June 22nd, 2009 — 2:49pm
When creating different online services, it can often be nice to have a good short domain name. And domain name hacks like del.icio.us (which though changed their primary name to delicious.com) might be a bit 2007-ish, but can still be used for a lot of services.
For this use, I was missing a good list of ccTLD’s, that are available for direct second-level registration without local presence. Some countries don’t allow direct second-level registration like .uk (United Kingdom) or .tr (Turkey). All of the below-mentioned domain names are available for direct second-level registration and do not require local administrative contacts, trade licenses or similar restrictions. Most of them can be purchased online, but some require paper forms sent back and forth and might take some time to register.
Continue reading »
Comment » | General, Projects, Trends
June 8th, 2009 — 2:25pm
As I have posted recently, my (former) sharing service of choice was ShareThis. No really good reason for that choice actually, just came by their service first, and it worked like a charm. But now it doesn’t anymore (update: well it does again, but there were problems), so I looked around for alternatives.
The largest such (might even be larger than ShareThis) is AddThis. Their API is incredibly simple, as you can actually share anything by giving a simply link to their site with url and title of what to share.
Continue reading »
4 comments » | API, Flash Platform, JavaScript, Mashup
June 6th, 2009 — 11:53am
I was very annoyed, that the WordPress automatic update kept failing on my setup. I kept receiving either the error “Unable to locate WordPress Root directory.” (when trying to upgrade the entire Wordpress installation) or “Unable to locate WordPress Content directory (wp-content).” (when trying to upgrade individual plugins). The fix however was quite strange and probably only apply to very few installations.
Continue reading »
6 comments » | General