Author: Olly

  • We need YOUR input for our UK TOP 40 Website

    Hello Friends 🙂

    As you will probably know, we have been involved in the newest UK TOP 40 Website to grace the internet. We’ve tried to make it different, contain features that others dont – and so far, so good!

    But we wanted to know what YOU would find useful on a charts website – as there is no point in carrying on and making it unless it will be of use to the general public.

    So far we have;

    • Top 40 Singles
    • Top 40 Albums
    • RSS Feed for Both

    At present you can buy the tracks from iTunes and Amazon, and the charts are updated every week after Reggie Yates has told us all what’s going off.

    What we will be implementing over the next day or so, is the following;

    • Top 40 Urban Singles & Albums
    • Top 40 Rock Singles & Albums
    • Top 40 Downloads Singles & Albums
    • FULL Track Previews
    • Embedded Video Page for EVERY song

    And we are also introducing some more text to help google with the relevancy, and a few styling tweaks such as a new logo etc.

    Stage THREE for the site, is to include Ringtone downloads, mobile phone applications and also a feature where you can type in your birthday, it shows what was number 1 when you were born and gives you some options to buy it.

    We are also looking at getting the back catalogue of Charts fro day 1, and having it so that you enter a date range and you get the uk top 40 from that date.

    So, what do you think?

    What do YOU want from a charts website?

    Please discuss below 🙂

  • Tidying up my online life

    It dawned on me a few weeks ago, that i have far too much junk littered about the internet. I set things up, forget about them, and then set some more shit up – and its gotten to the stage where I’m using a shit load of web-space, and not really doing anything with it.

    So i started by pruning my Facebook friends list first – removing anyone who I didn’t actually know, and i was amazed at how many people were on there that id never met, never spoken to and never even heard of!

    I’ve also been thinking a lot about who i am on the internet, or more like – what I’m referred to.

    I want to standardise my “Handles” on the internet, but do i choose Olly, or olstar?

    Here’s what’s standing in my way;

    Twitter – I love twitter, and despite not using it that much over the last few weeks i still love using it and love how it works etc. However, I’ve had to create a new “persona” on there as my usual names were all taken.

    I’d love the @olly twitter account as no one actually uses it – I’d even settle for @olstar which is also not used! In fact, nearly all the decent twitter aliases for people with my name are gone, and un-used! I wish the twitter peeps would sort it out and re-release all the inactive and unused names – IF YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE SORT IT OUT!

    Domain Names – Now, for ages i’ve been totally happy with my domain name – i mean, 0lly.uk? It couldn’t get much better, could it?

    Well im afraid it could – thanks to the twitter generation, short domains and url shorteners have become a massive deal and some of them are tt.ly cool! (haha, see what I did there?) and it got me thinking about my name and my aliases and how I could use a international domain name to spell something cool.

    I decided that I needed http://ol.ly as it was the shortest and coolest domain name any Olly in the world would be proud to have, so i looked into it and it was owned by a guy called Ollie (yea, obvious i know) However – he didn’t spell his name with a LY he spelt it with an IE…

    So I started looking at it from a different perspective – What if I bought oll.ie, and swapped it with this guy who owned ol.ly?

    I contacted him, he agreed – so now i’m trying to secure oll.ie – and you would not believe the hoops i’m having to jump through to get it!

    Decisions, Decisions…

    My conclusion is that i need to get everything in one place, on one domain name, and all tied up with cherries on top. Im not too fussed about having all my images and photos on the net – in fact some of them are probably quite damaging to my character, and in all fairness could land me in a lot of trouble.

    So do i move everything over to olstar?

    Do i pursue my quest to get ol.ly? Or will using a Libyan Domain Name balls up my placement in the UK search results?

    Do i quit whining, leave everything on here and just forward my other domains to this one? (safely, of course  ;))

    Footnote: I do have olstar.co.uk – and it would probably make sense to just try and get that twitter name then im sorted.

    Ahhh dammit…

  • Spartacus – Blood and Sand

    Wholly frickin’ shit, batman! – When Adam told me about a new series called Spartacus, and how it was a cross between Uber Violence, and Uber Porn – he instantly had my attention 🙂

    He gave me the first series, and after a week or so i started watching it – and couldn’t stop! It was everything he had described, and more! My only gripe with it is the slight cheesyness in certain parts, and sometimes their language is hard to understand as its all supposedly a true representation of ancient Greece/Rome.

    The violence and blood is very “animated” giving is a kinda comic book style edge – very over exaggerated in parts, but VERY cool none the less. If someone’s throat gets cut, you SEE it being cut and blood pouring everywhere! The sex scenes are very graphic for a TV show but are done in a way whereby you see no really dodgy stuff – but extremely dodgy stuff is suggested in every sex scene in the first series!

    We watched the last episode last night -and it was an AMAZING end to the first series of a program i will most definitely be watching more of!

    Just need to wait for the Second season (Season 2) of Spartacus Blood and Sand to be made so we can carry on enjoying it! I wonder if it will ever come to UK TV? As i feel it may be a bit much for the British viewers 😛

    10/10

  • Worried about Maternity Pay?

    We like to think of ourselves as a  jack of all e-trades type organisation. What we mean by this is we’ll get involved in any industry, any business – on the internet.

    Our most recent venture is into a market we never expected or planned to become involved in – however after teaming up with an awesome guy who owns a ton of domain names – we have decided its definitely worth diving into!

    We’re launching 4 websites based around Birth, Maternity and Babies! We’ve started with a very basic website outlining your rights in regards maternity pay, leave and paternity info – with direct links to solicitors/lawyers and free info for anyone wondering where they stand with their job when pregnant.

    The next one will be on relating to maternity wear, then we are moving on to baby clothes, and then rounding it all off with a group site to bring all the sites together.

    Its strange working on something like this – it will certainly get me swatted up for when one of our employees gets preggers!