Free Domain Name

Yes, you read right. Microsoft is actually giving something away for FREE. For the past few weeks, and until I don’t know when, when you sign up for Microsoft’s Office Live (kinda like Google Docs) Small Business, you can register a domain for a year for free. Note: Original post here [Lifehacker].

The down side? Microsoft’s hosting is not exactly… well, great.

If you log into your account, you’re given the option to manage your website, and Office Live will have already built you a generic one, with your “Company name” (the one you signed up under) on the title and everything. But you have very little customization options. You can, however, just upload your own site which you have created elsewhere by “Activating Advanced Design Features” under “Site Actions”. It took me a while to figure that one out.

So now you have a domain name. Why not move it over to a great Hosting company? Enter Blinkster.com. I just signed up today, but I love the simplicity of it all. It’s very intuitive compared to Office Live, and, yes, they pay for referrals. So I’m shamelessly promoting them here:

There it is. A free solution and a not-so-free solution for website hosting. And what about  actually creating a website? Well, that’s a topic for another day.

EEEEeeeewww! Twitter!

I’ve never been much for social networking, and blogging is pushing it a little bit for me with it comes to sharing with the world. But Twitter, I think, goes too far. Who cares about the boring-ass details of your day-to-day life? I tried to follow a couple of my co-workers’ Twits, but I lost interest really fast. It’s not that I don’t care about what they have to say, but 140 characters is just not enough to make any kind of meaningful contribution. Unless maybe it’s a link.

But let’s be honest here, 98% or Twitter users have nothing good to say. Here’s a really good article about Twitter which I fully agree with.

Have a great weekend!