.ME domains are not just limited to personal websites.  It can be used as a catchy marketing tool.  For example, verb-oriented domain names such as Contact.me, Drive.me, Date.me, Help.me, Love.me make perfect sense to visitors. 

Well, you can purchase those premium domains only through the auction that’s coming up, but you can still get good .ME domain names if you hurry up. 

It is little bit expensive and requires 2 years of contract, but it will be well worth your investment.  I was going to register “Prayfor.me” but as I thought.. it’s gone.  But I’ve found a couple of really nice domain names already.  So register a .ME domain name now!

Register a .ME Domain Here
 

Watch the WordPress 2.6 release video to learn more about it.

Firefox 3 is supposed to be more secure and easier to use. You can test some of their improved security features on the Firefox 3 Release Notes webpage.

Download Firefox 3 now. You will love it.

This is how it works.  Once an advertiser purchases a blogroll link on your blog, you will be notified of the sale.  Then you will have to log-in to your blog and manually add the listing.  I like this semi-automated process.  Simple enough. 

Now, maybe because the service is still in early stages, I don’t see any blog links listed there for sale.  I don’t know their price ranges yet.  If the price is reasonable for both publishers and advertisers, this will be huge. 

Visit: BlogRolled

One thing I would like to see is some free high-resolution stock photos. I know she can do whatever she wants to do with her photos, but I feel that she can attract more traffic to her site if she gives away high-resolution versions for some of her photo sets. That would be really awesome.

I highly suggest that you bookmark her blog. New stock photos are posted daily basis. Thanks Kathy!

Samples
Red and Green Tableware

Visit : Electronic Perceptions for Free Stock Photos

It comes in handy when you need to share a big file or a big image on your blog. You can save bandwidth and the web space if you host these big files outside of your web hosting server. FilePub is perfect for that. Read their terms of service before you upload your files.

How to upload a file
Click “Browse” and choose a file. Once the file is selected, just click “Click to Upload” That’s it!

Once the file is uploaded, you will be redirected to a folder. From there, you can either view the full version of the image or download it.

By the way the screen shots used in this post are hosted at FilePub. Here is another example of a uploaded file (2.16MB).

Visit: FilePub.com

Here are some highlights of improvements :

• Performance improvements for the Dashboard, Write Post, and Edit Comments pages.
• Better performance for those who have many categories
• Media Uploader fixes
• An upgrade to TinyMCE 3.0.7
• Widget Administration fixes
• Various usability improvements
• Layout fixes for IE

One of the most annoying bugs in WP 2.5 was the media uploader bug.  It just wouldn’t work for me.  Uploading works fine, but once it is uploaded I can’t retreive it using the gallery menu.  WordPress 2.5.1 fixed some of the media uploader problems, but from my testing, it still needs improvements.  I can now upload and view the file fine, but I still can’t insert images to my posts.  I hope they get fix it quickly. 

If you want to learn more about WordPress 2.5.1 go to WordPress Blog. 

Last year, I moved the main blog to a subdirectory so I can do something else with the main domain. But I didn’t find a great use of the domain since. Just last month, I came up with an idea that I can transform it into a blog that talks about blogging :)

Because the niche marketing I do for living is closely tied to blogging, I’d talk about blogging as well. That way, I can finally fulfill the purpose of MarketingSyndrome.com. Now, my niche marketing blog will continue, but the main page will be transformed into a new blog. Old contents are already updated and I recycled as much as I could.

Thanks again for visiting my new blog and I hope to see many ideas evolve from my blog.

Very interesting read, please check it out.

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