Want to do a little file sharing via Twitter?  The new service FileTwt does just that.  You can now easily upload and tweet about your files for free.

You can quickly share any file that is up to 20MB in size with your entire Twitter network or just a single follower.  All you do to get things to work is give the FileTwt web site your Twitter details, find the file you want to upload, and then tweet away.  Your newest tweet that you send out will have a special link attached that will let those who got the message download the file in question.

To get started, head over to FileTwt’s web site, and get signed up or try out the limited services for people who do not sign up for the extra features.  File sharing via Twitter has never been easier.

• Web Hosting Thaw – Episode 176
• Hope in Hosting – Episode 177
• Axsys Hosting – Episode 178
• Host Improvement – Episode 179
• Domain Name Dictionary – Episode 180
• More Domain Name Terms – Episode 181
• Payment Processing Demystified – Episode 182
• A Look into Aplus.net Hosting – Episode 183
• Web Hosting Relationships – Episode 184

Going all the way back to 2005, there are over 180 podcasts in all uploaded on the site, and ready to be listened to.  If there is ever a topic you would like to hear more about – I am all ears, and always welcome to feedback.

All you have to do is select the file you wish to upload, select the services you would like to upload to, and then the upload button will generate your single download link.  Which free file sharing services are supported?

• Rapidshare
• Megaupload
• Easy Share
• DepositFile
• ZShare
• FlyUpload
• and 6 more file hosts!

Once you get the download link, you can easily share it with your friends on MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and other networking platforms.  If you are in search of an easy way to make a few mirror downloads for the free file you wish to distribute, Upload Mirrors is well worth bookmarking.

Sharing your images has never been easier with the thanks of imgur.  No, this isn’t just a tribute to the fact that all the good names are taken.  Imgur makes image sharing as easy as it can.  You have a browse box, where you can select your picture from, then you continue.  The requirements are it has to be under 2MB, and in the jpg, gif, or png format. 

Have any more questions?  The FAQ would be a good place to start.  Overall I like easy, I like simple so I like imgur for free photo sharing.

How do you use it?

• Go to Pict.com main page
• Click any of the "Upload image" buttons and browse to find image(s) that you want to upload

After a short while, your image(s) will be uploaded. To share uploaded image move the mouse over the image and click "Share it" link. To view uploaded image just click on image thumbnail.  The JPG, GIF and PNG image file formats are supported.  Also at this time there no limit to the number of files you can upload and share.

To help out with ease of use, they even thrown in Firefox add-on. Overall, I would say this web site is well worth checking out if you are in search of a quick and light image hosting tool.

On podcast #180 covered these specific domain terms:

• Domain Name Hijacking
• Cybersquatting
• Domaining
• Domain Name Speculation
• Sniping Domains

On podcast #181 rounded things out with these domain terms:

• Domain Parking
• Kiting Domains
• Domain Name Warehousing
• Type-in Traffic
• Domain Front Running

I would highly recommend checking out both podcasts, as I think they will be a handy addition to have for anybody who is wanting to learn more about the domain name jargon that is being tossed around. 

For more web hosting podcast fun, talk, help, interviews and more check out webhostingshow.com.  Speaking of which, that project of mine is about to hit the 4 year anniversary mark – so that alone should let you know there is a ton of information posted over there for the newbies all the way to the gurus out there in the web development world.

I am really becoming a big fan of the Hosting Industry group on LinkedIn.  When it was first launched, I mentioned it on the Web Hosting Show podcast, however – I had no idea how useful it would be till now, a few months down the road.  Here recently, I used it to get a few guests lined up for future interviews on the Web Hosting Show – and thus far the response has been really superb.

As much as I like the mix of hosting customers and web hosting professionals meeting in one place, the highlight of this group on LinkedIn is that thus far it is only people who are working in the hosting industry in one way, shape or form.  With that said, it kind of blocks out some of the discussions, such as “Is ‘X’ web host any good?” or “Stay away from ‘X’ as a Web Host, they just robbed me!” and well – you get the idea.

If you want to learn more about the Hosting Industry Organization and the LinkedIn group that is related to it, be sure to check out HostingIndustryOrg.com.

Here are all the issues of Ping! Zine that I have made an appearance in this year:

+ Download Issue 26 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

+ Download Issue 27 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

+ Download Issue 28 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

+ Download Issue 30 of Ping! Zine (.pdf)

Hopefully they’ll have me back next year too.  If you have never heard of Ping! Zine before, it is a web hosting magazine for web hosting professionals and fans.  One of the two biggest out there in the hosting industry to date.

• Dotclear – Great Blogging Alternative
• Easy Blog Publishing with Zomplog
• Eggblog, the Free PHP MySQL Blogging Script
• Beautiful Blogging with Textpattern
• Database-less Blogging with Flatpress
• A Wiki/Blog Hybrid in WikyBlog
• Habari = Next Generation Blogging Script?
• WordPress Sucks? Try Nucleus CMS
• Small, Yet Powerful Blogging with Pritlog
• Media Publishing Made Easier with Loudblog
• LifeType is Your Blogging Solution?
• Flexible Blogging/CMS with Serendipity
• The King of Kings is WordPress

Have any other blogging script suggestions you would like for me to check out?

The install is simple, and famous for being able to be done in 5 minutes or less.  As far as features go, you have link management, post categories, tags, auto-saving of posts, categories, and more.  It would take me days to list them all.

Here is video of WordPress 2.7 doing what it does so well:

You have plugins and themes included too, which means you can customize and add features you might need, but the developers for got about. Here are a few more usual WordPress links that any WordPress fanatic should have handy:

• Themes Directory
• Plugins Directory

I haven’t had much time yet to really play with an appreciate the newest version of WordPress yet, but from what I have seen thus far – WordPress 2.7 is a great improvement visually over the previous versions.  You can pick up WordPress via WordPress.org.