There are some important things you should remember when trying to choose a web host. The criteria for choosing between a free web host and a commercial web hosting solution are slightly different and must be evaluated good. For instance, how many sites per server do you host? Happens that hosting companies often have many servers and your bad luck might bring you on a slow or buggy. You may also have email problems with your host and receive a huge list of spammers.

So, here a bunch of pratical and useful advice to find a web host that doesn’t suck.

Hosting for sale. Can happens that a very good web hosting company was bought by a not good web hosting company and you just transferred away from.

Tech Support Comedy! You call for tech support and you receive an answer by one person with an Indian accent “Sir what is your problem?” …and you’re a woman.

Don’t Make Me Wait Too Long. You must wait for more than 40 minutes before to get the most common support options. If so, before you choose a web hosting make sure how long till first to get a response and how long till answer provided.

We are member of… They claim to be a member of the BBB( Better Business Bureau), instead is a show which takes place on the third Sunday of every month in Birmingham called the Birmingham Bizarre Bazaar.

Ruby on RailsYour, please! web hosting don’t provides RoR (Ruby on Rails) and the tech on the phone. Check up that they added both Ruby on Rails and phone on your web hosting account.

When Advertising is Too. You find a free web hosting service, but since you use it you notice they place ads all over your page.

Bandwidth. Is the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. This isn’t the most important criteria. You’ll probably never be able to take advantage of it because of resource limitations as TOS, and a couple hundred page views a day, say probably uses only a few gigabytes in a month.

TOS (Terms of Service). When you choose a web host service make sure there is no some kind of limitation on your resources. Some will be vague about resource limitations, others more explicit. You’ll have to dig for this info, which is usually inside the TOS. Remember to read this document, which will includes any details as refunds, uptime guarantees, and other important details.

How many domains will you need?  Many low cost hosting  give you from one to few domains. Whether you intend to expand your business and build more than one site, or to publish more than one blog, make sure you can host all your domains under one plan.

Number of Databases. Some hosts offer unlimited domains, but give you a paltry number of databases to work with. Sure, you can put more than one blog in a single database, but I wouldn’t recommend it.

What do you need for a good support. Make sure your service host provides email, chat and/or phone support. If you’re new to hosting(or not) I’d recommend finding a host that offers phone support. Trying to explain what you don’t understand in an email or in a chat can be laborious and frustrating. If your host has just deleted your account without warning, you won’t always get an immediate answer by phone but it’s a relief when you do.

How To Find A Web Host

Web hosting Geeks website is a great way for people to read the web hosting reviews on site. Whether you want find all the the information regardless of whether it is simple hosting or multiple domain hosting, it the just place. The Hosting Geeks interface is well designed and allows you to browse the site and you will certainly find what you are looking for. Layout is impressively clean with a table with the Top 10 Web Hosts of 2007.

The host rank are estimated through vote from one to 10, but there are other information such as, Web Hosting Provider, features, web hosting articles, and the web hosting review. In this way you can compare all hosts and find the right service to suit your needs.

On the left of the site there is a menu that allows you to choose, Multiple Domain Hosting, Top 10 Web Hosting, Free Domain Names, Free Google Adwords, Free Yahoo Marketing, and you will find much more if you keep looking around.

Twitter gives you the chance to publish your thoughts on the fly or tune into the thoughts and information streams of others users from around the world. Since starting a Twitter account, I have quickly learned some important things about how develop relationships.

If you are a smart web networker but you’re totally new to Twitter, it can be hard to find people that have similar interest or that share your interest. Whether you want develop new relationships or you want have a list of international contracts to keep in touch from your office, fortunately a great many third-party solutions allows you to extend the capabilities of Twitter or to interact with it in new and interesting ways.

If you just go at the top right of your Twitter homepage, you can notice a search box that lets you search for people, per locatin or any other term that might be in their Twitter profile.

If you are looking for a tool that allows you to find conversations, and people that have a presence on Twitter, Tweetscan is just for you. It allows to see all the replies to you that other Twitter members have left. You can search by author, keyword and date with results available via RSS, email, and Twhirl.

Whether you don’t know it, then you missed out one of the biggest Twitter shortcuts I’ve ever seen to build relationships with Twitter users. Another free tool that allows to find users that share your interest is with the Twitter Packs Wiki. It offers a easy way to find people by subject matter.

