Tyde On The Web

Two new sites launched this week.

First Site:

123 Send It, this site is designed as a sort of sister site to my image hosting site. People can upload files up to 2 megabytes in size and send the download link to friends. Friends receive the link in the email, download the file and that is that.

Second Site:

Affiliate Developer, this site is still in progress, but it’s primary purpose is to serve as a home to my affiliate scripts and the forum. I upgraded the version of the forum it is running and once I get time, I’ll change the template on the forum to match with the rest of the site.

Ok, after a few months of work building a site that can take any datafeed and add it’s product to the DB, I finally launched Need 4 Deals this week.

The site launched with 10 merchants and over 15,000 products.

I’ve still got more to add to it before I’m done.

On another note, I’ve set up a few of my sites to do tracking via google’s new analytics site. So far, the reports back have been pretty useful and interesting.

Ok, I made a few more tweaks to this design over the past week to get it just the way I like it. That is now done.

Spent some time on a few various projects over the weekend. Did some more work on the new cooking site, and started working on my new mac site.

I’ve partnered with a colo facility in the states to sell colo space geared towards macs. Should be an interesting project there.

Yesterday I mentioned about doing some sort of web services client / server type thing for OverStock.com datafeed sites.

I set up a subdomain to contain the database stuff and from there I set up an XML-RPC server to read the DB and forward it to the client per request.

The system works nicely. Just been doing testing so far, next step is to set up some actual sites that use the system.

It’s set up in a way that means that I could technically use the site as a gateway between overstock affiliates and myself if I wanted to. Hmmm, might be worth considering down the road since I don’t store the affiliate IDs on the server side, only on the client side.

Wonder if that is against their regulations to have an XML-RPC gateway set up and sell access to it to other affiliates?

Ok, time to shut my mouth with these ideas.