Just like in any business there are some providers, whether cheap or expensive, that doesn’t provide the quality of service they promise. To make sure you get a good web hosting service be sure to ask the following questions.

• What is the maximum bandwidth?
• What is the server up time?
• Do they monitor sites?
• How regularly do they back up server?
• Are they insured for major problems?
• How much do their packages cost?

If you don’t get a satisfactory answer on even just one of the questions do not hesitate to look elsewhere. Remember that there are plenty of hosting providers that give great service.

Content

Content is the answer to making money online. Think of this list as a graph, follow it down.

Content brings:

Traffic

from:

Search Engines

The more content on your site, the more pages, keywords, etc. get indexed in the search engines. When people search for something you’ve covered in your site, it’s a potential hit to your site.

Social sites.

After you write content, submit it to social sites, this will get readers to your site, and hopefully some of them will stick around and subscribe to your RSS feed and maybe even go to your site daily to read.

Here’s a list of social news and bookmarking sites you can submit your content to:

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As the title might imply, NovaLet is a blogging service that is very simple, without all of the extra bells and whistles of, for example, WordPress or Movable Type. It is not meant to compete with either of these services, however, NovaLet aims to make blogging a simple and fun experience for the user. From the outside, it looks just like a normal blog, tiny orange RSS icon and all, but when logged in, management is like no other blog service you’ve ever used.

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Pownce has had a very successful launch. It’s been labeled a “twitter killer”, and I believe it will do just that. Unfortunately not yet though, some stuff needs to be added and revised before that can happen. Here are a few things I would like to see happen with pownce.

More Content Options

“Status” notes would be nice, a twitter-like way of letting people know what you’re up to, and differentiate from regular message notes. The ability to create and send polls for your friends to take would be pretty cool. Perhaps an I’m listening to: message option. Say you’re listening to a new song in iTunes, and you want to let your friends know about it. Hit the music note icon in the AIR app, it grabs the name of the song from iTunes, and sends a note out.

Mobile updating

I believe it will be implemented with the next update. This is absolutely essential to a service like this.

Turning off default e-mail notifications

It’s annoying users right now just to generate more pageviews. I logged into my gmail account yesterday to find I had some 130 pownce updates from my friends. Completely unneccessary.

Ability to flag or favorite notes

The ability to select shared links to add to a bookmark or archive page would be useful. The same can be done with all the other forms of content on the service as well (archival of events, files, etc.)

Public timeline

Essential if they want to compete with twitter. There needs to be a place where you can go to view all the public messages sent across pownce.

More contact organization options

- Ability to add new friends to sets immediately, instead of adding, then manually sorting into a set.
- Ability to change the order and amount of friends viewable on your profile page.
- Ability to select multiple friends when deleting.
- Give the same ability to people you’re a fan of. Right now you have to go to their profile page to stop being a fan.
- Ability to set multiple users to receive a message on the fly. Instead of having to group them into a set, and then send.

Ability to see who’s online

This would be nice. Just a little indicator to let you know who’s online or not.

A better AIR application