Archive for October, 2006
· October 31, 2006 at 4:16 pm · Hot Web Topics
Tags: feedback, ideas, marketing, PayPerPost, press, TechCrunch, trolls
Yeah, my next project I start I want PayPerPost to run my marketing.
After reading all the comments, threats, pissing contests and shouting matches that have been going on Online about PayPerPost, I only have one thing left to say that hasn’t been said before. The PayPerPost team have had a brilliant marketing campaign!
Just look at how much buzz they have generated with such an easy idea. Get people to write about products, and have those people who make the products pay them for it.
Personally, comparing PayPerPost to cancer is a little extreme and stupid in my opinion. For a fresh Web 2.0 idea, why don’t we go interview a cancer survivor and see how they like the serious disease they had being compared to some Web site?
These idiots running around and saying that the sky is falling like Chicken Little with his head cut off are loons - plain and simple. It is not about “blogging ethics” it is about getting known. Good or bad, thanks to these loons, a lot more people know about PayPerPost and I am willing to be a lot more people are taking advantage of the deal.
Now with that said, do I get paid anything for what I post here? Nope. I make enough in Google AdSense ads to pay for my Web hosting and past that - I am just happy to be around and helping folks out.
Take TechCrunch for an example. The only reason PayPerPost gets mentioned over there is because is generates a lot of traffic and comments. Traffic and comments keep TechCrunch’s advertisers happy and signed on. Mike might as well be “in the sack” with these guys. He’s not even getting paid for the free press he is giving them.
You trolls need PayPerPost, the funny thing is though - PayPerPost doesn’t need the TechCrunch-like trolls. They are giving a chance out there to anybody and everybody. They don’t care if you are A-list or on “a list”.
Now to the ego driven maniacs out there that have nothing else better to do, just stop it. In the long run, you are helping them more than you are hurting them.
Related Reading:
+ PayPerPost is now Officially Absurd
+ TechCrunch Promotes PayPerPost again, unintentionally
+ Mike gets all medieval on PayPerPost
+ PayPerPost creates DisclosurePolicy, TechCrunch calls it absurd?
+ PayPerPost launches DisclosurePolicy.org
· October 31, 2006 at 8:37 am · Web Hosting
Tags: cash, deals, money, quick, reseller, Web Hosting, web-hosts
Are you the guy that is always turned to when it comes to helping your friends get a Web site up and going?
If the answer is yes, then you might be missing out on a good deal that not too many people outside of the Web hosting industry know about. You could set yourself up a reseller hosting account and charge your friends whatever you want for doing their hosting with you. You could be your own little Web host.
+ How much money will I make?
Consider this, each Web site you buy from the Web host costs $5 a month to you. If you go back and charge your friend $7 for the service, then you are already making $2 a month profit. That is an extra $24 in your pocket after a year for doing what you would probably already be doing for free.
Now let us add in a few more friends, lets say you are hosting ten different Web sites for ten different plans. You charge each friend $7 a month and you are looking at a profit of $240 after one year.
You are already making that kind of cash and you only bumped the price up $2! Just think what the numbers would look like if you charge your buddies $10 or $20 a month for hosting plus your “costs” of keeping their Web sites up, running, and looking nice.
+ How do I get started making money?
Just about every Web host out there has a reseller Web hosting package for you to pick. For a good place to search for Web hosting in general - I would recommend checking out FindMyHosting.com. You might also ask around at places like WebHostingChat.com and see which places get you the best deals.
· October 30, 2006 at 11:40 am · Software Help
Tags: 12, best-of, extensions, favorites, Firefox, list, regular, tools
Now I have seen top Firefox extensions lists for everybody and anybody out there. They have ones for Web developers, they have ones for tech-savvy mothers, they even have ones for your five year old brother. I have never seen a list of Firefox extensions for us regular people though. Here is a list of extensions no regular person can be without.
