Comments (5)By TimK in News, Webware on 10th January 2008
Second Life (no thanks, it already feels like I’m trying to live more than my fair share of lives) suffers from the credit crunch. OK the global economy is in trouble, money is pouring out of the investing markets and the banks have stopped lending to each other, on top of all this the US sub-prime mortgage sector is collapsing having massive knock on effects around the world (The collapse and subsequent underwriting of the Northern Rock group in the UK, by the government has cost each man woman and child in the UK £1000, around $1900 dollars, so far.) And as a great man once said ‘As Above, So Below.’ Second Life has been in the news a great deal for everything from taking the sensible action of banning virtual bestiality (there is a joke about a Trojan Horse here somewhere) but now it seems as if the bottom has dropped out of the Linden Dollar.
Writing on the second life blog (http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/01/08/new-policy-regarding-in-world-banks), Ken Linden states that Linden labs is unable to protect users of virtual banking services in Second Life, and that there are serious questions about the legality of such institutions. Institutions providing banking services on Second Life have braced for a run on funds as the ban comes into place, the above screen shot is of financier, JT Financial virtual bank on second life, brings a whole new meaning to the phrase virtually bankrupt.
Comments (8)By Ahson Rafiq in News on 8th January 2008
Everytime i start a new project i do alot of good and learn alot but at the same time i screw up alot too and i gain experience from that and i avoid those things alot, here is what i learned about blogging in 2007.
Never Abandon The Blog
Even if its for a week or a month never ever abandon your blog without letting your readers know, i know for a fact that when i started this blog i abandoned it twice and switched it between my main site (gurilla.net) and then back on to this domain, this move not only screwed up my serps but my readers as well just when i started receiving natural readers i abandoned it and after that it was really hard to start it back up.
Always Incorporate 3rd Party Media
Although people want to learn your opinion its always more “readable” if you add content from other sites such as videos, images and excerpts, as for me images and videos work the best, specially images!
Stay Oncourse With Posts/Updates
If you are going for 1 post/day then stay the course, do the post everyday, never ever break the 1 post/day streak. This will not only give your blog a steady come-back traffic but also at some point you will run out of topics and will definitely diversify your topics!
Interact With Other Bloggers
Your blog is not the only blog on earth although its normal to think alot of yours but still there are alot of good bloggers out there worth subscribing to, and you should read and interact with them on a regular basis if you want your own blog to grow as well.
Do The Research On Higher Levels
Doesn’t matter if your blog is big or not if you are a blogger at heart - you will do the research needed for the post!
The more accurate your information is the better!
Giving Away Free Stuff Is Good!
This is my favourite part because my wordpress themes really took off the moment i added them to my site and its my passion (designing) so yea it came natural and i still intend to keep designing and giving away wordpress themes for a long time!
Keep Up With The New Plugin & Other Wordpress Update
Its crucial that you should keep up with the latest plugins and other wordpress updates for security purposes and plugins always make your blogging life easier and more flexible.
Get Pimped At Some Point
If you find that potential in your blog or you have grown to a certain level then you just have to get pimped in other words - get a unique professional eye candy design/template for your blog, a new design can help your blog grow 2x.
In my case i used the Unique Blog Design Guys, i dealt personally with Nate Whitehill.
Comment (1)By Ahson Rafiq in Webmaster, Webware on 27th November 2007
I’m marking this as a trend here, i believe that pissed off people such as Mat will one day make tracking every single item on earth convenient and do-able by satellites and what not.
Apparently no matter how far we go in the area of technology there is always someone doing something really interesting here, the reason that i blogged about this was that this is indeed a developing trend and I am almost sure that we’ll see some more tracking related startups soon that target more then just the usb industry, maybe online scripts? maybe music? (my bet is that vbulletin might be going for tracking systems for their software)
It would be interesting if there was a tracking system for everything that webmasters use to make money such as ebooks and little money making scripts as well. i know well that there is always encryption and the more complicated tracking servers too, I think there just might be a startup like that, that would allow tracking for ebooks, documents, php/asp scripts and stuff we do on a daily basis.
