So I’m always thinking of was to make some cash on the net and using the online tools to communicate with people out there. Over the weekend I came across a new contacts tool called Plaxo. Now this site is still in beta phase but from using it, its got all the business features that facebook does not. I mean, you can import your contacts from LinkedIn and you have a Business, Friends and Family Profile. So I mean you can hide all those picks from your parents and Business partners and also give out different email addresses to each one.

The best part is that you can save all your contact details to your machine. This is a feature I dont think Facebook will ever use. Think about it, you spend hours working on getting people into your group or Page and then one day its gone. What you gonna do? Is that really a thing you want left up to chance?

This is a post about nothing, yes you read correctly. I am now adding complete junk to this site. If you are woundering why then keep reading. Well firstly, English was not my greatest subject in school and I am now faced with this issue of not being able to write a decent Blog post. I think of all sorts of cool topics I could write about and all, but when I sit down to get them in, my mind goes blank on how to start.

So I am now just going to start adding random junk to this site till I think my writing skills improve. Once I have done that then I can start writing about all the interesting things I think up.I think they are interesting, yes. A topic that has been on my mind and alot of others is Facebook.com, yes yes you might be getting board of that topic by now but I have just started freelancing full time and have been going through facebook a bit to find out how I could make some money on it. Of course there is the obviuse solution to create an application andd then get as many people to use it, but my idea was a bit more simple.

Firstly, the marketplace is a great way to sell yourself and or your skills. I thought this was great till I tried to see my soul to the international market. This got to be a bit tricky. I also am finding it hard to keep all my calendar and contacts in one place and it occured to me if you had your calendars and contacts all on facebook, and access to your messages via a pop account, thats all you would need to run things more smoothly.  More great features they could add is the ablilty to have is a friends category, where depending on the friends group they are in they would see only what you want them to see.

For example, if your trying to get work from fellow facebooker’s, but at the same time added some sort of druggy application to your profile, it would be great if yo could say that people in this group cannot see this app or all your applications. This would also be great so you can add those drunken photos of you and not have this shown on your business contacts feed. This is just a bit of what I’ve been thinking and there is many more to come. As I said in the beginning of this blog I am realy just tring my writing skillls for a bit first. On that topic another reason I posted this was to find out how many people would read a post that gives very little information and really not worth reading. Please leave a comment below so I can see the number off people who spent the time reading this. Thanks 

So I have been playing with facebook, mainly the marketplace to see how I can get an international client based for my freelance stuff. I want to get into the American market a bit more, as they seem to always lead the way in the web. I know South Africans are not slow to catch on with whats happening in the world today, but they do have the disadvantage of not have the cash flow these Americans do. I find even a lot of Euro sites don’t seem to put in as much effort as the American ones do but that also got to do with cash flow I think.Back to my point, I know the market place is a great little tool for selling and buying stuff in your networks but that’s just it, it is limited to your network, you can browse the other networks and see what’s going on even contact the people but try and add something to a network you are not a member of and you’ve got another story.I wanted to advertise myself on the Silicon Valley Network so that I could maybe get some work. I noticed they where very big on people living in the valley when looking at other job offers, so not sure if it would be te right place to do it. none the less though, every thing I did to get an ad in a network just sent me back to the South African network.I will attempt to try again soon but for now looks like I’m stuck in SA.