NicheSociety.com - my first acquisition!
For years I’ve been creating websites for my own use, for clients, and for Musoswire, but I’d never looked into buying and/or selling websites professionally.
All that changed this month with the purchase of NicheSociety.com - a social website promotion tool akin to Digg.com. From the site…
nichesociety, originally named menéame in Social Niche, is a web application that allows you to submit an Social Network that will be reviewed by all and will be promoted, based on popularity, to the main page.
I wanted to try the whole buying process, and this site with traffic and revenue seemed like a great test run. It’s gone well, and the site is now fully under my control.
NicheSociety also has a blog, which you can find at NicheSociety.com/blog - I hope to add to this with many niche promotion tips in the coming months.
I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the seller, Joel, for his help and patience during some domain transfer problems, and I look forward to working with him again.
So, if you have a social network, why not promote it at www.NicheSociety.com?
Introducing Jive.to! - short URLs for musicians
Jive.to is the first of a new batch of goDHN projects to be launched.
It’s basically a very simple short URL service. You supply a long URL you need shortening (perhaps the YouTube link for your latest video, or a synth review on a shopping site), and Jive.to will give you a shorter URL to give out to your fans/colleagues.
Blog Roll Purge
I’ve been struggling a bit mentally lately, and so I’ve been thinking of ways to ease my distractions.
One thing I have noticed is that some of the many blog posts I read have a very pessimistic tone. Particularly the ones reporting on “the death of the music industry”.
So, I’ve had a purge. Cleared out the clutter. Anything I didn’t enjoy reading (you can tell when you start to automatically skip over posts) has been unsubscribed.
I’ve probably reduced my blogroll by a third, but at least now I’ll probably read most of it!
Why aren’t my sites more important?
I’ve just been playing around with this blog and noticed that I’d got the Client Sites above My Sites in the right hand sidebar.
I was wondering why my sites should be less important than the ones I do for clients? I couldn’t think of a good reason, so I’ve swapped them over. My Sites is now the most prominent list, as it should be.
Speaking of my sites, look out for a couple of new launches coming soon…!
Wordpress updated (and a new theme!)
So this is the final blog to get upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. Once again, it’s gone as well as can be expected. It’s quite impressive how Wordpress upgrades work. Or maybe it’s PHP? I dunno, it’s nice when things work though.
You’ll notice I’ve also changed the theme AGAIN. The previous one started really annoying me, as the text was too small, and the space between the paragraphs was practically non existent. I did think about editing it, but I’ve done that before… change one thing and something else looks wrong! So I decided on a new theme.
I’m hoping to add some colour to this theme gradually - obviously adding my affiliate banners back in will help, and updating the permalinks on the images.
I’ll get there!
DNS will be the death of me
Well, I hope not, obviously… I hope it’s ravenous sex with a beautiful woman when I’m about 70, but you get the idea.
I’ve just spent the last god knows how long trying to sort out the nameservers for my new dedicated server. See, it worked… but not a lot.
I’d got the server working, and some domains moved by means of direct DNS pointing in 123-reg, but I knew I should just be able to change nameservers. Everytime I tried to do that, I got an error saying that melody (one of the nameservers) didn’t exist in the registry.
Time Management Required
I’ve been spending a lot of time lately wondering how to make better use of my time.
I’m definitely what you would call a “night owl” - I can do early mornings, but I work much better after supper - usually between 8pm and 12-1am. But how am I using those hours, and more importantly, can I make better use of them?
I tend to have an ongoing “to do” list, and I’m always working through that during these hours. But it’s a very spontaneous thing - if I think of a blog post, I’ll write it on the list. That’s fine, but there’s no real structure to the content working like that.
Broken Blogroll - now fixed
Just a quick post to apologise for the downtime on the Blogroll page. Apparently Google have changed the way the Javascript stuff works, and the version I had no longer worked. Shame they didn’t let me know!
Anyway, you’ll have noticed a couple of new tabs at the top of the blog - I’ll get these pages sorted soon, promise.
FeedBurner Farse
With the gradual move to my new dedicated server, I’ve been taking the opportunity to consolidate various website accounts to aid administration.
A good example is FeedBurner, where I had 4 accounts - one for each website (goDHN, Musoswire Blog, AdventuresInVista and AdventuresInMacOS). Each had a seperate username and password, and I was forever forgetting them!
Congrats to Lewis!
Just a quick one this to say congratulations to Lewis Hamilton and McLaren for winning a very exciting opening grand prix in Melbourne.
Incredibly exciting race - what with the removal of traction control. Let’s hope this is a sign of things to come!