Triple.com is a newer domain registrar. They have been offering several promotions that I want to tell you about.

Triple Thoughts

First thing is they have a great domain name! The design is pretty simple, but thats good. No ads plastered all over my screen. They have some pretty good offers that I have already taken advantage of.

Two Free Domains for Registering

“This week only” triple.com is offering a 20$ sign-up bonus! That can either help you with some hosting, or you can go ahead and purchase two domain names like I have. I registered for my 20$, which was very fast and easy. Registering a domain was even easier. Now just to develop it and add some content! Don’t miss out on being able to register domain name for free.

Welcome dear customer!

Triple.com – is new domain registration service, hosting and SSL certificate provider.
Our goal is to provide you the best service by the world’s optimal prices.
For now we are in setup process with some major features, but domain registration is working absolutely fine. As a gratitude for your attention and support we are glad to grand you with 20$ free bonus. Please go to the Add Funds section and add $20 to your account free of charge!

Cheap Webhosting

Triple offers some pretty cheap webhosting at only 4.99$ per month. Very important with hosting they offer great support. They guarantee 24/7 support as well as 99.9% uptime. Other features include:

• 30-Day Money Back Guarantee
• Data Protection
• Best-of-breed routers, firewalls & servers
• Weekly Server Backups
• UPS Battery Backup
• Diesel Generator Power Backup
• 24/7 Network and uptime Monitoring
• 24/7 onsite physical security

Set Yourself Apart

Besides the great 20$ offer there isn’t much difference than other domain registrars and hosting companies. I would try to add another element or offer something unique. It would be interesting to see a domain registrar promote some of the domains that are purchased through them.

This weeks topic was promoting your blog offline. I have just taken steps into promoting BAYB offline with our new t-shirts. No I’m not a professional model, but thanks for asking. I hope this is just the start of our offline campaign with other things in the works. Stay tuned!

I got comment friday up a little late yesterday. My week goes so fast sometimes I forget what day it is. Note to self, stop drinking on fridays!

I want to wish Jason a happy birthday (again) and award him as our blog of the week. He runs a pretty decent blog over at blisslogs, and I don’t think he gets enough readership over there. If this will convince you, he also has a top comment list which you can easily get a free link for commenting on a few posts. Stop by and check out what he’s got.

This is our second weekend post. Do you post on the weekends?

A question I’ve seen more of recently, and one I’m coming around to answering as “No, not really”.

Now obviously I’m talking more about blogs that are aiming for traffic, ad-clicks, Stumbles & Diggs etc. because if you’re blogging simply for fun and maybe a smaller group of readers I don’t believe it matters.  Othewise though, are you neglecting your family to publish posts at the weekend, that would serve you better by putting them up on a weekday?

It’s something I’ve noticed with my own blogs as the months go by, that traffic and comments left decrease markedly over the weekend, before picking up again during the week, when everyone goes back to work – or at least to use their employers internet connection for browsing! I’ve also noticed that if I don’t post at weekends, it has no real effect on overall traffic for the week, but if I slacken off during the week, then traffic, return visitors and active FeedBurner subscribers drop noticeably, and can take time to recover.

From manically posting every time I got the chance as a newbie blogger, I’m now more relaxed about the weekends, and should I log on during Saturday or Sunday to write a longer post, I’m more likely to timestamp it to appear during the week, than hit publish straightaway. If I do publish during the weekend, then it tends to be a round-up post, or something equally simple. I’ve come to the conclusion that long, in-depth articles published over the weekend, tend to get ignored for the ‘fresh stuff’ that you then post on a Monday.

So, how about you? Do you post on a weekend, or save it for the week? Do you think it matters, or is it not an issue? I posted this on a weekend to see what happens….

(PS Did you notice that the post title and the URL are different? If you want to know why, I’ll tell you how & why on my blog.…. 😉 )

It’s another Comment Friday here at Blog about your Blog. Apologies for the late start.

The “rules” are simple. Just leave us a comment about anything you want. I will select one commenter that really stands out to give a free link to, as well as a spot on our blogroll for the week.

