I’m working on my sincere Music Chase foundational experiment which is also my username on YouTube (musicchasemedia) and I’ve developed some of my graphic work.
Here is the current Music Chase Media logo (that I made)
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Google has now setup the Google.cm domain today to redirect to Google.com, which effectively redirects around 500,000 typos per year.
Google.cm is the first major .CM domain to be setup, considering that TechCrunch has called it the “SCAM” TLD which has highly degraded the value of the domain name (apart from keyword domains, obviously).
Through a private source related to the transaction, Google paid almost $90,000 for the domain using the NameJet auction. Google now accounts that traffic back to their main website, eliminating all threats from third parties officially now.
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You’ve heard right, because that means exactly that Bilawal.biz has been online, non-stop, for a whole year!
There’s a lot being going on in the past year, and through it all, I’ve still not gained much age (I’m still 16!)
- I have sold 9 projects since Aug 09, equalling $44,019 USD in sales just for me.
- Worked with over 3 major online companies.
- Initiated development for one of the largest, upcoming projects of the year!And, after all those lovely 12 months (including the al-mighty Credit Crunch) I only managed to tweet twice, and blog 9 posts. That’s incredibly unethical of me to do so, because I’m a very spreadable guy and I would prefer blogging to help those who wish to succeed in their own dreams and ventures.
I’ve still got to hit my mark on the web, and there’s many that’ve done that for themselves this year, including Ev Stone (Co-founder of Twitter) and Jason Calcanis (Editor of TechCrunch) and I just feel they’re doing minimal effort in terms of relationship with other entrepreneurs to succeed, except offering them their own services.
I’ve got to put my hats off to WordPress, this facility is just plain damn awesome. It just can’t be beaten how amazingly perfect they’ve developed such a simple blogging software into a giant network.
There we go: sum up my blogful bits of Aug 08-09. Love it, bin it, and catch it!
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Der Reise, the new zombie map by Treyarch was revealed by community manager Josh Olin on Twitter here. We’ve gone to a really close insider on Twitter who works for Activision and received this information decided to leak it to a source, of which provided it to us. We’re first to have published this insider information online!
Since it was from the user, we don’t know entirely how much of it was true, or if it is a fake. I just feel I might aswell post it, as it sounds true, and he has kept his identity hidden for many purposes. So enjoy the information, and I hope it’s true! Thanks to him.
I’ve had some leaked information about it’s release, but I am clueless to it’s accuracy:
- Release Date: 15th August 2009
- Cost: 800 MP, $9.99
- Maps included: 3 others (available on Callofduty.com website).
- Total Maps Included: 4
- Pronounced: Du’r-Ree-ese (Durese).Rumours (aren’t from a source)
- A new gun called “Monkey Bomb” will appear in the new map.
- A locksmith key is available to open all doors, but unsure about it’s availability.
- It has been known to follow on from the “Verruckt” map, and the “Meteor” from the Shi No Numa map. These two will be used within the gameplay of Der Reise.
- It follows the same startup principle as Verruckt: you split into two groups and must work together to meet each other again.
- A Punch-A-Perk machine will be introduced that works differently from Perks-A-Machine in Shi No Numa and Verruckt maps.
- A upgrades machine will be available that enables Red Dot, ACOG Scope, Grenade Launcher, etc.
And, some zombie busting leaked info (this has been from a source):
- 1 New Perk will be added: Quick Light (we’re unsure on what it does, but most likely related to the transporting machine – see below)
- New transporting machine, which a maximum of 2 people can use at one time. You can move once per round using this machine.
- It will be 50% larger than the Shi No Numa map.
- It is based inside a completely new map.
- It will have original guns, and the Wunderwaffe DG-1 which was in Shi No Numa.
- Dogs will be in this game, however, they will be less likely to come.
- The Wunderwaffe DG-1 will be available to a maximum of two players in this new zombie map. Confirmed
- The Ray Gun will be limited to a maximum of two players in this new zombie map. Confirmed
- Max Ammo has guaranteed to be provided at the end of every 1-4 rounds, and the higher level you are, the more it will appear. However, they are deemed to appear of a distance.
- All the bugs will be fixed. The “speeding” zombie glitch has been patched for this map, so all levels have allegedly be claimed to be authentic. Confirmed
- There will be 10 newer achievements which will be completely unique to achieve compared to Shi No Numa. Confirmed
- This will be the last zombie map until the Modern Warfare 2 release. Confirmed
- It is based in a Zombie Factory, where apparently zombies are produced from machines.
- There’s two types of zombies (names unknown), and rounds vary from which types of zombies appear. I am clueless to what these zombies do yet, as they have been unknown to do so.
- No zipline will be in this new zombie map. Confirmed
- It’s been alleged that the Max Ammo/Double Points/Insta-kill/Nuke will unexpectedly move if not collected. It does appear near a distance, however they stay in the game for longer, but they will move to different players location (at a distance) – which means, you’ve got to gamble yourself to get them. This is with one type of zombies.
- The other type of zombies are able to re-pick up the Max Ammo/Double Points/Insta-kill/Nuke and you will need to kill them to get them again. When a zombie picks it up, it doesn’t go. When you get dogs, they don’t move or get picked up but go at a normal time.
