Archive for June, 2008

Time to Upgrade This Blog – Oh Joy…

I’ve been having a lot of issues with this blog lately so I think it’s time to upgrade. The site is running on an older version of WordPress with the Semiologic Theme. I decided to stop using Semiologic, basically because it costs money, a lot of it too. I’m trying to slim down my spending and while Semiologic is good, it is not necessary for the blogs I run, especially this one.
So look for a new theme and layout here soon. I’m not sure when I’ll be doing this because I want to focus my time on revenue generating activities, but it will be in the next week or so. I’m not sure why I’m posting about it, but what the heck. It shouldn’t be too bad but you never know. SO if the site is not here one day when you visit, just come back again later.

Blinkweb Opened today to a mad rush of eager subscribers. The Blinkweb Signup Page was live for about 10 minutes before the 1,000 spots were taken. The Callens capped the initial Blinkweb Launch at 1,000 to be sure their system could handle the load.
I received their email and went to signup immediately only to find the 1,000 spots for Blinkweb were filled. I guess that’s what I get for going to get the mail myself. It was that quick.The Blinkweb Release was announced via email and via comment post, which I found very interesting. Brad Callen had replied to a post on the main Businessdreams site and when the email was sent, a comment was also made on my blog post.
The Blinkweb Launch email had this to say:

Blinkweb is a brand new website creation tool that we’ve
developed specifically for internet marketers. The tool is
free and I can guarantee it’s the easiest to use, most feature
packed system available anywhere in the world.

We’ve just opened the site up less than 10 minutes ago. We’re
only accepting 1,000 members right now, as we want to make sure
that Blinkweb can handle that number of users.

After 1,000 users are reached, we’re closing the site down to
new users temporarily. We’re not sure how long.

Because the demand for Blinkweb is so high (i.e. Our blog post
showing the demo video of Blinkweb generated almost 2500 comments)
we know that the initial 1,000 user limit will be filled extremely
fast.

If you try to sign up and the site is closed, simply fill out
the notification form that will replace the signup form, and you
will be notified immediately when Blinkweb re-opens.

I touched base with Matt Callen from Blinkweb and he stated that in just a couple more days they’ll have Blinkweb PERMANENTLY open. You can sign up for the Blinkweb relaunch notification located on the bottom right hand side of the Blinkweb homepage and you will be notified when Blinkweb is open permanently. It should only be a couple days.

Matt states that they are sorry for the inconvenience, but in order to ensure that Blinkweb is
fully capable of handling the amount of users they expect, they needed to cap the initial launch to 1,000 users, which I totally understand.

I went back to the Blinkweb signup page only to find that it was down. Maybe the 1,000 Blinkweb testers will have to wait to give Blinkweb their review.

I just got an email from Kelvin and Adam of Build a Niche Store, or BANS as it is usually called. In the email they announced plans to partner with Pepperjam to create a BANS Pepperjam version of their best selling Ebay affiliate software. Read what Pepperjam has posted about this: Read the rest of this entry

I think Brad and Matt Callen may have their hands full with this Blinkweb.com project. How can you make website creation software easy for beginners while at the same time, make it useful enough for business users such as Internet Marketers? Well, the crew at Blinkweb seem to have the solution. Two versions of Blinkweb!

According to Noovy.com, Brad and Matt Callen will have two versions of Blinkweb on the Blinkweb.com website. A basic version for “regular” users and a business version for the “Internet Marketer” type of user. The latter will have more sales letter related elements as well as many other options. Read the rest of this entry

BlinkWeb by Brad Callen Coming Soon!

I recently discovered that Brad Callen has launched Blinkweb.com and will soon be releasing a new product called BlinkWeb that will make designing a website as simple as drag and drop. BlinkWeb is apparently a joint project between brothers Brad and Matt Callen.

According to the Blinkweb.com blog:

It’s almost ready for you! Finally… An easy way to create a professional looking website without knowing html, php, javascript, and all the other techie nonsense needed to put a website online.

Let’s face it, it should NOT be complicated to create a website. I mean, come on, it’s the year 2008! By now, we shouldn’t be forced to use bulky html editing software or pay some “nerd” thousands of dollars to create a site for us.

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