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I Love Bikes

2011-03-14T12:41:00.000-06:00

3D TV

2010-09-18T16:17:00.004-06:00

3D TV is so cool! 3D glasses are not so cool. Although it's very tempting to bring one this baby home, I'm gonna wait for a 3D TV without the 3D goggle to hit the market.

Note that I was able to view the TV image in 3D by pulling the glass away from my eye. It should be simple enough to build an overlay polarizing glass inches away from the 3D TV making it goggle free(?)

Searl Effect Generator - A clean and unlimited alternative energy concept

2010-09-13T00:15:00.004-06:00

The Searl Effect Generator (SEG) is a self-contained, electrical power generator concept designed to produce clean and sustainable energy. It is a magnetic prime mover that operates without friction and can supply electrical power by converting mostly ambient temperatures in electrical power with volition any laws of thermodynamics.

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Source: ecomagination.com

The Elements of Investing

2010-09-12T23:09:00.004-06:00

The Elements of Investing has a single-minded goal: to teach the principles of investing in the same pared-to-bone manner that Professor William Strunk Jr. once taught composition to students at Harvard, using his classic little book, The Elements of Style. With great daring, Ellis and Malkiel imagined their own Little Red Schoolhouse course in investing for every investor around the world-and then penned this book.
The Elements of Investing hacks away at all the overtrading and over thinking so predominant in the hyperactive thought patterns of the average investor. Malkiel and Ellis offer investors a set of simple but powerful thoughts on how to challenge Mr. Market at his own game, and win by not losing. All the need-to-know rules and investment principles can be found here.

Contains sound investment advice and simple principles of investing from two of the most respected individuals in the investment world
Burton G. Malkiel is the bestselling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street and Charles D. Ellis is the bestselling author of Winning the Loser's Game
Shows how to deal with an investor's own worst enemies: fear and greed

A disciplined approach to investing, complemented by conviction, is all you need to succeed. This timely guide will help you develop these skills and make the most of your time in today's market.

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Source: http://lto.libredigital.com/?VanguardTheElementsofInvesting

Top 10 Reasons For Entrepreneurial Success

2010-09-12T21:17:00.002-06:00

"You're The Boss" blog of what he believes are the most important success factors in business:

1. Look for opportunities to do something better than just about everyone else.
2. Accept risk as a necessary evil. It makes for much less competition.
3. Act responsibly to customers, employees and vendors.
4. Goals aren't enough. You need a plan. You need to execute the plan.
5. You need to fix the plan as you go. Learn from your mistakes. Most people don't.
6. Do not reinvent the wheel. Learn from others — join a business group.
7. Make sure the math works. I know plenty of people who work hard and follow their passion but the math doesn't work. If the math doesn't work, neither does the business.
8. Make sure that every employee understands and works toward the mission.
9. There are going to difficult times and you need to be resilient; whining is a waste of time.
10. There will be sacrifices. Work to find a balance so that you don't become a financially successful loser. It's not about the income, it's about the outcome.

Photo by funphotobox.

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's

2010-09-11T00:52:00.003-06:00

HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage on Vimeo.

The Money Tree

2010-09-11T00:41:00.003-06:00

Amy Rosenthal hung 100 dollar bills from a tree in Chicago just to see what would happen.

Camko City Project Progression

2010-09-09T19:04:00.010-06:00

What a project like Camko (Cambodia-Korea) City needs is a law that allow Cambodian with foreign citizenship to be able to buy and invest in development like these. As of current foreigner cannot purchase property in Cambodia.

182 Units of Townhouses and Villas have been completed in April 2009. The 1^st stage of High-rise condominiums has been being completed in phases. Two high-rise condominiums have been completed on May 2010 and remains will be completed by September 2010. The 3^rd stage of High-rise condominiums is planned to be completed by March 2011.

1^st stage of Condominium

Townhouses & Villas

Source: worldcitycambodia.com

The Bow (skyscraper)

2010-09-09T12:33:00.002-06:00

The Bow is a 158,000-square-metre (1.7 million sq ft) office building currently under construction for the headquarters of EnCana Corporation. Theskyscraper will be built in downtown Calgary,Alberta. The building will be the tallest office tower in Canada outside of Toronto^[1], a title currently held by the Suncor Energy Centre's West tower, also in Calgary. The Bow is also considered the start of redevelopment in Downtown East Village.^[2]

Source: wikipedia.org

2010-09-09T10:37:00.004-06:00

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2010-05-07T09:53:00.004-06:00

Testing the G-Wheel stand-bike in the Canadian prairies.

Kiva - Kiva Blog

2010-03-31T20:50:00.000-06:00

Join Intuit's Lending Team and support Kiva!

MAR 16, 2010

As an extension of Intuit's current Love a Local Business program, for every person who joins theIntuit Kiva Lending Team and makes a Kiva loan within 30 days, Intuit will donate $10 to Kiva.org, up to $50,000. This contribution will be used to strengthen the Kiva micro-lending platform and leverage an estimated $500,000 more in small business loans from Kiva's Internet community.
To ensure that your loan qualifies for the $10 Intuit donation to Kiva,
1) Join Intuit's Lending Team by clicking here.
2) Make a loan within 30 days of joining and be sure to count it towards the Intuit Lending Team's totals.

The donation match is per person, not per loan – Intuit's goal is to donate $50,000, so please continue to spread the word to help the team reach 5,000 members! Intuit's matching program will run through the end of May 2010, so join the Intuit Lending Teamand make your loan today!

Thank you to Intuit for their generous support of Kiva and to our lending community for participating in this wonderful initiative!

-- POSTED BY LISA SHAH AT 06:03 PM PDT

Source:

http://www.kiva.org/blog/2010/03/16/join-intuits-lending-team-and-support.html

Guitarbud lets you connect your guitar to your iPhone - SlashGear

2010-03-13T09:57:00.001-07:00

As close as I come to playing a musical instrument is the occasional round of Rock Band. If you are a guitarist looking for an easier way to record your songs and jam sessions, using your iPhone or iPod touch the Guitarbuddevice is just what you need.

The Guitarbud is a cable that lets you connect your guitar directly to your iPhone or iPod touch and offers a headphone jack as well for private listening. Once connected your guitar playing can be recorded using various iPhone or iPod applications.

Once you are done playing you can send your music off to friends via email. The cable is six feet long and doesn't take up lots of space when you are on the road. The guitar plug is 1/4″ and the headphone and iPhone plugs are 1/8″. The cable requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later and works on second gen iPod touch players with OS 3.0 installed.

http://www.slashgear.com/guitarbud-lets-you-connect-your-guitar-to-your-iphone-1177396/

Morning Suprise 2/2

2010-02-24T11:17:00.001-07:00

Early sunshine is all ready for preschool, all by herself, without
anyone to help her.

Morning suprise 1/2

2010-02-24T11:13:00.001-07:00

She wakes up, she dresses up, and she put on her sox all by herself...

Uploading Mobile Pict to Google Buzz via Blogger?

2010-02-20T14:56:00.000-07:00

I notice that Blogger automatically updates Google Buzz, let see if I
can work around uploading mobile photos to Buzz via Blogger.

Anyone has a better suggestion for uploading mobile medias to Buzz?

Earn Cash Back Shopping On-Line

2010-01-26T13:52:00.001-07:00

Earning cash-back rewards on KickItBack is simple. We have special relationships with eBay and a growing list of online retailers, through which we provide them exposure and traffic. When you visit KickItBack.com, log in and click our links to reach these retailers, they pay us a commission. We then share some of that commission with you, all for doing nothing more than remembering to use KickItBack for your online purchases.

There are no hidden costs, and you don't pay extra when shopping with our network of retailers. In fact, using KickItBack ensures you'll get a better net price than shoppers who go straight to the retailer's site themselves and don't earn cash back.

http://eCa.sh/TyDr

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TweetCall - Twitter by Voice

2010-01-20T16:53:00.001-07:00

Speak your Tweets

Update Twitter from anywhere by simply speaking into a telephone. 1-877-TWEETCALL is completely free, start using it today!

How it works

1. Dial 1-877-TWEET-CALL

2. Speak your tweet

3. Your voice is transcribed and posted to Twitter as text!

Before using TweetCall, please log in to associate a PIN number with your account for security purposes.

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Stunning House For Four by A.F. Abeijón-Fernandez Arquitectos

2010-01-20T14:34:00.001-07:00

Sometimes private homes have such an impressive exterior design and such dimensions that you might as well mistake them for company headquarters or important institutions. We think this is the case with the House in “A Zapateira”, fromA.F. Abeijón-Fernandez Arquitectos. Located in A Coruña, Spain, what is truly striking about this residence is its exterior diversity. You will notice the exterior walls are very different and that once you change your point of focus, it seems you are not looking at the same house. In spite of this, the overall appearance is pretty homogeneous. A large swimming pool comes to complete the overall look of the place and also makes the connection with its natural environment. The interior is spacious and modern, with many original and attractive elements which we invite you to discover.

http://freshome.com/2010/01/20/stunning-house-for-four-by-a-f-abeijon-fernandez-arquitectos/

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Townhouse, Ängelholm, Mölle, Skåne, Uppsala, Peacock, Catella, Kolvik, Borås, Kalmar, Oktavilla

2010-01-20T14:19:00.002-07:00

http://www.eldingoscarson.com/

Townhouse in Landskrona. The narrow site is sandwiched between very old neighboring buildings. Three thin slabs are projected into the open volume, softly dividing its functions. The continuous interior space is opening up to the street, to an intimate garden, and to the sky. 2009. Photos by Åke E:son Lindman.

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YouTube - Our Daily Bread (1934)

2010-01-20T09:50:00.003-07:00

A group of down-on-their-luck workers combine their abilities to make a Gallafentian-style commune... and bread! An old classic which is now inspiring new grass root social web entrepreneurs to come together and work on 'Tribe Syndication (Blogging) Alliances'.

Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves

2010-01-17T14:35:00.006-07:00

BBC News - Egypt tombs suggest free men built pyramids, not slaves

Sure, 4,000 years from now the Emirates researchers will also be able to dig up irrefutable proof that Dubai were not build by slaves.

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YouTube - Lindsay Lohan Muse Magazine Uncensored VIDEO.flv

2009-12-17T23:38:00.001-07:00

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Ataque de Pánico! (Panic Attack!) 2009

2009-12-17T13:34:00.001-07:00

This little clip uploaded on YouTube landed the producer with multi- millions dollars Hollywood contract.

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The Independent: The dark side of Dubai

2009-12-15T09:39:00.000-07:00

The Independent: The dark side of Dubai

April 7, 2009

The dark side of Dubai

Dubai was meant to be a Middle-Eastern Shangri-La, a glittering monument to Arab enterprise and western capitalism. But as hard times arrive in the city state that rose from the desert sands, an uglier story is emerging. Johann Hari reports

The wide, smiling face of Sheikh Mohammed - the absolute ruler of Dubai - beams down on his creation. His image is displayed on every other building, sandwiched between the more familiar corporate rictuses of Ronald McDonald and Colonel Sanders. This man has sold Dubai to the world as the city of One Thousand and One Arabian Lights, a Shangri-La in the Middle East insulated from the dust-storms blasting across the region. He dominates the Manhattan-manqué skyline, beaming out from row after row of glass pyramids and hotels smelted into the shape of piles of golden coins. And there he stands on the tallest building in the world - a skinny spike, jabbing farther into the sky than any other human construction in history.

But something has flickered in Sheikh Mohammed's smile. The ubiquitous cranes have paused on the skyline, as if stuck in time. There are countless buildings half-finished, seemingly abandoned. In the swankiest new constructions - like the vast Atlantis hotel, a giant pink castle built in 1,000 days for $1.5bn on its own artificial island - where rainwater is leaking from the ceilings and the tiles are falling off the roof. This Neverland was built on the Never-Never - and now the cracks are beginning to show. Suddenly it looks less like Manhattan in the sun than Iceland in the desert.

Once the manic burst of building has stopped and the whirlwind has slowed, the secrets of Dubai are slowly seeping out. This is a city built from nothing in just a few wild decades on credit and ecocide, suppression and slavery. Dubai is a living metal metaphor for the neo-liberal globalised world that may be crashing - at last - into history.

I. An Adult Disneyland

Karen Andrews can't speak. Every time she starts to tell her story, she puts her head down and crumples. She is slim and angular and has the faded radiance of the once-rich, even though her clothes are as creased as her forehead. I find her in the car park of one of Dubai's finest international hotels, where she is living, in her Range Rover. She has been sleeping here for months, thanks to the kindness of the Bangladeshi car park attendants who don't have the heart to move her on. This is not where she thought her Dubai dream would end.

