now are publishing their TV episodes online (e.g. cwtv.com). This means that one is no longer tied to a TV channel's broadcasting schedule. One can watch an episode at any time of the day!

Aside from the traditional radio and TV entertainment becoming available online, old TV episodes as well as old movies are now available online too. Check Hulu.com. This site makes available old and some relatively new movies and TV shows.

Because anyone can broadcast video, the Internet has also given rise to alternative entertainment. Look at the various channels on YouTube.com and UStream.tv and you will see some interesting entertainment that would not have been possible without the Internet.

Entertainment isn't limited to video. Various portals like Yahoo.com, MSN.com, and Google.com, provide the latest buzz on entertainers, various other gossips, and latest news. Because of the Internet, there really isn't any need to buy printed copies of magazines and newspapers. Everything is online!

Without the Internet, people's entertainment options would be limited to TV, radio, and the theaters. Today, all that has been blown away with the alternatives as vast as the Internet itself.

ALTERNATE INCOME SOURCE

Long time ago, only movie, TV, music, and book royalties were the main sources of residual income. Today the Internet provides an alternative, thanks to the people who revolutionized online advertisement-google.com.

As most people know, anyone can put up an online ad through google.com. But not many people know that one can earn money through Google ads and various other similar programs.

By providing web real estate where Google ads (or an affiliate) can be displayed, someone with a web site with several thousands of hits a day can potentially earn money. There are other similar programs-called affiliate programs-one can join. By placing ads on a web site, one is able to monetize their web site and thus earn income. The author's web site is an example of a monetized site.

Because of Internet ads, it is now also possible to earn income by writing online content for sites like helium.com, ehow.com, hubpages.com, squidoo.com, bukisa.com, and xomba.com. Bukisa.com even has a sort of multilevel type of referral income generation. For example, clicking this link would take you to the author's bukisa referral link, and thus adding you to his bukisa network.

Other ad-related income generation schemes have also evolved out of Internet ads. The sudden success of twitter.com has allowed companies like tweetbucks.com to gain from the twitter.com's success by providing a service for shortening URL links. Remember, twitter posts are limited to 140 characters, thus if one was posting a long URL, that 140 character limit would be hit immediately. Tweetbucks.com helps address this limitation. So when one has completed an article online and wants others to know of it, they can post a twitter message using the shortened URL provided by Tweebucks.com. If you go to the author's twitter page, you will see how this is being applied. Clicks on the shortened URLs can potentially earn one dollars if one has many followers.

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