We Heart Blue Host

I love Blue Host. They are a website hosting company located in Orem Utah. After working with GoDaddy, Network Solutions, DotEasy, A+Net, Pair Networks and many others, I really have to say that Blue Host offers just the right balance of ease of use and extended functionality. They are also their own Registrar so they are able to offer complete domain name services alongside hosting. While other companies gouge their customers at $35 a year or more for a simple domain name, Blue Host provides a free primary domain name with every hosting account. Plus you can have up to five sites within one account. Additionally they provide 24/7 phone tech support with friendly, helpful staff who are easy to understand. On top of great service they are also a great value with rates as low as $6.95 per month.

My policy is to only recommend and promote businesses I personally use. After 6 years with Blue Host and over 100 sites hosting I still think they’re terrific. If you are looking for a friendly, easy to use, inexpensive hosting company. Check out Blue Host.

Check out Wave – the future of communication

Google unveiled Wave at it’s I/O conference in late May. Wave is the mind-blowing multimedia, nonlinear evolution of email. Rather than a static message model that emulates real world mail, Wave works asynchronously and enables group editability. Instead of confusing lengthy email threads, conversations will be much more like talking face to face in that participants exchange information instantly and in a nonlinear format called Wavelengths. It is being developed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen. Who are they? Just the brothers who brought us Google maps! Check out the developer’s demo. It’s lenghty but worth it -  Wave!

Vote Yes on Prop 2!

I urge you to join Pixel Lava, The Humane Society of the US, the CA. Veterinary Medical Assn, the Center for Food Safety, the Union of Concerned Scientists, the Sierra Club, the Consumer Federation of America, CA. Democratic Party, and the CA. Council of Churches in supporting Prop 2. It’s time to mitigate factory farm animal cruelty. Plus their video is a great example of the power of multimedia to reach voters, donors and potential clients!

Vote Yes on Prop 2

Illegaly detained? Maybe Twitter can help.

Freed Student uses Twitter to demand translator’s release.
(CNN)– James Karl Buck, An American student who used a microblog site to free himself from an Egyptian jail,  is harnessing the Web’s power again — this time to demand the release of his translator.

Buck hasn’t always had unwavering faith in social networking. He used to shy away from Web sites like MySpace, Twitter or Facebook, but his detention overseas and networking online for Maree (the translator) have changed his mind for good.

“What this shows us is that we the people can harness an incredible power against oppressors by simply communicating with each other,” Buck said. “It shows the power in unity through technology.”

See a charmingly dorky guy explain how Twitter works.

Artist Themes on iGoogle

Google’s new artist themes rock! What if the Beastie Boys designed iGoogle’s home page? Or Dale Chihuly, or any number of artists around the world … well, now you know …it’s awesome! If you don’t already have an iGoogle account, just go to google.com and sign up. It’s free, it’s takes about a minute, and it’s like walking into a room of easy to use applications, interesting people and beautiful art. What could be better?