Her story comes out in stutters, over four hours. At times, her old voice - witty and warm - breaks through. Karen came here from Canada when her husband was offered a job in the senior division of a famous multinational. "When he said Dubai, I said - if you want me to wear black and quit booze, baby, you've got the wrong girl. But he asked me to give it a chance. And I loved him."

All her worries melted when she touched down in Dubai in 2005. "It was an adult Disneyland, where Sheikh Mohammed is the mouse," she says. "Life was fantastic. You had these amazing big apartments, you had a whole army of your own staff, you pay no taxes at all. It seemed like everyone was a CEO. We were partying the whole time."

Her husband, Daniel, bought two properties. "We were drunk on Dubai," she says. But for the first time in his life, he was beginning to mismanage their finances. "We're not talking huge sums, but he was getting confused. It was so unlike Daniel, I was surprised. We got into a little bit of debt." After a year, she found out why: Daniel was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

One doctor told him he had a year to live; another said it was benign and he'd be okay. But the debts were growing. "Before I came here, I didn't know anything about Dubai law. I assumed if all these big companies come here, it must be pretty like Canada's or any other liberal democracy's," she says. Nobody told her there is no concept of bankruptcy. If you get into debt and you can't pay, you go to prison.

"When we realised that, I sat Daniel down and told him: listen, we need to get out of here. He knew he was guaranteed a pay-off when he resigned, so we said - right, let's take the pay-off, clear the debt, and go." So Daniel resigned - but he was given a lower pay-off than his contract suggested. The debt remained. As soon as you quit your job in Dubai, your employer has to inform your bank. If you have any outstanding debts that aren't covered by your savings, then all your accounts are frozen, and you are forbidden to leave the country.

"Suddenly our cards stopped working. We had nothing. We were thrown out of our apartment." Karen can't speak about what happened next for a long time; she is shaking.

Daniel was arrested and taken away on the day of their eviction. It was six days before she could talk to him. "He told me he was put in a cell with another debtor, a Sri Lankan guy who was only 27, who said he couldn't face the shame to his family. Daniel woke up and the boy had swallowed razor-blades. He banged for help, but nobody came, and the boy died in front of him."

Karen managed to beg from her friends for a few weeks, "but it was so humiliating. I've never lived like this. I worked in the fashion industry. I had my own shops. I've never..." She peters out.

Daniel was sentenced to six months' imprisonment at a trial he couldn't understand. It was in Arabic, and there was no translation. "Now I'm here illegally, too," Karen says I've got no money, nothing. I have to last nine months until he's out, somehow." Looking away, almost paralysed with embarrassment, she asks if I could buy her a meal.

She is not alone. All over the city, there are maxed-out expats sleeping secretly in the sand-dunes or the airport or in their cars.

"The thing you have to understand about Dubai is - nothing is what it seems," Karen says at last. "Nothing. This isn't a city, it's a con-job. They lure you in telling you it's one thing - a modern kind of place - but beneath the surface it's a medieval dictatorship."

II. Tumbleweed

Thirty years ago, almost all of contemporary Dubai was desert, inhabited only by cactuses and tumbleweed and scorpions. But downtown there are traces of the town that once was, buried amidst the metal and glass. In the dusty fort of the Dubai Museum, a sanitised version of this story is told.

In the mid-18th century, a small village was built here, in the lower Persian Gulf, where people would dive for pearls off the coast. It soon began to accumulate a cosmopolitan population washing up from Persia, the Indian subcontinent, and other Arab countries, all hoping to make their fortune. They named it after a local locust, the daba, who consumed everything before it. The town was soon seized by the gunships of the British Empire, who held it by the throat as late as 1971. As they scuttled away, Dubai decided to ally with the six surrounding states and make up the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The British quit, exhausted, just as oil was being discovered, and the sheikhs who suddenly found themselves in charge faced a remarkable dilemma. They were largely illiterate nomads who spent their lives driving camels through the desert - yet now they had a vast pot of gold. What should they do with it?

Dubai only had a dribble of oil compared to neighbouring Abu Dhabi - so Sheikh Maktoum decided to use the revenues to build something that would last. Israel used to boast it made the desert bloom; Sheikh Maktoum resolved to make the desert boom. He would build a city to be a centre of tourism and financial services, sucking up cash and talent from across the globe. He invited the world to come tax-free - and they came in their millions, swamping the local population, who now make up just 5 per cent of Dubai. A city seemed to fall from the sky in just three decades, whole and complete and swelling. They fast-forwarded from the 18th century to the 21st in a single generation.

If you take the Big Bus Tour of Dubai - the passport to a pre-processed experience of every major city on earth - you are fed the propaganda-vision of how this happened. "Dubai's motto is 'Open doors, open minds'," the tour guide tells you in clipped tones, before depositing you at the souks to buy camel tea-cosies. "Here you are free. To purchase fabrics," he adds. As you pass each new monumental building, he tells you: "The World Trade Centre was built by His Highness..."

But this is a lie. The sheikh did not build this city. It was built by slaves. They are building it now.

III. Hidden in plain view

There are three different Dubais, all swirling around each other. There are the expats, like Karen; there are the Emiratis, headed by Sheikh Mohammed; and then there is the foreign underclass who built the city, and are trapped here. They are hidden in plain view. You see them everywhere, in dirt-caked blue uniforms, being shouted at by their superiors, like a chain gang - but you are trained not to look. It is like a mantra: the Sheikh built the city. The Sheikh built the city. Workers? What workers?

Every evening, the hundreds of thousands of young men who build Dubai are bussed from their sites to a vast concrete wasteland an hour out of town, where they are quarantined away. Until a few years ago they were shuttled back and forth on cattle trucks, but the expats complained this was unsightly, so now they are shunted on small metal buses that function like greenhouses in the desert heat. They sweat like sponges being slowly wrung out.

Sonapur is a rubble-strewn patchwork of miles and miles of identical concrete buildings. Some 300,000 men live piled up here, in a place whose name in Hindi means "City of Gold". In the first camp I stop at - riven with the smell of sewage and sweat - the men huddle around, eager to tell someone, anyone, what is happening to them.

Sahinal Monir, a slim 24-year-old from the deltas of Bangladesh. "To get you here, they tell you Dubai is heaven. Then you get here and realise it is hell," he says. Four years ago, an employment agent arrived in Sahinal's village in Southern Bangladesh. He told the men of the village that there was a place where they could earn 40,000 takka a month (£400) just for working nine-to-five on construction projects. It was a place where they would be given great accommodation, great food, and treated well. All they had to do was pay an up-front fee of 220,000 takka (£2,300) for the work visa - a fee they'd pay off in the first six months, easy. So Sahinal sold his family land, and took out a loan from the local lender, to head to this paradise.

As soon as he arrived at Dubai airport, his passport was taken from him by his construction company. He has not seen it since. He was told brusquely that from now on he would be working 14-hour days in the desert heat - where western tourists are advised not to stay outside for even five minutes in summer, when it hits 55 degrees - for 500 dirhams a month (£90), less than a quarter of the wage he was promised. If you don't like it, the company told him, go home. "But how can I go home? You have my passport, and I have no money for the ticket," he said. "Well, then you'd better get to work," they replied.

Sahinal was in a panic. His family back home - his son, daughter, wife and parents - were waiting for money, excited that their boy had finally made it. But he was going to have to work for more than two years just to pay for the cost of getting here - and all to earn less than he did in Bangladesh.

He shows me his room. It is a tiny, poky, concrete cell with triple-decker bunk-beds, where he lives with 11 other men. All his belongings are piled onto his bunk: three shirts, a spare pair of trousers, and a cellphone. The room stinks, because the lavatories in the corner of the camp - holes in the ground - are backed up with excrement and clouds of black flies. There is no air conditioning or fans, so the heat is "unbearable. You cannot sleep. All you do is sweat and scratch all night." At the height of summer, people sleep on the floor, on the roof, anywhere where they can pray for a moment of breeze.

The water delivered to the camp in huge white containers isn't properly desalinated: it tastes of salt. "It makes us sick, but we have nothing else to drink," he says.

The work is "the worst in the world," he says. "You have to carry 50kg bricks and blocks of cement in the worst heat imaginable ... This heat - it is like nothing else. You sweat so much you can't pee, not for days or weeks. It's like all the liquid comes out through your skin and you stink. You become dizzy and sick but you aren't allowed to stop, except for an hour in the afternoon. You know if you drop anything or slip, you could die. If you take time off sick, your wages are docked, and you are trapped here even longer."

He is currently working on the 67th floor of a shiny new tower, where he builds upwards, into the sky, into the heat. He doesn't know its name. In his four years here, he has never seen the Dubai of tourist-fame, except as he constructs it floor-by-floor.

Is he angry? He is quiet for a long time. "Here, nobody shows their anger. You can't. You get put in jail for a long time, then deported." Last year, some workers went on strike after they were not given their wages for four months. The Dubai police surrounded their camps with razor-wire and water-cannons and blasted them out and back to work.

The "ringleaders" were imprisoned. I try a different question: does Sohinal regret coming? All the men look down, awkwardly. "How can we think about that? We are trapped. If we start to think about regrets..." He lets the sentence trail off. Eventually, another worker breaks the silence by adding: "I miss my country, my family and my land. We can grow food in Bangladesh. Here, nothing grows. Just oil and buildings."

Since the recession hit, they say, the electricity has been cut off in dozens of the camps, and the men have not been paid for months. Their companies have disappeared with their passports and their pay. "We have been robbed of everything. Even if somehow we get back to Bangladesh, the loan sharks will demand we repay our loans immediately, and when we can't, we'll be sent to prison."

This is all supposed to be illegal. Employers are meant to pay on time, never take your passport, give you breaks in the heat - but I met nobody who said it happens. Not one. These men are conned into coming and trapped into staying, with the complicity of the Dubai authorities.

Sahinal could well die out here. A British man who used to work on construction projects told me: "There's a huge number of suicides in the camps and on the construction sites, but they're not reported. They're described as 'accidents'." Even then, their families aren't free: they simply inherit the debts. A Human Rights Watch study found there is a "cover-up of the true extent" of deaths from heat exhaustion, overwork and suicide, but the Indian consulate registered 971 deaths of their nationals in 2005 alone. After this figure was leaked, the consulates were told to stop counting.

At night, in the dusk, I sit in the camp with Sohinal and his friends as they scrape together what they have left to buy a cheap bottle of spirits. They down it in one ferocious gulp. "It helps you to feel numb", Sohinal says through a stinging throat. In the distance, the glistening Dubai skyline he built stands, oblivious.

IV. Mauled by the mall

I find myself stumbling in a daze from the camps into the sprawling marble malls that seem to stand on every street in Dubai. It is so hot there is no point building pavements; people gather in these cathedrals of consumerism to bask in the air conditioning. So within a ten minute taxi-ride, I have left Sohinal and I am standing in the middle of Harvey Nichols, being shown a £20,000 taffeta dress by a bored salesgirl. "As you can see, it is cut on the bias..." she says, and I stop writing.

Time doesn't seem to pass in the malls. Days blur with the same electric light, the same shined floors, the same brands I know from home. Here, Dubai is reduced to its component sounds: do-buy. In the most expensive malls I am almost alone, the shops empty and echoing. On the record, everybody tells me business is going fine. Off the record, they look panicky. There is a hat exhibition ahead of the Dubai races, selling elaborate headgear for £1,000 a pop. "Last year, we were packed. Now look," a hat designer tells me. She swoops her arm over a vacant space.

I approach a blonde 17-year-old Dutch girl wandering around in hotpants, oblivious to the swarms of men gaping at her. "I love it here!" she says. "The heat, the malls, the beach!" Does it ever bother you that it's a slave society? She puts her head down, just as Sohinal did. "I try not to see," she says. Even at 17, she has learned not to look, and not to ask; that, she senses, is a transgression too far.

Between the malls, there is nothing but the connecting tissue of asphalt. Every road has at least four lanes; Dubai feels like a motorway punctuated by shopping centres. You only walk anywhere if you are suicidal. The residents of Dubai flit from mall to mall by car or taxis.

How does it feel if this is your country, filled with foreigners? Unlike the expats and the slave class, I can't just approach the native Emiratis to ask questions when I see them wandering around - the men in cool white robes, the women in sweltering black. If you try, the women blank you, and the men look affronted, and tell you brusquely that Dubai is "fine". So I browse through the Emirati blog-scene and found some typical-sounding young Emiratis. We meet - where else? - in the mall.