Conclusion

With so many Twitter tools available online, you must only choose the right one for you. I would love to hear your thoughts on these or especially if you have any other possible tools.

In an era which mobile appliances are in growth, mobile web browsing are going be always easy to use trough its surf-friendly interfaces. The latest couple of years has seen a flourishing develops of web application and internet-based services , that providing anyone the possibility to build a mobile website in a simple way and speedy.

For this reason, and on base to my experience as marketers it is becoming more important to offer a mobile website alternative to your current website.

The Road To build Your Mobile Website

I have a great plugin for later this week for all Wordpress users! Whether you want that your posts, pages, achives and comments be viewed on a mobile device, then, this plugin probably be useful for you. If you are a blogger, you can make your Wordpress site accessible to any mobile phone with this plugin. This plugin can be a force to be reckoned because provides a great opportunities to Wordpress users to have a mobile-website alternative for their current website.

How to install or upgrade from v1.0 / v1.1

Installing or upgrading this plugin is easy. If you’re upgrading from 1.0 or 1.1 deactivate the plugin before you follow these steps.

1. Backup your WordPress files and database - not required but good practice
2. Download the plugin and extract the PHP file from the zip
3. Upload wordpress-mobile.php to your wp-content/plugins folder
4. Activate the plugin. Goto Plugins > Click Activate
5. Customise your site. Goto Options > WordPress Mobile
6. Visit your site using your phone’s browser or an emulator

What Do After You Installing This Plugin

Here are the specific steps I recommend you take once your mobile-site is online.

1) There are three mobile-web directories you should remember when trying to increase the popularity for your mobile-site. This are one of priority to do once your mobile-site is online. Here the list:

• The Mobileweb Directory
• Mobile Mammoth
• W3Moz
• Click4Wap
• JumpTap

An easy way to Build Your Own Mobile Website: Mobisite Galore Is Here

In terms of ease of use Mobisite Galore provides one of the easiest ways to build your mobile website in minutes. With Mobisite Galore you are able to build, publish, manage, and share mobile websites. That’s a good place to start with mobile website.

Here’s just a quick refresher of what you’ll get if you sign up for  an account:

• No technical knowledge required. No downloads needed
• Host your website wherever you want
• FREE Service, runs on donations! Donate Now!
• 100s of features

Mobile Phone Optimization

I give a variety of SEO tips to optimizing any mobile sites.

• Low file size of the page. It’s important to reduce load times.
• A problem with mobile websites is that they not support javascript, frame, flash and pop-ups technologies.
• Another things you must remember is that you can optimize only keywords comprised of 2 to 3 words because mobile searches tend not to type in more than 2 or 3 word search.
• Also, if you want to be ranked highly for certain keywords Include them in Title tags, heading tags, description Meta tags, and filenames.
• Whether you don’t know, your mobile website offers an XML sitemap for search engine spiders to rapidly index it. This option is already integrated in mobisitegalore.
• If your mobile content has its own top-level-domain(TLD) then you should register this domain with Google webmster tools. This tool will give you a better idea on your mobile website is crawling by Google.
• Submit your mobile sitemap to Yahoo Site Explorer. It allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search.

Concluson

The importance of the mobile website alternative to your website can’t be stressed enough for those looking to do marketing, and it is absolutely essential part of the process. With the develop of mobile phones, I think that build a mobile websites is an idea whose time has come.

Do you remember the spectacular 360 digital panoramic photographs which providing virtual tours and allows you to easily look up and down and turn your vision all around in full 360°. Whether you don’t know http://www.360vr.com/ yet, is a production team provides to creating high quality resolution panoramic images for use in panoramic virtual tour production.

These are 360 degree panoramic images captured using rotational cameras with spherical fisheye lenses. Our award winning 360VR images are full 360 degree spherical panoramic images used in building photographic “Virtual Reality” style virtual tours. You can interactively “be there and look around” with the full realism that expert digital photography capture offers.

But the video technology is rapidly evolving with new services stepping up to the challenge. Recently  Immersive Media Corp. (IMC) based in Calgary, Canada with Immersive Media Company, in Portland, Oregon, has developed a new system that allows to watch video in a new way and more better than the 360° navigable images.

Check this video out.

To give a good idea of how it works you can check out the following short video below. You can click and move your mouse in different ways while moving video images.

