Friends, fellow bloggers, and anyone else fortunate enough to be reading this post, allow me to introduce you to, Steelehaus Creative Corp.
What is Steelehaus you ask? Well, first of all it can best be described by it's slogan- "A New Take On Artist Development." Based in Boston, this young company is headed up by a friend of mine, Sam Steele (@RealSamSteele) who came up with the idea while attending Berklee College of Music with fellow classmate Chris Danforth.
Currently a Contemporary Writing and Production Major, Sam has always been known to me as a musical genius, which is why I jumped at the chance to invest in this interesting little venture. I guess you could call it my way of living the vicarious "rockstar" dream, while having little to no talent musically myself!
A year ago, I had no idea there were even such things as comment systems for your blog. I figured the one that was automatically attached to it was the only option I had. Being on Blogger, I was naively going about my blogging business when one day, out of nowhere, the comments glitched out on me! And what I mean by "glitched out" is that the old comments disappeared and new ones refused to show up. I also was met with a few spammy-type posts from a couple anonymous users. This just wouldn't do.
So, the Google search began. "What's the best comment system for a blog?." I was met with a slough of answers from various sources, bringing a consensus of three main plugins.
When I first discovered Instagram, it was like a dream come true. The simplicity and smoothness of this little app has helped take my blog to another level, as I wrote about in my article "5 Ways Instagram Can Help Your Blog". However, the question with this wonder-app has always been how can it be monetized? Well, the answer has arrived in the form of Instacanv.as!
Unfortunately, I can't take credit for discovering this intreaguing website. Once again the mighty Triberr led me to a new blogger who's Atomic Tribe I joined and now follow closely, Jessica Ann. Jessica's article entitled "How To Monetize Photos On Instagram" caught my attention immediately (as does almost anything to do with Instagram), and turned out to be a great read with some valuable information (literally).
Just this past week, two blogging buddies of mine from Triberr - DJ Thistle (@DJThistle) and Daniel Hebert (@DanielGHebert) started a new website called Steam Feed.
If you're tired of stumbling around the Internet, being misled by faceless, john-doe nobodies who claim to be "gurus" of Marketing, Social Media or Tech.. Then Steam Feed is for you! DJ and Daniel are doing away with the amateur content that floats around the web like a bad rumor in gym class, and have brought in the professionals to give you the real information you seek.
With the new mobile operating system for Apple's devices set to roll out later next week (iOS 6), which will be minus the integrated YouTube app that came with previous versions, Google has planned ahead. Only one day before the iPhone 5 was revealed to the world, Google launched it's new YouTube for iOS app in preparation of the imminent void. Obviously this was a smart move on Google's part, and may help cushion the blow to millions of people who may not have heard about the previous integrated app being left out of iOS 6.
The truth is, this was probably a long time coming and a very welcome addition to the iPhone app lineup. The stale, old-television-icon-version was never very satisfying and clearly lacked the smoothness and continuity that Google products are known for. Which makes sense, given that Google had nothing to do with the original.
For years I have been buying domains and hosting with GoDaddy, since a friend of mine had used it for his website and I really didn't know any better. Until recently, this arrangement worked fine and I never really had any problems with GoDaddy's service. This has changed over the last year after encountering numerous glitches and problems, leaving a couple of my sites down and sketchy at best. I had heard that they were having some problems and possibly even hacked into by some no-good-doers. So, it didn't surprise me when again some of the websites were not showing up or linking elsewhere earlier this week (I don't think I've had any problems with sitebymack.com, yet).
Well, one of the most anticipated days in the tech world has come and gone. For those of you who don't know, Apple revealed their latest version of the their mobile phone, the iPhone 5 this morning.
At first glance you may not see many differences with between the new phone and the previous models iPhone 4 and 4s. However, if you see them side-by-side you will quickly notice that the iPhone 5 is slightly longer and has a larger screen as well. With a new A6 processor chip and a handful of camera related upgrades being the big changes, it looks as though this new iPhone will again lead the way in the mobile market.
