Ruthie and I went Christmas light roaming again with our friends Eric and Robin Roach last night. First we went back to the Springpark area off Jupiter Rd. and saw the neighborhood we had seen the week before with Eric and Robin, but we went too late last time and many houses had already turned off the lights.
This time we went much earlier, about 7pm, and saw a ton more lights.
We also went to a fabulous house near Jupiter and Belt Line where the entire backyard was encased in lights, plus there was a train that was all decorated that was actually giving free rides to kids. The guy even had a video camera set-up and a TV so the parents could see the kids as they were on the train.
Then we went back south to the Newell house that we had gone to with Larry and Charlotte Enge and the lights were on there. This time Eric and I had our DSLR Canon’s with us and walked around taking detail shots of the decorations. The owner, a very nice lady named Liz Simmons, let us walk all around the yard and even opened the window so we could get good detail shots of the small house scenes she had created.
My shots are still in the DSLR, but these are a few that I took with my iPhone. I am amazed at the resolution the iPhone 4 takes and the color depth. I did edit them a tiny bit in my new camera app called Camera Plus Pro ($1.99). I had just purchased it that morning and it does a fantastic job.
I am investigating a Facebook application called Radical Buy. I found it through an old high school friend named Ivan Schonwald that I recently re-connected with on Facebook.
Radical Buy is an application within Facebook that allows you to list items for sale as an individual seller like you would on eBay.
The twist is that you can also show other seller’s products in the application and if a buyer then buys that product from your Facebook page where they saw it, you get a commission that the seller offers for selling it.
They have a web site www.radicalbuy.com (Note: has since closed down in November, 2010) that you can go to outside of Facebook to browse products for sale, add the application to Facebook, read the forums or find out more about the program.
I have not verified the fact, but I do also believe the company is based in Dallas, Texas, which is also where I live and grew up.
I will be testing this software because I think it might be a good alternative or addition to eBay as a sales outlet, plus i like the sort of affiliate marketing angle with the commissions. So far i have listed a comic book and am going to try and earn commissions on products a few other sellers have for sale as well.
Ok, I just finished writing a post about this software for Facebook called Radical Buy.
I put a comic book up that I had tried TWICE to sell on eBay for less money than I offered it for on Radical Buy.
Within 10 minutes of putting it up for sale with Radical Buy on Facebook, I had a PayPal payment for the item! It was a buyer less than 10 miles from me that found my item not on Facebook, but through a search on Google shopping!
Wow. this thing has legs and I’m going to put a few more things up and see what happens.