Ahmed al-Atar is a handsome 23-year-old with a neat, trimmed beard, tailored white robes, and rectangular wire-glasses. He speaks perfect American-English, and quickly shows that he knows London, Los Angeles and Paris better than most westerners. Sitting back in his chair in an identikit Starbucks, he announces: "This is the best place in the world to be young! The government pays for your education up to PhD level. You get given a free house when you get married. You get free healthcare, and if it's not good enough here, they pay for you to go abroad. You don't even have to pay for your phone calls. Almost everyone has a maid, a nanny, and a driver. And we never pay any taxes. Don't you wish you were Emirati?"

I try to raise potential objections to this Panglossian summary, but he leans forward and says: "Look - my grandfather woke up every day and he would have to fight to get to the well first to get water. When the wells ran dry, they had to have water delivered by camel. They were always hungry and thirsty and desperate for jobs. He limped all his life, because he there was no medical treatment available when he broke his leg. Now look at us!"

For Emiratis, this is a Santa Claus state, handing out goodies while it makes its money elsewhere: through renting out land to foreigners, soft taxes on them like business and airport charges, and the remaining dribble of oil. Most Emiratis, like Ahmed, work for the government, so they're cushioned from the credit crunch. "I haven't felt any effect at all, and nor have my friends," he says. "Your employment is secure. You will only be fired if you do something incredibly bad." The laws are currently being tightened, to make it even more impossible to sack an Emirati.

Sure, the flooding-in of expats can sometimes be "an eyesore", Ahmed says. "But we see the expats as the price we had to pay for this development. How else could we do it? Nobody wants to go back to the days of the desert, the days before everyone came. We went from being like an African country to having an average income per head of $120,000 a year. And we're supposed to complain?"

He says the lack of political freedom is fine by him. "You'll find it very hard to find an Emirati who doesn't support Sheikh Mohammed." Because they're scared? "No, because we really all support him. He's a great leader. Just look!" He smiles and says: "I'm sure my life is very much like yours. We hang out, have a coffee, go to the movies. You'll be in a Pizza Hut or Nando's in London, and at the same time I'll be in one in Dubai," he says, ordering another latte.

But do all young Emiratis see it this way? Can it really be so sunny in the political sands? In the sleek Emirates Tower Hotel, I meet Sultan al-Qassemi. He's a 31-year-old Emirati columnist for the Dubai press and private art collector, with a reputation for being a contrarian liberal, advocating gradual reform. He is wearing Western clothes - blue jeans and a Ralph Lauren shirt - and speaks incredibly fast, turning himself into a manic whirr of arguments.

"People here are turning into lazy, overweight babies!" he exclaims. "The nanny state has gone too far. We don't do anything for ourselves! Why don't any of us work for the private sector? Why can't a mother and father look after their own child?" And yet, when I try to bring up the system of slavery that built Dubai, he looks angry. "People should give us credit," he insists. "We are the most tolerant people in the world. Dubai is the only truly international city in the world. Everyone who comes here is treated with respect."

I pause, and think of the vast camps in Sonapur, just a few miles away. Does he even know they exist? He looks irritated. "You know, if there are 30 or 40 cases [of worker abuse] a year, that sounds like a lot but when you think about how many people are here..." Thirty or 40? This abuse is endemic to the system, I say. We're talking about hundreds of thousands.

Sultan is furious. He splutters: "You don't think Mexicans are treated badly in New York City? And how long did it take Britain to treat people well? I could come to London and write about the homeless people on Oxford Street and make your city sound like a terrible place, too! The workers here can leave any time they want! Any Indian can leave, any Asian can leave!"

But they can't, I point out. Their passports are taken away, and their wages are withheld. "Well, I feel bad if that happens, and anybody who does that should be punished. But their embassies should help them." They try. But why do you forbid the workers - with force - from going on strike against lousy employers? "Thank God we don't allow that!" he exclaims. "Strikes are in-convenient! They go on the street - we're not having that. We won't be like France. Imagine a country where they the workers can just stop whenever they want!" So what should the workers do when they are cheated and lied to? "Quit. Leave the country."

I sigh. Sultan is seething now. "People in the West are always complaining about us," he says. Suddenly, he adopts a mock-whiny voice and says, in imitation of these disgusting critics: "Why don't you treat animals better? Why don't you have better shampoo advertising? Why don't you treat labourers better?" It's a revealing order: animals, shampoo, then workers. He becomes more heated, shifting in his seat, jabbing his finger at me. "I gave workers who worked for me safety goggles and special boots, and they didn't want to wear them! It slows them down!"

And then he smiles, coming up with what he sees as his killer argument. "When I see Western journalists criticise us - don't you realise you're shooting yourself in the foot? The Middle East will be far more dangerous if Dubai fails. Our export isn't oil, it's hope. Poor Egyptians or Libyans or Iranians grow up saying - I want to go to Dubai. We're very important to the region. We are showing how to be a modern Muslim country. We don't have any fundamentalists here. Europeans shouldn't gloat at our demise. You should be very worried.... Do you know what will happen if this model fails? Dubai will go down the Iranian path, the Islamist path."

Sultan sits back. My arguments have clearly disturbed him; he says in a softer, conciliatory tone, almost pleading: "Listen. My mother used to go to the well and get a bucket of water every morning. On her wedding day, she was given an orange as a gift because she had never eaten one. Two of my brothers died when they were babies because the healthcare system hadn't developed yet. Don't judge us." He says it again, his eyes filled with intensity: "Don't judge us."

V. The Dunkin' Donuts Dissidents

But there is another face to the Emirati minority - a small huddle of dissidents, trying to shake the Sheikhs out of abusive laws. Next to a Virgin Megastore and a Dunkin' Donuts, with James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" blaring behind me, I meet the Dubai dictatorship's Public Enemy Number One. By way of introduction, Mohammed al-Mansoori says from within his white robes and sinewy face: "Westerners come her and see the malls and the tall buildings and they think that means we are free. But these businesses, these buildings - who are they for? This is a dictatorship. The royal family think they own the country, and the people are their servants. There is no freedom here."

We snuffle out the only Arabic restaurant in this mall, and he says everything you are banned - under threat of prison - from saying in Dubai. Mohammed tells me he was born in Dubai to a fisherman father who taught him one enduring lesson: Never follow the herd. Think for yourself. In the sudden surge of development, Mohammed trained as a lawyer. By the Noughties, he had climbed to the head of the Jurists' Association, an organisation set up to press for Dubai's laws to be consistent with international human rights legislation.

And then - suddenly - Mohammed thwacked into the limits of Sheikh Mohammed's tolerance. Horrified by the "system of slavery" his country was being built on, he spoke out to Human Rights Watch and the BBC. "So I was hauled in by the secret police and told: shut up, or you will lose you job, and your children will be unemployable," he says. "But how could I be silent?"

He was stripped of his lawyer's licence and his passport - becoming yet another person imprisoned in this country. "I have been blacklisted and so have my children. The newspapers are not allowed to write about me."

Why is the state so keen to defend this system of slavery? He offers a prosaic explanation. "Most companies are owned by the government, so they oppose human rights laws because it will reduce their profit margins. It's in their interests that the workers are slaves."

Last time there was a depression, there was a starbust of democracy in Dubai, seized by force from the sheikhs. In the 1930s, the city's merchants banded together against Sheikh Said bin Maktum al-Maktum - the absolute ruler of his day - and insisted they be given control over the state finances. It lasted only a few years, before the Sheikh - with the enthusiastic support of the British - snuffed them out.

And today? Sheikh Mohammed turned Dubai into Creditopolis, a city built entirely on debt. Dubai owes 107 percent of its entire GDP. It would be bust already, if the neighbouring oil-soaked state of Abu Dhabi hadn't pulled out its chequebook. Mohammed says this will constrict freedom even further. "Now Abu Dhabi calls the tunes - and they are much more conservative and restrictive than even Dubai. Freedom here will diminish every day." Already, new media laws have been drafted forbidding the press to report on anything that could "damage" Dubai or "its economy". Is this why the newspapers are giving away glossy supplements talking about "encouraging economic indicators"?

Everybody here waves Islamism as the threat somewhere over the horizon, sure to swell if their advice is not followed. Today, every imam is appointed by the government, and every sermon is tightly controlled to keep it moderate. But Mohammed says anxiously: "We don't have Islamism here now, but I think that if you control people and give them no way to express anger, it could rise. People who are told to shut up all the time can just explode."

Later that day, against another identikit-corporate backdrop, I meet another dissident - Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, Professor of Political Science at Emirates University. His anger focuses not on political reform, but the erosion of Emirati identity. He is famous among the locals, a rare outspoken conductor for their anger. He says somberly: "There has been a rupture here. This is a totally different city to the one I was born in 50 years ago."

He looks around at the shiny floors and Western tourists and says: "What we see now didn't occur in our wildest dreams. We never thought we could be such a success, a trendsetter, a model for other Arab countries. The people of Dubai are mighty proud of their city, and rightly so. And yet..." He shakes his head. "In our hearts, we fear we have built a modern city but we are losing it to all these expats."

Adbulkhaleq says every Emirati of his generation lives with a "psychological trauma." Their hearts are divided - "between pride on one side, and fear on the other." Just after he says this, a smiling waitress approaches, and asks us what we would like to drink. He orders a Coke.

VI. Dubai Pride

There is one group in Dubai for whom the rhetoric of sudden freedom and liberation rings true - but it is the very group the government wanted to liberate least: gays.

Beneath a famous international hotel, I clamber down into possibly the only gay club on the Saudi Arabian peninsula. I find a United Nations of tank-tops and bulging biceps, dancing to Kylie, dropping ecstasy, and partying like it's Soho. "Dubai is the best place in the Muslim world for gays!" a 25-year old Emirati with spiked hair says, his arms wrapped around his 31-year old "husband". "We are alive. We can meet. That is more than most Arab gays."

It is illegal to be gay in Dubai, and punishable by 10 years in prison. But the locations of the latest unofficial gay clubs circulate online, and men flock there, seemingly unafraid of the police. "They might bust the club, but they will just disperse us," one of them says. "The police have other things to do."

In every large city, gay people find a way to find each other - but Dubai has become the clearing-house for the region's homosexuals, a place where they can live in relative safety. Saleh, a lean private in the Saudi Arabian army, has come here for the Coldplay concert, and tells me Dubai is "great" for gays: "In Saudi, it's hard to be straight when you're young. The women are shut away so everyone has gay sex. But they only want to have sex with boys - 15- to 21-year-olds. I'm 27, so I'm too old now. I need to find real gays, so this is the best place. All Arab gays want to live in Dubai."

With that, Saleh dances off across the dancefloor, towards a Dutch guy with big biceps and a big smile.

VII. The Lifestyle

All the guidebooks call Dubai a "melting pot", but as I trawl across the city, I find that every group here huddles together in its own little ethnic enclave - and becomes a caricature of itself. One night - in the heart of this homesick city, tired of the malls and the camps - I go to Double Decker, a hang-out for British expats. At the entrance there is a red telephone box, and London bus-stop signs. Its wooden interior looks like a cross between a colonial clubhouse in the Raj and an Eighties school disco, with blinking coloured lights and cheese blaring out. As I enter, a girl in a short skirt collapses out of the door onto her back. A guy wearing a pirate hat helps her to her feet, dropping his beer bottle with a paralytic laugh.

I start to talk to two sun-dried women in their sixties who have been getting gently sozzled since midday. "You stay here for The Lifestyle," they say, telling me to take a seat and order some more drinks. All the expats talk about The Lifestyle, but when you ask what it is, they become vague. Ann Wark tries to summarise it: "Here, you go out every night. You'd never do that back home. You see people all the time. It's great. You have lots of free time. You have maids and staff so you don't have to do all that stuff. You party!"

They have been in Dubai for 20 years, and they are happy to explain how the city works. "You've got a hierarchy, haven't you?" Ann says. "It's the Emiratis at the top, then I'd say the British and other Westerners. Then I suppose it's the Filipinos, because they've got a bit more brains than the Indians. Then at the bottom you've got the Indians and all them lot."

They admit, however, they have "never" spoken to an Emirati. Never? "No. They keep themselves to themselves." Yet Dubai has disappointed them. Jules Taylor tells me: "If you have an accident here it's a nightmare. There was a British woman we knew who ran over an Indian guy, and she was locked up for four days! If you have a tiny bit of alcohol on your breath they're all over you. These Indians throw themselves in front of cars, because then their family has to be given blood money - you know, compensation. But the police just blame us. That poor woman."

