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Web Worker Daily has written a list of 10 ways to make money online.  #6? Hold educational teleseminars.

Are you great at web design or online marketing or any other kind of Web work and have wanted to share your skills on a larger scale while getting paid to do it? If you’ve got the expertise, bottle it and sell it widely in the form of a live teleseminar where you charge a fee for participation and then archive it in your online store to generate recurring revenues. You can do simple web-based conference call coordination through Rondee or get fancier with simultaneous text chat and online documents with Calliflower.

In fact, a number of teleseminars and podcasts are hosted right now on Calliflower.  Many of the features in Calliflower were designed specifically for that market.  So, if you’re looking for teleclass solution, check Calliflower out. And don’t just take my word for it.  Web Worker Daily also wrote a review of Calliflower last week.

I have to say that I concur with Zach Epstein’s criticism of the Nokia blogger relations efforts around the E71.  Don’t get me wrong — Nokia is fantastic at focusing on bloggers. In fact, as I write this, I’m participating in a Nokia shoot in Toronto.  But Epstein’s point, that Nokia should have focused some energy on the fanatical Blackberry blogs, is well made. Imagine what a positive review of the E71 on Crackberry.com, or Blackberry Cool could do for the E71’s profile.

More on the E71 later.  It’s a nice nice piece of gear.

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First we chatted about Vint Cerf’s proposal that ISPs should guarantee minimum bandwidth to their customers. The engineering problems with guaranteed bandwidth appear to be the achilles heel of Cerf’s proposal.

We also chatted a little about the reports from the Wall Street Journal and others this morning that AT&T is getting into the cloud computing business.

And finally, we talked about Apple’s admission that MobileMe was released too early. Not much controversy there, and we ended up talking mostly about the business prospects for iPhone, and the consumer prospects for BlackBerry.

Today’s show was recorded in the lobby of the Toronto Hilton. Voice was by Blackberry, and I ran Calliflower on iPhone which I had tethered to the 3G connection running on my Nokia E71 using the Joiku mobile hotspot.  It was a fun bit of geekery, and worked remarkably well.

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Over dinner last night, Jonathan Greene remarked how fast Rogers 3G network seemed.  He lives in New York City.  Hmmm… how fast is it, I wondered?  This morning I tethered a phone to my PC, and ran the tests at speedtest.net, targeting the Toronto test server.

As you can see, while it’s not yet the same as DSL or Cable broadband at home, you can achieve a very respectable 1 megabit/s download and over 300 kilobit/s up.  The ping time is a little stinky at 240 ms.  However you look at it, though, Rogers 3G service delivers a pretty respectable mobile broadband experience.

Why does Speedtest label the ISP as Verizon business, however?  Inquiring minds want to know.