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Posts I enjoyed reading / May 4, 2009

Alex — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:54:05 +0000

Since I didn’t have any time the past week for writing new posts I made some time to share some interesting articles that I have read. I hope you will enjoy this posts as much as I did.

smusi.com / new proxy lists

Alex — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:23:32 +0000

I’ve just finished working at smusi.com and now it’s up and working. Smusi.com it’s a proxy web site where proxies are listed by different categories and tags.

Users can find new proxies or proxies that are working with different web sites, faster and without checking all the proxies in the list. The design of the site is pretty light and it has good usability.

Visitors can also rate the proxies that they liked so other people can find good proxies fast. New proxies will be posted daily and also will be sent by email to the users that signed up with smusi proxy newsletter.

Proxy owners can submit proxies to smusi.com for free, without a link back required and the listing will appear on the site instantly.

I have decided to add new features to smusi.com on a regular basis so the site will give to the visitors exactly what they are looking for so if you have any ideas or comments about smusi.com I am waiting for them.

EDIT: smusi.com has been sold and has been transformed into an adult blog.

Grab your ymail.com email

Alex — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:18:37 +0000

Yahoo has officially opened registrations for the domain ymail.com & rocketmail.com so know users of Yahoo can sign up with ymail.com or rocketmail.com domains.

This step was done because of the big numbers of users registered at Yahoo and because new users that were trying to register couldn’t find appropriate user names.

If you still didn’t registered a ymail.com username you should hurry up and grab a short name to use on your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Messenger.

Firefox 3: Download Day

Alex — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:38:13 +0000

Firefox is preparing to launch Firefox 3 and with this occasion they are also trying to set a world record for downloads in one day. Because I am a user of Firefox I “pledged” to download Firefox 3 in the day they will decide to release it. I have nothing to earn from this, it’s only for fun and maybe helping to set a world record.

Fun or not fun this is a great and unique way to launch a software and I suppose Firefox is getting a lot publicity.

Google’s New Service: Friend Connect

Alex — Wed, 28 May 2008 13:08:41 +0000

Friend Connect it’s probably the newest service offer by Google and it can be used for improving websites, actually for improving traffic for the websites. This description makes pretty easy to understand what Friend Connect can do: “If your site is not enough social, Friend Connect will add to your site social features”.

With a lot of features to add on websites Friend Connect makes them interactive, of course I am talking about sites that are not so “socialized”. Using Friend Connect visitors of websites can interact with each other, write reviews and share photos related to the site they are visiting.

More features of the Friend Connect service can be seen in this video…

Registration for Friend Connect can be done here but keep in mind that they are in beta and they don’t accept all people for the moment.

Free prints from PhotoBucket

Alex — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:14:49 +0000

If you are familiar with PhotoBucket then you know what’s up with them but if you don’t I should explain. Photobucket is an image and video hosting site, it’s quite an old site and I have been using it for image hosting for a while.

Recently they have updated their services added a lot of new features such as image printing and also they have some good promotional offers. Using the coupon code “NEWBUCKET10” you can get 10 free image prints, you will need to pay only the shipping.

To get some free prints just go to www.photobucket.com upload some photos and make an order for image prints using the coupon code from above.

Web 2.0 Explained

Alex — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:37:10 +0000

This is the first post categorized as “Weekly Video”, a new category that will contain posts with videos about internet marketing, seo, design, webmasters and other stuff related to internet business.

Web 2.0 Explained is a video that I found on Y! Videos and the title says all. Great CEO’s and SEO experts explaining the web 2.0 phenomenon. Enjoy this video:

Romania, just Romania…

Alex — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:20:32 +0000

Today I have watched an amazing video about my country, Romania, on Alexiuss and I have to say that I am really proud of my country and watching this video made me feel so good that I am romanian.

If you are a fellow countrymen enjoy this video and remember some of the great things that makes Romania better, if you aren’t and you don’t know a thing about Romania you should watch this video and imagine how the “world will be without Romania”.

Web Trend Map 2007

Alex — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:25:15 +0000

If you feel “lost” on the Internet there is a away to find yourself – LOL. iA (informationarchitects.com) released the second version of web trend map. They have included the most popular, visited and successful websites from the net. The map is available in different formats, an image (like the one included in this post) and clickable online version that can be found on their site.

Giving Hostgator a try

Alex — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:27:22 +0000

Since I run many web sites for me and also for my customers, today I decided that is time to get a second reseller account and since is time for that I thought that will be better to try a different company than the one that I am using.

Searching for good offers and reviews I couldn’t decide if I would go with a small company or a big company, well if I have my first account at a small company I guess I should try a big company. I opted in for Hostgator since they have a lot of good reviews and I also had a lot of recommendations from my friends.

I ordered the Aluminum reseller plan with 12 GB space and 125 GB bandwidth and my account was created in a few minutes, I can’t say anything about support because I never had any problems in setting up my domains.

If you are interested in reseller accounts or any other type of hosting I recommend Hostgator: quick setup, affordable prices and (I suppose) great support. I even had a discount of $9.94 with the coupon “iceishot” and this coupon can be used for all kind of orders.

Reseller Hosting Starting at $24.95! (aff.)

Google can see you…

Alex — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:22:19 +0000

If you thought no one can see you, you are very wrong :) It seems like Google can see you, to be more specific, Google Maps can see you. Bellow are three print screens from Google Maps where you can notice that Google can see anything…

If you think this are fakes you can take a look directly at Google Maps:

Google Maps – Image 1
Google Maps – Image 2
Google Maps – Image 3

Hello world!

Alex — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:25:47 +0000

Hello all and welcome to my blog. My name is Alexandru, I am already writing on a few blogs but those are focused on some niches and I really don’t have the power the write all my feelings and all my thoughts and that is why I created this blog.

I don’t intend to promote this blog and I don’t intend to make it a money maker – lol. I will just write personal notes, some of my experiences and a lot of my thoughts.