A 24-year-old British woman called Hannah Gamble takes a break from the dancefloor to talk to me. "I love the sun and the beach! It's great out here!" she says. Is there anything bad? "Oh yes!" she says. Ah: one of them has noticed, I think with relief. "The banks! When you want to make a transfer you have to fax them. You can't do it online." Anything else? She thinks hard. "The traffic's not very good."

When I ask the British expats how they feel to not be in a democracy, their reaction is always the same. First, they look bemused. Then they look affronted. "It's the Arab way!" an Essex boy shouts at me in response, as he tries to put a pair of comedy antlers on his head while pouring some beer into the mouth of his friend, who is lying on his back on the floor, gurning.

Later, in a hotel bar, I start chatting to a dyspeptic expat American who works in the cosmetics industry and is desperate to get away from these people. She says: "All the people who couldn't succeed in their own countries end up here, and suddenly they're rich and promoted way above their abilities and bragging about how great they are. I've never met so many incompetent people in such senior positions anywhere in the world." She adds: "It's absolutely racist. I had Filipino girls working for me doing the same job as a European girl, and she's paid a quarter of the wages. The people who do the real work are paid next to nothing, while these incompetent managers pay themselves £40,000 a month."

With the exception of her, one theme unites every expat I speak to: their joy at having staff to do the work that would clog their lives up Back Home. Everyone, it seems, has a maid. The maids used to be predominantly Filipino, but with the recession, Filipinos have been judged to be too expensive, so a nice Ethiopian servant girl is the latest fashionable accessory.

It is an open secret that once you hire a maid, you have absolute power over her. You take her passport - everyone does; you decide when to pay her, and when - if ever - she can take a break; and you decide who she talks to. She speaks no Arabic. She cannot escape.

In a Burger King, a Filipino girl tells me it is "terrifying" for her to wander the malls in Dubai because Filipino maids or nannies always sneak away from the family they are with and beg her for help. "They say - 'Please, I am being held prisoner, they don't let me call home, they make me work every waking hour seven days a week.' At first I would say - my God, I will tell the consulate, where are you staying? But they never know their address, and the consulate isn't interested. I avoid them now. I keep thinking about a woman who told me she hadn't eaten any fruit in four years. They think I have power because I can walk around on my own, but I'm powerless."

The only hostel for women in Dubai - a filthy private villa on the brink of being repossessed - is filled with escaped maids. Mela Matari, a 25-year-old Ethiopian woman with a drooping smile, tells me what happened to her - and thousands like her. She was promised a paradise in the sands by an agency, so she left her four year-old daughter at home and headed here to earn money for a better future. "But they paid me half what they promised. I was put with an Australian family - four children - and Madam made me work from 6am to 1am every day, with no day off. I was exhausted and pleaded for a break, but they just shouted: 'You came here to work, not sleep!' Then one day I just couldn't go on, and Madam beat me. She beat me with her fists and kicked me. My ear still hurts. They wouldn't give me my wages: they said they'd pay me at the end of the two years. What could I do? I didn't know anybody here. I was terrified."

One day, after yet another beating, Mela ran out onto the streets, and asked - in broken English - how to find the Ethiopian consulate. After walking for two days, she found it, but they told her she had to get her passport back from Madam. "Well, how could I?" she asks. She has been in this hostel for six months. She has spoken to her daughter twice. "I lost my country, I lost my daughter, I lost everything," she says.

As she says this, I remember a stray sentence I heard back at Double Decker. I asked a British woman called Hermione Frayling what the best thing about Dubai was. "Oh, the servant class!" she trilled. "You do nothing. They'll do anything!"

VIII. The End of The World

The World is empty. It has been abandoned, its continents unfinished. Through binoculars, I think I can glimpse Britain; this sceptred isle barren in the salt-breeze.

Here, off the coast of Dubai, developers have been rebuilding the world. They have constructed artificial islands in the shape of all planet Earth's land masses, and they plan to sell each continent off to be built on. There were rumours that the Beckhams would bid for Britain. But the people who work at the nearby coast say they haven't seen anybody there for months now. "The World is over," a South African suggests.

All over Dubai, crazy projects that were Under Construction are now Under Collapse. They were building an air-conditioned beach here, with cooling pipes running below the sand, so the super-rich didn't singe their toes on their way from towel to sea.

The projects completed just before the global economy crashed look empty and tattered. The Atlantis Hotel was launched last winter in a $20m fin-de-siecle party attended by Robert De Niro, Lindsay Lohan and Lily Allen. Sitting on its own fake island - shaped, of course, like a palm tree - it looks like an immense upturned tooth in a faintly decaying mouth. It is pink and turreted - the architecture of the pharaohs, as reimagined by Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Its Grand Lobby is a monumental dome covered in glitterballs, held up by eight monumental concrete palm trees. Standing in the middle, there is a giant shining glass structure that looks like the intestines of every guest who has ever stayed at the Atlantis. It is unexpectedly raining; water is leaking from the roof, and tiles are falling off.

A South African PR girl shows me around its most coveted rooms, explaining that this is "the greatest luxury offered in the world". We stroll past shops selling £24m diamond rings around a hotel themed on the lost and sunken continent of, yes, Atlantis. There are huge water tanks filled with sharks, which poke around mock-abandoned castles and dumped submarines. There are more than 1,500 rooms here, each with a sea view. The Neptune suite has three floors, and - I gasp as I see it - it looks out directly on to the vast shark tank. You lie on the bed, and the sharks stare in at you. In Dubai, you can sleep with the fishes, and survive.

But even the luxury - reminiscent of a Bond villain's lair - is also being abandoned. I check myself in for a few nights to the classiest hotel in town, the Park Hyatt. It is the fashionistas' favourite hotel, where Elle Macpherson and Tommy Hilfiger stay, a gorgeous, understated palace. It feels empty. Whenever I eat, I am one of the only people in the restaurant. A staff member tells me in a whisper: "It used to be full here. Now there's hardly anyone." Rattling around, I feel like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, the last man in an abandoned, haunted home.

The most famous hotel in Dubai - the proud icon of the city - is the Burj al Arab hotel, sitting on the shore, shaped like a giant glass sailing boat. In the lobby, I start chatting to a couple from London who work in the City. They have been coming to Dubai for 10 years now, and they say they love it. "You never know what you'll find here," he says. "On our last trip, at the beginning of the holiday, our window looked out on the sea. By the end, they'd built an entire island there."

My patience frayed by all this excess, I find myself snapping: doesn't the omnipresent slave class bother you? I hope they misunderstood me, because the woman replied: "That's what we come for! It's great, you can't do anything for yourself!" Her husband chimes in: "When you go to the toilet, they open the door, they turn on the tap - the only thing they don't do is take it out for you when you have a piss!" And they both fall about laughing.

IX. Taking on the Desert

Dubai is not just a city living beyond its financial means; it is living beyond its ecological means. You stand on a manicured Dubai lawn and watch the sprinklers spray water all around you. You see tourists flocking to swim with dolphins. You wander into a mountain-sized freezer where they have built a ski slope with real snow. And a voice at the back of your head squeaks: this is the desert. This is the most water-stressed place on the planet. How can this be happening? How is it possible?

The very earth is trying to repel Dubai, to dry it up and blow it away. The new Tiger Woods Gold Course needs four million gallons of water to be pumped on to its grounds every day, or it would simply shrivel and disappear on the winds. The city is regularly washed over with dust-storms that fog up the skies and turn the skyline into a blur. When the dust parts, heat burns through. It cooks anything that is not kept constantly, artificially wet.

Dr Mohammed Raouf, the environmental director of the Gulf Research Centre, sounds sombre as he sits in his Dubai office and warns: "This is a desert area, and we are trying to defy its environment. It is very unwise. If you take on the desert, you will lose."

Sheikh Maktoum built his showcase city in a place with no useable water. None. There is no surface water, very little acquifer, and among the lowest rainfall in the world. So Dubai drinks the sea. The Emirates' water is stripped of salt in vast desalination plants around the Gulf - making it the most expensive water on earth. It costs more than petrol to produce, and belches vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it goes. It's the main reason why a resident of Dubai has the biggest average carbon footprint of any human being - more than double that of an American.

If a recession turns into depression, Dr Raouf believes Dubai could run out of water. "At the moment, we have financial reserves that cover bringing so much water to the middle of the desert. But if we had lower revenues - if, say, the world shifts to a source of energy other than oil..." he shakes his head. "We will have a very big problem. Water is the main source of life. It would be a catastrophe. Dubai only has enough water to last us a week. There's almost no storage. We don't know what will happen if our supplies falter. It would be hard to survive."

Global warming, he adds, makes the problem even worse. "We are building all these artificial islands, but if the sea level rises, they will be gone, and we will lose a lot. Developers keep saying it's all fine, they've taken it into consideration, but I'm not so sure."

Is the Dubai government concerned about any of this? "There isn't much interest in these problems," he says sadly. But just to stand still, the average resident of Dubai needs three times more water than the average human. In the looming century of water stresses and a transition away from fossil fuels, Dubai is uniquely vulnerable.

I wanted to understand how the government of Dubai will react, so I decided to look at how it has dealt with an environmental problem that already exists - the pollution of its beaches. One woman - an American, working at one of the big hotels - had written in a lot of online forums arguing that it was bad and getting worse, so I called her to arrange a meeting. "I can't talk to you," she said sternly. Not even if it's off the record? "I can't talk to you." But I don't have to disclose your name... "You're not listening. This phone is bugged. I can't talk to you," she snapped, and hung up.

The next day I turned up at her office. "If you reveal my identity, I'll be sent on the first plane out of this city," she said, before beginning to nervously pace the shore with me. "It started like this. We began to get complaints from people using the beach. The water looked and smelled odd, and they were starting to get sick after going into it. So I wrote to the ministers of health and tourism and expected to hear back immediately - but there was nothing. Silence. I hand-delivered the letters. Still nothing."

The water quality got worse and worse. The guests started to spot raw sewage, condoms, and used sanitary towels floating in the sea. So the hotel ordered its own water analyses from a professional company. "They told us it was full of fecal matter and bacteria 'too numerous to count'. I had to start telling guests not to go in the water, and since they'd come on a beach holiday, as you can imagine, they were pretty pissed off." She began to make angry posts on the expat discussion forums - and people began to figure out what was happening. Dubai had expanded so fast its sewage treatment facilities couldn't keep up. The sewage disposal trucks had to queue for three or four days at the treatment plants - so instead, they were simply drilling open the manholes and dumping the untreated sewage down them, so it flowed straight to the sea.

Suddenly, it was an open secret - and the municipal authorities finally acknowledged the problem. They said they would fine the truckers. But the water quality didn't improve: it became black and stank. "It's got chemicals in it. I don't know what they are. But this stuff is toxic."

She continued to complain - and started to receive anonymous phone calls. "Stop embarassing Dubai, or your visa will be cancelled and you're out," they said. She says: "The expats are terrified to talk about anything. One critical comment in the newspapers and they deport you. So what am I supposed to do? Now the water is worse than ever. People are getting really sick. Eye infections, ear infections, stomach infections, rashes. Look at it!" There is faeces floating on the beach, in the shadow of one of Dubai's most famous hotels.

"What I learnt about Dubai is that the authorities don't give a toss about the environment," she says, standing in the stench. "They're pumping toxins into the sea, their main tourist attraction, for God's sake. If there are environmental problems in the future, I can tell you now how they will deal with them - deny it's happening, cover it up, and carry on until it's a total disaster." As she speaks, a dust-storm blows around us, as the desert tries, slowly, insistently, to take back its land.

X. Fake Plastic Trees

On my final night in the Dubai Disneyland, I stop off on my way to the airport, at a Pizza Hut that sits at the side of one of the city's endless, wide, gaping roads. It is identical to the one near my apartment in London in every respect, even the vomit-coloured decor. My mind is whirring and distracted. Perhaps Dubai disturbed me so much, I am thinking, because here, the entire global supply chain is condensed. Many of my goods are made by semi-enslaved populations desperate for a chance 2,000 miles away; is the only difference that here, they are merely two miles away, and you sometimes get to glimpse their faces? Dubai is Market Fundamentalist Globalisation in One City.

I ask the Filipino girl behind the counter if she likes it here. "It's OK," she says cautiously. Really? I say. I can't stand it. She sighs with relief and says: "This is the most terrible place! I hate it! I was here for months before I realised - everything in Dubai is fake. Everything you see. The trees are fake, the workers' contracts are fake, the islands are fake, the smiles are fake - even the water is fake!" But she is trapped, she says. She got into debt to come here, and she is stuck for three years: an old story now. "I think Dubai is like an oasis. It is an illusion, not real. You think you have seen water in the distance, but you get close and you only get a mouthful of sand."

