Gary Adamik

So Tower of Defense is so old news by now! But heh better late than never. Anywhoo, Grandpa has been blasting away at Tower of Defense 1.5 @ Kongregate.com, This game starts out very annoying I can see the appeal to beat it. Right now I been playing TOD challenge mode on spawns… These fricking things are annoying if you want to blast this game, I recommend practice on a 3k fixed challenge and learn a bit about the towers.. Once you get and idea on what different towers do you can adjust your style to fit your play, but for the most part if you want to crush this game it will take a bit of time to master it. I still have a long way to go but it is definetley worth its entertainment value of FREE! For a free flash game this is a good value considering the price of clicking on a few ads.  I have ranked on hard mode and a few other modes but it still is tough to get going some games. Over all Tower of Defense 1.5 is a good zerg game to kill some time with if you want between your World of Warcraft spawns or whateva.

G~

So all the FOH’ers (Fresh out of High School) at Devry are all going nuts about this Unreal Tournament 3 stuff… And well since they call me Grandpa over there I figured FOH is an appropriate name for them, anyways so they are hosting a LAN game in the GSP lab and going nuts fragging each other. So I am like ok this game looks pretty cool, I can definitely get into slamming a few beers down and fragging some punks. w00t!

Ok ok… To make a long story short they are like UT3 is da bomb UT3 is da shizzle bla bla… I am like ok it is a pretty cool game but this is when Grandpa’s noggin kicks in, I am like WTF why don’t I check for that domain name? UT3.Whateva, Sure enough about every UT3 domain is taken but 1, Low and behold UT3.Mobi is not registared! Score I think anyways, I am in the works with a few others on putting a forums and feed the site with an RSS feed, and from the feed I am going to allow people to connect though an SMS gateway with other’s in their area to hook up for LAN parties or whatever. It will be no small task but we will see what we can innovate to make this site a reality. I will keep you informed, If any of you have knowledge or have used an open source SMS gateway and would like to donate some time to this project feel free to post a comment here and I will e-mail you back.

Grandpa

The Internet, since its conception a lot has changed and a lot is still changing, but one thing remains constant! The constant in this big internet equation is that the number of meaningful domain names: it is limited to the number of equations in 0-9 and A-Z with some dashes you can thrown in there. You do the math all I know that the number of 3 letter .com domains is basically sold out and the number of 4 letter .com domains is running in short supply as well. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this is the next public land grab and it is dirt cheap.

For less than a Big Mac meal at the local Micky D’s you can own you own piece of virtual real-estate. I found this site it is DNJournal.com this is a great site for internet Domain Name newbs to jump on board and speculate with the best of them and hope to real in a big fish and retire happy and order all the Big Mac meals one could eat. Personally I use 1and1 Hosting it is cheap, that’s about all it is. All you need to do is sign up and you can be on your way to the Land Grab the internet Domain industry is in currently.

The bonus of some of these domains is Traffic, if you find a domain name with traffic you can pay for you hosting fees in a few short months and have money left over to fuel more domains onto your portfolio. Once you acquire a domain name with traffic be sure and park your domain somewhere like Sedo.com or NDparking.com. Over all the domain name industry has been growing exponentially and will only continue to grow as ICANN only allows so many new TLDs codes a year or every few years.

Right now, the .MOBI domain is hot and with the new wireless spectrum coming to auction soon, that major players such as Google and Verizon will be bidding on, a wireless Internet from your favorite phone or PDA will become standard. The first .MOBI I picked up is dBet.MOBI, Initially I am thinking it is good for a casino link site or betting site, Dolla Bet. Look for these .MOBI’s to become really hot in the near future. We are at a rare time in history to take advantage of this Virtual land grab that was last seen by most of our great great grandparents during the Wild Wild West days, and the California Gold rush! Gobble up the land now! If you don’t eat out for one week a year, you can essentially sit on 5 domains for less than what it would cost you for lunch!

Good Luck,

G~

What is SEO, Search engine optimization is the ability to get your site listed higher than other sites on the major search engines such as google, yahoo and MSN live. You might ask your self what the hell I am going to do with a higher listing on the major search engines. Well, with higher ranks in your key terms on the 3 major search engines you can generate more traffic to your site with out the use of advertising dollars. Be prepared to maintain your links and your content if you wish to get listed and stay listed among the major search sites.

Also, be wary of any company’s that promise you a listing in the top rank of any search engine in a matter of days. Alot of these sites will use tactics that may get you banned from the search engines or link to the dark side of the internet which in the end will penalize you site more than help it. Many(your competition) sites have been around for years now and have thousands of links inc to their sites and the have thousands of pages of content. SEO is no small task but if you read more on the guide I wrote here: Seo for dummies, you can get a better perspective on the world of SEO. SEO can be maintained on a smaller scale by yourself if you have some knowledge of HTML code. Now if you are starting a site from scratch and would like to get a leg up on your competition it may be better to use Google Adwords and get an injection of users into your site but your long term goal should be to: Get yourself ranked in the Niche category you want and/or keywords you want. Your advertising dollars are far better spent on buying links in directories like yahoo.com 299$/yr or even getting your site listed on DMOZ.org for free. But there is a plethora of other sites that allow you to post on their directories for 5 or 10$ IMHO this is a steal when it comes to advertising compared to a PPC system. Anyways maintain your links and get reciprocal links when you can, and remember… Content is King!

Good luck taking back the Internet from Al Gore.

G~