On improving PersonalLog

With the rising demand for blogs on PersonalLog, such as the new blogs started up recently (including A Blog Title and Nikola’s Muzik), I’m starting to see posts on virtually every topic, whether it’s gaming, other sites, life, politics, or music.  All of this means more stress on the infrastructure itself, which is why I’m starting to integrate services like ImageShack and YouTube into the software.

Recently, I’ve enabled PersonalLog-network-wide features, such as ImageShack integration in the Write Post page, easy insertion of videos from the top video sharing sites (including YouTube, Dailymotion, Blip.tv, MyspaceTV, and so on), and added a few optional plugins including NoIE (which shows a warning to Internet Explorer users and helps them move to Firefox), Counterize II (which tracks site visitors and details about them in real time), and a FeedBurner redirection plugin. These and more are being installed, adapted, and perfected every day.

The first two features that I’ve mentioned, ImageShack integration and video embedding, will help people improve their content while not placing any additional burdens on the PersonalLog server. By encouraging people to upload pictures and graphics to ImageShack, I am indirectly causing them to use more graphics, which improves the experience for the visitors. By encouraging and making it easy to embed videos, I am indirectly influencing them to use and incorporate more videos, thus attracting user interaction. At the same time, the videos aren’t hosted on PersonalLog and won’t drive up the bandwidth consumption.

For the ImageShack integration, you can take a look at some screenshots or a video tutorial. For the video embedding, read this post at PersonalLog.

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Try PersonalLog

After several months of inactivity, we’ve finally reopened PersonalLog for free signups to the blog hosting service. Currently, we’re trying to use SPAM-preventing techniques such as a human verification question on the first-time blog signup and CAPTCHA on the login pages to minimize the amount of useless junk we get. (More than 130 blogs so far have been created by SPAM bots for no purpose.)

Try our blog hosting, and see how you like it. It offers similar features to an ordinary WordPress installation, except plugins and themes are centrally managed, and there’s no code or database to handle. Just leave the details to us.

Vote on a logo

Of the two logos below, which do you find more appealing? Vote using the form below. (I’ll blog about the poll service in the next post.)

	Which of the two logo styles do you prefer?
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Cheap Domains

This is essentially an “awareness” post, letting you know of FreddyWare Web Services, another section of our organization in development. Its services include free cPanel hosting, cheap domain registrations/renewals/transfers, and free blogs (that one’s currently suspended).

I’d like to introduce you to the cheap and extremely affordable domain registrations. FreddyWare Web Services, as a reseller under an ICANN-accredited registrar, is able to provide .com, .net, .org, .biz, .name, and .us for only $6.50 USD. Other extensions, like .info and all .in domains, are on sale, as well.

Did you know that you can pay using PayPal, credit card (processed through PayPal), and other options like Moneybookers and E-gold (through our PayEngine integration system)? It’s true. Though PayPal is our preferred method, we will allow customers to pay using just about anything that we’ve integrated. (Please let us know if something goes awry.)

Furthermore, our domains actually come with FULL WHOIS control, and free Privacy Protection as well - you can easily click to hide your real name, address, and contact information to prevent identity theft or unwanted mailings. It’s up to you where you want to host your site, though by default, the nameservers of your domain are set to FreddyWare Web Services’ free hosting. You can choose Managed DNS, allowing for you to have control over every aspect of the DNS experience, from normal A, CNAME, MX, PTR records, to other things you probably wouldn’t understand. We also offer Domain Forwarding and Mail Forwarding, for those of you who don’t have the ability to use a TLD domain with your hosting (but you can switch to us!). Mail Forwarding will let you use your existing e-mail address as opposed to setting up an e-mail service at your domain. (We have cheaper - free - solutions, for that as well.)

Check out our awesome prices, at http://domains.freddyware.org .

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