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Bebo Worth £417 million ?

Hi there

Just read that Bebo has been sold for £417 million pounds, not bad for something that cost £8,000 to build is it lol !

Am not sure how they reach that kind of valuation for a website really, its mad but if it was my site I wouldn’t be complaining lol.

Aol have bought Bebo, I think mainly to try to complete with face-book, Bebo has over 40 million users, so produces an awful lot of web traffic that is very hard to get, so seems that £417 million is the price lol.

Does seem a bit excessive when essentially its just a site that teenagers flirt on lol, but then I’m a moaning old git anyhow.

I think its probably every webmasters dream to produce a site like Bebo and then have it bought out, so I wish the new found millionaires good luck and best of all they were British !

Woc

Top 30 Chat Rooms

Hi guys

Well its now official, World of Chat is in the top 30 chat rooms in the uk according to google, its nice to see all the hard work is starting to pay off, to be listed 25th out of almost a million pages is impressive by anyones standards, hopefully we can get even higher as the goal is to be the number 1 chat room in the uk of course lol !

We also had record numbers on the forums last night, so its nice to see the forums have been busy and the site is slowly picking up.

I have had to shuffle the forums around a little bit, as they seemed to be slowing down a little, hopefully there will be no more problems for now !

Woc

Pasting From Word into wordpress

Hi guys

I have been having problems with pasting from Word into Wordpress for a while now and it was starting to drive me mad, as I do a lot of pasting from other chat room resources.

Thanks to James from webmaster talk who told me there is a special feature in Wordpress to deal with this.

Goto Write on your blog

Under the Title of your post you have got the icons, click the last icon (next to the question mark icon)

Should give you a new toolbar, on that toolbar there is a paste from Word option.

Wooohoo

Woc

Spammer Windup !

Hi guys

I have decided to have a bit of a go at winding up one of the 100s of spam email i get each day, this is the email I have received

Greetings to you, 

My name is Mrs Helen Kologo, Iam contacting you because of my intention to invest  in your country. This is why I decided to write you, to tell you about myself,  which I believe you would be of great assistance to me
I am the wife  of late Chief. Kenneth Kologo. My husband was a very wealthy cocoa merchant in Abidjan, the economic capital of Ivory Coast. My husband died  before the start of the political crisis which is going on in our country  Coted’ivoire.

Before the death of my husband on November 2005 in a private hospital
 he secretly called me on his bed side and told me that he has the sum of Eight Million,Five Hundred Thousand United State Dollars. USD($8.500,000)
in a bank here in Abidjan Ivory Coast as a family treasures that he used my name and my son’s name  for the next of kin in depositing of the fund. He also explained to me that he might not
survive the situation then.However That I should seek for a foreign partner in a
country of my choice where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose and upbring of my son Jonnas who is with me right now.

I am in a sincere desire of your humble assistance in this regard .
Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

(1)Can you help me for the retrievements of this fund on my behalf and son Jonnas from the bank here  to your country by transfer?

(2)Can you make an arrangement for me to come over with my son to your country and invest the money strictly on your advice?

(3) Can you honestly take us as members of your family  and help  to invest this money wisely?
(4)Can we completely trust you?
(5) We ready to offer you 15% of this USD($8.500,000) I hope it is acceptable by you?.Please,Consider this and get back to us as soon as possible so that i can forward the documents to you after we must have agreed on the conditions for your assistance. Our life is not safe here and we  need to be out of here as soon as possible

I want to leave here as soon as you help us to have the money transfered out of here and Lodge into a safe account in your stable country

We are waiting for your  reply.

Here is my reply !

Greetings Fellow Traveller 

Salutations for Helen Kologo, I was so please to receive your email to my country of Nottingham within the UK, it is a complete stroke of luck that I have received your email, as I am in need of urgent funds.

My name is my R Hood and I run a small band of employees, W scarlet, L john we run a small Forrest in Nottingham, and we are currently on a culling of local squirrels that have ruined our lively hood, squirrels squirrels everywhere, I can hit a squirrel at a 1000 yards with my bow you know !

The money would also come in handy as i have a degree of physiological damage from the killing of many squirrels, I hear squirrels in the night and am constantly having nightmares about a giant squirrel eating me alive.

The answer to your 4 questions is as follow

1) Yes i can help with the retrieval of your fund

2) We can make arrangement for you to live in our Forrest, but I’m afraid you will have to be tested for squirrel fever on entrance to our Forrest

3) Of course you can be part of my family

4) Yes you can completely trust me, these email are completely confidential

5) 15 % is fine and will help me plant many more trees

Please get back to me and hope my email makes sense, as my English not too good

R Hood

ps death to all squirrels

Friends Invitation Tool

I have now added an invitation tool to World of Chat, this tool is to enable people to invite people to World of Chat easily, without having to email people individually.

