I found an interesting video about social networks and social applications on facebook, MyYahoo, myspace etc.

 MSDN: Catch Up with Microsoft Rich Client Technologies for 2008

 

Event Overview
Overview:
 
In this half-day session we’ll do a refresh of the technologies that we can use to build rich, interactive clients with .NET in 2008. We’ll take a look at how we can be cross-platform, cross-browser with Silverlight 2 and yet get the full development experience of a .NET application and then we’ll explore how we can take that further with the Windows Presentation Foundation V3.5 Service Pack 1 which allows for the richest, most-productive development model for Windows applications. There’ll be lots of demos and code as we bring you bang-up-to-date with what’s happening in the world of Microsoft clients.

 

Location 

Maple House 
150 Corporation Street
Birmingham B4 6TB
United Kingdom

 

 It's free so hurry up to book a ticket! 

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/EventDetail.aspx?culture=en-US&eventid=1032397775&flag=1

 

  

 

I have optimised my personal website http://victorantos.com for google.com

If you search for "contractor web developer uk" you should find my buiness website on third position (first page)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1C1GGLS_enGB302GB303&q=contractor+web+developer+uk&btnG=Search 

Thats great, but where are the clients?! 

Just found this post on some forum:

the truth is SEO will not work for your blog if it is new. The way to go is social media. My blog is only 3 months old but alexa is nearing top 100k. Blog income just reached $600 a month.
All these thanks to stumble upon, Digg and reddit.

Add many friends in these networks.
Be active. 
Contribute to their communities.
Submit your posts and make sure not to spam.
Do not become an affiliate whore.

The most important thing is always support others. Contribute with quality posts. If you find a good post written by someone else , do not hesitate and add it to the network, It will only do good for you.

If you follow this formula you cant get wrong. If you are really good you will get 200-300 visitors in hours. Not in a day. 

I need to do some marketing, again, for my personal website in order to get a new project/contract.

I'm looking to build an intersting website using asp.net C# tools from Microsoft and MS Sql Server as a database server.

If I don't find in short period something to work on, I'll start a personal project. I'll tell you more about it in future posts. 

But for now, I intend to use office live for my new company website. And I want to try Microsoft Ad Center (https://adcenter.microsoft.com/) to advertise my services localy (Coventry, Birmingham)