type of flavor you want your vinegar to have. By using grapes or grape juice, you create wine vinegar. If you use apple juice, you’ll end up with cider vinegar.

Once you know how to make basic vinegar, you can take it a step further and create delicious gourmet vinegars using a variety of herbs, spices, and fruits. These gourmet vinegars add delicious flavors to foods without adding a significant quantity of calories or fat. Plus, they make wonderful hostess gifts or Christmas gifts.

Once you get started making gourmet vinegars, you won’t be able to stop! Plus, these vinegars really transform the taste of your salads and fresh vegetable dishes. It’s a great way to motivate yourself to eat more salad!

Now that you know how to make vinegar, why not try your hand at it in your own home? It’ll taste delicious on your next salad!

After replying to comments from Entrecard members and advertisers earlier today, I finally got around to uploading and activating two WordPress plugins that I had downloaded a few days ago. The new features will primarily affect people who are using RSS feeds or cell phones to access the content on this site.

The first plugin removes the problem of WordPress truncating post content in feeds whenever I use the “more” tag to break up longer articles. The “more” tag is useful not only for avoiding duplicate content issues, but it also allows me to place things like videos or large images “below the fold” where they will not add to the file size of my home page and slow down loading times. However, I have read on other sites that there are some people who will refuse to subscribe to blogs that do not publish full feeds, so in order to accommodate these folks I have installed the Full Feed plugin. This should allow everyone to read the entire content of my articles in their RSS readers without it interfering with my ability to split up long posts when the need arises.

The second plugin is called WordPress Mobile Edition and affects (surprise!) users of mobile phones. It is supposed to automatically detect mobile browsers and create an appropriate interface that will allow better readability of the site through this particular medium. It was developed by Alex King of AlexKing.org as a way for WordPress bloggers to increase the functionality of their sites and improve the overall user experience.

Hopefully these two new additions will improve the ability of a more diverse group of readers to access the information available here so that we can all improve our knowledge base and increase our personal and economic freedom. Meanwhile, if you have any suggestions for plugins that you think would improve your experience here at Karlonia.com, please feel free to mention these in the comment section below.

This article by Stephanie Dray explains the technique of slicing zucchini in a julienne style cut so that it can be used in place of pasta for various low carb recipe ideas. Although not diabetic or even much of a dieter, I have had good results with using zucchini as a meat substitute of sorts in vegetarian lasagna dishes. Much like eggplant, this vegetable has a certain consistency to it that allows for its use as a good “filler food” that still tastes good without adding the extra calories found in meat or pasta.

For diabetics and low carb dieters, pasta is probably off your menu. Even so, you likely find yourself pining for a good old-fashioned bowl of spaghetti. Perhaps you’ve even tried the low carb noodles on the market and found them not to your liking. Luckily, there is another option. You can serve zucchini pasta for dinner!

Zucchini is a delicious low carb vegetable that is healthy for diabetics because of its glycemic index. But while generally inoffensive, in large chunks, zucchini can be overpowering. Certainly, this green veggie isn’t likely to fill your mind with thoughts of a great Italian feast. But when you cut zucchini into thin, pasta-like strands, it fades into the background and becomes a neutral conveyor of your favorite sauces.

The technique of cutting zucchini into matchstick lengths is also known as a julienne cut. The best way to make zucchini pasta is to use a julienne peeler (you can pick one up from Bed, Bath & Beyond for about seven bucks). A julienne peeler looks like a potato peeler turned on its side, and has very sharp blades to cut your zucchini into low carb pasta-like strips.

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A review of the latest search engine marketing news today revealed that Ask.com has unveiled a new site that functions as a news gathering hub, combining traditional news outlets with newer “Web 2.0″ sources such as blogs and social media. The site, actually a subdomain of Ask.com, is called BigNews and uses a rating system known as BigFactor to determine which news stories are shown on the front page and considered most important during the particular snapshot of time when you are visiting.

The “BigFactor” is actually a composite rating calculated according to four components:

1. Breaking: This measures the “freshness” of a news story. Presumably newer stories are given more weight than older ones.
2. Impact: This is an indicator of how often the story appears in other articles and in various multimedia, measuring its overall impact on the Web.
3. Media: This is based on the number of images and videos that are associated with the story.
4. Discussion: This factor measures the number of mentions in forums, bulletin boards, comment sections, and other discussion-oriented venues.

The BigFactor rating is a numerical range from 1 to 100, and is continually updated as new stories are found and Ask.com recalculates its algorithms. If you mouse over the BigFactor number beside each headline, you can view a bar graph chart that shows the relative importance of each of the four components in that story’s overall rating.

In addition to the rating, each headline block also includes links to a separate page that displays relevant articles, blogs, images, and videos along with the headline and snippet of the story itself. There is also a “Day History” link to the same type of page, but with a little bar graph above the list of images that allows you to track the story’s BigFactor rating for previous days, assuming the story is more than one day old.

Both the front page and single story pages include a section at the bottom where relevant articles that have been submitted to Digg are listed. At the bottom of the front page, this section is subdivided into two columns; the left column displays the top five news items with the most diggs, while the right column shows news stories that have been submitted very recently and thus have zero diggs.

