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Chances are there are a lot of people out there using Steam right now. For the rest of you though, you might not know that Steam is a place where you can purchase games on the Web, and then download them via their special desktop client. The idea here is to eliminate the need of keeping up with game disks and clutter – and it works, as long as you have an internet connection that is fast enough.
You are correct in assuming that coupons alone are not that great of a marketing gimmick. They are short, gimmicky and only give you a little fulfillment before you remember the stark reality that you have been hooked in. In that way, it is kind of like finding a half eaten chocolate bar on the road. Sure it is half gone, and you don’t know who was eating this last – but hey, at least it is free.
So what makes a coupon or deal an effective marketing tool, and should you be careful of?
Far from being just another off topic service, in a world filled with them, the new Web Hosting Show Coupons and Deals page will deliver, and impress you. This was a quick project I cooked up over the weekend, to better serve the public at large by delivering a better way to keep track of the latest coupons, deals and special offers from the entire web hosting world out there.
On the Web Hosting Show podcast, we have done a lot of talking recently about web hosts that use Twitter, and how they use it. Some use it for support, others use it for marketing, and the best ones use it for both. Who are the most popular web hosts on Twitter though?
To put that question to the test, I thought I would compile a list of all the web hosts on Twitter that have over 1,000 followers. Out of nearly 100 web hosts on the Web, here are the 25 that made the cut.
There you have it, 25 of the most popular web hosting companies that are on Twitter right now. You can find a list of nearly 100 web hosts on Twitter on the Web Hosting Show’s web site. Did your web host make the cut?
Always in search of the next best thing in free hosting, I happened to run across rapidpik. Now I have only played with it for a little ‘bit, but it could very well be the simplest uploading tool with the most features.
You should know the basic song and dance by now. You choose your picture, you upload it and you can share it. This service is much of the same. Once you upload the image you are given the option to “edit” it. Only editing you can do for now is changing the name.
Once you have done that, you are given the final result as a URL. You can check out my test one one to see an example of the final product in action: http://rapidpik.com/show/4406/jd9gf
Some of the nice features here are that you can share the image using a number of social services, you can view the image in all kinds of different sizes and you also get a flash player (which comes in handy if you upload multiple images at one time). So if your looking for another free image host to add to your favorites – give rapidpik a shot.
I am always in search of new and different free hosting setups from all around the Web. One of the most recent to catch my eye has been Filego.net. The maximum file size you can upload is 50 MB – and I couldn’t really find much as far as bandwidth limits go. With time limits your file will stay hosted as long as somebody downloads it at least once every 30 days.
Here are some of the benifits they mention on their web site:
With content limitations, looks like they really don’t have any. You could upload anything as long as it isn’t copyrighted material. Well worth a first or second look if your looking for a free file host and you can find them at Filego.net.
Every year about this time, web hosts roll out the red carpet to try to get the attention of those avid shoppers with cash burning a hole in their pockets. Courtesy of HostingHoopla.com I have some of the best hosting deals for you that have caught my eye thus far.
Host Color Offers Thanksgiving Deal
Web hosting provider Hostcolor.com announced on Friday it is offering through December 1 a special Thanksgiving promotion that offers a 20 percent discount on shared hosting plans.
Hostway Gives Away Business Makeover
Customers who purchase specific Hostway and ValueWeb products before December 14 will automatically be entered in the draw for $5000 (USD) worth of Hostway services.
Designers – Win a Xbox 360 or $400!
Lunarpages is holding a contest for our new t-shirt design, and you are all invited to submit your designs via our community forums.
AIT Offers Free iPod Nanos
Web hosting provider and domain registrar Advanced Internet Technologies, Inc. is offering free iPod nanos as part of its “Holiday Tunes Promotion”, the company announced recently.
Need a good hosting gimmick? Well take free – and then take one of the hottest web sites out there and I think you have a good mix. The people at Joyent must have had that in mind when they decided they were going to give people working to make Facebook better.
In an article on Information Week’s web site this was said:
“Joyent is offering the “Accelerator,” as the company’s on-demand infrastructure subscription service is known, for Facebook developers in conjunction with Dell, which is supplying the server infrastructure for the program. The Dell servers run Open Solaris.”
Now I don’t think there is anything crooked here, Joyent is a great company run by great people. I think this is a real steal and deal for people working on Facebook applications and if they are looking for hosting they should stand up and take notice.
So will Top Host Deals become the digg of the web hosting world? Well there is a little ‘bit of competition out there in the market – ok, by competition I mean one other hosting deal social site Hostigg.com.
Top Host Deals looks nice and look as if it hit all the major high points to be a leader in this area of the web. You have the highest voted hosting deals. You have upcoming or just submitted deals. You have categories to help you trim down your search.
Now that Top Host Deals is out of the gate, I will be interested in seeing what they do to separate themselves from the crowd.
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Mitch Keeler is nothing more than your average Joe trying to leave his mark on the world though both his professional work and his online projects, articles, podcasts and more.
