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Open up my GMail, I found one advertisement from GoDaddy(my current host ^_^!) promoting .MOBI domain.

Taken from the email:

With a .MOBI domain, you can:

• Catch the latest wave in wireless technology. A .MOBI allows your family members and friends to surf your site directly from their cell phones, smartphones, Windows® Mobile Devices and RIM® devices—on the train, at the coffee shop, anywhere!
• Tell the world your site is mobile-friendly! .MOBI is recognized worldwide as the Top-Level Domain of mobile-optimized sites.
• Publish mobilecasts. You can even share mobilecasts from your .MOBI site.

Currently GoDaddy offers $20 for two .MOBI domains

A quick google search for .MOBI returned about 184,000 links. So it’s relatively small compared to 1,340 millions of .COM domains, or 82.3 millions of .NET domains.

I think: .MOBI is not really for general population. If you are a content-provider which target mobile device users, this might be your choice to distribute your contents. Any .MOBI website must be optimized for mobile device users. So it is guaranteed that visitors to .MOBI website will receive content optiomized for the small screen.

Check out Wikipedia entry on .MOBI

So has anyone opened up their .MOBI shop?

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.24.2007 :: Internet :: No Comments »

I just found this online image storage which DOESN’T require you to create account to upload images/photos.

It also have a catchy tag, “Image hosting for the ummah”. Targeting the muslim population perhaps?

PROS:

• No account required. Just upload and take note the image URL
• Hot-linking is allowed. The image can be used anywhere, your website, blog, or auctions.
• Unlimited bandwidth. Sounds great!!!
• Unlimited number of images. Sounds promising!!!

CONS:

• No explanation regarding the intellectual right of the image uploaded. Will the image automatically belong to imgspot.com??
• Your image can’t be too popular. It will be deleted if imgspot.com consider the image is ‘extremely high usage’. No clear definition of ‘extremely high usage’ found in the TOS.
• You can’t upload pornographic material. Well someone out there definitely will be sad for unable doing so ^_^!
• If imgspot.com consider a material is infringing the TOS, the image will be removed. In extreme case, the user will be banned. But how to ban user if no account is required to upload image? Are they going to ban the IP? So there is a possibility that your image is banned because of your naughty neighbour

MY CONCLUSION:

• This website has been around since 2004. They put Adsense adverts in the upload page. Your clicks might help their survival =P
• Use this service for fun. Be prepared to loss your images/photos.
• Practical. No account is needed
• I will use it. If my image is removed, Photobucket and Flickr are still around as my safety net =)

So what do you think?

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.24.2007 :: Internet :: No Comments »

I was uploading my images to Photobucket when I saw a headline linked to Photobucket’s blog. Apparently Myspace has restricted their users from using videos which are hosted at Photobucket. Thus, all videos that previously hosted in Photobucket will not shown in Myspace website anymore.

I have tried to search for Myspace official press release regarding this matter, but I couldn’t find any page on Myspace website that state the restriction of using videos hosted at Photobucket.

Personally I think this is strange, considering Photobucket is the most dominant image hosting provider in Myspace. Although the images is not restricted, but implementing restriction without any clear explanation will render you as being arrogant. Will disabling these videos will trigger mass user migrations to other social networking sites? Is Myspace testing its users’ loyalti?

Whatever Myspace’s intention, it’s a bad move. The recent growth of many websites that touted themselves as Web 2.0 (basically website with social networking functionality) might provide alternatives for Myspace users. There is a reason why it is called social networking/online community. I think the community won’t like the idea of having host which suddenly implement restrictions without giving any clear-cut explanations. When your host does not play nice, it’s time to pack your bags and move to somewhere else better. Even though if MySpace eventually gives in and permit videos from PhotoBucket, are you sure they won’t do it again? Especially when this time they can get away without being punished?

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.11.2007 :: News, Internet :: 2 Comments »

Have you ever creating offline archive of a website that you like? Which “offline downloader” did you use? Hopefully this post will give you rough idea on how to traverse the website ( and do whatever you want to do with the content ). My idea of traversing a website represented in the following steps:

1. Define the startup page
2. Collect all hyper-links that have not been visited and put it into queue
3. Do something with the content
4. Dequeue a hyper-link and return to step 2
5. Repeat until no more links in the queue.

I have build my own prototype that suit my needs. I might need further tweaks and improvements before releasing it to the public. My main goal would be adding functionality to define characteristics of the page that will be traversed in step 2, and functionality of what you can do with the content of the page. Stay tuned for further updates.

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.03.2007 :: Internet, Programming, .NET :: No Comments »

To celebrate April’s Fools Day, I decided to create yet another Quote of the Day :-). The additional feature is a link to the Wikipedia article of the person quoted will be included. You also make it reload different quote every specified time. And it no longer forces you to link back to my Website. But I will be really grateful if you could link back to my blog

Features

Link to biography/article of the author at Wikipedia.

Auto refresh. You can change how many minutes passed before the quotes is repaced with a new one.

Do you have feature-request?

Known Bugs

The CSS is broken when displayed on IE. has something to do with the DOM.

Have you found another bug?

<p style="color:#FF34FF; background-color:#EEEEEE">
  <script langugage="javascript" type="text/javascript"></p>

/*
  Quote of The Day user Guide:
     qotd_style, a string value for CSS of the QOTD.
               Default: no CSS
               example: qotd_style ="color:#FF34FF";

    reloadTime, an integer value to regulate how many minutes before the QOTD is refreshed.
               Default: not refreshed.
               example: reloadTime = 5; //QOTD will be refreshed every 5 minutes.

    isUsingWikipedia, a boolean value to indicate whether a link to Wikipedia.org's related article will be included.
               Default: true.
               example: isUsingWikipedia = false; //no link to wikipedia.org

    isItalic, a boolean value to indicate whether the quotation is diplayed in italics.
               Default: false
 */
  var reloadTime = 1;
  var isItalic = true;
  var qotd_style = "color:#FF34FF; background-color:#EEEEEE";

</script>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://sodeve.net/qotd2/qotd.js" ></script><h5><a href="http://sodeve.net/quotes/">Sodeve's QOTD</a></h5> 
</p>

If you have any problem installing the script in your website, feel free to drop a comment.

Hardono Arifanto :: Apr.01.2007 :: Internet, Programming :: 1 Comment »