HappyTutors.com is a free Web2.0 community for tutors, teachers, instructors, coaches, as well as students, tutees and parents, including free Listing Service, Searching Service, Online Forum, Used Book Market and HappyTutors Blog.  It’s a really nice website with a fresh design, user-friendly layout, navigation and search function.

HappyTutors.com Mission Statement
- Promote Lifelong Learning & Teaching
- Connect Tutors, Students & Parents Worldwide

HappyTutors.com Services
- Free listing service for tutors, teachers, instructors, coaches, students and parents
- Search tutors/tutees/students for free
- Sell / buy used books 

What makes HappyTutors.com stand out from other tutoring listing websites is that HappyTutors.com is offering 100% free Web2.0 service. Tutors, students and parents can participate in the Online Forum and HappyTutors Blog to share their opinions and experience.

Explorer highly recommends you take a look at HappyTutors.com. You might be able to find a blogging tutor or become a tutor to help others make money blogging

The breaking news this weekend was Microsoft’s official withdrawal of their Yahoo bid. The whole internet world is talking about the reason why Micorsoft walked away and guessing what will happen to Yahoo! ’s stock price on Monday, as well as who might become the next potential buyer of Yahoo! It’s pretty interesting watching this kind of game between internet giants. Some predicted that Google might come into this show. Who know? By watching, we might be able to learn something valuable

We all know that Wordpress blogs can future-dated its posts. However, for a long time, Google Blogger couldn’t do it. Whenever you edit the publish date, it will be published right away. In some case it might be an advantage - when you want to put a post on top of other posts, you just need to future-dated the post and it will stay there till the time expires. According to Blogger official blog, started from May 1 2008, Blogger blogs can schedule future-dated posts. I found out this new feature today when I failed to publish a future-dated post - I got a message saying that “This post will be published as scheduled”, which it is not good for me, since I don’t want to edit the date of this specific post that I planed to put it on the top whenever I have a new post. Anyway, it is good for people who would like to better manage their posting frequency - You can write ten posts a day when you have more blogging ideas but publish it through out the next week as scheduled.

Update:
I just found that actually I still can give a post a date in the future but have it appear on my blog now. There is one extra step to realize this - First, publish the post with the current date and time. This will make it appear on the blog. Then, edit the post to change the date into the future and publish it again. - That’s even better than Wordpress As far as I know, Wordpress doesn’t have this option yet.

I have nothing to say…it’s Wordless Wednesday…I do it weekly…check out my previous posts…leave your comments……and… thank you

Explorer noticed that some websites or blogs’ Google PageRank has been changing up and down today. It seems like Google is doing its first update this year. Exploring Blogospher is still 2 so far. Hopefully it will for the better How about you? Did your blog’s ranking changed?

Today when I logined, there is a notice on the dashboard reminding me to upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1. I did the upgrade right away since my host company has one-click installation which allows me to do upgrade easily. The upgrade was smooth and fast. After that I started to wrote this post and I didn’t notice any difference.  Wordpress 2.5.1 fixed some annoying bugs and improved performance. Here are some highlights from Wordpress official site:

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

Regardless, it’s always good to upgrade to the newest version. Try Wordress 2.5.1 out and tell your readers if there are any new bugs.

Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb had a post about Web 3.0 Through The Ages. I’ve posted What’s Web 3.0a few days ago and am still very interested in this topic. I made a comment on Josh Catone’s post about what’s Web 3.0 experience for a regular Internet user. Here I would like to share with my readers too:

Marketers, developers, tech geeks have different definition/mind map/mission statement/…about Web 1.0-2.0-3.0

Here is from a regular Internet user’s experience point of view:

• Web 1.0 - Surfing websites looking for info
• Web 2.0 - Participating in different Social networking websites such as blogs, Facebook, Myspace….etc
• Web 3.0 - No big difference between professional programmer, geeks, regular consumers… in terms of their web experience. More freedom, personalization…whatsoever they want to do on the net for their personal or business needs…..

What’s your expectation for Web 3.0 ?

With Google Search’s dominance, almost every company is using Google Adwords to expand their marketing presence to reach more customers. Today I set up a Google Adwords to experiment the power of digital advertising. Here I would like to share my experience on how to open a Google Adwords account.

First of all you need to select Starter Edition or Standard Edition. I highly recommend that you select Standard Edition even though you have no experience with Google Adwords, since with Starter Edition you can only target one specific region for one single product, while with Standard Edition you can have more functions with an advanced report.

Currently Google Adwords doesn’t accept Paypal. You need to select a payment method - Postpay or Prepay. I will recomend you select Prepay Credit Card Payment, because with Postpay Credit Card Payment, your billing threshold ( initially $50 ) is automatically raised in increments each time your account hits its billing threshold before 30 days have ended, which means that you have to closely monitor your money. With Prepay, you pay in advance based on your advertising budget, Google will stop running your ads if you run out of funds, which is safer for first time Adwords users.

There are so many tools and tips to help you get more out of Google Adwords. I am still new to this area and will post more related topics when I have more experience. Would you like to share your experience with Google Adwords?

I’ve seen many discussions about Semantic Web on the blogosphere this year and didn’t really understand what is Semantic Web. As usually, I did a Google search and the first link showed up was from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

” The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content. It derives from W3C director Tim Berners-Lee’s vision of the Web as a universal medium for data, information, and knowledge exchange.”

On the left is a logo owned by W3C for Semantic Web. ” The three sides of the cube dig at the triplet in RDF. The peeled lid is meant to invite people to open their data to the Semantic Web.”

How wonderful it is to be able to witness the rapid development of the Internet technologies?

Here is another Photoshop tutorial video that I found on YouTube. The difference of this one from the previous two video is that the author provided the audio instruction, which is a little bit easier to understand. You can try to create a Web 2.0 sytle logo for your own blog now