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In a way, creating and publishing your website is the easy part. The hard part is getting people to visit without breaking the bank on advertising. In order to gain an audience you need to let people know you exist. There are a lot of great ways to promote your online presence. Here are just a few that have proven useful to me.

• Use Technorati to promote your product (write a blog entry and promote that).
• Write an introduction to your new application and submit it to share sites like Digg, Reddit and Now Public.
• Make easy to be bookmarked on del.icio.us so you get into the popular page.
• Submit your web application to Techcrunch.
• Submit your web to StumbleUpon and get your friends to Stumble your site.
• Submit your web application to search engines like DMoz.
• Create a MySpace account and advertise your site.
• Submit your site to free, search engine friendly directories (UK Small Business Directory, BT Tradespace, Biz-Dir, Redcog.net).

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From time to time its absolutely necessary to restart Windows Server 2003. This command will allow you to schedule an automatic restart at the time of your choice:

at 00:00 SHUTDOWN.EXE -r -f -t 01

Just change the 00:00 to the time of your choice. Now you dont have to stay up until after-hours to do the restart!

Everyone is always talking about the best way(s) to get yourself listed on Google’s search index.  But, maybe there’s a reason you might want something not to be listed.  Take a look at Google’s remove tool if there’s something your trying to get off of their site.  It usually takes a couple of days, but its worth it if you have a sensitive document or link you dont want everyone to be able to find.

Looks like Playboy is “giving back” to the world. They are mirroring several projects on their network. “Playboy’s resident tech nerds would like to thank the authors, contributors, bug testers, and everyone else involved in the Open Source software we use on a daily basis. THANK YOU!” http://mirrors.playboy.com Does anyone know of any other similar mirrors?

Feedster is a search engine for what is called an “RSS Feed”. An RSS Feed is an XML tagged file which allows a website, news site or blog (actually any site) to provide to the world a list of its current contents. RSS feeds can contain all kinds of information from news to blog / weblog posts to stock quotes and more. Read More »

Want a look at a Time Magazine cover from 1923? How about album covers for Blue Note records, or Chateau Mouton Rothschild Wine Labels? A searchable image database lets you view all of these, and more. Read More »

The following is a list of newsgroup hierarchies, to help readers of the news locate a hierarchy of interest.

Summarizes the collected wisdom, such as it is, of n.a.n-a readers WRT various nasty things people do on the net, how to react, and whether it’s worth posting to n.a.n-a about it.