As she says this, another customer enters. She forces her face into the broad, empty Dubai smile and says: "And how may I help you tonight, sir?"

Some names in this article have been changed.

Peep Lotto – The World’s First Twitter Lottery

2009-11-26T11:00:00.001-07:00

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For 22 year old Pete Danihel, it started as a school project for marketing class. However, Peep Lotto has since taken on a life of its own. The primary purpose for Peep Lotto (short for People Powered Lottery) is to convert publicity into prize by using Twitter. The more people who follow twterlotto, the bigger the prize jackpot. Currently, the jackpot stands at $1,372.10 and if nothing happens between now and Christmas day, a follower of twterlotto will win the amount. However, by the time Christmas comes around, the jackpot should be a lot bigger.

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The concept of Peep Lotto is simple but unique and maybe the reason Danihel received a 100% score on his marketing final. The project has received a good deal of press, with write ups from Darren Rowse's TwiTip to television coverage from CityTV, and now John Chow dot Com.

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Chateau Elysee Codominium

2009-09-24T09:25:00.005-06:00

Charming, Accessible, and Cozy.

Truly, Chateau Elysée is everything home should be.

Chateau Elysée Condominium built in an enchanting French Mediterranean architectural design sprawling on 4.8 hectares of prime land with more than half of the property devoted to amenities, breathing space, clubhouse and complete facilities.

Every living space at Chateau Elysée is masterfully designed - from the living room to the kitchen. Our One-, Two- and Three-Bedroom units evoke comfortable living and freedom of space. High ceilings create a sense of airy openness. Wide windows look out across pleasant bright expanses of gardens and courtyards.

Taste life's simple pleasures with quality living at Chateau Elysée. Your charmed lifestyle unfolds in a secure community that allows you to play, bond, mingle, share and belong.

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Reference: Chateau Lysee

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2009-08-20T10:47:00.002-06:00

noreak wants you to see "BrotherSister "Still Run"" on Behance.net

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/BrotherSister-Still-Run/278937

Snorkeling in Shangri-La Mactan, Cebu, The Philippines Islands

2009-07-05T14:19:00.001-06:00

Image by Storm Crypt via Flickr

Zemanta helped me add links & pictures to this email. It can do it for you too.

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Assetize: Buy & Sell Online Accounts

2009-07-02T23:48:00.001-06:00

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Assetize: Buy & Sell Online Accounts

MakeUseOf.com:

As millions of people join services like Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Gmail… etc, good account names are becoming a rare commodity, and it certainly true that the right name on account can attract more followers and add value to online presence.

Some people are already buying and selling their online accounts just like domain names, and Assetize helps them with that. It acts as online marketplace where users can buy and sell online accounts.

The site currently allows to buy and sell online accounts of following services: Blogger, Facebook, Friendfeed, Gmail, Google Groups, Ning, Twitter, Wordpress and Yahoo.

The process is similar to many other online auctions, users register and then list to sell items or browse listings of others to buy them. Buying and listing online accounts is free, the seller pays a certain fee only when the account is sold.

Photo by Assetize.

From Business Opportunities Weblog.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson

2009-06-25T23:23:00.002-06:00

Posterous

2009-06-23T23:34:00.001-06:00

Posterous.com offers the most very lean and simple blogging platform
yet. It would be nice to be able to link Adsent and other Java modules
in other to seriously compete with Blogger and Co.

http://noreak.posterous.com/

A Chance to Win $20,000 for your Business

2009-06-20T16:07:00.001-06:00

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A Chance to Win $20,000 for your Business

Beginning Monday, June 22nd, small business owners will have one week to submit a question to Small Business Yahoo! Answers Pro, Kevin Salwen, former National Small Business Editor for the Wall Street Journal online at http://smallbusinessanswers.yahoo.com/.

If Kevin chooses to answer your question, you will have the chance to win the $20,000 prize. The winner will also have the chance to participate in a one-on-one interview with a lead Yahoo! Small Business Expert and have their business featured on the Yahoo! Answers Center.

Additionally, small business owners have access to resources from Yahoo's Small Business Answer sites and Bank of America's Small Business Online Community. For more information, see below.

Yahoo's Small Business Answers center is a great resource for small business owners, as they can visit the site to learn about a variety of topics through expert articles and previously posted Q&As.
Bank of America's Small Business Online Community is a free and open forum available to all small business owners where users can network, share, learn and exchange business ideas in real time.

Running a small business is hard. This contest is easy. You get a chance to win $20k, a great answer to your question, and some free PR, all for a couple minutes of your time.

Let's get a Small Biz Bee reader to win this thing – Good Luck.

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Richard Branson’s PitchTV

2009-06-08T17:19:00.000-06:00

"As part of it’s 25th Anniversary celebrations, Virgin Atlantic is launching a new show, PitchTV, which will air onboard and will also be available online here.

We’re now inviting entrepreneurs in search of investment and exposure for their business ideas to upload short video pitches.

The community here will vote for their favourite video pitches and each month, the winning videos will feature as part of Virgin Atlantic’s PitchTV show which will air on their inflight entertainment system – gaining exposure to the hundreds of business professionals who regularly fly Virgin Atlantic. Anyone interested in hearing more about the most popular entrepreneurs’ business ideas will then be able to get in contact and maybe help take their ideas further."

Work from Home Resources

2009-06-08T17:06:00.001-06:00

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Work from Home Resources

via Your Blog Is Money by admin on 5/11/09

This outline is dedicated to providing valuable work from home resources that will give you opportunities to make money online and expand your internet business. I've tried to break down the opportunities in a way that is extremely logical.

If you really want to get to the next level, you can't be afraid to invest.

Fortunately, there are many ways you can get ahead without spending a fortune… Without further introduction, here are my resources:

Money Making Programs / GPT Websites

These programs are all free to join but I'll just mention that Project Payday and DealBarbiePays both seem to pay much better than Cash Crate and Treasure Trooper.

Because I've made money with each of these programs, I firmly believe that they are all worth joining and exploring…

Project Payday

Minimum to Receive Payment: No Min.
Total Offers: 200+
100% Free Offers: 100+
Minimum Age to Join: 18
International Membership: US & Canada

DealBarbiePays

Free to Join
Minimum to Receive Payment: $20
Total Offers: 1005
100% Free Offers: 286
Minimum Age to Join: 18
1st Level Referral Earnings: 15%
2nd Level Referral Earnings: 3%
3rd Level Referral Earnings: 2%
International Membership: No, US only

*Bonus for Active Referrals: $1 for each

Cash Crate

Free to Join
Minimum to Receive Payment: $20
Total Offers: 264
100% Free Offers: 177
Minimum Age to Join: 13
1st Level Referral Earnings: 20%
2nd Level Referral Earnings: 10%
International Membership: Yes

*Bonus For Active Referrals: $3 for any referral that earns $10

Treasure Trooper

Free to Join
Minimum to Receive Payment: $20
Total Offers: 378
100% Free Offers: 349
Minimum Age to Join: 13
1st Level Referral Earnings: 20%
2nd Level Referral Earnings: 5%
International Membership: Yes

Make Money Writing / Blogging Websites

I've spent a lot of time scouring the web for legitimate companies that will pay you to write for them, the following two websites are highly recommended for this purpose:

E-how

Today.com

Web Hosting

If you are considering creating an online business, I strongly recommend that you purchase web hosting and a domain name. I've researched hundreds of web hosting companies and have come to the conclusion that Hostgator seems to offer the best hosting for the money (this website is hosted with Hostgator)… However, if you are not planning to sign up for a reseller account you might want to consider Bluehost as an alternate option.

Hostgator

Bluehost

Internet Marketing Resources

There are all sorts of internet marketing resources available on the web. The difficult part is figuring out which tools are needed and which ones are simply blowing smoke. I personally use each of these tools and they have been extremely helpful in growing my internet marketing / web-based businesses….

Google Keyword Tool

WordTracker Free Keyword Tool

SEO Tools Rank Checker

Search Engine Optimization Services

Each of these services will help you increase your search engine optimization efforts…

Building links to your websites can be extremely difficult but the following services allow you to expand your search engine ranking places without having to spend a huge amount of time and effort contacting webmasters to organize link exchange opportunities.

Linkvana

1WayLinks

Article Marketing Automation

Advertising / PPC Programs

The following are a couple of my favorite advertising / PPC programs… There are so many to choose from but the following two options seem to be the most profitable:

Google Adsense

Yahoo Publisher

Email Marketing

Many people don't realize that the value in their online business is not in the traffic but how effectively they manage their traffic and convert their visitors into subscribers… We do this by offering value and providing our visitors with information that helps them, this gives them incentive to come back and thus a mutually beneficial relationship is created.

Creating an email marketing campaign for your website is extremely important and choosing a provider / email service can mean the difference between a successful business and a complete failure.

If you take a minute to look at the top right hand side of my website you will see a field to place your name and email address…

Please consider signing up for my email newsletter and when you're ready, it might be a good idea to start your own. I recommend Aweber, it has helped me generate a lot of profit over the years and if you have a steady stream of web traffic, you should be able to reproduce the same results.

Aweber

Affiliate Networks

If you're planning on monetizing your websites with affiliate products, I highly recommend using the following services:

Clickbank

PayDotCom

Conclusion

Although I'm sure that there are many worthy resources and tools that I neglected to mention in this outline, I know that each one of these recommendations has been made with a clean conscious and an intent to help you be successful regardless of whether you would like to grow your online business or simply earn money online.

I will continue to update this resource list on a monthly basis. If you have a worthy product or service and would like me to mention it, please go ahead and leave a comment or use the contact form with a recommendation.

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Able Bodied Seaman Job Search

2009-06-07T12:43:00.014-06:00

Image by alfonsator via Flickr

I'm helping my brother in law to find a seaman job, either in the Philippines or abroad. He have trainings, certifications, and work experience as a seaman.

Would anyone be able to point me to the proper resources or agents for this kind of search?

Thank you kindly for any reply or comments.

PS: Now why would anyone post this on a Blogger you may ask?

Well this posting was written in G-mail with Semanta blogging tool assistance. I hope that some keywords and such may help me get closer to my search.

Cheers!

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Some seaman jobs posted across the Internet:
BestJobs.ph | JobsDB.com | JobShips.com | olx.com.ph |

Google suggested search "seaman jobs Philippines".
Bing.com "seaman jobs" search result.
SimplyHired.com "seaman" result.

Related: The Best Way To Find (And Fill) A Job Online
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31 Additional Twitter Apps To Explore

2009-06-07T12:00:00.001-06:00

"Twitter applications are tools that help you efficiently get the most out of your Twitter activity. They can save you time and effort while streamlining your marketing and social networking efforts."

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31 Additional Twitter Apps To Explore

via SMALL BUSINESS CEO by Amanda on 6/5/09

A few months ago I featured 27 Twitter Applications Your Small Business Can Use Today. I've come across 31 additional Twitter apps that I'd like to share with you. Twitter applications are tools that help you efficiently get the most out of your Twitter activity. They can save you time and effort while streamlining your marketing and social networking efforts.

New apps are popping up constantly. Every app described in this list has not been discussed here before. So combined with the previously featured 27 apps, you now have 58 applications at your disposal.

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Tweetr - This applications allows you to share files up to 10MB via Twitter. Tweetr will upload your file and covert it to a short URL. One other feature of Tweetr is that you can use your webcam to share images with your followers.

Twellow - In short, a yellow pages for Twitter users. This directory service enables you to easily search, find and follow people that interest you most. Registration is free.

Twitalyzer - Use this application to evaluate your impact and success of your Twitter activity. This tool measures your clout, generosity, influence, velocity and signal to noise ratios.

Twitter Job Search - Looking for work? This app searches and sorts available job positions discussed on Twitter. You can browse the jobs by category or use their helpful map of jobs tweeted within the last 72 hours.

Tweetmeme - This site tracks the most popular links found on Twitter. Search the business category for the most recent news and trends for your industry.

Topify - Give your Twitter email notifications more power. When Twitter emails you that you have a new follower, Topify provides you with all the important info you need without having to visit the person's profile. Quickly see their stats, follow back by replying to the email, or send a direct message via the email.

Tweetake - Use this application to back-up your list of Twitter followers, the people you are following and all of your Tweets. You never know when Twitter may crash, so save yourself the headache by making sure you've backed up all of your contacts.

Tweetstats - Convert all of your Twitter activity stats in an easy to evaluate graphs. Quickly see how often you've tweeted, who you've re-tweeted, and who's Tweets you've replied to.

Tweetlater - The free version of this application enables you to schedule Tweets, track keywords, send direct messages and much, much more. Saves valuable time and boosts productivity.

