Normally, I don’t remember holidays because everyday is a holiday when you live the Dot Com Lifestyle. However, Canada Day is an exception. For one thing, the date is easy to remember – July 1 and it’s three days ahead of U.S. Independence Day. We get to have fun first! Like Independence Day, Canada Day is a celebration of our nation and what makes us great.  Read more... (293 words, 10 images, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

• 20 Frugal Tips from Someone Who Lived Through the Great Depression During another weekend road trip to visit the family for Mother's Day, I always make it a habit to drop in on Grandma and soak in a few hours worth of knowledge she's accumulated over her near 75 years. Gifts were exchanged, I overindulged in home cookin', but in the......
• Affiliate Marketing Becomes Easy With Revisitors Dot Com Today I want to share with you an interesting and profitable way to make money on the internet with very low efforts: affiliate marketing with revisitors.com Everybody knows that affiliate marketing is a popular method of promoting web businesses in which you are rewarded for every visitor, subscriber and customer......

We had a bigger than full house today at Dot Com Pho. Our normal Saturday reserved table can seat ten people but we had a total of 13 showed up for our Opposite Edition. We all had to squeeze a little tighter to get everyone to sit around the table. We all thought that Ed Lau would be last but he was actually fourth from last. That’s a new first.  Read more... (222 words, 10 images, estimated 53 secs reading time)

• Iamamiwhoami: The Viral Campaign That Just Made People Sick Mysterious videos never really turned into anything, in Bigger Than the Sound.By James Montgomery Iamamiwhoami Photo: iamamiwhoami Back in December, the Gulf of Mexico had yet to be sullied by roughly 50 kajillion gallons of crude oil, people were freaking out about swine flu, and Lady Gaga hadn't even begun......
• Is Corporate Blogging Worth The Effort? Listen to corporate blogging evangelists long enough and it’s easy to start thinking that success is going to fall out of the sky and bonk you on the head. However, spend a few weeks implementing all of their techniques and you may end up wondering whether or not all of......

A full house of 10 people showed up for today’s action packed Dot Com Pho, which started at 12:30 and didn’t end until almost 4:00PM. It’s a good thing that Mr. Happy Pho is a really happy guy and likes us a lot. Otherwise, I doubt he would tolerate us staying at his restaurant for over three hours. Most of the attendees were Pho regulars but we did have one new member. Chris Campagnolo recently moved to Vancouver and is now part of our little meetup group. Anyone is welcome to join us for Dot Com Pho. Follow me on Twitter to find the time and place of the next one.  Read more... (230 words, 10 images, estimated 55 secs reading time)

• Oh my: 90% off Restaurant.com dining certificates! It's a first!  For 99 hours only, starting today, 9/9/09, and ending on September 13th, 2009, at 3:01 PST, Restaurant.com is offering an unprecedented 90% off its Dining Certificates and Dinner of the Month Club! The one-year Restaurant.com Dinner of the Month Club is only $12!  This gives you twelve......
• Mint.com Wants To Pay Off $5,000 Of Your Holiday Bills. If you are still paying off your holiday bills, this is a contest for you! Tell Mint your “holiday debt-ache” story in video or written words and they will pay up to $5,000 of your holiday debt! And in addition to winning $5,000 to pay their bills, the winners......

World Cup fever has hit Dot Com Pho! Well, it hit us for about 20 seconds anyway. The rest of the Dot Com Pho video was spent talking about much more important stuff, like finding a sponsor for Stephen’s baby’s name. If your company is willing to put up a minimum of $5,000, Stephen will name his about to be born baby after you. Any company can place bids except for BP and Fine Chit.  Read more... (204 words, 10 images, estimated 49 secs reading time)

• World Cup 2010 Draw [/caption] In many ways, the World Cup draw is much like Selection Sunday for the NCAA basketball tournament: Coaches, players and supporters gather around TVs and computers with bracket sheets and venue information, an excruciatingly drawn-out proceeding that will lead to endless debate and dissection. Unlike the basketball drama, however,......
• Receiving Dividends from Non-Dividend Stocks If you own 100 shares or more in a company that does not pay dividends but that does trade options, you can still receive income from your stock by writing covered calls. When you write a call, you are selling a derivative (financial contract whose value derives from the value......