There are online promotions which help buy a .com domain for 1-3$ USD, instead of 10-14 USD, which is the regular price. How to have this price for two years in a row? The trick is to combine: Buy cheap domains for the first year (current deals include GoDaddy.com for 2 USD or buying from a lesser known registrar for 1 USD). In the second year wait for a thing like Black Friday or Cyber Monday, which should give you a „transfer to us” option of 1-3 USD (I used NameCheap.com). Combining these two should give you a .com domain for around 2-6 USD for two years. The offer is far greater than any regular individual offer you might get. (as I know of) If you care for quality, pick NameCheap (as suggested by Lifehacker.com readers). P.S.: I recently bought betterish.com, audithink.com, oliii.com by this method and last year I’ve bought „transfer to namecheap.com” domains. P.S. #2: Last evening I went to buy oliii.com from GoDaddy.com for 2 USD. Previous to this, I had bought audthink.com. The thing is, you could typically only could have bought a single domain for 2 USD (one per client). But if you made your shopping cart without being logged in, applied the discount, when you logged in with your address & card data, the basket still remained at 2 USD. I did 2 or 3 tries like that. Then I came to buy the domain. Surprise! It costed 4,000 USD. Four thousand. I looked on the Internet and I found Network …
On 2013.11.15, I held the presentation „On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”, in Gaziantep, Turkey, at the „Literacy Opportunities For Adults In Rural Areas” Grundtvig Workshop (Gaziantep, Turkey 10th – 17th November 2013). The organizers – Gaziantep Training and Youth Association. More details.
Below, video + presentation + photos.
At the Lumea SEO PPC series of events, we didn’t like Facebook pages as much. Initially, we created a standard Facebook user. Time passed, we made a Facebook group, a place where pretty much all the conversation went. Then, we converted the user into a page, but lots of things were lost (especially photos). Right now, we have no user, but a page and group. The community, concerning the number of members, is bigger on the page (close to 1,300 likes) than on the group (900+). We can’t say the same thing about the activity (engagement) of the users, which are more active on the group than on the page. This would be the small tip of the current article – if it is possible, take into account creating a Facebook group, rather than a classic page. Perhaps an online store wouldn’t be a prefect fit for a group, in which the buyers and sellers share the same level. Perhaps an institution wants to communicate one-to-many (as on a page), not one-to-one (like in a group, where any member can have become a message carrier). But if you have a group of people which may potentially be united in a Facebook group, you can take into account that, when the moment of „let’s join Facebook” comes, you would do this on a group, not on a Facebook page. The advantage? The fact that only about 20% of the people who liked your page actually see its messages, unlike the Facebook group, where, if they wish so, the …
I see from time to time people using random.org web site, filming sweepstakes. The solution is rather poor – you could film as many sweepstakes as you want, until you get a valid number. The alternative? Create a list of persons, make it public, provide it to the web site, and let the web site announce it after a few days. So, the mechanism is like this: 100 people join your contest. December 10 the contest ends. December 10 – you put the list on a web site, public. December 12 – the winner is extracted from the list and you announce it. Much more difficult to arrange something, in this case. Better solutions – 1, 2.
At „Future of Media” conference, I got a very good insight – there are two ways of media creation / consumption: Lean forward – specific to a PC/laptop and smartphone – on this path, you create. You innovate, you start things, you act, you are a leader, things begin from you. Lean backward – specific to a tablet / smart TV – on this path, you do media consumption. You take what others have started, you are a follower, you do media consumption. (on a personal note, I have a a PC, a smartphone, but not a TV, and the tablet is used mostly as a laptop) :)
I just saw Prisoners (2013). I quite didn’t like the dark atmosphere in the movie.
Let’s say you go to an event and you make 10 different videos. You want them all uploaded on YouTube. How can you make the process faster? The trick is simple – instead of having a single tab in your browser in which you upload the videos, one by one, you should rather open 5 tabs and upload two videos in each. While the speed won’t exactly be 5 time faster this way, the total time will be much smaller. Another trick is to group uploads into tabs by size – so the biggest file should have its own tab, and the smallest files should all be grouped in their own tab.
Warning: spoiler alert!, you might want to see the movie first, prior to reading this.
I’ve just seen Red 2 (2013) – IMDb. Very cool movie. More details?
I recently saw The Smurfs 2 (2013). Some feed-back? What did I like? Pleasant characters, I enjoyed it. The movie was, at times, funny. Not all the movie. Quite relaxing & joyful. What I didn’t like as much: The story is not coherent. At times, it goes from A to B without a clear logic. Quick changes, sudden changes, no smoothness. Not realistic. Having a huge wheel go through Paris without hurting people is not realistic. Plain weird. The negative guy turns positive and then negative again, just like that. The smurfs where supposed to be caring & happy & joyful & a family. Yet, at the beginning of the movie, they make classifications and decide who is worth going on the trip and who isn’t based on skill. (more) The bad guy, Gargamel, really suffers in the movie. Physical pain & stuff. I didn’t like that as much.
Simple rule: whenever you engage in a conversation in social media, avoid giving more than 3 replies to the same person. If you do, most likely your other readers will be bored. No need for flame wars. Solve the situation by other methods. (idea & credits go to Cristian Manafu)