Unfortunately, a snafu by my hosting company, http://www.freeservers.com/, downgraded my hosting account. I visited my web site last Friday evening and saw a lot of advertising on my site. I called my hosting company to have that removed but then I discovered that the MySQL database was missing. WordPress keeps all the blog posts in a MySQL database so without that your blog is gone. I gave them a week to restore my data and when that did not happen I moved my web site to CrystalTech.
I managed to restore all my old blog posts by searching for the text in the pages cached by the search engines. I just copied and pasted the text as new posts and then backdated them. I have lost a few comments and links may go to the wrong posts because the id numbers are screwed up.
My new hosting company supports ASP.NET 3.5 so I will be able to run web applications on my site. I plan to add some examples of my work to my portfolio. I can also create web services and widgets now that I have a site that can run them.
In three weeks I will be flying to Florida to embark on the Carnival cruise ship for the YouCruise. I’m excited by this because I will get to meet my favorite vloggers and travel outside of the country for the first time. I’ve already booked my flight on Travelocity and bought some new carry-on luggage because electronics cannot be packed with your other luggage.
Yahoo! has launched their own web site for social broadcasting, http://live.yahoo.com/. I already have an account there because I use Yahoo! for a lot of things and you always use the same account for all of their services. Of course, now that Microsoft plans to buy Yahoo! this will put a social broadcasting site in Microsoft’s hands and they will promptly kill it because they just don’t get it. I try to participate in their developer community but there is no real sense of community among those professionals.
I’m very interested in an open source project which is meant to provide you with a “YouTube-In-A-Box”. Video.Show is a video sharing site based on technology that I am familiar with; C#, Visual Studio, ASP.NET, SilverLight, and JavaScript. I plan to study this project to see if it is something that I can understand and implement. It would be pretty cool to have my own video sharing site. It is not as sophisticated as YouTube or LiveVideo. I don’t think it can be used for social networking because it lacks any means for users to communicate with each other.
LiveVideo recently launched a new and improved version of their site. They added text blogs, video chat rooms, and many other social networking features.