Tweefind - This Twitter search engine returns results based on rank, resulting in the most relevant results and users first.

Twiturm - Do you have musical aspirations? Share the music you create by uploading your MP3 files and turn them into a Tweet to promote your creations.

Twitzap - Find the stuff on Twitter that matters the most to you. Twitzap lets you divide info into channels which are then updated in real-time.

FollowWatch - FollowWatch simply watches your followers. You will receive hourly alerts of followers that you have lost or gained.

TwitterMass - TwitterMass consists of a whole suite of tools to help you grow your Twitter network. See the site for the numerous features available with this app.

Tweetbrain - This crowdsourcing app lets you pick the brains of fellow Twitterers. Post your questions and/or answers and build relationships while exchanging knowledge and info.

Qwitter - Monitor who quits following you with this app. You will receive an email notification whenever anyone stops following you.

Twazzup - Search topics and discover real-time Tweets, related photos and the most popular links. You can reply and retweet directly from Twazzup.

Twist - Search trends discussed on Twitter by topic. You can compare topics, view the most recent tweets and see what topics are "Hot Now".

Twuffer - Keep on top of your Twitter activity by scheduling your Tweets in advance.

Twisten.FM - This app in real-time lets you explore and listen to all of the music Tweeted about on Twitter.

Twitterific - This iPhone application makes reading and updating your Tweets a breeze. If you want to learn more about the features, they have short video "Tweetorials" on the site. Twitterific is also available for Mac users.

TwitterContd - Need more than 140 characters to finish your Twitter thoughts? TwitterContd gives you 1250! Post your Tweet, shorten a URL and upload images, video or audio files in one easy step.

CalendarTweet - Tag, share and promote your business events with this handy application.

TweetPhoto - This is a photosharing app that can upload photos by email, mobile or web. You can also publish photos directly to Facebook. You'll be able to track who's viewing your photos, favorite other people's photos, moderate comments and more.

Twitteranalyzer - Analyze your Twitter account activity in depth. You can look through your stats in detail along with the stats of your friends. This app is deceiving from the home page. You really need to put in your account name to get the full effect of what's provided with this app.

TwitterGrader - See how your Twitter activity measures up.

yFrog - Easily promote your products or services by uploading and sharing images and videos with this simple application.

FileTwt - Quickly and easily upload and Tweet your files with FileTwt. You can share files up to 20MB.

TinySong - Share songs with this application. TinySong creates links for you to easily share with your friends.

TweetMic - This iPhone application helps you publish audio to Twitter. Great way to connect with clients and customers.

Twiggit - The name of this app results when Twitter and Digg meet. Let your followers know which articles you Digg with this automated service. When you Digg an article, Twiggit will automatically update your status with the link.

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Mountain View Photo Of The Day

2009-06-06T03:43:00.002-06:00

Photo of the day from Xoopit Picasa.

Web Business Rambling

2009-06-03T00:47:00.002-06:00

Business feed bundle.

"Web Business Rambling" is a collection of blogs and websites hand-selected by your friend on a particular topic or interest. You can keep up to date with them all in one place by subscribing in Google Reader.

Preview "Web Business Rambling" in Google Reader

Animoto Made With iPhone

2009-06-02T18:23:00.003-06:00

From Hong Kong to the Philipine's Islands

You've been shared an iPhone video!

2009-06-02T16:57:00.002-06:00

Hey there,

Noreak has shared a video with you that was made on his/her iPhone! You can watch it on your iPhone or your computer by following this link:

http://animoto.com/play/OOBtKqP10WgirT6c5w0fLw

If you like it, why don't you try creating one yourself? You can get our app (for free!) in the app store with your iPhone, or in a regular web browser just head here.

Thanks,
The ANIMOTO Team

Link from Twitterrific

2009-06-01T21:16:00.001-06:00

http://mashable.com/2009/06/01/youtube-brands/

How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources | Best Universities

2009-04-16T08:32:00.001-06:00

http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/how-to-create-your-own-online-course-100-tools-guides-and-resources/

TwitterMass - Massively Grow Your Twitter Network

2009-04-16T08:29:00.001-06:00

http://twittermass.com/

Social Media Lists

2009-04-16T08:23:00.001-06:00

http://mashable.com/category/social-media-lists/

17 Open Source Tools To Draw, Edit, Layout And Animate Your Designs : OpenSource Release Feed

2009-04-16T08:18:00.001-06:00

http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com/resource/show/17-open-source-tools-to-draw-edit-layout-and-animate-your-designs

Make an iPhone App Using the Envato API - Nettuts+

2009-04-16T07:46:00.001-06:00

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/make-an-iphone-app-using-the-envato-ali/

50+ Sources To Download High-Quality Free Vector Stuff | Showcases | instantShift

2009-04-16T07:30:00.001-06:00

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/04/16/50-sources-to-download-high-quality-free-vector-stuff/

The Online Collaboration Tools Guide - ReadWriteWeb

2009-04-16T07:17:00.001-06:00

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_online_collaboration_tools_guide.pup

Twitter Is My Help Desk

2009-04-16T07:06:00.000-06:00

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Twitter Is My Help Desk

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Twitter Is My Help Desk

Over the course of the last year of so something happened to customer support - a great deal of it moved on to twitter.

It started for me with the occasional "does anyone know what this error message means?" or "what adapter works best for X?" Even just a year ago the only folks on twitter were smart, technology oriented and ahead of the curve on most new technologies.

A funny thing has happened in the last few months. Just about any company that is active in online products and services is now providing tech support with a simple twitter request. These days I turn to twitter first to engage support for most of the tools I use.

Now that twitter has grown to about 20 gazillion users almost any company can and should be offering customer service and support via this mechanism. The expectation is growing for some users that all companies provide a level of support using this platform.

If your company is considering exploring twitter for support here are a couple ideas and a handful of tools that might make the task of providing service from your company a little easier than sitting 24/7 at your laptop.

Create a company support account and give it a company branded avatar. (Some large organizations have numerous folks participating on twitter and use KathyATCompany, which works as well.) Remember, this is support, pure and simple, so folks aren't really looking to engage with @Chuckie, it's OK for several folks in an organization to monitor and respond under one branded avatar. It's also OK for support to come from a real social media person, but you may find you rotate people through this position as well.

The next step is search routines. You need to set up searches at search.twitter.com for your brands, products, and company and monitor them using a tool like tweetdeck or splitweet so that you can know when someone is asking about, complaining about, or praising what you're tracking in order to respond.

There are enterprise tools for customer service interaction on twitter being built right into EPR and CRM tools by Salesforce.com, Cisco, and others, but here are a few free tools that might make your job a little easier.

vzaar | video hosting, for your website

2009-04-15T16:59:00.002-06:00

vzaar.com

Add video to your ecommerce website and eBay Listings with vzaar's video hosting service. vzaar encodes, streams and hosts any video for businesses, eBay sellers or individuals. Increase sales, traffic and conversion by embedding video quickly and easily into your website, storefront and eBay auctions.

Top Online Tax Resources

2009-04-15T16:09:00.001-06:00

It is perhaps unsurprising that the Canada Revenue Agency's website is probably the best online resource on tax matters. Every tax form and tax guide published by the CRA can be found on the website and there is hardly a need to look elsewhere for most straightforward tax questions. If you are looking for more tax planning information, you may find these websites of interest:

CGA Ontario's free booklet 2008-09 Personal Tax Planning Guide, which is also available in print form through participating public libraries, is filled with basic information about personal taxes.

KPMG Canada's catalogue of online tax publications includes in-depth analysis of the latest income tax developments, especially in the Canadian Tax Adviser and Tax News Flash Canada sections.

Ernst & Young's Canadian Tax Page has useful tips (such as this list of top tax tips), tax calculators & personal tax rate tables and a free tax guide titled "Managing your personal taxes".

Tim Cestnick writes a regular column for The Globe and Mail titled "Tax Matters". You can find a treasure trove of past articles archived on his website.

Tax expert, Jamie Golembeck, writes columns for The National Post and other publications and has archived his articles on his webpage. (Just leave all the fields blank and click 'Search' to get a list of articles available).

The Taxtips.ca website carries articles on taxes, tax rate tables and tax calculators.

The Income Tax Estimator by Walter Harder & Associates is probably one of the best online tax calculators available.

Have you stumbled across an useful resource not listed here? I'd love to hear about it in the comments section.

The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites - 2009 Update

2009-04-15T15:13:00.001-06:00

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The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites - 2009 Update

via FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog by FreelanceSwitch.com on 4/15/09

Every freelancer needs clients. We rely on them, nurture our relationships with them, and provide a quality of service that keeps then coming back. And we can never have enough of them! The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites has one purpose: to massively increase your source of potential clients and potential jobs.

This list, like Isaac Newton, stands on the shoulders of giants. The original Monster List of Freelance Job Sites has been valuable and much visited since April 2007. Your hundreds of comments have greatly added to its value. This list is a thorough update, removing dead links, adding new sites, and taking on board many of the suggestions from your comments.

We start the list with FreelanceSwitch's own Job Board, which has categories for design, development, writing, illustration, Flash, and miscellaneous jobs, and at the time of writing contains a huge 200 jobs. You can see the available jobs with no strings attached, but to apply for jobs, you need to sign up, which costs just $7 a month. And you can advertise jobs at absolutely no cost.

Is this list now finished? I doubt it ever will be. Like the last list, it will become more valuable as you comment on which sites you found most helpful, inform us of sites that have been missed, and warn us when links stop working. And, best of all, get those jobs!

Traditional Job Listings

Classifieds job sites from around the web.