1. Nightly Tester Tools
Now the main reason I added this one onto the list, is it made all my older extensions I had (when jumping from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 2) work again. Now since some extension authors haven’t gotten around to updating their work, Nightly Tester Tools will be an extension to keep around for the time being. By the time all my favorite extensions are update though, it might be time to roll out Firefox 2.5 or Firefox 3!
2. Download Statusbar
I do not really like the built in download manager that comes with Firefox. It just does not get the job done for me, because I really don’t need another box popping up at me. The folks at Mozilla should have turned to the Download Statusbar extension. This tool gives you progress bars and either a big toolbar across the bottom, or a tiny icon in the status bar. This is a must have extension if you do a lot of downloading.
3. Google Browser Sync
When I got my laptop, I needed a quick and easy way to keep Firefox in sync via both my desktop and laptop systems. Now there are a hundred and one different extensions that promise to do this, but Google’s Browser Sync does it the best. Plus, I think Google is the only place I would trust with all this information I am sending back and forth anyways. You can sync your bookmarks, cookies, saved passwords, history and tabs. This is a nice ability to have when you are using more than one machine.
4. Greasemonkey
I love Greasemonkey so much, I could do another top scripts list on it alone. It is alike a series of extensions inside of an extension. Once you install Greasemonkey - you can install any number of “user scripts” that add functionality to any number of Web sites. You easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.
5. IE View
IE View allows you to open any link up in Internet Explorer. I used to use IE Tab, but once I moved up to Firefox 2 it seems like it broke an awful lot. That was about the time I figured it was time to go back to old reliable. IE View is really simple - just hit a button or click a menu option and your present Web page opens up in Internet Explorer. You can also set some links to always open up in Internet Explorer as well. I know it hurts you to think about it, but we all need to still use IE from time to time.
6. McAfee SiteAdvisor
SiteAdvisor was one of those extensions I was really excited about every since it’s release. Since being bought by McAfee - it is still good, but doesn’t have that same feeling. No matter who owns it though, it is still a nice tool to have. Think of it as a safety helper while searching randomly on the Web. For the most part, they are usually spot on with their warnings as well. A green icon means good, yellow is a warning and red means bad. They really couldn’t make it any easier.
7. Menu Editor
After you install a dozen or so extensions, your Firefox menus start running a little wild. The Menu Editor extension allows you to bring all these options and links back down to a list you can manage. There is nothing worse than right-clicking on a Web page and it taking 10 minutes for your right-click menu to load up. It might not be spring, but this extension is perfect for doing some spring cleaning around your browser.
8. Resizeable Form Fields
For anybody that spends a lot of time posting things Online or writing in any text box you find, the Resizeable Form Fields extension is a must to own. This extension allows you to drag and resize your text forms to any size you need. When you refresh the Web page - they will go back to normal. This is handy when writing long posts and you want to see everything you have typed thus far.
9. TinyMenu
You can never be saving enough space when it comes to your browser. The TinyMenu extensions allows you to shrink the “File, Edit, View, ect” options down to one drop down menu that says “Menu”. This will save you precious space when it comes to laying out your toolbars and icons inside of Firefox. I like to keep things nice and neat, and this extensions does the trick.
10. StumbleUpon
I am not a man of unlimited ideas, so when I need to find something to cover that I haven’t covered before, StumbleUpon is a great tool to use. StumbleUpon allows you to browse randomly through the Internet going to Web pages that other folks have marked via the StumbleUpon toolbar. The only thing I don’t like about StumbleUpon is that the toolbar for it is a little large. When not in use though - you can always hide it.
11. Video Download
This extensions allows you to download all those neat videos you find via the Web’s most popular services. Download content from Youtube, Google Video, iFilm, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Myspace, Angry Alien, AnimeEpisodes.Net, Badjojo, Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com, Castpost, CollegeHumor, Current TV, Dachix, Danerd, DailySixer.com, DevilDucky, Double Agent, eVideoShare, EVTV1, FindVideos, Free Video Blog, Grinvi, Grouper, Hiphopdeal, Kontraband, Lulu TV, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace Video Code, Newgrounds, NothingToxic, PcPlanets, Pixparty, PlsThx, Putfile, Revver, Sharkle, SmitHappens, StreetFire, That Video Site, TotallyCrap, VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, Vimeo, vSocial, Yikers, ZippyVideos, and any other Web page with embedded objects.
