A judge has banned Scott Wiese from changing his name to Peyton Manning. A few days before the Super Bowl, Scott announced that if his Chicago Bears lost the game, he would change his name to Peyton Manning. As his luck would have it, he lost that bet and went before a judge to change his name.
The judge disagreed with his motive and made Scott happy by denying his request. Which once again proves that friends should not let friends drink and make bets on the Super Bowl.
Because I work with real estate agents everyday, I get a unique perspective on it in general. Now, I’m not one to inform you of the intricacies of a real estate transaction and I am surely not qualified to talk about the market economy (that’s better left to the agents, brokers, and others who work tirelessly to help people like us buy or sell a property). But, I do find some neat websites out there. My favorite website for today is Postlets.com. This website helps agents set up a listing page and post it to several websites, including Trulia, craigslist, and more. Best of all, it’s free. Gotta love that web 2.0.
And the website isn’t just for real estate. You can also sell cars and rentals too. I would like to see them support a number of products and services too, but maybe that’s in a future update, we’ll see
Okay, I am the procrastinator. Earlier this month, Erin and I visited a close friend’s wedding here in Indy. Erin brought her camera along and got a few shots (we tried to stay out of the photographers way). Here’s a link to Erin’s post on her blog:
http://www.erinhessionphotography.com/blog/2007/03/congratulations-katie-tom.html
So, here’s my official congratulations to Katie and Tom!
Some of you know what happened to Kara’s Dad last month. For those of you who don’t, he was involved in a major car carsh and has had a difficult recovery. They’ve been waiting on pins and needles waiting for improvements and today they got the one they were waiting for. He woke up! It was a tearful day today for the entire family, as he began making theis significant leap.
I can’t give you all the details to keep the information private with Kara’s family, but keep the prayers up, they really do work.
Okay, I got this in email. There’s a guy (Justin) who is walking around 24 hours a day with a webcam strapped to his head streaming the video online. Users can follow him around and watch him in his sleep and on dates. It’s a bold leap forward in the world of live audio/video streaming on the internet. So, if you’ve got some time to burn, check it out at justin.tv.
Previously I had shared with you and experience that I had with another hosy=ting company in which I was not happy with. This time I have found my webhost for life in GoDaddy.com.
I was initially sent to GoDaddy when I was having issues with Gate.com. I was looking for a reasonably priced webhost that would host ASP.net 2.0 apps with no extra charge and the ability to have control over the DNS and hosting. GoDaddy was the perfect solution.
I frequently need access to the hosting admin to change the app roots, the domain, the email accounts, etc., because the clients that I deal with are important to me and I pride myself in providing fast service. I can on-the-fly provide that service with no questions asked and, more importantly, no calls to their customer service to have a “ticket” started. In fact, I think I have only called their customer service once in the time that I have been with them (since November) and they have called me multiple times thanking me for being a client and asking if there was anything they could do to make my transition more smooth.
Never, with any webhost, have I ever been treated so well. I even received a welcome packet in the mail within a month reminding me of the number to customer service and what my customer number was. They even put in on a handy reminder card.
Now for those of you who are interested in the science and hard-facts, I will tell you this. Their server has been the fastest that I have ever hosted on. I have hosted with companies that have taken over a minute to return a page on the server, to companies that have been only seconds. When it comes down to it, their’s is fast and responsive. Their domain control center is very advanced. I can forward and mask my domains with a minimum of effort (and more importantly, with no charge) and still access the DNS.
Every domain comes with email forwarding (at least that I have seen) and you can forward using any of your domains. They support the majority of domain suffixes including the new .mobi (for dedicated mobile sites).
Now, I don’t want to look like a walking advertisement for GoDaddy. Sure enough, their ads don’t need my unshapely body. But aside from their ads, their service is in a class of it’s own. If you have any specific questions, just ask.
I’ve used this site for about two months and I love it. More than anything, I was looking for a place to host common media files that I was working on with my websites and client sites. This site solved it all for me. They give me 25gb FREE which if you’ve dealt with box.net, you’ll know that it’s significantly better.
They offer file management, photo, music, and video sharing just like the other ones and can host a large multitude of files (zip and psd too). So check them out if you need online file storage.
For those who have been in the search marketing world fro some time, Google’s ad model, Adwords, has become the highlight of paid search marketing and the center of controversy in the click fraud debate. Google’s popular advertising model has been based on a cost-per-click basis, until now. This week, Google brought a new ad model into beta testing based on cost-per-action. This new model allows the advertiser to only pay an amount when a desired action is complete (ie: lead conversion, product purchase, etc). This allows the advertiser a greater degree of control over when they pay for a lead and further helps reduce the amount of click fraud that advertisers are subject to with the current cost per click model. The even better deal is that you (the advertiser) decide how much you want to spend per action. While you are able to set up a budget with Adwords and bid on the keywords that you want to advertise under, you have little control over the actual CPC because the bid is affected by other users. And even then, there was no way to ensure that the click actually generated a conversion. This changes that and helps to ensure that advertisers pay for actual conversions.
In the long run, there is a lot of change and evolution that this ad model will make before it is ready for prime-time and even then it will not take the place of the current ad model, but it will boost the confidence of the smaller advertiser in which ad budgets are a primary concern. Way to go Google.
Okay, I just put the finishing touches on my latest design project, Summer Bridal Show. Many of you saw a previous post a while back regarding the Holiday Bridal Show, the awesome sponsors are back and with their previous success, are expanding the show to serve brides better. Check them out today at http://www.summerbridalshow.com. And if you get a chance, let me know your thoughts on this site!
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