FreelanceSwitch Job Board
"Freelance Classifieds." Our own excellent and very busy job board. Registration at a cost is required to apply for jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, design, development, writing, illustration, flash, misc
Freshwebjobs
"A job board for web pros." Has postings for freelance and full-time jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, writing
Krop
"Krop is a Job Board and career resource website for creative professionals."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, general web, general creatives
Sologig
"Sologig.com is a niche website specializing in connecting contract-to-hire, contractors, freelancers, and consultants with quality employers looking for independent professionals. Registration is free."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
No Agencies Please
"Fee-free direct recruitment for new media freelancers."
Location: UK
Job types: design, general web, development, writing
Programmer Meet Designer
"This is a site for programmers, web developers, designers, entrepreneurs and writers to find each other and work together to create websites that look and function great."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, general web, development, writing
Blog Posts For Sale
"Get paid for blogging. Write about web sites, products, services, and companies and earn cash for providing your opinion and valuable feedback to advertisers. Disclosure required."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing, blogging
PoeWar Freelance Jobs
This blog on writing has a large jobs section, including many freelance writing jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Aquent
"Welcome to Aquent, the talent agency for marketers and designers."
Location: anywhere - they have agents in a long list of countries
Job types: design, general creatives, marketing, advertising
Authentic Jobs
"An astutely savvy blend of talent & opportunity." List full-time and freelance jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web
Simply Hired
"Job search made simple." They have a good range of freelance jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
WritingCareer.com
"Expert career advice for writers and freelance writers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Design Crowd
"A Freelance Job Forum, built for freelancers, run by freelancers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, misc
Writerlance
"Connecting writers with buyers." Includes hundreds of projects for freelance writers.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
CSS Beauty
"A project focused on providing its audience with a database of well designed CSS based websites from around the world."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web
Guru
"Find freelancers at the world's largest online service marketplace."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Altpick
"The ultimate source for creative talent."
Location: anywhere
Job types: illustration
Coroflot's Design Job Board
"The only job board that gives you access to the full creative spectrum."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, general creatives
FreelanceWriting
"Helping freelance writers to succeed since 1997." Contains a job board of freelance writing jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Craigslist
Craigslist have a successful general job board. First choose your location, then job type.
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
About Freelance Writing
Freelance writing jobs are posted three times a week, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Freelancers.net
"Freelancers.net is UK focused and lists many jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, however clients from across the globe use Freelancers.net regularly to source freelancers outside of the UK."
Location: UK and anywhere
Job types: general web
Freelance BBS
"Freelance BBS is a free web site connecting freelancers and businesses that outsource projects. You can search and post for free."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Go Freelance
"The freelance work exchange." Paid registration required.
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Sunoasis Jobs
"Sunoasis Writers Network has two primary purposes. 1. To get a vigorous community going so writers and editors can help one another as they help themselves. 2. To provide a space where employers and agents can find talent."
Location: USA, anywhere ("Unless specified by location jobs can be done remotely.")
Job types: writing
With Cake
"CakePHP developers looking to hire or be hired."
Location: anywhere
Job types: development (CakePHP)
The Burry Man Writers Center
"Resources for a worldwide community of writers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
The CGnews JobBoard
A computer graphic news site with job board.
Location: anywhere
Job types: computer graphics
GeekUp Job Board
"Grassroots job listings for the Design, Development, Technology and Web Industry in the UK."
Location: UK
Job types: design, development, web
The AWN Career Connections
"Part of the Animation World Networks."
Location: anywhere
Job types: computer graphics
CreativeHeads.net
"CreativeHeads.net is the most comprehensive recruitment software solution for professionals in the Video Game, Animation, TV & Film, and 3D Technology & Software Tools industries."
Location: anywhere
Job types: computer graphics
Flay.Com
"News and resources for the 3D artist."
Location: anywhere
Job types: computer graphics, design, programming
VFXTalk.com
"Digital compositing and VFX." Includes a job board with a freelancing category.
Location: anywhere
Job types: computer graphics
JobServe Australia
An Internet recruitment service.
Location: Australia
Job types: all
Jobserve UK
An Internet recruitment service.
Location: UK
Job types: all
Jobserve US
An Internet recruitment service.
Location: UK
Job types: all
Jobserve Canada
An Internet recruitment service.
Location: UK
Job types: all
Chinwag Jobs
"Welcome to Chinwag Jobs - take a look inside for hundreds of online marketing, design, technical, business, content, usability, producer, account manager, e-commerce and search engine marketing vacancies."
Location: UK
Job types: design, development, marketing, illustration
EmploymentGuide.com
Job seeker resources and job search.
Location: USA
Job types: all
All Data Jobs
Job board powered by SimplyHired.
Location: anywhere
Job types: data
Filter Talent
"We connect exceptional creative and marketing specialists like you with continuous opportunities to propel your career ever upward."
Location: USA
Job types: design, web, marketing, advertising
Freelance-Seattle.net
"Welcome to the Pacific Northwest's ultimate Rolodex of freelance and contract talent."
Location: Seattle
Job types: all
ProZ
"ProZ.com is a translation workplace where translators, interpreters, translation companies and end clients can meet and work efficiently and profitably." Free sign-up.
Location: anywhere
Job types: translation
TranslatorsCafe.com
"Directory of translators, interpreters, and translation agencies." Registration is free.
Location: anywhere
Job types: translation
People4business.com
"Businesses & organisations can search for, shortlist and set up contracts with freelancers and contractors. Freelancers and contractors can post their skills to find freelance jobs in the UK. "
Location: UK
Job types: all
People4charity.com
"Charities & not-for-profits can search for, shortlist and set up contracts with freelancers and contractors – many of them offer significant discounts on their rates."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all, charity
Smashing Jobs
Job board for smashing magazine, which delivers useful and innovative information for designers and Web developers.
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, programming
FindNetJob
Job board for Net jobs
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, development, programming
Indeed
"One search. All jobs."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
AllDevJobs
"The design and development job board."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, development
Gizmodo Jobs
Web, programming and development jobs
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, development, programming
ThinkVitamin Jobs
"Nourishment to help the web grow."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, development, marketing, web, illustration
Startuply
"Startup companies, startup jobs." Post jobs for free.
Location: anywhere
Job types: development, design, general creatives, advertising, marketing
nPost
"We are dedicated to promoting startups, with startup jobs at software and internet companies, startup interviews, and tech networking events."
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, development, programming
Design Jobs on the Wall
"A job board by Web Designer Wall where creative professionals come to find and post job opportunities." Paid registration required.
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, development
Boxes and Arrows Jobs
"Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business."
Location: USA
Job types: design, development, programming
Wired Jobs
Job board for tech jobs.
Location: USA (some telecommuting jobs)
Job types: design, development, programming
Elance
"On Elance, businesses find the experts they need plus the tools to manage online work from hiring to collaboration to making payment. Elance offers companies flexibility, cost effectiveness and instant access to a vast pool of skilled and tested talent. Professionals use Elance to find work, deliver great results and get paid for doing what they do best."
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, programming, design, writing, translation, marketing
oDesk
"oDesk is the marketplace for online workteams, with the best business model for both buyers and providers. Our unique approach guarantees that an hour paid is an hour worked while also guaranteeing that an hour worked is an hour paid."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Freelance UK
"Freelance vacancies from companies hiring freelancers direct."
Location: UK
Job types: all
FreelanceQ
"Serving up over 50,000 freelance job opportunities daily."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Creative Niche
"We are a full service staffing agency dedicated to one area of expertise - matching outstanding communication, design and interactive professionals with the right companies."
Location: Canada
Job types: general web, translation, development, Flash, programming
Freelancewar
"We put the 'free' in Freelance. Free bidding, free posting, no commissions, no monthly fees."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
TheFreelanceNation.com
"The Freelance Nation is the umbrella website for 119 city-specific freelance job boards where companies post freelance jobs, freelancers find work and recruiters and staffing agencies source quality candidates."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
jobbi
"Search for jobs on jobbi and Every Job Site on the Web."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
The Job Poster
Job board for Web jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, design, development
CDM Jobs
"Creative, development and marketing job board."
Location: Canada
Job types: general creatives, development, marketing
Writing Job Roll
List of writing jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
VirtualVocations
"VirtualVocations offers a unique service to those who are looking for high quality, credible, work from home positions. We are a job compilation service that provides our users with a convenient, time saving resource for applying to telecommute and work at home positions on a daily basis."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
ProBlogger Job Board
"The ProBlogger Job Board is where bloggers looking for jobs and companies looking for bloggers to hire meet."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing, blogging
JournalismJobs.com
List of journalism jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Blogger Jobs
List of writing and blogging jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing, blogging, advertising, design, marketing, podcasting
WhizOlve
Where clients find freelancers and consultants.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, general creatives, Flash, programming, development
SearchWebJobs
"A job board for creative and tech pros."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design, development, marketing, tech
LingoTip
"Translating the world."
Location: anywhere
Job types: translation
Post a Position
"Always free to post jobs."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, design, development
ContentCentral
"If you want to commission copy for a website, article or press release, you can post your project here in the relevant category. Freelance copywriters can then contact you directly to enable the project to quickly move forward."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing
Outsource Your Logo Design
"Staff posts logo design orders that need concepts designed for them, and you fill them. All you need to do is decide which order from the 'Orders Receiving Concepts' you want to work on, than create a logo concept for it based on the order detail. Once Staff has approved the concept you upload the source file, your account will be credited the appropriate amount, and your job is done. The full amount in your account is paid out twice a month via the method you choose when you sign up."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design
Freelance Jobs Network
"We provide developers and webmasters the opportunity to expand their business and reduce their costs. There are no setup fees, no monthly fees, and it's free to post a project or view projects."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, design, Flash, writing, development, programming
I Can Freelance
"Its absolutely free to signup and search for freelance projects. If you have a skill there is sure to be a demand for it. You can make money while you are home and best of all its easy."
Location: USA, Canada, United Kingdom, India, Australia and more
Job types: general web, programming, design, writing, translation, marketing
ShortGig
"ShortGig.com Is A New Place To Both POST And FIND Temp Jobs, Quick Jobs, Side Jobs, Weekend Jobs - Anything That's Not Long Term Employment - This Is A 100% Free Service! - So Enjoy And Start Posting!!"
Location: USA
Job types: all
Blellow
Job board with a good freelance section.
Location: anywhere
Job types: all

Job Bidding Sites

These sites work a little differently, here you will bid for a job.
WARNING: Be careful that you don't sell yourself short on these places as they do tend to favour the clients.

Get A Freelancer
"We can help you find freelance programmers, Web Designers and Copywriters. We can offer freelance programmers, interpreters and graphic designers the ability to work independently. As a freelancer you can choose among hundreds of outsourced projects. Join free and pay only a small commission."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, developers, SEO, design
Elance
"On Elance, businesses find the experts they need plus the tools to manage online work from hiring to collaboration to making payment. Elance offers companies flexibility, cost effectiveness and instant access to a vast pool of skilled and tested talent."
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, programming, design, writing, translation, marketing
iFreelance
"Post your profile today and get access to 1000's of buyers in need of your professional services. Advertise to buyers, bid on projects, and earn money doing what you love to do. Commission-Free!"
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, illustration, writing, design
Freelance Work
"Freelance Work was created to connect freelance and contract professionals with qualified employers. Through our project and job seeker databases, freelancers can find their next great projects and list their qualifications so employers can immediately find them."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
RentACoder
"Earn cash with your high tech skills on 2,548 currently open bid requests. Then subscribe to our newsletter and receive daily bid requests from our 117,207 registered buyers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
ScriptLance
"Connecting businesses with programmers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
GetACoder
"Find Freelance Programmers, Web Designers and Freelance Writers for your next project. Outsource projects to your home country or to countries where labor is cheap."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
ProjectSpring.com
"Programmers, IT Service Providers (4 dollars per month - pay 12 dollars for 3 months - PROMOTION!) Bid for any number of Projects. Your Contact Information available to Buyer even before project is Awarded. NO Transaction Fee or Hidden Costs."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
Freelance Job Search
"Browse projects and find leads. No commission or subscription fees."
Location: USA
Job types: general web
Contracted Work
Bid on projects against other freelancers.
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Freelance Auction
"Are you a web designer? Do you work part-time as a freelancer or as a contractor? Do you provide web site design, graphic design, logo design, flash, database development, related services? Get a freelancer account at freelance auctions to bid on jobs. Pay a small commission, if you are picked to work on the job."
Location: anywhere
Job types: development, design, web graphics, Flash, general web
PowerLance.com
"Your reliable source of freelancers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Freelancers.net
"Freelancers.net is UK focused and lists many jobs and projects open to UK freelancers, however clients from across the globe use Freelancers.net regularly to source freelancers outside of the UK."
Location: UK
Job types: general web
Project4Hire
"Project4Hire.com is the place to find Freelance Programmers, Web Designers, Graphic Artists, IT Professionals, Translators, Writers, Consultants & other Freelance Professionals. Find qualified freelancers willing to do the job within your budget! Post your project for free and receive bids."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
MacFreelancer
"Project outsourcing. Simplified."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all (Mac)
OnForce
"OnForce is the trusted nationwide network of over 12,000 highly-skilled service technicians, available when and where you need them."
Location: USA
Job types: tech support
Freelanza
"Freelanza.co.za is an online outsource portal for professionals. Clients may outsource work to the available service providers by means of posting jobs on the notice board. Jobs will be awarded by the clients, to providers as they see fit."
Location: South Africa
Job types: web, programming, design, marketing, writing, translation
AgentSolo
"Where freelance meets business - Canada's most trusted business network."
Location: Canada
Job types: design, web, programming, writing, translation, marketing
PeoplePerHour.com
"Outsource Your Work To Rated Professionals. Save cost by using freelancers and home workers. Stay flexible by hiring remotely on-demand. Find trusted professionals and pay only for results."
Location: anywhere
Job types: web, programming, marketing, design, writing, translation
BIZReef
Freelance Marketplace with a fee per job to contact the buyer.
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing, general web, design, development, marketing
Freelancer Store.com
"Freelance Programmer - Freelance Projects - Freelance Websites. This site is Totally FREE! We don't charge to post projects or charge after accepting a freelancer; which other websites do. We don't take any commission from freelancers; which other freelance websites do. No sign-up fees, No monthly fees, No commission fees. It's totally FREE!"
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development, programming
Freelancer Listing
"Looking for Freelance work? Find the latest freelance job postings and bid on them absolutely FREE!"
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, design, marketing, development, Flash, writing
eTEQ.com
"Offering everything that project owners and freelancers could possibly need, eTEQ.com contains auctions, job postings, and freelance ads all for free. Project owners can post their projects for free and have the site's competent freelancers bid on it while freelancers, on the one hand, can also sign up for free and begin browsing for various projects up for bidding posted in the site."
Location: anywhere
Job types: programming, graphics, design, writing, translating, marketing, development, general web
ITMatch Online
"Are you a BUYER looking for outsourcing IT or BPO projects? Are you a PROVIDER looking for outsourcing IT or BPO projects? ITMatchOnline is the easiest way to find the right partner." Free registration.
Location: anywhere
Job types: graphics, design, writing, translating
DesignQuote.net
"The best site on the Net for professional designers."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, graphics, design, development, programming
MondayWorks
"International Service Providers at your Fingertips!"
Location: anywhere
Job types: graphics, design, marketing, writing, programming, illustration, web, translating
P2W2 (People To Work With)
"P2W2 identifies the right partners, negotiates terms, establishes the outsourcing relationship and manages projects for small business "
Location: anywhere
Job types: SEO, writing, marketing, blogging, development
Project Worm
"Builds bridges between Project Owners and Project Professionals."
Location: anywhere
Job types: graphics, design, programming, writing, translating, marketing, training
rfpDB (The Request for Proposals Database)
"Welcome to the Request for Proposals Database (RFPdb), your source for RFPs and new project leads. This site is free to join and there is NO fee. The site works on a credit system."
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
BidItOut.com
"Work on what you want, when you want and where you want to! The lifestyle of a freelancer is taking off and gives unparalleled job flexibility. By working as a freelancer online, you can greatly increase your client base and job throughput. Have the surety of being paid on-time with our trusted escrow system for payments. For the first time you can even work at home and tap into a global pool of suppliers across a huge range of industries!"
Location: anywhere
Job types: all
Savvylance
Bid on web, graphics and development jobs.
Location: anywhere
Job types: graphics, development
Jobloha
"It's a new way for you to find and get work done online. Jobloha is mainly being used by freelancers (Coders, Designers, Writers,…) but offers a great variety of remote work and local job offers. Whether you are looking for the right person to do a specific job for you or you are a freelancer looking for work, Jobloha is right for you."
Location: anywhere
Job types: writing, programming, general web, Flash
Jobshuk
"Outsourcing your project to Israel makes smart business sense - ensuring a balance of high quality, reliability & cost savings. JobShuk connects English-speaking freelancers, small businesses, and service providers based in Israel with the world."
Location: Israel
Job types: design, general web, programming, marketing, writing, translating
LancerGlobal
"Find qualified freelancers willing to do the job within your budget! Post your project for free and receive bids instantly."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, graphics, design, programming, writing, SEO
Freelance Projects
"All freelance projects at one location." Contains pop-up ads.
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, development
FreakLance
"Web and graphic design marketplace."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, graphics, design, Flash
The Superlancers
"Fast, simple freelance marketplace."
Location: anywhere
Job types: general web, graphics, design, marketing, writing, programming
United States Freelancers
"Freelance Website to connect International, Offshore, Outsourcing Freelancers and Freelance buyers. UnitedStatesFreelancers! We are pleased to announce that we have made concessions to allow for international, offshore, outsourcing freelance work. As the United States is a huge melting pot, so should our site be… United States Freelancers is open to all international buyers and all international freelancers."
Location: USA and everywhere
Job types: general web, programming, Flash, SEO, writing
DesignBay
"Get opportunities to be creative using the DesignBay marketplace."
Location: anywhere
Job types: design