 

It takes advantage of Messenger programs like msn messenger and yahoo messenger, by letting people input their details into a login screen, then displaying their contacts on an online form, none of this information is logged to protect the users privacy.

 

Its really aimed at new users wishing to invite lots of people at once, to save people sending loads of the same emails to different people.

 

The email will look something like this, though may change a little in time.

 Hi
 
Come and join me at this great site that I found
 
www.worldofchat.co.uk
 
From worldofchat@hotmail.co.uk This tool is something that has become a popular part of some Social Networking sites, with some underhand networking sites trying to get people to input mostly their msn messenger details, without clearly specifying what they are going to use this information for. I put a lot of thought into weather to use this tool, as I would be weary about putting my messenger details into any screen, but I have used it and it does work well and safe. The tool can be found here http://www.worldofchat.co.uk/importer/ so please try it out if you get the chance ! Woc

Chat Room Peace

Hi guys

Its nice to post and not have anything to tell people about for a change, as things seem to have settled down in the chat room for now.

We have been working on trying to get the chat room busier, and making it more popular, so we hope to be adding some more content to the site soon.

If anyone has any ideas please let me know !

Woc

Who Lost the DJ ?

Hi guys

I’m sure some of you are wondering what has happened to the Dj service that we had on World of Chat.  I thought I would post about this, just in case any kind of misleading rumours surface around this issue.

We have decided not to continue with our link up with Time2danceradio, this is not a reflection on their service, as we felt the DJ idea worked quite well within our chat rooms.

The issue we had with Time2danceradio is that we felt we were not getting a fair deal after all World of Chat is a business, we felt we had given many hits to Time2danceradio, and premium advertising spots to them, in return we only got one link that was placed at the bottom of their website and very few hits in return.

We did try to discuss this issue with the people at Time2danceradio we asked for better links on their website, this was refused and communications broke down, so we made the difficult decision to sever links with them.

We at World of Chat have no hard feelings about this, it just didn’t work out how we would have liked and both sites are clearly moving in different directions, so we wish them all the best with their website.

Woc

You have been bounced !

Hi Guys

As I have mentioned on the name and shame, anyone coming into the room and logging straight out, the next time they enter the chat room, they will be bounced !

You will be booted out once for everytime you bounce the rooms, until this practice stops, as its driving everyone mad, its happened twice today already, and once yesterday.

So clearly me telling people isnt working, I expect a few more might do it later as well.

Woc

Dmoz part 2

Hi guys

I have decided to follow up my shame on Dmoz post with an update, I didn’t realise what kind of a response I would get from such a post.

I really didn’t expect the kind of negative views and abuse that I have received, although Alucard on Digital point was helpful so I would like to thank him for his time.

Why Single Out Dmoz

The object of my exercise wasn’t to single out Dmoz, Dmoz are the biggest directory on the net, that is why i targeted them for chat room safety and i wanted to make a point that some of the sites they have listed are not safe.  They have a lot of influance on the net, much more than I could ever hope to have.

If Dmoz were to remove these sites I had hoped it might set some kind of precedence to webmasters who don’t care about chat room safety.

This is certainly a problem for lots of directories and not just Dmoz, so my intention wasnt to take pot shots at Dmoz, but since I had targetted them first, I had to approach it from a strong position.

Did It Work

NOPE, seems Dmoz just list sites, they dont actually care about the content of the sites at all, never mind safety, so my safety campaign didnt work at all, if your site meets their criteria you might well get listed or not lol !

I also got a lot of negative comments which I was quite shocked about, after all chat room safety is a good thing is it not ?

Seemingly not, the problem with somthing like this, is its only important when it happens to someone you are close to or who you know.  This is a problem that will begin to grow slowly as more people get online.

As Admin at World of Chat, we have often talked about this issue, the conclusion we reached is that nothing will be done about this, until somthing bad actually happens, in the same way that if somone gets knocked down on a certain street, then they put a speed camera there to try to make sure it doesnt happen again.

So the sites i suggested that shouldnt be listed are still there and will continue to be listed and World of Chat will not be listed simple as that !

Woc

DMOZ – Free Web Resources

Hi Guys

Dmoz is a large directory of sites, it has millions of sites and its its also free, World of Chat is listed under the chat rooms section now !

Woc