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I went back to my roots this week and created a new hiphop site. My first few sites in the later 1990’s were hiphop related and I did not think that I was going to create any again. Well this week while brain storming ideas of new sites to created I had a youtube type site enter my thoughts.

I am very much against commercial music in particular commercial hiphop. I feel that music on the radio these days are only made to make money and are without substance or creativity. Thus I started beatboxer.org . The goal of beatboxer is to create an archive of old school hiphop videos. The hiphop that was truly hiphop in the 90’s that went down in history as classics. Beatboxer will be a place where you can take a trip back in time and fall in love with your favorite songs again.

Beatboxer.org of course is free to use and contains no limits. So why not check out the side today and start to upload!

These past few months I really started to enjoy Digg, Great article and great friends. Digg has also been a great way to promote my websites and business as well. Digg recently made a change last week which basically gave the middle finger to top users and veterans of the website.

Last week Digg changed their Algo so the more mutual friends you have, the more Digg’s it will take to get your story popular. OK at first I was like cool thats not a huge deal until it takes people 23 1/2 hours and 200+ Digg’s to get a story popular now. Before Digg made the change last week it would take maybe 10 hours and 90 Digg’s at the most to get popular. The worst part about this is people who do not regularly participate on Digg and have zero friends can get by with less then 60 Digg’s still.

This is not right what Digg has done to the community who has supplied them with quality stories and made their site worth $300 Million!. So as the title says you got to ask yourself, why support someone who does not give two craps about you.
A few months back I used to let my friend use Digg from my office, he ended up getting banned and my IP has been blocked for over a month already. I sent countless e-mails to Digg support and never received an Answer back thus referring to this post. This is not how you run a business!. With my business I make sure that every e-mail is answered and every phone call is called back. That is what you call respect for your customers and respect for your business.

So what have I done about this? Simple I started my own Digg type site. The site is a sub-domain on my bookmarking site www.upchuckr.com . The direct address to the new site is upchuckit.upchuckr.com . I am keeping Upchuckit as a Niche site rather just being general which will keep it apart from Digg. The Niche that I chose is Web-mastering. I will accept stories that have to do with SEO, Site administration, Making money and so on. Upchuckit works the same way as Digg where users vote on a story to get to the front . I launched the bookmarking site last month and the sub-domain this week so I am hoping that they will both take off.

Feel free to leave me and questions or comments about the sites.

Its been a few days since I last posted here. I got a lovely cold and it seems that everyone who I come in contact with has a cold as well. This past week I added an addition onto our bookmarking Site http://www.upchuckr.com. Which by the way is 1 month old and the Alexa is already down to 515k :).

This week I added http://upchuckit.upchuckr.com to the domain. Upchuckit is similar to Digg and works just about the same way, voting on stories, videos, ETC. Currently it is an open format accepting all kinds of Niches but I am trying to think what exactly I want to do with it. I don’t know whether to leave it as it is or just have users vote on Videos, blogs or anything else. It has been live for only 3 days and this is the first time that I am advertising it, as I am trying to get the bugs out. There is one final bug on submission but it can be ignored, I just do not know how to remove the mysql error. If you are good at programing and think you can help me, please do!.

Basically now upchuckr.com is two social bookmarking sites in one. Social networking sites in general are getting very popular and are vital for SEO and promoting your websites, Especially since upchuckr.com is Dofollow.

So check it out and let me know what you think!

Hello All,

As you know already I am always looking to do something different with Our bidding directory. I now came up with a new idea which I am sure you are going to love. For each bid made over $20 I am going to give you a year of free web hosting.

Now of course the higher you bid the more bandwidth and space you will get, but its still a win win deal!.

Here is what I have to offer

a $20-$30 bid will get you

1GB disk space
5GB Bandwidth per month

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases
A $31-$40 Bid will get you

2 GB disk space
10 GB Bandwidth

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases

A $41-$50 Bid Will get you

3GB disk space
15 GB Bandwidth

Unlimited FTP, Emails, subdomains, Databases

Basically every $10 it will raise 1 GB disk-space and 5 GB of bandwidth.

Now take note that this is a trial run and the specs might change in the future.

Now for those of you bid less then $20 I have not forgot about you. Astawerks owns several websites such as cheaptravelforums.com and upchuckr.com plus a few others. I will give you free adspace of text links on these sites for 1 month plus you also have the chance to have a free blog entry on this very blog :).

I am very much dedicated to doing this differently and bring to you the most unique ideas that you can think of. I hope that you like what I have to offer and please leave me any suggestions on anything that you would like to see.

Sorry but this offer is only for new link submissions only.

Doug

Since joining the Microsoft affiliate network I have made a few sales and the payout is great.  $35 per sign-up.   Microsoft will give you $50 in free clicks for their network so you basically have nothing to loose. I signed my shop www.astawerks.com for the program and you should check it out as well its not to bad.