- Double Points/Insta-kill are known to be added to Dog rounds.
- Box does move, but you will have to go to the very small outdoors to find out where the box has moved in the 6 places it could potentially be. This requires teamwork to all go
outside to find out this.- Map is mostly indoors, but will have a few outdoor places. It’s known to have user-based traps aswell as zombie-based traps such as disabled doors, etc.
- There’s 4 objects. A unknown object will be similar to the nuke, however there will be switchs to activate which permanently kills zombie from a area, but one area will be disabled (at random). A light does dimly appear from the box switch that destroys zombies in an area (there’s 4 areas by the way, 3 will have lights) – so you will need to go up close to find out if it’s what you need. Great for moving about and temperary camping tactics.
All this for teamwork! We’ll see if it’s actually useful.
Pre-order Modern Warfare 2!
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Okay, right here, I’ll show you some code that a lot of people who develop using systematic coding languages (in this instance, LAMP – Linux Apache MySQL PHP).
If you use background processes in your application, such as checking a Google bot is accessing your web page, you want to verify this. Anyone can mask the HTTP User Agent protocol, so they can pretend their from Google.
Here’s a function code that will determine if Google’s accessing your site.
<?php
public function is_google_bot()
{
$server = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; //IP
$hostname = gethostbyaddr($server);
$format = str_replace(".", "-", $format);
$google_hostname = "crawl-".$format.".googlebot.com";
if($hostname == $google_hostname)
return true;
else
return false;
}?>
That code I have just provided is 100% secure. It never has the ability to be hacked, and will work like awesomeness in any application you will develop. Just develop it in your own environment and it will be ready to go.
If you’ve got any questions to ask about the code above, feel free to comment on my post. I’ll be happy to respond to any appropriate and relevant comments.
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This morning one of our servers crashed, only the tier 2 – CDN.
If you was surfing our network, weither it was around my new projects or if some assets didn’t load on my sites I am sorry but it only lasted about 2 hours. Our hosting provider, LiquidWeb had hardware failure on the rack our server was placed onto – however their co-operation made it easier for us to find out the issue quickly. Luckily our staff was on-site while this crash occured, and we spent almost an hour finding out what the issue was.
The issue was just a backend issue, and you could access data and sites as normal but about half of the functions won’t work such as external hardware collecting, a collection from my range of APIs, and some others. I am strongly considering moving fully to ThePlanet, so they can prevent an issue like this happening foremost when my sites gain huge popularity (it would be absolutely awful for that to happen!).
We are now moving all of our data into a new service: Amazon S3 and CloudFront, so you won’t experience this issue again. The move should be fully completed by the end of today.
Thankyou for your co-operation,
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I think I’ve just come across one of the best sites ever – it’s just everything I wanted to find for a site, free music, huge library, fast streaming!
Downturn: doesn’t work with iPhone 3G, let’s just stick to dTunes for iPhone though.
If you like to visit it, it’s at http://www.grooveshark.com – no signup necessary. It’s the best thing I have ever seen related to music in my life, and I don’t think there’s anything else out there that can crack this concept. It’s definately one of my best sites.
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Yes, that’s absolutely right. You’ve seen that a lot of people like to use URL shorteners to mask their original site.
This bypasses any URL shortener, though it still has some little tweaking to do from my end. I will maintain it regularly so that you’re going to get good results.
Any sites that are using it excessively will be banned, I will only allow up to 1000 checks per day. If you think you need more, feel free to e-mail me at me@bilawal.co.uk and I’ll help you out.
Okay, a bit of information:
http://www.bilawal.co.uk/API/OriginalURL.xml
Parameters:
url – This is the URL that you’d like to be checked, example ‘http://tinyurl.com/4a8a’.The results are outputted in XML, and you can see a live example here: http://www.bilawal.co.uk/API/OriginalURL.xml?url=http://tinyurl.com/buddun
The conducts the result for the founded URL from the URL shortener.
Error reporting:
1 – The URL seems to be incorrectly formatted.
2 – We failed to resolve a host name for the URL provided.
3 – Our system failed to respond to your request, we might be busy at this time.If you need anything else, just give me a shout! Thanks.
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I’ve got to say, thanks to the world. I have had the best week in a long time, and It’s all because of my community around me (and they’re amazing people).
- Our major security company has now fully been acquired by JPersona Consulting, based in Canada. That purchase has now been fulfilled and we are no longer responsible for the operations of the website.
- zSHARE360.COM had received overflow in traffic and we couldn’t get anything done in time, so we were forced to immediately sell it on SitePoint. 15 minutes later we found ourselves selling it for $11,000 to an amazing buyer.
Though I apologize we couldn’t handle any of this, we are now building up constant funds to develop new resources. I have gained extremely good experience from this, and I’ll eventually learnt how to prevent such a thing happening in the future. We’ll be having a better future.
A lot of other things happened, and I managed to accumulate a lot of money for one week, but I am not going to disclose this full amount for confidential purposes. However, I’m really proud of myself.
