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Group posts’ contribution on the same topic is a quite good way of your blog promotion, web participation in some projects and of course link exchange.
But, with not enough motivation, all the initiative will end up with blank comments page and no posts contributed at all. Sad perspectives.

The authors should also have an initiative to contribute the posts for this bloggers network. But, let’s be honest, not everyone of us started blogging leaded with commercial aims of getting some money for what he/she writes.

Blogs and blogging are:

• Way of communication
• Information Sharing
• The place where you write your thoughts
• Discuss other facts and opinions

I didn’t touch “monitizing” topic, because not everything what is done for money can be done together with author’s conscience: the person does the best what he likes.

And we talk and discuss in the best way what we are interested in and what we like: when we find something common, we’ll be able to discuss it as a group.

If you still didn’t contribute any of your posts to Cyprus Blog Network, you can influence the destiny of Together! Contest right now: tell the administrator about what do you want to talk, and next Wednesday you’ll see people discussing your topic!

“Considering it is a new brand, it’s a very good first-week showing,” said Ross Rubin, director of industry for NPD Group.
Microsoft’s (up $0.15 to $29.54, Charts) Zune took 9 percent of digital player sales, according to NPD, edging out Sandisk (down $0.85 to $43.92, Charts), but behind Apple (down $1.09 to $90.72, Charts), whose iPod models have long dominated the MP3 player market.”

Even though many people were predicting the failure of Zune player launch, the figures say opposite: mp3 player from Microsoft attracted the views of the customers, and the sales of Zune are slowly increasing. In my opinion, if the situation remains the same, Zune will become the main iPod competitor on the market.

But Zune is not the only problem Apple has to force, according to the latest news:

Universal, the world’s largest music company, owned by French media giant Vivendi, was the first major record label to strike an agreement with Microsoft Corp. to receive a fee for every Zune digital media player sold.

In other words, playing with ‘piracy problem’ in case of mp3 players’ market, Universal wants to get some income from Apple. If they agree on the same points with Apple, the process of modifying, upgrading iPods to make them harder to compete will be harder.

As an iPod user, I used to store more non-music data on it: I had there all the lab docs, two ghosts for backing up my computers. Talking about the music there, most of it was legal, not counting some home made remixes and live concert mp3’s.

What will be the reply of Jobs for Universal and what will Apple upgrade in iPods to keep its number 1 position in market sales - this will be quite interesting.