Kindle Fire

Kindle Fire is a premium product, offered at a non-premium price. It brings everything they’ve been working on at Amazon for 15 years - Kindle, Amazon Instant Video, Amazon MP3, Amazon Prime, Amazon Appstore, and Amazon Web Services - together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers. They’ve also developed a new, faster web browser called Amazon Silk, specifically designed for Kindle Fire. It’s a split browser that lives partially on Kindle Fire and partially in the cloud, taking full advantage of Amazon Web Services’ incredible computational horsepower to accelerate web browsing - something you won’t find in iPad’s Safari browser.

Kindle Fire offers unmatched value, with all the popular digital content, but at a price that's $300 less. Take a look below at the Kindle vs. iPad comparison chart so you can see how Kindle Fire stacks up against iPad 2 (16 GB Wi-Fi model).

                     

What People Are Saying

" As far as the tablet goes, the Kindle Fire looks awesome. For $199 it’s the highest-end device for the least amount of money we’ve seen." – Gizmodo

" Consumers will see the iPad and Kindle Fire side-by-side…and simply ask ‘why does the iPad cost at least $300 more?’ They will look at the features - the comparable amount of content, the Kindle’s million e-books, streaming TV shows - and pick the Fire." – Extreme Tech

" Amazon’s Kindle Fire is likely to be the first successful tablet not sold by Apple, and there are several good reasons for it: the low price of $199, the convenient, portable size of 7 inches, and a rich catalog of books, movies and music offered through Amazon’s Web-based services." – Ars Technica

" Amazon’s ability to put so many features into the Kindle Fire and set the price at less than half that of the cheapest iPad has many analysts predicting Apple may finally have serious competition in the tablet market." – Forbes/Mobiledia

Online Income Update

It's been a busy month but I have learned quite a bit.  Some of my projects are waiting for my upcoming move to a house.  I am not wanting to have to go through the address changing a month into setting things up.  So I wait...

Meanwhile I have found a few ways to make a buck or two.  I haven't been doing much with the stock photo side of things yet.  I do have six files total across two agencies.  They have received a few views each but no purchases yet. 

One of my goals is to start all of this with no money out of my pocket, so if I want to own a domain and host it I need to create the money it will cost online beforehand.  So far I am up to a little over forty dollars total for the month of June.  I am truly excited with that amount!  This is my first real month and I am making money! 

The majority of the money I have made so far comes from a site called Microworkers.  I wouldn't want to officially promote this site until I actually receive my first paycheck (it's one of the address change issues spoke of earlier).  The idea is fairly simple though, you sign up and create an account and pick various little Internet jobs paying from .20 to $1.20 or more.  Most are easily completed in a minute or two without compromising your security in any way. If you watch what you are doing and pick wisely you can make 2 to 3 dollars a day in just a few minutes.  It adds up pretty fast. 

I have added a new Amazon search box in the top right corner of the page.  This should make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.  Hopefully I will be successful in directing some traffic to it.

Progress

I am very happy to report that I have had two of my photographs accepted at one of the stock agencies that I am using.  The same two photographs are still pending at another site.  I know this is a small step but being my first approvals I can't help but be excited.  I can't wait for an actual sale!  I am going to see if they get accepted at the second site and then I may submit them to a few more that I have on my list.  All my submissions so far have been from older pictures I have in my collection.  I can't wait to have a chance to actually take some shots with the stock concept in mind when shooting.

I haven't had much time to write or take any pictures lately as house hunting is filling my time off.  I have managed to get one more article approved at infobarrel.  That brings my total to a very sad two.  Honestly I have lacked creativity with writing articles as well so I can't blame it all on the lack of time. 

I realize that this project of making a passive online income will take a good while to build but I am positive if I keep chipping away at it I will start to see it grow over time.  Rome wasn't built over night you know! 

A Quick Update

Here we are in May already!  Time flies when you are have fun right?  Since my last post I have been doing more reading on SEO (search engine optimization) and how to apply it to various types of web content. Key word research is also time consuming.  So far I have found a couple of good back linking tricks I will share later.  Right now I want to make sure I have everything working correctly.

I now have Amazon ads up on my sites.  I am not positive the ones on my infobarrel article are mine but I know the ones on this blog are.  It is interesting to say the least to learn how all of this works.  I can see how this could be extremely profitable but I can also see how it could be difficult to build the traffic.  I am still new to all of this and look forward to learning a whole lot more as we go.

The main thing I am focused on at the moment is finding a nitch.  I am not trying to find the next super fad, rather just any nitch I stand a good chance of making profitable.  I have experimented with Googles Adword Keyword Tool and it gives a wealth of information but I haven't found what I am looking for.  I will get some time off of my regular job at the end of this month.  I am hoping to make a lot of progress between now and when I go back from my time off.  Wish me luck!

Step One was a NES Flashdrive

I created an account at InfoBarrel at the beginning of the month for a couple of reasons.  First I would like to pursue an interest in writing online articles of various subjects.  I have always enjoyed writting and I feel that I could do well given some practice.  Second was the need for domain to use for my Adsense account I was in the process of setting up. 
For the article I wrote a how-to on creating a NES Flashdrive.  I grew up playing the Nintendo and have often wished I could go back and play a game of Zelda!  A little looking around on the internet will turn up a few dozen emulators for any gaming system you can remember.  Most have a great selection of games and it is all free and very small file sizes.  You can follow my guide here if you need help getting it installed on the flashdrive or just want more information overall.

Now with Adsense up and running I will get tied to the article mentioned above along with this blog just to see how things actually work.

First Post

I hope for this blog to serve not only as a time line of events stemming from an idea.  The idea is nothing new, simply put it is to create a residual income online.  I have been researching different methods and gathering my facts and I started putting some of that to work by creating an Adsense account. 

The plan is mainly an advertising one with some stock photography thrown in.  This blog will help when looking back to see what I did right and wrong.  Maybe it will actually grow into a information blog or a how to type of thing.  I have a lot of things I want to put into action very soon.

Meanwhile, I will keep this little record of events running for now just for the fun of it.  Let's see where this road takes us!

~SP