We’ve been in the website design business for 13 years now and boy, have things changed a lot since the early days! Back in the mid-1990′s, a new website could be built using a text editor and simple HTML and enjoy placement within Yahoo (the big search engine back in the pre-Google days) within just a few days. Because the web was relatively new, it wasn’t very difficult to come up on page one in Yahoo for most anything.
Believe it or not, I once had a client who quickly got first page results on Yahoo but was afraid of his own success and wanted out.
In most cases, everyone naturally assumes that they own the domain because someone else such as a web design agency, friend or employee registered it on their behalf. That’s where trouble begins. Technically, the registrar is the owner of the domain. Usually, that’s the person who registered the domain. If the registrar is not you, with contact address, billing info matching up to your credentials you do not own the domain name. Sometimes, people are well intentioned but you risk losing your domain name through forgotten renewals or even a friendship turning sour.
The Flip Mino is a tiny little camcorder that is about the same size as a cell phone. I picked one up for creating YouTube videos and I have to say it works quite well. The video quality is better than I expected and the Flip Mino can hold an hour of video and audio. You can easily shoot a video and save it to your computer and/or upload to YouTube and other web video services or even send via e-mail. The Flip Mino is so small, you can bring it anywhere. I brought it along to the Elton John concert recently and nobody gave me a hard time about using it. If I would have had a full size camcorder, I probably would have been told not to use it. Because the Mino is so small, it blended in easily with everyone using cell phones to to snap quick videos. The price is right at around $150.