If you have the capability of making an awesome video for YouTube, you have the ability to earn revenue from it.  YouTube has extended their YouTube Partnership Program to not only popular users, but individual popular videos that are submitted to their site.  If your video does not violate their terms of service in any way, and has a ton of views, YouTube will send you notices that you may “Enable Revenue Sharing.”  If they don’t extend this offer to you, you may submit it by applying for YPP membership.  After enabling this feature, you are able to generate revenue using Google AdSense and receive monthly checks; however, Google AdSense has a $100 pay out.

If your video has gone viral, this is a great way to make some extra money.  I know that Emmalina would have made big money a couple of years ago! (I love that girl…  So sweet.)  Perhaps this will bring the entertainer in her out of hiding.

There are so many viral videos out there that are not making any profit!  It has taken a while for YouTube to get to this place, so take advantage of it as soon as you can.  You can check out some of my favorite videos by visiting my YouTube profile.  My utmost favorite; however, is a guy named Steve.  Enjoy!

Kermit the Frog claimed it’s not easy being green but in today’s age, more and more companies are producing bio-friendly products.  One of those companies is Samsung.  The Samsung Reclaim is made from a corn derived bioplastic.  Even the box is made from recycled material and the phone has an alert to let you know when to unplug it from the power source so as to not waste electricity.  To top it off, Sprint will be donating $2 from every sale to Nature Conservancy.  It comes in blue and green and is a very economical purchase at just $50.  The phone has a full QWERTY slide out keyboard perfect for constant texters and a good idea for the tween market who are pushing out thousands upon thousands of texts per month.  It has the capability to connect to popular social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter; however, it only has a WAP browser.  It uses a 2 megapixel camera capable of recording video.  I imagine this would also be a good phone for the technologically deficient people out there, like my parents, who have trouble with multi-tap texting and have no desire or use for a smart phone.  It’s far less complicated than a lot of mobile phones out there.

This is the first edition of the Samsung Reclaim and rumor has it that it will only get better as time goes.  Future editions will be configured with full web browsing, touch screens at less than double the cost of this first generation Reclaim.  I look forward to more cellular phone makers following suit and producing eco-friendly cellular phones.  Samsung is a brand I definitely trust and I hope this phone does well on the market.  The Samsung Reclaim will be available at Sprint stores starting August 16th.