Tag: 0lly

  • 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…

  • I haven’t actually blogged for ages

    It seems like a hell of a long time ago that i actually wrote a blog post that wasn’t aimed or themed around the marketing of one of our websites, or one of our customers. I wouldn’t really count the lyrics stuff as blogging either – as that’s pure search engine catnip, and all those are done as tests to see how much i can own google.

    Things are going great with work – we’re going from strength to strength and our team is probably going to need to grow again real soon! It would be nice to get someone in who is more techie than both Adam and Myself, or maybe just a hardcore coder who can do ninja php and asp stuff – that WOULD be cool!

    But anyway, we are ticking along nicely doing the web work, online shops, and search engine domination work for our awesome collection of customers.

    In fact – things are moving forward so well now, Dave and myself have both been looking at potentially buying a business. Its something that would run totally independently from work, and in fact not require much involvement from us at all apart from us developing a website for us (but that ain’t gonna be costly is it 🙂 )

    Its something Gemma and I have spoke about too – as running a business that’s already off the ground is something she can do, but starting something from scratch again is just something neither of us could afford, yet.

    I suppose when work is paying a lot more, Gemma and myself could spend some time planning a little business for her – but for the time being buying a pre-made business looks like maybe the best option.

    Aside from that nothing has really changed! Im still driving my Caddy, we’re still living in the same house (although now we have cool new shit like a new TV etc) and life is just ticking along normally!

    I think I’m gonna go back to my old way of blogging a bit more – its therapeutic 🙂

    TTFN bitches.

  • 0lly.uk dominates google

    Ive recently been drooling over a new domain name that i kinda really want to buy. Its £50 for one year which i think is a lot of money for something that could end up being another surplus domain.

    The domain name is 0l.ly (with a zero)

    Now if it was ol.ly i would snap it up regardless of cost as it would be perfect. But as the available one is with a zero i have my doubts. Ill mull it over and see if i can find the cash spare sometime soon.

    Anyway…

    I have always wanted olly.co.uk (not with a zero) so i do some digging every now and then to see if it might of been left to expire and whatnot. After a whois check i decided to see if anyone had talked about the domain name before. And look what i was greeted with..

    0lly-olly-domination

    Haha, how cool is that? I was always worried that if i told people my site was “0lly.uk” they would write it wrong and not get here – olly.co.uk doesn’t resolve a website at the mo so if they google it they will find me anyway!

    Good times!