New Podcast + Website: The Infinite Playlist

After only one day of debating with myself and talking to a friend, the website for my new podcast "The Infinite Playlist" has been launched.

As I mentioned previously, this podcast will be about all things music. Every week, my co-host and I will bring you a 30-minute show about the latest news in music, some great new music, plus the songs we fell in love with that week. Our first episode won't be launched until March 2, 2010, but that isn't too far away.

Make sure to check out the website to find out all the information about the podcast and even see the bios of each of your hosts. We are also encouraging everyone to email in with comments and questions for us. You can do that by email infiniteplaylistpodcast@gmail.com

And, of course, the URL for the site is http://infiniteplaylist.co.nr 

My History of Website Solutions

I first started out on the internet back in 2007. As I learned more about the internet and decided to share my knowledge about computers, I opened up a website, jonnyscomputershow.co.nr. Of course, I didn't know about domains and hosting packages back then, so I decided to go with a free domain and a web host, which I found on the net and of course it was free. This website was run on a static html page, which displayed my live stream and WyldRyde chatroom.

As I become more a part of the net, I opened JonnyisGeek.com, which is still owned by me to this day, in 2008. At first, I run it on the not so popular now Freewebs platform for around 6 months until December 2008. On December 21, I then purchased a hosting package with my domain registrar, GoDaddy. It was cheap at just over £3 per month. I hosted my website with GoDaddy for quite sometime, until I switched around many webhosts with similar content management systems (CMS). These all included Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal and the list goes on. I stuck with Wordpress, as it was easy to use, themes were free and it had some really useful tools.

In July 2009, I found David (thecreativeone) who's blog I write on now, was using SquareSpace (and still is!). I decided to give SquareSpace a shot, and at that time, SquareSpace were launching their version 5 platform. I was amazed on how SquareSpace combined the static html service I was using a year ago with a CMS. I imported all of my Wordpress content into the new system and I designed my site within a few hours, as it took some getting used to. After a month had passed, I decided to switch back to Wordpress as my income didn't cover the SquareSpace costs and I couldn't cope with other things like going out and seeing friends. I felt bad about it, but it needed to be done. 

In October 2009, I purchased the domain, JonnyRowntree.com, which is my blog and will always be my domain. I used Wordpress for about 4 months on Phirefast and GoDaddy hosting packages before again, switching to SquareSpace as I could afford it again, seeing as I had enough cash to pay for it. I used David's coupon code (thecreativeone) to save 10% and I'm still setting up my site, but it's done for the most part. 

I have no idea how I remembered all of the switches and times, but I most submit 2 important points to this post.

1. Purchase your domain and select a web host. SquareSpace is the best, since it is very reliable.

2. Stick to that webhost for good.

Thanks for reading this long post and follow me on Twitter!

With every Popular Website Comes...

Spam. Yes it is true. Any social networking site is guaranteed spammers, but today we will be only focusing on one: Twitter. 

Ah, Twitter, the newest way of social networking by posting little updates considered "tweets" to update your followers. Started in 2006, Twitter has been working its way up the popularity ladder and is considered to be the "technology of the future" along with the Apple iPhone. Millions of people use Twitter for many reasons: personal use, politics, business, news, and of course: spamming. Considering the amount of people I get following me that I can tell are spammers, I would have to say 10-15% of the Twitter users are spammers that usually consist of online dating (or more explicit content), and online marketing. This can affect the use of Twitter for it does get particularly annoying whenever you receive a new spam follower. 

Luckily, the Twitter team does a clean sweep of spammers every now and then so if you do see a decrease in the amount of your followers, you know Twitter is helping out. But otherwise, the spammers just keep coming. So here are 3 tips that you should know when tweeting:

1. Try not to add personal information on Twitter. There are many cases where burglaries have occurred due to a tweet from the victim.  

2. If you are adding some personal information on your Twitter account, go ahead and protect your tweets. Located on the Settings page, you just check off the box and presto! Your tweets can only be viewed by the people you accept as followers.

3. Now if you don't want to protect your tweets, there is always monitoring your followers. Go ahead and do a search for spammers through your 'Followers' page. Usually spammers on Twitter have either there bio or a tweet giving you a link to another webpage. 

I hope you have found this article useful. But if you did not, keep the comments to a respective manner. 

Cheers,

ForumBytes.com

Hey Everyone,

I just wanted to take a second to write an official blog post on David's new website www.forumbytes.com.

I'm sure the majority of you have already heard about the website, but if you haven't.... it is basically an extension of thecreativeone.tv; An open forum community where you can discuss almost anything. You can learn more about the site from David here.

If you haven't already, take a look at the new site, register and become involved!

Gumblar is injecting your website

A new virus has been found and now being traced by Google and many various antivirus compainies. Gumblar is a new dangerous website script, that can fool your website users by redirecting them, downloading some kind of virus, or when chatting via JavaScript, inject their system with something nastly.

Dont worry! Gumblar has already been blacklisted by Google.

Full details can be found here and here. Anyone who owns a php blog or forum, needs to aware of this

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