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Today marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year due to its derivation from the cycles of the moon. It is an important day of celebration for many people in the eastern countries of Asia and for many Chinese migrant communities living outside of China. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2008 is the year of the Rat, the first in a series of 12 cyclical animal-named years. It also correlates to the year 4706 according to the ancient Chinese calendar.

In most regions that celebrate it, the first three days of the New Year are considered public holidays. In fact, I have noticed that many calendars found in Chinese restaurants here in America have these three dates colored in red, as opposed to black for the other days. In China, the holiday is officially known as the Spring Festival, and is a period of various traditional festivities that continues for 15 days, culminating in the Lantern Festival on the final day.

Because the Chinese New Year signifies the beginning of the spring season, many of the traditional customs revolve around an “out with the old, in with the new” theme. In the days before the new year actually begins, many families will perform a thorough house cleaning, as this is supposed to sweep away the bad luck from the previous year. It is also a time for payment of outstanding debts and the forgiving of old grudges so that everyone can start with a clean slate and hopefully have plenty of good luck and prosperity in the new year.

Many families hold reunions during this period, often celebrating the occasion with relatively elaborate, multi-course meals in a way that is somewhat reminiscent of American Thanksgiving Day feasts. One custom that is unique to this particular holiday is the giving of little red packets called “Hong Bao”. These are small envelopes that contain various amounts of money ranging from a few dollars to a few hundred and have Chinese characters printed on the outside of them. They are typically given to younger family members by older ones and to unmarried people by those who are married.

Fireworks are also a significant part of the festivities, traditionally used along with the color red as a way of repelling the legendary monster Nian. Hundreds of small firecrackers wrapped in red paper are strung together and ignited with long fuses, making lots of loud popping noises to scare away evil spirits and perhaps a few unsuspecting bystanders as well. Unfortunately, in recent years sporadic accidents associated with the handling of fireworks has prompted governments in several regions to ban private ownership of them, although they can still be used in most rural areas and even in some cities where the rules are sparsely enforced, such as in this video of this year’s fireworks celebrations in Shanghai:

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One of the ways in which a relatively new blog can generate some buzz and get a head start on building up traffic is to run some type of contest that will provide a natural incentive for other people to visit and link to the targeted website. It has become somewhat of a trend in the blogging world recently, and yesterday I just happened to run across such an event sponsored by BusinessBlogger.net. In fact, this post is supposed to serve as my entry into this contest according to the sponsor’s rules.

In addition to running the contest to promote their main blog, they are also launching a new directory site called Business+Directory that is accepting free submissions during February for people who are entering the contest. Currently, the directory does not seem to contain any sites, but the basic infrastructure and categories are there. Presumably it will be filled with approved sites from the contest participants after enough entries have been submitted.

Here is a summary of the contest rules as I understand them. Any readers who have their own blogs should perform the following steps in order to receive an entry:

1. Make a blog post and link to the BusinessBlogger.net contest page as I have in the first paragraph above.

2. Link to the Business+Directory site as I have in the second paragraph above.

3. Your post should be written in your own words (no duplicate content) and should be at least 250 words in length.

4. The contest will continue until the end of February 2008. At that time, two winners will be chosen at random and prizes will be awarded during March.

5. The grand prize is $500 cash paid via PayPal; the second place prize is a new BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT OC 512MB PCIe with ThermoIntelligence Graphics Card, which will be shipped via USPS.

6. There is a fine print disclaimer which states that at least fifty total entries must be received in order for them to award the prizes. So far it looks like there are about 30 entries and we’re still near the beginning of the month, so we’ll probably reach the minimum threshold.

Overall, the contest looks like a pretty good idea. I probably won’t win either of the main prizes, but I will be able to get in a free directory submission, and with other webmasters linking to the directory page, the likelihood of my link eventually getting some juice from the search engines is significantly increased.

Of course, an even better idea would be to run a contest myself here at Karlonia.com. Even before I discovered BusinessBlogger.net, I have been thinking about having an essay contest where people could submit essays or articles and get free links back to their sites in addition to some small cash prizes for people who write good quality articles.

I’m not sure how much interest there would be for something like this, however - people may be too lazy to write the articles, and I could wind up either getting a lot of duplicate content stuff or not enough submissions. I might need to float the idea on a few forums or other venues and see if there are enough interested people out there to make this worth doing.

The popular pay per click program AdBux released its February newsletter yesterday, signaling a commitment to longevity and new features while also showing signs of economic recession for the next few months.

At the end of last month, many members became concerned about the future of the program when the site was inaccessible for a few days after the owners decided to switch servers and hosting companies. The site itself has made a full recovery, but there are still significant problems on the financial side.

Around the same time as AdBux was making the server move, PayPal began limiting its accounts along with those of many similar PPC programs due to multiple chargebacks and problems with too many fraudulent transactions. Although the program has now implemented AlertPay for processing payouts and Google Checkout for handling incoming advertising purchases, many members who were expecting PayPal payments are left in temporary limbo until they can get set up with AlertPay.