How Does It Work: The Dodecahedrom

The dodecahedron that produces a overall scene is a sphere for immersive image capture through twelve perfect and symmetrical pentagonal facets(according to the golden ratio: A/B=(A+B)/A). Each lens produces even high quality images resolution in every direction.

The Telemmersion camerais designed to perform in difficult terrain and challenging conditions. You can carry it by hand or mount it on land, water or airborne vehicles. Eleven image streams arranged according to geodesic geometry capture and record a high-resolution, immersive image of your surroundings, at a resolution of over 100 milion pixels per second-much higher than HDTV - all in one camera. Four built-in microphones provide simultaneous omnidirectional audio recording. immersive image capture can include up to 5 different types of metadata, including GPS and IMU the camera can operate on batteries, and power safeguards ensure that you won’t lose important data. The hard drivers are hot-swappable, and the time-lapse feature means that you can record continuously over an extended period of time.

Features

• Highest pixels recorded(100 million pixels per second).
• Highest image quality resolution in every direction(2400×1200 pixels, 30 frames per secon).
• Telemmersion system.
• Images may be got spherically through the IMviewer software, or by using standard video playback platforms such as Windows Media® Player or QuickTime®.

IMViewer software may be displayed on a computer monitor or video screen. It can also be seen using a head-mounted display, which allows you look around, up and down just by turning your head.

System Requirements

To view clips of Immersive Media you will need to have the following minimum requirements:

• Adobe Flash®
• A broadband Internet connection

Hit that play button to watch other video example.

Travel Demo

Found: 42nd Street

Snow Day

More example you can see here.

Ifbyphone Phone-Me-Now, interactive voice response  and ivr solutions, is an applications with a simplified approach to the development of stand-alone and web-integrated voice services for small and medium sized business. This phone to web market themselves as an invaluable resource to make your customers to connect with you from online and off.

If you want to jump right away into testing, let me first to do an example to know you how it work:

1. A customer’s go on the internet, and search for a key term and leads them to your website.
2. At this point, they click a picture of a telephone or a link and then their telephone phone rings.
3. When they select they are connected to the right person at your business based on the time of day and day of week.
4. Whether you can not to take the call, the customer is asked when they want to be called back.
5. Later the system delivers a reminder to your employee and offers to connect the call. During the telephone call the customer schedules an appointment for you to come to their home to give them an estimate for the services they saw on yout website.
6. The customer signs up for your services and an automated system at ifbyphone calls your customer to confirm their service date. You deliver the services.
7. The next day another automated system calls ask customer if they know anyone else who needs your services.

How Does To Create An Ifbyphone Business Account

1. Browser on www.ifbyphone.com and click on Login.
2. Type your 10 digit telephone number in the user ID field. Retype the 10 digit telephone number in the retype user ID field.
3. Type a four digit password in the Pinfield. Retype the 4 digit password in the retype PIN field. Click create account.
4. Compile the form with your personal information, first name, last name, e-mail, etc.
5. On the subscription plans page select a business plan.
6. Complete with your credit card information on the Billing informationpage.
7. From the select VoSite Telephone Number page, select a VoSite telephone. Number from the list. Click to accept, and the subscription process is complete.

The most considerable Ifbyphone upgrades are:

International Calling. The Ifbyphone added a handling international calls in the Click-to-call tool. Now, a clicker can enter in an international number to be called.

Caller-ID call routing .Ifbyphone already offers schedules to route calls based on day and time of day. Now, add another layer and route an inbound call based on the caller ID.

Phone/SurVo Directory. Ifbyphone has improved the feedback on near-matches when going through a Directory Configuration.

Recording Calls. Ifbyphone now lets you record calls that go through a find me list, simplifying the process that used to be available only in the SurVo application.

Voice Audio Files. Ifbyphone has always allowed you to email voicemails in audio format to an email address of your choosing.

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Gmail (or Google Mail as it is known in the UK) is one of the many services offered by Google. These are a comprehensive set of tools that should prove useful in Gmail. Below I’ve put 17 tools and resources.

Gmail Manager 0.5.4. Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail…

GCount - 0.5.  Is a menu bar and/or Dock item that displays the unread status of the inbox of a recently popular email service.

GFeeder. Is a small ticker app which allows you to see what’s in your Gmail inbox at-a-glance. You can customize it to your liking.

