All of the reliable and credible scientific literature done on acai is related to the antioxidant capacity and the oil composition of the berry. Companies promoting acai as a weight loss aid purposely conceal the contents of their product. They claim to provide a product in pill form that is acai. They fail to reveal what % of that pill is acai and whether it is made from freeze-dried or spray-dried powder. Acai does not possess the capacity to drive, create or stimulate weight loss. It is considered a superfood based on its nutritional profile. A superfood does not mean that it supports weight loss. The product being sold by this company does not work because it cannot work based on their claims.

If you try contacting any of the companies selling the miracle Acai diet pills, you will most likely be connected to an answering service. When you ask the service if they had a way to contact the company directly, you will probably be told that they did not have access to any phone numbers except for the toll number listed on the website. If you ask what the name of the company was for whom they were providing this service you will mostly likely find the business names to be unregistered, in other words, the company is hiding. They fail to provide a physical address, a reliable phone number to a company headquarters nor are they searchable via Google or the state they do business in.

These companies all have the ear marks of organizations involved in scamming the public. There is no recourse. In their terms of service and privacy statements they are very clear about taking the customers private information with the intent to sell and resell. In addition to this they clearly state that they will use ‘cookies’ an internet term of describing the act of monitoring their customers’ internet use. Essentially they say that when you buy a product from them they are not only going to sell and resell all of your private information but they say that the purchase in effect creates a contract with the customer that allows the company to monitor and spy on their customers so that they may gain more private information to sell and resell.

Here is what the Terms of Service on one of the websites actually states:

1.2 Third Party List Information.
XXXX collects information from individuals when an individual provides information to a third party and XXXX subsequently purchases, licenses, or otherwise acquires the information from the third party (the “Seller”). Such purchased information may include, but is not limited to, an individual’s name, email address, street address, zip code, telephone numbers (including cell phone numbers and carriers), birth date, gender, salary range, credit card information, education and marital status, occupation, industry of employment, personal and online interests, and such other information as the individual may have provided to the Seller (together, “Third Party List Information”). When acquiring Third Party List Information, XXXX seeks assurances from the Seller that the Seller has a right to transfer the Third Party List Information to XXXX and that the Seller has a right to provide offers from advertisers to the individuals whose personal information is included on the Seller’s list.

In other words, it appears to be a phishing scam. Their terms of service allows them, by a “contract”, to use your personal information any way they wish! Phishing refers to the process of tricking you into giving up personal details such as your bank account or credit card details, or your passwords. Phishing is prevalent on the internet today and you must be very careful of this phenomenon and protect your personal information.

The Acai Berry Diet “Free Trial” is a sophisticated “bait and switch” scheme. If you don’t cancel the product after receiving it, you will be billed about $80 on your credit card for your “Free Trial”. Not only that, they will bill you EVERY month about $80 until you cancel the monthly subscription. But since they promise you that you will lose 50 pounds of weight, a normal customer would probably give the product some time to see if it actually works before canceling. But by the time they see that it doesn’t work, their credit card could have been charged $80-160. Some of the terms of service refuse any returns so the customer is stuck with the bill and the ineffective product. In other words, it’s a perfect scam.

Always check the terms of service and privacy policies of an online store before you buy anything. A reputable store should have trust icons such Hacker Safe, McAfee Secure or BBBOnline which validates a companies’ physical address, phone number which should also be listed on their home page or in their “About Us” page. You can also use a free plugin for your browser by McAfee.com called SiteAdvisor to indicate if a website is safe while you are doing searches in Google, yahoo or msn. If a website hasn’t been validated, you will see a question mark, otherwise the site will have a green checkmark. Also, some sites have been flagged if they have been caught sending spam emails or using fraudulent schemes.

Don’t be discouraged – there are legitimate acai berry juice companies out there. Don’t let a few fly-by-night companies give you the impression that acai is an ineffective product. If acai is taken in its original juice form, (not reconstituted with water or in pill form), it is a great natural energy drink rich with anti-oxidants.

A hard disk is a set of metal discs that are read and written into by magnetic heads. These heads tond touch the disc, so your disc never wears out. It relatively contains a lot of sotrage space, and is found inside your cpu.

What if you want to move loads of data between PCs at your office and your home? Use a laptop? But that is old fashioned. These days, things called external hard drives are available.

Get one 250 or 500 gb hard drive, and store anything that you watn in it, and all ytou need to do is just connect it to any pc or laptop’s usb, and it will be mounted as a removable disc, that means, you dont have to take the trouble of removing the cpu covers every time and plug the cables and the power supply when you want a hard disk mounted.

External hard Discs have been around for some time now, and recently the prices have started going low. And it is a good time to buy one and use it and make the best out of it. Pen Drives would go out dated very soon with 2.5 inch removable hard disks in the market.

Lim appears to be a Bhuddist, and he has got a lot of affiliate marketing tips in his blog. When it comes to internet marketing these days, the guys who write about it, or tell you that they will give you overwhelming results, all demand money, or give you proposals with which they would end up making money.

Therefore, even though I know quite well about internet marketing myself, having run a not so bad web hosting company for the past few years, I still wondered if there could be anyone out there in the blogsphere, who could give a better opinion on a better marketing strategy, or a site promotion strategy, and thats when I found Lim’s blog.

Amazon and Ebay are the best ways to make money thru affiliate marketing. But there are tonnes of others who provide affiliateship, and do pay. It is not advisable to go to websites like affiliatejunktion who just eat up a majority of the affilliate commission that the company pays and pay you a very small part, and its always best to approach the companies that provide afiliateships directly.

Having a look at Lim’s blog would give you a better idea.

My brother tells me an awful lot of things. Some are great, but some go bad. And recently there was this one thing that could go as bad as any thing can go. It is blog rush.

You see, I have a blogrush widget on my blog. Every time a visitor reads my blog, it syndicates 5 links of other people’s blogs. And every time a guy clicks on one of those links, the blog rush people syndicate links to my posts about 10 times I guess Visit blogrush.com to watch that video.

What I find is that, many are clicking on links syndicated on my blog, and when I check the statistics on my hosting and on blogrush, I find that my links are being syndicated a billion times here n there, but no one is actually clicking on my links.

Isnt that bad?

It is pointless. So I have decided to remove Blogrush from my blog soon. I will leave it there till such time that blogrush syndicates this link to a few people, and I guess they will click on it.

And, my smart ass brother, just removed his blogrush from is blog long back and never bothered to tell me.