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Unless you have been living under a virtual rock (or is the proper term “asteroid” since we’re posting in cyberspace) for the past week, you probably know by now that Microsoft has made a $44.6 billon bid to buy out Yahoo and merge the two companies. This article at CNET News.com has a pretty good recap of the relevant events if you need to catch up on the latest news.

Meanwhile, on the official Google blog yesterday, Google’s senior vice president David Drummond was less than thrilled about the merger proposal and expressed concern that another Microsoft acquisition could cause problems for people who want a more innovative, open market style Internet:

Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC? While the Internet rewards competitive innovation, Microsoft has frequently sought to establish proprietary monopolies — and then leverage its dominance into new, adjacent markets.

This is not surprising because it is clear from Microsoft’s letters and statements that it seeks to compete more seriously with Google in the search engine market by essentially swallowing up Yahoo and combining the two companies’ market share. The combined company would have more resources to scale up its computing power and provide both search results and advertising markets that are more comparable to Google’s current services.

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In addition to the Internet-based surveys that can be taken from within our member accounts, MySurvey also allows us to opt in for receiving occasional surveys by traditional postal mail, also known as “snail mail”. Any completed surveys that are mailed back to the company are eventually credited to our online accounts, awarding us with additional points that can be redeemed for cash after we have accumulated at least $10.

Yesterday I received one of these postal mail surveys on the topic of communications. It is an eight-page questionnaire that spans several areas related to cable television, satellite TV, telephone, and Internet services. Although this may seem long at first, it is actually not as time-consuming as it looks because many of the questions can be skipped over if they do not apply to our household and there are only 5-10 questions per page.

Before I get into the text of the introductory letter, I would like to take this time to thank those of you who have signed up with MySurvey.com or Top-Dollars.com through my strategically placed affiliate links. As you may have noticed, this site is sparsely monetized at present; the small commissions generated from your signups and purchases help to pay for necessary hosting expenses and keep this site financially viable.

Now we return to our regularly scheduled survey letter:

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Although I do not have much time for writing posts today (I need to straighten out an important issue with my bank and hosting company), I just happened to receive this email from Crazy-Traffic about two hours ago announcing a new surfing contest:

Welcome Karlonia

Crazy-Traffic is having a surfing contest until MARCH 1, 2008

1st place gets $25.00

2nd place 1 Year INSTITUTIONALIZED upgrade

3rd place 1 Year INSANE upgrade

As you can see, unlike certain other traffic exchanges Crazy Traffic prefers to get straight to the point and doesn’t mess around with full-length articles for emails.

Unfortunately, upon logging into my account I discovered that the 6 month upgrade that I won back in July has now expired (wow, has it really been that long?), so I’m back to free member status with a somewhat less favorable surf ratio. However, the surfing is pretty quick and smooth here, so I might as well try to win this contest and possibly regain the old upgrade. Of course, first place would nice also; I’ve never won actual money from a traffic exchange before, and I could always use the extra PayPal funds.

One of my favorite paid survey companies MySurvey.com released its first newsletter of the new year yesterday. The company is in the process of restocking rewards merchandise after experiencing a higher than expected number of redemptions by survey participants in the last quarter of 2007. In addition to including a few testimonials, MySurvey has also released the results of the most recent member survey regarding New Year’s resolutions.

Reward News

As promised, we have begun restocking our merchandise shelves! Many of you are aware that we ran into some logistical problems at the end of 2007 with our Reward Point Redemption options. Members were redeeming faster than we could keep up, and unfortunately many merchandise options were temporarily removed. Most of our usual redemption options are now available and more are coming in every day. To view our current selection, login to MySurvey.com and click Rewards on the top menu.

Remember, each day you log into MySurvey.com you earn an entry into our Rewards Extravaganza Daily GiveAway. A new winner is selected every day to receive 10,000 MySurvey.com Reward points (cash equivalent $100). Take a look at what a recent winner had to say:

January 14, 2008 Rewards Extravaganza Give-Away Winner:

“I joined MySurvey.com because I want to have my opinion heard! Winning and rewards add to the great appeal of this site.”
Lakeesha B., Chicago, IL

You’ll also get an entry into the MySurvey.com Sweepstakes each day you login. One lucky winner receives $10,000 every other month. Here’s a recent winner:

September/October 2007 MySurvey.com Sweepstakes Winner:

“I was amazed and shocked that I had won anything! This is my first ever sweepstakes win. I am so happy to be associated with MySurvey.com. I love giving my opinion as a consumer and being involved in products and services that we use every day.”
Judith F., Tustin, CA

Each time you complete a survey you’ll be entered into our Survey Completion Bonus Sweepstakes. Each month we offer a different prize. This month 4 winners will receive $500 each! This winner received a $500 gift card:

October/November Survey Completion Bonus Sweepstakes Winner:

“Just a small amount of time has just made a very large impact on my finances. Thank you, MySurvey.com!”
Mark C., Port Charlotte, FL

Congratulations to all our winners!

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