Pick Winners. Play For Free. Win Real Cash!!! Free Sports Bet is not a gambling site for the reason that you are not betting with your money. Upon signing up for free you receive 1 dollar. You are able to place a bets on a NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, WNBA, and Men’s College basketball and football.  The best thing is if you lose all your money, they give you another free dollar.

Free Sports Bet produces different tools and statistics allowing you to analyze the sports betting field further. FSB has also brought a social network aspect to the site by allowing you to add friends, permitting you to share picks and talk about future bets you are thinking about making.  You can refer friends, earning money based on their play. You can track your friends play, participate in contests, and communicate through private messaging and message boards. This new social media site brings the sports world a little closer to the web 2.0 phenomena.

Once you get to 200 dollars you can cash out. So what do you have to lose? If you love sports, but don’t want to risk your own money this site allows for all the reward without the risk.

Visual CV is a relatively new site only being around for about a year. VisualCV replaces the conventional resume with an online professional profile. Now there are other sites that allow you to build a resume online however Visual CV is the first website that enables you to create an internet based resume alone with an integrated online career portfolio.  Not to mention you can share professional credentials and education with customers, employers, and colleagues on a secure network.

You’ll use VisualCV for:

• Professional networking
• Job searching
• Business development
• Personal brand management

The possibilities are endless when creating this profile. You can highlight text, upload a video, add links, and express personality. Visual CV is taking the user profile idea of Facebook and the business applications of LinkedIn and putting them together to create a free, simple, efficient way of promoting yourself online.

You have the ability to keep your VisualCV profile private, share it with a select group, or make it public on the Internet, so security is never an issue.

With the increased interest in the numerous Social Medias over the past five years, you have to ask who is using them. Where demographics are produced for every site average age is what I will be discussing. Below are the top social media’s and the average age of the users.

Xanga – 15      Facebook – 27       MySpace – 35                         Twitter – 31            LinkedIn — 41

According to LinkedIn’s June 2008 demographic data, the site’s registered users seem to be an advertiser’s dream. The data claims that the average household income of its members is $110,000, 49% are business decision makers and the average age is 41.

LinkedIn gives professionals an easy way to follow advice and build networks in your field of business. It allows you to maintain resume, which is a great tool for finding a job. These two reasons are just one example of why LinkedIn has such a high average age. It is almost like a facebook is to college students as LinkedIn is to the business world. With this great social media the interviewee has the opportunity to do background research on the company and person interviewing you, separating you from your competition.

LinkedIn is one of the newest social media sites and still doesn’t have the usage of leaders like Facebook and MySpace. However, Eyres claimed that one new member signs up to the site every two seconds, adding that LinkedIn had 50% of its user base in the US and 25% in Europe. With growth like this there is no reason it cannot be viewed as a leader in social media.

There are many reasons people use twitter such as, networking, research, marketing tool, and branding. Twitter is a place that people are searching for connection and information about certain topics, acting as a blog, social messaging site and forum all in one.

Celebrities have begun to get in on the action. Now many of them are spoofs, people acting as celebrities posting daily. For a long time someone was acting as Lance Armstrong until a couple of months ago when he took over his name.

The latest news pertaining to Lance was his post about his time trial bike being stolen.  Armstrong said, someone stole my time trial bike! APB out to the twitterati,” he told his 112,000 followers on the micro blogging site after a grueling stage on the Tour of California. He later posted a TwitPic of the missing bike pointing out that “there is only one like it in the world” and that it is “therefore hard to pawn it off”. He added that a “reward is being offered”.

I think this might be a first on twitter. Posting a lost and found post with a reward attached to it for a celebrities bike. So keep your eyes open for this one of a kind bike, who knows how much money Lance is willing to dish out.

People who are aware of this social media tool called StumbleUpon know that is drives money into many sites. It has the ability to generate money for your blog and e-commerce site or just send relative traffic to your site. Here are a few specifics:

• Generate rapid exposure — for a specific website, brand or concept.
• Establish a reader base — for your blog very quickly.
• Gain numerous backlinks — from StumbleUpon visitors with websites.

If StumbleUpon does all this for people, how do they actually make money?

StumbleUpon makes money by bringing advertisers’ web pages directly to the person. When you click ‘Stumble’, you are actually visiting a website that paid five cents to get you there. Now not all sites are sponsors, however enough are to bring StumbleUpon a profit.

StumbleUpon generates profits in two ways: Sponsors, and Sponsored Stumbles

1. Sponsor – In StumbleUpon, you have the option of donating a certain amount of money and you get a green icon instead of a blue one next to your name. Also, you can start groups and turn off sponsored stumbles.
2. Sponsored Stumbles –  Sometimes, a site that you’re taken to is there because an advertiser paid $.05 to bring you there. This site will generally be related to your interests, and you can’t tell the difference. About 2% of all Stumbles are sponsored.

So next time you’re using this great tool think about what you have done to keep the site going.