Gmail Storage Drive. Is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium.

Gavamail. Gavamail is a POP3/IMAP server implemented in JAVA for reading your gmail e-mail with your favorite mail client. Currently only POP3 is implemented but I hope to implement IMAP too. Libraries provided by the g4j and libgmail projects are used.

Gotmailg. A Dashboard widget for Mac OS X 10.4 (and now 10.5) that displays the number of unread email messages in a GMail account. It has a simple and easy to use interface. Now supports different colored backgrounds.

GDisk. Is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.

Better Gmail 1.1.2. A comprehensive suite of Gmail enhancements, including skins, saved searches, keyboard macros, secure access, attachment icons, attachment reminders, label colors, signature floating and more.

GMail Drive. Is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google Mail account, allowing you to use Gmail as a storage medium.

Delegate to Remember The Milk 1.0.1. This extension adds a new button on Gmail messages that generates an email to Remember the Milk that creates a new task (whew!). This is a great way to quickly turn emails into tasks, while at the same time retaining a link back to the original email.

GCalQuickTab 0.3.3. If you have both Gmail and Google Calendar, GCalQuickTab makes it easy to switch between the two webapps in your browser by overriding the default behavior of the new Gmail/Google Calendar links that appear in the upper-left-hand corner of those…

Dragdropupload 1.6.2. Drop files into attachment boxes instead of browse for them or type in the filename. Drop multiple files and fill all the entries. In some websites it allows to add new upload files: in Gmail is possible to drop the files directly over the…

GMail Checker 1.1.3. I like how this extension uses existing cookies, so you don’t have to give your user name and password. I’m a bit paranoid about giving that kind of confidential info to a program, so it’s a really nice feature that should have been included in other add-ons of this kind.

Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.2. Allows you to monitor multiple Gmail accounts right inside your browser’s UI.

Gmail RTL 0.1.1. The extension adds the direction buttons, that are currently available only in the Hebrew & Arabic Gmail interfaces. Direction buttons allows you to write in Right-To-Left and Left-To-Right manners.

Gmail Lader. For Windows or Linux, aids you in loading your email to your Gmail account.

Gmail S/MIME 0.3.1. With the Gmail S/MIME extension, you can send and receive signed and encrypted S/MIME messages in Gmail. Secure your e-mail today, including your attachments! Version 0.3.1 inter-operates with every S/MIME-capable mail client including Microsoft Outlook 2003, Microsoft Outlook Express, Mozilla Thunderbird, and Apple Mail.app.

A new java application has created quite a buzz for itself, managing to combine a virtually live analytics service with an easy of chat real time, all in one. Woopra is a hosted analytics service for bloggers that lets them to monitor any websites and give a beter idea of how their blog or website is going and how it compares to others.

Woopra provides you with all the facilities needed to analysis of your selected site visitors. While a competitor like HitboxProfessional has limited his interest only in very large website and famous publisher that getting milion of pageview a month and can pay them thousands of dollars per year, Woopra currently is in beta version and available for many of you that want have a professional real time analysis platform without to spend a money and want to get the same result.

I have tried for the first time a few hours ago and I’m very excited by the excellent work that Woopra team have done, giving a new web traffic monitoring service with all of features are available to you immediately. One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s similar to Google Analitich. In fact, there is certain similarities between Google analitics and Woopra in the interface. But, the Woopra interface was really built to impress.

The main differences is that Woopra provides a real time stats and a number of additional features like an integrated chat that allows you to interact with site visitors.

How Do To Use Woopra?

All you need to do is to create an account, and once made it you will be able to add/remove websites from the members’ area. To add each website, you need of a small JavaScript code to place on your website.

Note: During the beta period, you might have to wait for our approval after adding a website.

Is There A Limit On Daily Page Views?

Yes. To be able to have a chance to be accepted you must have a maximum of 10,000 daily page views.  This is done to allow a maximum number of webmasters/bloggers to use the service. Whether your website exceeds that number, the excess page views will be discarded. If your website frequently exceeds 10,000 page views per day, woopra team will have to temporarily suspend your account.

Woopra Videos

Introducing Woopra from Neal Campbell on Vimeo.

GBTV #337 | Introducing Woopra from Neal Campbell on Vimeo.