12. WebmailCompose
I like using Yahoo! Mail as my default E-mail application. I manage all my different E-mail account via them, so trouble comes when I click a “mailto” link on a Web page. I have no real “default mail client” to use. This WebmailCompose extension lets you use any number of Webmail applications to act as your default mail client. That means when you click one of these E-mail links, you will automatically be brought into your Webmail.
Have one I missed? Add a comment and let everybody else know what it is and why it should be here.
· October 26, 2006 at 7:01 pm · Web Hosting
Tags: blogs, commentary, comments, feedback, Web Hosting, web-hosts, WHIR
Now it looks like I might have rubbed a few people at the WHIR the wrong way with my commentary on how the only folks that are commenting on WHIR blogs are the other WHIR writers. It’s funny this catches their attention and me mentioning that WHIR TV would be a lot better with Anastasia Tubanos in a bikini doesn’t. For the post that started all of this - click here.
Let me comment on something Liam Eagle said though:
Mitch seems to think he’s unraveling some sort of conspiracy. But this is hardly a revelation. It ought to be patently obvious to anyone reading the WHIR blogs that we’re posting comments on each other’s entries. We’re certainly not doing it in secret.
Nobody said it was a secret.
The reason I thought it was funny is that the Web Host Industry Review is one of the biggest dogs in the fight. They are the “leaders of the pack” in some people’s eyes. When you look at other Web hosting leaders blog (take Bob Parsons for example) he gets comments all over the place. Why isn’t the WHIR Blog team getting the same reaction? That is what I thought was “odd” and then “funny”.
Just to make it clear yet again, just because I might question or highlight what the WHIR is doing doesn’t mean there is a “negative meaning” behind it. Heck, I even wrote for the WHIR once upon a time (did one article too my whole month there :)).
One thing that the WHIR does very well is Web hosting news. I am in no way, shape or form in competition with the WHIR team. They have a bigger budget, a bigger team, and more leverage in the business than a little old Web hosting podcaster like me has. I am only trying to bring attention to what I see.
Now one more comment on what Liam had to say in his own comment:
Hey Mitch. I was going to reply here, but I thought maybe nobody would see it, so I put something up on my blog. 
Yes Liam, maybe nobody would have seen it here, but then again - where did WHIR TV go anyways?
· October 26, 2006 at 8:41 am · Web Hosting
Tags: directory, free, links, Web Hosting, web-hosts
The other day somebody asked me if I knew of any good free Web hosts out there. Now a long time ago GeoCities and Angelfire used to rule the roost. These days though, there are a lot more choices - you just need to know the right place to look.
A few podcasts ago, I mentioned the Free Web Hosts Web site. They are still around, and still one of the best places to find free Web hosting.
For each Web host, they let you know how much space you get:
- What type of customer the Web host wants?
- How much disk space you get?
- Are you allowed to put ads on the Web site?
- Does the Web host put ads on the Web site you make?
- What type of services are allowed?
- What type of domain name do you get?
+ Get a Directory of Free Web Hosts!
· October 25, 2006 at 4:00 am · Web Hosting
Tags: audience, comments, funny, self-promotion, web-hosts, WHIR
Now this is just funny. I was skimming through some of the comments over at the Web Host Industry Review’s new blog section, and something struck me as odd. All the comments i saw were from the same people. So I figured, well they have a few fans - good for them. The closer I looked though, all the comments I saw came from the other “blog writers”. They are sitting around and commenting on each others different posts so they look more busy it seems.
Now this might not be the case exactly, but it sure does look funny. Need an example?
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