Do you have what it takes to be the blog of the week?

Yesterday I posted about the release of Blog about your Blog T-shirts. Have you promoted your blog offline? If so in what way?

Don’t forget to “plug” your favorite articles. You don’t have to register to vote.

I have been looking to make Blog about your Blog t-shirts for sometime now. I designed a t-shirt from our header. You can own your own at the BAYB store.

The price is currently $16.00 for a t-shirt, which is as low as I can make it. I am looking for other ways to produce t-shirts, but this is good for now. If we can sell 10 t-shirts, I will be giving one away FREE!

For a limited time, printfection will send you your custom t-shirt for only 2$. My shirt ended up costing about 10$ with shipping and as you can see, I am very pleased with it.

I think I need 6 more shirts, so I can wear one everyday.

Written by Mark MeAndMyDrum | Fave MAMD | Subscribe to MAMD

Whatever your reason for leaving comments on other blogs is, no doubt you have found it a bit of a challenge to keep track of them all. “Did someone respond to my comment?” “Where did I comment?” “How’s the conversation coming along?”

Sure you can subscribe to all the places that offer that feature, but wouldn’t it be better to have them all in one place?

Worry no more. I’d like to compare two tools designed to help you keep track of your comments, saving you time and keeping your sanity. Walk this way, won’t you?

co.mments
As you surf the Web and find something to comment on, you click the bookmarklet from your browser’s toolbar to start recording the conversation. You can either return to your account to view how conversations have developed or you can receive emails as the conversation grows. Clicking this bookmarklet will provide you with a brief confirmation in the form of small window that will quickly fade away.

Not feeling sociable? That’s all right. Just click the bookmarklet anyway and watch the conversation without participating.

What I like about this tool is it doesn’t get in my way. And as can be seen above, the interface used to view the comments I track is very clean. I’ve configured it also to email me when a new comment has been made. It’s rival below doesn’t do that at this time, but they’re working on it.

Rating ****

coComment
I really want to love this tool — I really do. But I do find it a bit irritating at times. Okay, I do find it that way a lot of the time. It’s integration is clever and automatic, but it’s also slow to the point of not allowing you to make a comment at all.

It adds a little toolbar beneath comment boxes on blogs you visit (and even some sites and forums). Choosing to track a comment is easy: just check the box. When you do, the blog you’re on is documented in your account where you can return to see how the conversation has developed.

The trouble I’ve been having with it is that it just takes forever to connect, if at all, to the coComment server. Unchecking the option to track the comment doesn’t seem to help either, so I’m left with just disabling it. 👿

One strong feature is that it does offer a nifty sidebar in your browser allowing you to click on blogs you’ve visited and view the conversations in the right side of the window.

It also offers a widget to display on your blog to show your readers what you’re commenting on. It may sound cool, but, IMHO, if you have time to live vicariously by watching someone comment elsewhere, then methinks you have too much time on your hands. 😉

Another characteristic of this service is that it is definitely a community just like MyBlogLog in that you can keep track or your friend’s comments, and start or join groups. Nothing wrong with that.

If it weren’t for the disappointing “get-in-the-way” behavior it gives me, I’d give it a 5-star rating. Alas, I can only muster a 3-star.

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So if you’re looking for an easy way to keep track of your comments or want to monitor other people’s conversations, then I recommend using co.mments. But if you’re more into tracking your comments, joining groups, adding friends, and what not, then perhaps the coComment service is more to your liking.

Written by Mark Family WebWatch | Fave FWW | Subscribe to FWW

It’s that time of year when parents are celebrating and the kids are depressed. Yes: it’s back-to-school season. To help them get off to a great start, I’ve collected some online services meant to help them get and stay organized with their studies.

Note takers
What’s the key to good grades? I’m sure we’d all agree note taking is a critical skill for sure. You may recognize some of these from an earlier post here, but they’re so appropriate to this topic I just couldn’t pass them up.

Notefish – Just make annotations on a Web page and they’ll be there when you return. You can even share with others. It requires an add-on for Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Google Notebook – One I use quite often, this add-on is quick to get to and is flexible to allow me to organize the way I like it. If you’re maxed out on add-ons, then you can still use it, but you’d be losing a bit of the power it provides.

