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Well it’s been quite awhile since my last post, midterm season for University students is quickly approaching once again and it’s an awfully busy time of the year. Here’s whats been going on with my latest projects and ventures.

mp3Upload.ca
mp3Upload is a website that allows users to upload mp3 files and share them freely with their friends. The idea spurred out of my mind one night and about 3 days later the design was made, domain registered, and backend created! The goal was to create a simple and intuitive user interface that quickly allowed users to do what they came to the site to do, upload mp3 files.

Many people who I’ve talked to after using the website can attest to the ease of the user interface, so I’m happy that I was able to achieve that. The site has a no frills upload form and once the mp3 has been uploaded, he or she is redirected to a page where they can share the links to allow their friends to listen or download the mp3 file they just uploaded.

Right now the site is only monetized through Google AdSense, making minimal coin here and there. As always though, it’s always recommended that you don’t rely on just one source of income. The beauty of the site is it has a lot of room for expansion. My plan in the future is to implement a premium membership system which will allow users to keep playlists of mp3 files, view mp3 files they have uploaded, search our database of mp3 files (by genre, title, artist), and also freely browse through the latest mp3 files that are uploaded onto the site. This premium membership will be subscription based most likely broken down 1 month, 6 months, 12 months, and “lifetime”.

Of course, the service will still be available for free, you just won’t be to access the extra features. This will hopefully introduce this second source of income from the site, making the revenue from it less reliant on just one source.

SiteProxy.org
SiteProxy.org is a free anonymous web proxy that I purchased off the DigitalPoint forums for $150USD. Actually it was a network of about 8 other proxies! You can view all the other sites by looking at the “Try these other proxies” box on the right. I basically revamped the design of all of the sites I purchased to use this new standard format for all of the proxies. They are all managed through a single set of files which allows me to easily add sponsored links or new proxies across the entire network when needed.

The idea of having a network of proxies is so if one is blocked, your users can go to your other one. Also having the network allows you to easily share traffic across the network of proxies you own. So by promoting one proxy to get a lot of traffic, you can push some traffic around to your other networked proxies as well. I’m hoping to hold onto this for awhile and try to get some more traffic to the network and eventually resell it for a nifty profit!

In terms of expansion, the only real expansion that I see useful here would be to add more sites to the network as traffic grows. This gives you more web properties which is more attractive to a buyer who might be looking to buy a proxy network.

Those are the major things that’s been going on with my online investments. I’ll keep you updated with the progress of these sites as they come!

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