In the ed, I feel that Woopra has a lot of potential to become a prime internet destination for Web-Stat Analysis enthusiasts. Woopra is a perfect monitoring tool for small to medium blogs interested in a precise real-time streaming of every single details of every single action on the website.

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I worried that there is someone on the net that purchases domain name and sell them to people or company who owns a trademark contained within the name at an high price or however ask for prices far greater than that at which they purchased it.

This worried is come to me especially when I registered the3dtechnologies years ago using GoDaddy. This is called Cybersquatting. You’re probably asking, what is Cybersquatting

Cybersquatting is the practice of registering domain names(usually a company name), or using a domain name with bad faith , especially those connected with celebrities or recognizable trademarks, with the intent to profit from the goodwill and reselling them at an high price.

The term derives from “squatting” which is the act of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or without the permission.

If the domain name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark used by that person or entity, the owner of the trademark has a cause of action against whoever registered and is holding on to the name. Also called cyberpiracy, domain name grabbing, and domain name piracy.

Some cybersquatters post paid links via Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and other payd advertising networks to the actual site that the user likely wanted, thus monetizing their squatting.

Recently, the Senator Spencer Abraham, a Michigan Republican, has introduced to Congress the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act. This bill, if enacted, would make cybersquatting illegal. Violators would be charged a fine of up to $300,000.

Unix Plans

Very often, when people ask me about web hosting, they want to know always the same things, where to find cheap but good web host. This particularly applies to those who are just starting their web site and are not willing to sink a lot of money into it.

One things I’ve heard by many people is that their host has had a black out by causing their sites to be down. This is unforeseeable but shouldn’t happen either way.  A good host should never be down, there should always be a backup network. This is causing me much stress and affecting my work schedule.

However, whether you are in the hunt for find Unix Web Hosting solution providers for your site, Unix hosting provides a nice web host directory, an area in which anyone interested may find new services about hosting. I have seen some sites write a list to web hosting but I think Unix hosting is one of the most complete I’ve seen.

Mixwit is a new online service that allows you to create your personal compilation of music tracks recorded. Whether you like an artist, or music in general, Mixwit give you ability to search between thousand of songs into her database, and create your own mixtape in a compact audio cassette and share it with your friends wherever you want on the web completely free.

“A mixtape, which usually reflects the musical tastes of its compiler, can range from a casually selected list of favorite songs, to a conceptual mix of songs linked by a theme or mood, to a highly personal statement tailored to the tape’s intended recipient.
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“Essayist Geoffrey O’Brien has called the personal mixtape “the most widely practiced American art form,” and many mixtape enthusiasts believe that by carefully selecting and ordering the tracks in a mix, an artistic statement can be created that is greater than the sum of its individual songs, much as an album of pop music in the post-Beatles era can be considered as something more than a collection of singles.”

Source: Wikipedia

Below, I walk you through the key features of what looks to be a very promising social platform.

• Choose any song you want add to create your personal compilation.
• Share your virtual mixtape with your friends through an embeddable widget on website or as link, as well.
• Allows to personalize your audio cassette cover by editing its theme, and add title and note.

Interface

The interface is very nice. The site has been designed for easy navigation. There are a few buttons and functions can be learned quite rapidly without the need to read a manual.

How Does To Start

You need to register if you want to create and publish your own mixtapes. Before completing this review, I wanted to sign up for an account just to create my person audio cassette. Below, what I got.

How Does To Work.

1. Add music. Click on “make a mix” button,  and search and select your favorite Music Tracks. You can search your artists song or album, from two music source: SEEQPOD or SKREEMR. This means that you can have two chance to find your favourite artist or music out there.
2. Add Style. You are given some degree of control over how you can personalize your cover. You can upload any image you already have to fully customize the look(color, skin) , and add title and name of your audio cassette.
3. Publish and share online. Your compilation can be easily re-shared or re-sent to anyone anytime through an embedded code or a simply link. It also allows to post your mixtape to MySpace, Facebook, Blogger, and others.

Mixwit Business Strategy

It seems that Mixwit will launch an advertising system with a chance to buy any song directly its web-based service. If true, could really become a good business model.

Other Resources

Mixwit official site

Mixwit Blog

Conclusion

In the end, I feel that Mixwit has a lot of potential to become a prime internet destination for Music lovers. I like because it’s simple, free and I think it looks great. I have always had an affinity for this genres of services.

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