Studicious – more than your average note-taker tool, but this one does the trick, for sure. You can share notes, automatically link note keywords to Wikipedia and Google, you can even store documents and to-dos.

mynoteit – Something that was just suggested to me is this nifty tool. It, too, has a nice batch of features: calendar, notes (duh!), bookmarks, and more.

Office Applications
College is expensive. Can I get an “amen”? Adding software can make the price tag go even higher, so why not try these freebies? The plus side to all of these is that they’re compatible with Microsoft. Can I get another “amen”? 🙂

Ajax13 – create presentations, spreadsheets and drawings. Yep, even word processing is part of the pack. They all look and feel similar to Microsoft applications, thus reducing the learning curve.

ThinkFree – the grandaddy of online apps, this one continues to improve with age. And in case your student has some extra time on his hands (and why not if he’s going to be all the more efficient using these tools?) he can collaborate with other students on documents easily, and store their work on a generous 1GB account.

Zoho – when you visit this site you’ll think Christmas has arrived what with all its offerings: a project management tool, a notebook, a wiki, chat, planner, web conferencing, and a few others. Most are free, but some have the option to upgrade to gain more features.

Google Docs and Spreadsheets – As the name implies, Google has a rather nice free alternative to paying big bucks for Microsoft counterparts. It also has a cool calendar, which is separate tool all its own.

OpenOffice – one of the first ones to go up against Microsoft, you’ll find all the heavy hitters to Word, Powerpoint, Access, and Excel. The difference here is that you can download OpenOffice right to your desktop, which will come in handy for laptop users who can’t find an Internet connection (are there really places without that?). I’ve seen this set of tools used in businesses before so you know they have to be good enough.

Organizers
I think it’s safe to say that behind every good student is a good organizer. Each has their own way of doing things, so one of them is sure to fit your student’s personality and study method.

HipCal
This little hippo has got it all: calendar (group sharing too!), to-do list, address book, and alerts that can be sent to your email inbox or cell phone.

Backpack – just like the name implies, this backpack packs the essentials: notes, lists, writeboard, and reminders, all of which are free. Pay a little something to get the calendar added, if you want. Very easy to use. Add list items in a flash and reorder by drag-and-drop.

30Boxes – no logo on this one, but it only goes to show you that they’re really more about functionality than glitz. You login to a full-size calendar that fills your screen. But what I also like about this service is its to-do feature. You can quickly add to your lists and add tags to them while you’re typing. This means that you can save yourself a few clicks AND find your stuff easily in the future.

Kiko – Keeping track of class schedules and homework is easy to do with this little niche on the Web. Powerful features make it easy to add events, notes to those events, reminders, labels, contacts to attend, and lots more. Did I say contacts? Yes, as a matter of fact I did, which means you can store contacts for easy storage. Rolling over an event gives you a quick pop-up showing you the important details of that even. Wrong date? No problem, just drag the event to the right day. Yes, there’s group sharing, too, for those study groups.

Organized Home Printable planners – not much for keeping your schedule online? No worries because printing out your schedule still has a purpose. This site offers you a variety of pre-made planners for easy download and printing.

Bonuses
FutureMe – No matter how organized your student is or will become, there’s certainly going to be a time when they forget something. This service can help them plan ahead and have an email sent to them as a reminder for whatever they need to be reminded about. Just enter your name, email and message. Then enter the time you want to receive the email, and boom! – you’re reminded when the time strikes.

Spambox – who doesn’t hate spam — the email variety? Well, students don’t need to sift through all the junk in their email inbox, so to help them keep their junk to a minimum, this service helps protect their true email address by providing them (for free) a temporary address that sends messages to the email of their choice.

Diigo – a bookmarking service with punch! Not only can you save your bookmarks, you can also add notations to any Web page you visit. When you return, they’ll be there waiting for you. But there’s more. You can share your bookmarks with others, tag them for easy retrieval, and even save copied content from the Web pages that you’ve viewed all within your account.