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Making money from PowerPoints with PPTExchange

selling powerpoints with pptexchangerSelling presentations? I'm sure Microsoft didn't think about that when they started development on Powerpoint. Who would have ever thought that it would be possible to make some pocket change for selling the notes you jot down in a PowerPoint presentation? Welcome to Web 2.0 where everything is possible, but not everything is a viable business.

PPTExchange is a service that allows users to publish, trade and sell any document created in a PowerPoint presentation. It is a neat idea...sort of. But can it benefit people in the long run, and make money? I highly doubt it. Content so far on the site includes animated stories, a presentation entitled "people that look like their dogs", and a Student of the month certificate. Just from that small list you can get the idea of the type of site it's turning into. This one just doesn't stand out in the long list of online applications.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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