Advertise on Twitter using Magpie
December 26, 2008
You must have heard of Twitter; the micro-blogging service? Yes? Good! I shall not spend any time on that then.
If you want to promote/advertise on Twitter, there is a controversial service called Magpie that you can use.
Twitter users can sign up on Magpie as publishers and after every few ‘tweets’ they make, Magpie will insert a Tweet on their behalf which will be an advertisement. This advertisement could be yours!
Sign-up on Magpie to advertise your products & services.
Popularity: 33% [?]
Get your web hosting reviews by the geeks
December 20, 2008
The success of any web site not only depends on the quality of content by the quality of accessibility of the content. Basically, you need to ensure that you are using a quality web hosting provider.
There are several hosting providers nowadays and for someone new it can be quite a challenge to determine which one to go with. Do you go with the one that provides the cheapest option, or do you go for one which provides the most features, or do you go with someone in between? All this can be confusing if you are not sure.
This is where WebHostingGeeks comes in. When you are looking for a web hosting service, just head over to there web site and look at reviews based on various categories — PHP hosting, eCommerce hosting, etc. The front page also covers the best hosting options of 2008.
As an example, here is a review for Immotion.
As you can see, there are various categories against which the web hosting service is reviewed. User reviews are available as well. In case of Immotion, there were as many as 64 user reviews, which should be more than sufficient for you to get clarity on the services of Immotion.
It cannot get any easier than this to locate a web hosting service of your choice.
Popularity: 32% [?]
Free Web Hosting at 000Webhost
October 18, 2008
I got to hear about 000WebHost from a Twitter Friend that I follow. Its an interesting hosting service. Read on…
Founded in December 2006, 000webhost.com has a free hosting members base of over 60,000 members. It offers professional quality hosting, support, uptime and reliability.
The free service provides you
- 350 MB of disk space
- 100 GB of data transfer
- PHP and MySQL support with no restrictions
- cPanel control panel
- Website Builder
- Absolutely no advertising!
So, if you are looking at starting off an experiment and don’t have any funds to invest, 000Webhost could be just the ideal starting point for your web hosting needs.
Popularity: 6% [?]
Win $250 in cash at SiteTalkZone
September 30, 2008
SiteTalkZone is a discussion forum focused on webmasters. Webmasters can discuss on various topics from General Marketing to Website Programming, monetization techniques, etc.
The forums are quite active. STZ has recently launched its first contest where you can stand to win $250 in cold cash! The prizes up for grab are:
1st PLACE
- 250$ cash in Paypal.
- 3 month Ad spot on Sitetalkzone.
2nd Place
- Any available TLD of your choice.
- 1 month Ad spot on Sitetalkzone.
- 6 months of free hosting.
3rd Place
- Any available TLD of your choice.
- 1 month ad spot on Sitetalkzone.
- 3 months of free hosting.
There are various methods to earn points to increase your chances of winning the goodies. The contest is open till 28th October ‘08.
Popularity: 17% [?]
Firefox 3.0.2 released
September 24, 2008
Mozilla released an update to Firefox today, Release 3.0.2. This releases fixes several security and stability related bugs. You can view the release notes for complete details. You can download this version of Firefox from here.
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The Best Web Hosting Providers
September 13, 2008
If you are looking for a new website hosting provider, how do you determine which is a good option?
If you are looking for independent ratings based on customer satisfaction, affordability, reliability, uptime and technical support head over to a website aptly called WebHostingRating.
The website provides a large directory providing information on different plans, and any promotions and discounts that they have to offer. What I liked was their categorization of different plans. You can look at options based on operating systems, e.g., Linux or Windows. You can even look at options based on which CMS you want to use, e.g., Joomla, Drupal, etc.
All in all, you stand to only gain from this website. Give it a shot when you are looking for a new hosting provider.
Popularity: 8% [?]
Domain Search Made Easy
June 24, 2008
Are you tired of hunting for good domains. Are you on the lookout for a tool that can almost instantly tell you whether a domain is available or not? How about a tool that can generate domain names given a list of words?
Enter…Bust A Name. A simple to use tool that provides all of the above. I’ve been using it actively to identify potential domains that I can register for my projects. Give it a try…
I’m sure there are similar tools available, but this one is a no-nonsense straight forward tool to use. :-)
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Get over your writers block with Zemanta
April 9, 2008
I came across a very interesting Firefox plugin called Zemanta. The plugin comes into action only when you visit one of the supported platforms, e.g., WordPress, as an author. For instance, when I loaded up this blog’s page to write this article, I noticed Zemanta visible on the right sidebar. It not only claims to provide good suggestions on your article, but pulls up some images from Flickr which might be relevant to what you’re writing. It also suggested some external sites to link to and also tags for the article. Nothing like testing it while writing the article itself, wouldn’t you say? The first round of suggestions that I got is shown in the image below.
I’ll be giving this a shot for a few more articles to see if it helps in improving the quality of posts that I write!
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Speed Linking: 6th Mar 2008
March 6, 2008
In today’s edition of Speed Linking:
- Two useful posts from BlogWell, titled 100+ Resources for Web Developers, and 100+ Resources for Small Business and Non-Profits, would be of interest to many. It is a treasure trove of useful links. In fact, the resource list gets even better when you read the comments which has a good contribution of links from readers.
- Do you plan your blog posts in advance? If you are not good at planning your articles, read this article to get a good insight on how you can improve your skills in this area.
- Internet Explorer 8 has finally arrived. Rather than opening up a debate on IE8 Vs Firefox 3, what I would like you to do is to see how your blog renders in IE8! There are several changes introduced in IE8, and it would be good for all us bloggers to ensure that nothing is breaking on our blog with the release of a new browser version. Do note that IE8 is still in Beta.
More later…
Image courtesy: Darwin Bell
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5 websites for stock photos for your blog
February 4, 2008
A picture is worth a thousand words. This is so true, isn’t it? No matter how well we write on our blog, the impact it creates gets magnified the moment we embed some meaningful photographs into the article. Where do these bloggers get such great quality photographs from?
There are several websites that cater to the stock photos segment. Not just that, there are several photo sharing services available, which you can tap into, to get some great photographs. A small list of sites which I personally use for getting some great images are mentioned below.
Flickr
Flickr is at top of my list. You can search not only based on keywords, but based on license as well. The number of photographs available on just about any topic/keyword you can think off, is simply unbelievable. All thanks to the large user base on the website.
iStockPhoto
iStockphoto provides photographs without charging a subscription fee. Pricing is per image, depending on the size of photograph that you are looking for. You can get a XSmall size photographs for as low as $1. Isn’t that cool!
stock.xchng
stock.xchng has over 250,000 stock photographs from over 25,000 photographers.
Corbis
Corbis has a wonderful collection of high-quality photographs. You would need to pay a small fee for many of the photographs, but once again, just like Flickr, you can search based on license type.
HDRwalls
HDRwalls a website that has wallpapers for your PC and for your mobile devices. Nothing stops you from using it for your blog posts! You will find an amazing collection of photographs on this website. A review of HDRwalls was recently carried out at DownloadSquad. There are only about 450+ photographs to choose from, but do expect the database to increase in the coming days, as this is a user run community.
There are several other stock photo websites. What I’ve listed above, are the ones that I typically use. Besides the ones listed here, which ones do you use?
Popularity: 11% [?]
