News sites. There’s lots of them. And most of them look the same. NYTimes.com used to look like all the other news sites, but recently, they updated their site.
And guess what. It’s awsome.
For some authors it’s really hard for them to find a publisher willing to publish their book. The authors have the content, and just need someone to bridge the gap between them and their readers.
I’d love to write a book someday, unfortunately until that day I need to improve my writing. I do have a few ideas for what I could write about, but nothing definite.
My two other “Rules to Live By” posts were about rules by Bob Parsons and Steve Jobs. Bob Parsons is the sole investor of the Go Daddy Group, and Steve Jobs is the CEO of Apple Computers, Inc.
For me, the most memorable rules were (I added my own comment below each rule… it’s because of those comments that I think the rule was most memorable)
This post is a continueation of my previous post, Rules to Live by (Part 1). In Part 1, I talked about Bob Parsons Rules to Live by, and in this one I’ll be talking about Steve Jobs’ speech at the 2005 Commencement at Stanford.
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Bob Parsons, the sole investor of the Go Daddy Group, had posted an article about the 16 rules he lives by. I didn’t find out about it until today, but the rules sure are good ones.
Now, I do think his rules are good, but I’d also like to add some from Steve Jobs’ speech at Stanford’s 2005 Commencement ceremony.
Lussumo, the creator of the sleek forum software, Vanilla, recently released a way to integrate it with your WordPress setup.
I haven’t really talked about Vanilla much in the past, so I’ll do a little explaining for you here.
Vanilla is a very fast, light, and extensible forum software. It has virtually all the languages you need, making it multi-lingual friendly, an easy way to create your own add-ons, themes, and styles.
So it’s October 25th, and you know what that means? Round 5 submissions to the 9rules network!
Like I said in my previous post, it would be a dream come true if I was accepted into 9rules. Seriously.
My blog was first just for personal purposes, pointless posts, etc. Basically a typical teenage blog. But over time, I grew out of it. And now, hopefully, it’s geared more towards Business, Apple, Google, Amarimono (my company), Internet (design, server stuff, etc.), Japan, and the occasional Personal category.
Why I’d like to be in the 9rules network?
I’ll feel more pressure to improve my writing skills, stay on topic, and write quality posts. Lately I think I’ve been able to keep a consistency in the quality of my posts. They’re not a whole bunch of short posts with links to other articles, but medium length posts with a more detailed explanation of the link to other products/articles.
I’m going to give it a try and submit my blog today (As soon as I figure out HOW to submit your blog 
), but even if I don’t make it in this year, I’m sure there will be a next time. And by then, hopefully I will have created a blog worthy enough to be in the network.
There’s lots of blogging networks out there,
Those are just to name a few. I’d personally like to be part of all three, but I’m only 16 (turning 17 in a few days), I’m not thatgood at writing, and my business isn’t as big as some of the people in the network.
9rules, it would be a dream to be accepted into that network, seriously. Full of people who know what they’re doing, and know how to share it with their readers in a way that makes them want to come back for more.
Mind Petals just got off it’s feet, and I haven’t really read into it that much, but I’m sure it’s a pretty good network too.
Random Shapes has good intentions, and their network has some good writers, and some who are very successful in the business world. I’m also a new member of Random Shapes.
Lets see how things go.
I’ve been a GoDaddy customer ever since I bought my first domain name, enderstudios.com.
Back then I really was just ’starting’ in the business. I really didn’t have that much skill, and I did everything manually. No programs or content management systems. I also didn’t provide hosting or domain name services.
Later on I signed up with iPowerWeb and became a reseller for them. I’ve recommended their product to all of my customers and have most of them singed up with it.
Then during my Freshman year in high school, I wanted to make some changes. I wanted to be more serious about my company. So I changed the name to Amarimono, which came from a Japanese proverb “amarimono ni ha fuku ga aru” which means “there are fortunes in leftovers.”
I blogged about the Google Apps for Your Domain (GAYD) service a while ago, back when it was just Email being offered.
And well, Google has improved this service, yet again. First, I can’t remember when but some time back, they added the Calendar feature to the GAYD. Then they also recently added the ability to use Google Pages for your domain. (100MB free hosting)
If you want to see an example, www.shimadafamily.org is done FULLY (email, calendar, chat, web) with GAYD. I love it, pretty neat huh?
Why am I talking about this all the sudden? Well, they opened some more slots for the beta testers. (I think it’s something like a couple domains are auto accepted into the program for every Google Account). I’ve reached that limit, and my other domains are pending review from Google.
Some features I’d like to see Google implement in their GAYD service is:
Other than those, I’m happy with what they offer now, and actually I’m pretty impressed with it too!
Bob Parson, the founder of GoDaddy, recently signed a new “Go Daddy Girl.”
I think this is great for them, the commercials are funny, and I don’t think they are sexist in any way like the comments on his blog post say they are.
Whether or not GoDaddy had signed those girls, or women, wouldn’t make or break my decision to buy domain names from them. I currently have over 17 domain names there, and will probably be adding many more within the year. I love their service, and definately recommend anyone wanting to buy a domain name to buy one from them.
Since he’s been away recently, Nima has been looking after the blog. I’m only on the 2nd page of comments, but so far I’m shocked at how many people are saying he’s sexist.
In my opinion, Americans have progressed nicely in moving away from sexism, and they move closer to equality every day. But it’s people that say “that’s so sexist” that bring it all back. Just like when people say “that’s so racist” when it’s really not. It just brings the whole issue back, when all of us think that we are all equal.
The Undersigned had a survey up since Oct 1st, which I didn’t notice, and he already posted the results of it. But I guess late is better than never. Here’s my answers to the survey.
Google’s been upgrading a lot of their services lately. One of the most noticable ones is that they combined Writely and Google Spreadsheets into one product “Google Docs & Spreadsheets.”
The new interface looks good, I like the color combo better than Writely’s original one. As for the features, it doesn’t look like those have changed that much.
Google Notebooks and Google Reader are the two that have a more noticable feature upgrade.
You’ve always been able to ‘publish’ your notebook so everyone in the world can view it. But sometimes you want to work on things together. And now you can. In the sharing preferences of your notebook you can invite users to edit your notebook.
They also have a nice way to view all of the published notebooks an author has. For example, here’s my public notebooks.
Google Reader now has the #1 feature I’ve wanted this whole time. To be able to delete subscriptions, and have the feed items associated with them deleted as well.
Other than that, the UI for the reader is much better too. Much, much easier to use. Google even created two widgets for their Personalized Homepage feature.
One lets you view your notebooks, and one lets you view recent articles from the reader.
The music business has always been a big industry. There are lots of sites out there trying to sell music better than iTunes. MySpace was created originally for bands to have a place to upload their music for free.
But all of them are missing something. Something important. Their missing the ’social networking’ part. Music is about people. Music is meant to be shared amongst friends. (more…)