My other sites, Z32.NET (it’s absolutely useless to me now). And my other secret projects will have to be decided at my sole discretion.
I’ll be topping off my hard work over the past four years into a new future. M-MediaUK still stands, and fully intends to stay standing for the next few years (at least, I hope). I will be having a long, hard-earned holiday for the summer and when I’m back, you’ll be seeing a lot or less more of me (as I’m hoping to proceed, anyway). I’ve got no major sites to look after, so I’m just about ready to just chill my life off for a while. LaterOur
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Hype, has grown exponentially for zSHARE360 which has grown now the largest zSHARE search engine in the world.
I’ve got our new design lined up, which is still under works. It will include our new user system for bookmarking zSHARE videos, which we may top off with a new HD player that will fully the 1080p HD standard format for utilizing the full HD experience we’re able to offer locally.
What you also don’t realize is our new background processing, meaning all your search engines and contributions to files are improving our platform highly. You should begin to rate, and your rating is the partial contribution to the total contribution on a file’s rankings for it’s keywords on a search engine. Every search you make on zSHARE360 makes it even better, and imagine the results when we start receiving millions of visitors monthly (and we’ll be able to make better results). So, if you do a search on a file and you can’t seem to find it, try again a few days later and you’ll be heaped with results.
For example, I searched poker face on our search engine and we had no results. Our records said it found around 423 results on zSHARE over the past 16 hours through our background processor, and results began to appear (and they all worked!).
I really like our platform: it’s turned into something useful. Traffic is out of the roof, with over 10,000 uniques a day from our old 100/day traffic and we’ve setted up our slave servers (thanks to contributors), we’re loving this endorsement and the fact thousands of sites are using us.
A lot of companies are e-mailing us daily about one question: How do we do it? First thing, we’ve got our secret ingredients which are kept confidential for the integrity towards the website’s originality (what sets us apart). Our mirroring technology makes important files to be recognized to a large audience, which are contributed by other companies who support our foundation. Our site is a formal enpowerment by our community, every search made improves our site weither you realize it or not. By using our site, your generating the best out of your zSHARE file while also gaining full priority towards your video because we’re different and make your content set apart if it’s good. Content rankings is highly dominated by user’s ratings (so your content must be good).
We’re scheduling to be removed out of BETA by this weekend, and by then we’ll be able to fully concentrate on our new reworks (which will be a BETA, but not for long we hope).
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I’m so anticipated for this to be completed, and here I am: ready to be productive and release it early for you dudes to test.
For our HD server to work, we had to take down our main cluster and zSHARE360 was down for approximately 36 seconds and if you was streaming your request would of been interrupted. From our records, about 363 users were affected and our deep apologies (this shouldn’t happen again anytime soon).
I’ll guide in detail how our HD program will work, and who’s capable of using it:
- During the BETA, everyone is able to view HD videos (if applicable) on the video you are watching. That means, if a higher quality video is available on zSHARE then the two videos will be merged to provide one file for your needs.
- We set triggers for mirroring. If a file is viewed (for example) around 300,000 times per day like a business or sneak preview advert we’ll host you on our powerful servers located in one of the largest US datacenters money can buy. That means, it’s as fast as YouTube videos, and zSHARE can’t remove the file (however, if you are using infringing content we will ban you).
- If a file is originally uploaded in it’s HD format, we will make a lower quality video to reduce bandwidth. However, it’s optional for users to view it in HD encoding and they won’t need to wait ages for a huge video file to load.
When the BETA for HD capability has been completed, we will begin to limit the HD capability. We’re looking at our options, and depending on income rate we might charge for it ($6.99/mo per user) with affordable reseller rates. The countries that are guaranteed for HD capability are: Europe, America, China, Japan, Austrailia (but, India, Pakistan, Korea, Malaysia, etc might not – we’ll look into it). Don’t worry, you’ll still be able to access zSHARE360 anyway.
Also, volumes today are approximately 64% US traffic, with a minimum of 275 users online at any given time. That varies to over 6,500-10,000 unique visitors a day, from our previous 2,000/day traffic (it’s a huge jump). This means, HD will be more necessary for our traffic to conduct. We are working hard to get it implented in the current video player we’re using, but until we do don’t sweat anything. If you’d like to use a HD encoding video just add &hd=on to your video embedded code. If it’s not available, simply put, it will display the normal video (but, please, don’t abuse it).
I’d like to take the time to discuss the future of zSHARE, and we’ll be working hard on getting it sorted. Our main priority was HD video, and we managed to nail that and once it’s done we’ll be able to get the site completed and throw away that crappy “BETA” tag (it’s only there for your reference).
The site’s beginning to gain pressure, that’s my main concern. Once we’ve done the BETA take note we will be moving to a really new powerful dedicated server, which will need to be financed sometime soon (if we don’t, we will be losing profit which isn’t good). If you’ve got any ideas, please let us know at support@zshare360.com so our team can conduct research on best profitability techniques. We don’t want adult, spam or illegal ads – so don’t try it.
Here we go:
Modern Warfare 2 Teaser on zSHARE360!Also, let us know if you want to be sponsored by zSHARE360. We’re getting some, but we need more!