Job Aggregators

As you can see there sure are a lot of job listings out there, so here are some sites that aggregate listings from elsewhere to make for handier listings.

Jobagg
"Aggregating Web design and development job boards."
Aggregating: 37signals Job Board, CSS Beauty's Monster, Authentic Jobs, Fresh Web Jobs
Job Pile
"The Job Pile aggregates the best job boards on the web."
Aggregates: Authentic Jobs, 37signals Jobs, FreelanceSwitch Job Board, Krop, Metafilter Jobs, FreshWebJobs, Slashdot Jobs, AllWeb Jobs, Coroflot Jobs
Joblighted
"Joblighted is a single page jobs aggregator."
Aggregates: Joel on Software Jobs, 37signals Job Board, CrunchBoard, Slashdot Jobs, Authentic Jobs Full-time, VentureBeat JobBoard, TechGigger Jobs, MetaFilter Jobs, Python Job Board, Krop Jobs, Coroflot Jobs, FreshWebJobs, Smashing Jobs, JavaScript Ninja Jobs, Ajaxian Jobs, Startuply, Ars Technica Job Board, nPost Startup Jobs, Jobs on the Wall, Boxes & Arrows Job Board, Read/WriteWeb Jobs, Hidden Network, RealWebJobs, Wired Jobs
Most Hired
"There's a job here for you."
Aggregating: Jobs and Giggs, 37 Signals Jobs, RealWebJobs, 37 Signals Gigs, Krop, Venture Beat, Authentic Jobs, GigaOM Jobs, Joel On Software, Crunch Board, MeFi Jobs, FreshWebJobs, Slashdot, CSS Beauty, MinistryCamp, Boxes and Arrows, Design Meltdown, nPost, Web Pro Jobs, coroflot, Most Hired, crispspot, Jobs on the Wall, searchwebjobs
YoSumo
Job board aggregator. Had some RSS errors on the page.
Aggregates: Joel on Software, Authentic Jobs, Gizmodo Jobs, 37signals, Slashdot, FreshWebJobs, Vitamin Jobs, CSS Monster
Freelance Writing Career
"I have just put together an aggregated feed of writing jobs that are offered on the big bidding and job posting sites (currently we are tracking 25 sites). Rather than having to keep track of all sites, you can view the available jobs in one convenient location."
Aggregates: Craig's List, Elance.com, GetACoder.com, Getafreelancer.com, GoFreelance.com, IFreelance.com, Indeed.com, Monster.com, ODesk.com, Project4Hire.com, RentACoder.com, Scriptlance.com, Yahoo Jobs, AgaveBlue.net, AuthenticJobs.com, BloggerJobs.biz, ContractedWork.com, CoroFlot.com, FreelanceSwitch.com, JournalismJobs.com, Krop.com, ProBlogger.net, VirtualVocations.com, WritingJobRoll.com
Lancepost
"One feed to rule them all."
Aggregates: "Lancepost is a feed aggregation website for freelance job posts on bidding sites such as scriptlance, GAF and RAC."
Freelance Job List
"Freelance Job List features thousands of freelance jobs in web development for: Web Design, CSS, PHP, Python, JSP, Flash, AJAX, Javascript, Java, C/C++, ASP, .NET, Joomla, Perl/CGI, Drupal, ZenCart, Ubercart, osCommerce, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more."
Aggregates: This site seems to aggregate other job boards, including Get A Freelancer, Craigslist, Scriptlance Projects, Projects4Hire, Hot Freelance Jobs.

Sites with Occasional Freelance Positions

Mostly Full-time/Part-time, but occasionally a freelance position comes up on these.

nPost
"We are dedicated to promoting startups, with startup jobs at software and internet companies, startup interviews, and tech networking events."
Crunchboard Job Board
"Advertise jobs, startup services, and things for sale to the TechCrunch community."
GigaOM Jobs
"The GigaOM Job Board provides info on job opportunities for hi-tech professionals at notable technology-focused startups and companies around the world."
TechGigger Jobs
"The tech:gigger job board lists jobs at venture capital backed tech startups around the world."
Slashdot Job Board
"Jobs for nerds."
Joel On Software
"Great software jobs, great people."
Python Job Board
Job board for Python programmers.
Perl.com Jobs
Job board for Perl programmers.
MetaFilter Jobs
"MetaFilter Jobs is an area for sharing job openings among members of MetaFilter. If you're logged in, and your latitude/longitude is stored in your profile, you'll also see how far away each job is from you."
Creative Hotlist
"Job searches, portfolios and recruiting for graphic and web designers, writers, photographers and illustrators."
Go Big Network Jobs
"The Go Big Network connects you with the people that can help you nurture and grow your business."
Myspace Jobs
"Finding a job has never been easier."
Location: USA, UK
Careerjet
"Careerjet is an employment search engine."
Location: USA
Jobs.com.au
General job search site.
Location: Australia

International, Non-English Sites

Thankfully not all the world speaks English, if you're looking for a job elsewhere try one of these.

XPlace
"Express outsourcing."
Location: Israel
Job types: general web, writing, marketing
Freelancermap
Location: Germany
Freelance INDIA.com
"FreelanceIndia a common platform for freelancer. We help you in finding Project Work, Part-time Jobs, Assignments relevant to your field."
Location: India
Job types: all
Bumeran.com
Location: South America
Laborum.com
Location: Latin America
Trabajo Freelance
Location: South America
Joobs
Location: Romania
Pinoy Jobs
Location: Philippines
Motamot
Location: France
Okeli
Location: Sweden
Projekurdu
Location: Turkey
Circa Lavoro.it
Location: Italy

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“We Are Building A Village That Becomes A Metropolis All Owned By You”

2009-04-14T16:28:00.004-06:00

Owning a share with a start up company Me2Everyone with no money down - here's the concept:

Me2Everyone is currently under development so there is still time to get in on the ground floor. Eventually it will be a virtual world doubling as a social network. There are going to be real businesses and people operating in this environment and it is going to have all the amenities of a website we would come to expect in the Web 2.0 world.

The greatest thing about this concept in my opinion is the fact that it is structured similar to a co-op where everyone involved retains joint ownership of the virtual world. Me2Everyone is free to join and if you decide to participate you will be awarded shares.

I just joined recently and received 100 shares equivalent a fraction of a dollar but nonetheless I am a shareholder! Everyone you refer to the world will obtain there own shares and you will get a referral bonus.

Here’s the kicker… Eventually this company will be traded on major indexes and your shares are real, they are actually stock in the company so you my friend may be filthy rich if you get on board now.

Another benefit of the Me2Everyone world is that it will have locations in which you can trade out your shares for real money, pounds, and dollars etc…

When the site is officially launched the virtual world will support almost 10 different languages so it will become a great way to network with people in different countries speaking different languages.

The company’s business model expects shares to be worth a total of GP £0.021/each in 2009 and by 2012 they are expected to be worth a staggering GP £0.58 each

All the while you will be accumulating a small fortune of these shares by referring your friends, family and subscribers.

Here, take a look at the company’s tagline:

“We Are Building A Village That Becomes A Metropolis All Owned By You”

It really is a digital metropolis in the making. Talk about passive income, if you were looking for it, it’s staring you right back in the face.

Finally Me2Everyone is offering a 10,000,000 share bonus to the person that signs up the most referrals. If you are curious to know how much that is, the combined value of the shares are worth GBP £10,000 in present terms.

This could very well be the next ebay, amazon or Google. If you’re like me, you hate missing out on opportunities that don’t cost you a penny. I’ve got a million affiliate programs and advertising partners, what does it hurt to add one more? I don’t know about you but I’m going to learn how to make money with Me2Everyone.

Check them out here: www.me2everyone.com/402851

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New Year Resolution 2008

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1- To save $10,000 in emergency fund in HSBC Direct.
2- To train 3 days per week, 2 hrs per day before work.
3- To build CGY Sparkle into a $40K/mth business by EOY.

I've already manage to save close to 10K in 2006 in 10 month on a less paying job, so achieving 10K for the whole year's saving on a higher paying job is achieveable.

I've managed to stick to a rigid paid training schedule in my earlier 20s therefore I will be able to maintain slack free membership gym training this year.

Building CGY Sparkle from 2K per month to 40K per month will be challenging. E.g. setting up a employee hiring and maintaining the employee loyalty in a low labour market. MThe financing of this effort should extend in the 5 years liability.

Free Open Source Softwares

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2007-10-24T21:13:00.000-06:00

Video instruction on how to create a simple mashup of your favorite featured collection from Revver to Yahoo Pipes.

View completed pipe at:
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Set Your Business Plan Up For Success

2007-10-22T19:41:00.000-06:00

To successfully startup a business you need the proper business tools and professional business advices whenever you need. For my purpose, I'm looking forward to purchase cleaning service franchise.

Here are my steps to creating my first business plan.My business plan creation process was the Google up 'Microsoft Business Plan Template'. Take the best fitting template that I could find and complete it as best as I can. What I found was Business Plan For Startup Business.
Next is to complement my MS Business Plan For Startup Business with StartupBusinessSchool.com using the site's tools and advice. I've completed all the questionnaires from the site, viewed all the suggested videos, and checked all the recommended web tools for business startup. I'm very impress and thankful for the amount of informations and efforts that StartupBusinessSchool.com had put up.

After all is said and done on the site, I've decide to download and install QuickBooks Simple Start for my initial accounting setup.

I really feel that I have made a good choice with QuickBooks free accounting software. It will tremendously help me with my bookkeeping and business income tax purposes. Another beautiful yet to unexplore feature of QuickBooks is the payroll system.

With my accounting background, I will want to do all the accounting and financial setup myself until the business grows.

BLA.ST - Free Advertising Network & Web Directory

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has a cool business model that reward both publishers and advertisers for listing on their network directory.

"Advertise and promote almost anything on bla.st, and pay any amount you want. The goals of bla.st are to make online advertising:

Useful To help people find what they are looking for
Simple Add a card in about a minute
Free Only pay if you want to
Honest No click fraud or unexpected fees
Effective Receive targeted visitors that are actually interested in what you are promoting"

Visite the about page for a quick intro http://bla.st/site/about/

BLA.ST has a neat widget tool and a great referral incentive.

Big Fish!

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Beautiful fishes at Devonian Garden.

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