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how can i create a video hosting site with ratings, search, etc?
I don't know how to program. I was hoping that some sort of web hosting service would offer this as part of their website creation software.

ok... that's a big thing to be as a free creation software, you won't get a script like that easy. You may contact a programmer and pay him to do the work or learn how to program. About hosting.... you will need to pay if you want to host videos, cause you need many GB of disk space, and you will not get them for free

Best web-hosting site ?
Best web-hosting site , what about webhosting-top10.com ratings , I need the best service that I want to make a good forum ?

http://www.JuicyHosting.com or http://www.LocoDomains.com , they both are very good

How do i create accounts on websites to enable visitors to login, so they can post comments and give ratings?
I want to develop a website that will enable users to login, give ratings to other visitor's comments, write comments and so fourth. What is the best method to go about doing so? I am signing up with Yahoo Web Hosting. With this webhosting package, i can use PHPMyAdmin. Can i use this program solely to create the databases and manage the databases, or do i need to use PHP and My SQL. Please advise coz i am super lost. Your time is greatly appreciated. Thanx.

look up the htaccess and htpasswd files. it's the simplest way to do it. or you can write all sorts custom code to hand out cookies.

are okyuk web hosting any good?
Ive been reading a few reviews and they have very good ratings, but id liek to know what everyone thinks here thanks

No. I don't think the name count but there is more to it then name. It have to do with popular and whether they are safe and not fraud. On top of that, you want something that is reliable and not have problem. I would stick with reviews that is trusted company like One and One, Go Daddy, Yahoo, or a web host service that is more trusted.

How Should I Promote My New Website?
I recently created a new website at http://wordpress-hosting-reviews.com that will provide readers with web hosting reviews and ratings written by actual customers. Can you recommend any creative ways to entice people to write reviews? I know how to get traffic to the site, but not how to get people to leave their comments. Right now, I'm trying a promotion offering to donate $2 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for everyone who write a comment. Unfortunately, that's not really working either. Any advice or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Get a landing page from x-generation to tap into the market.

Looking for a web designer and possibly host for database driven website?
Looking for someone other than these fly by night online companies to design my webpage. The website is not but very similiar to how the website http://www.mechanicratingz.com/index2.jsp works with it's ratings and database

You can find many web designers at websites like http://getafreelnacer.com/ , you can just post your project at the website and let many web designers bid for your project. You can hire whoever you like. Do not pay any money afront however.

How do you feel about " To Catch a Predator" on NBC?
1. Advertisers Wary of ‘To Catch a Predator’ NBC’s sting-operation segments “To Catch a Predator” have scored solid ratings and created positive buzz among viewers, but the network appears to be scaling back its commitment to the program — because the content reportedly makes advertisers uneasy. So far this year NBC has filmed only one sting operation for the program — which airs as a segment of its “Dateline NBC” newsmagazine — compared with seven last year. The most recent episode, on July 25, included six national spot ads, significantly fewer than normal for a show in NBC’s prime time, according to The New York Times. “Some advertisers say they are wary of being associated with the show’s content, in which men lured to a house by the promise of a sexual encounter are instead surprised by [host Chris] Hansen and then arrested,” the Times reports. And Andy Donchin, a director at the ad agency Carat USA, told the Times: “We’re all concerned with what content we’re associating ourselves with.” The program’s producers work with a pedophile watchdog group, Perverted Justice, whose members pose as underage Internet users and converse with adults in chat rooms. If a conversation turns sexual, the “underage” Web surfer agrees to meet the adult in person. When the adult arrives at the meeting place, he is confronted by Hansen and a film crew and arrested by local police. The program — which first aired in November 2004 — is currently facing two lawsuits, one stemming from a suicide. Perverted Justice maintains that Louis Conradt, a prosecutor in Terrell, Texas, engaged in sexual conversations online, but he did not show up at the meeting place. Police obtained an arrest warrant, and as officers and “Predator” crewmembers approached his home, Conradt shot himself in the head on Nov. 5, 2006. His sister filed a lawsuit against NBC in July, seeking $105 million in damages. In the other suit, former “Dateline” producer Marsha Bartel asserted that she was fired because she opposed what she called the program’s unethical production practices. She contends that Perverted Justice did not keep accurate transcripts of the online conversations between the predators and the watchdog group’s members. Brian Montopoli of the CBS News Public Eye blog — and a former staffer at the Columbia Journalism Review — has maintained that the program is in some cases a form of entrapment. He has also argued that while legal punishment of predators is left to police and prosecutors, airing the suspects on national television is already a form of punishment that the media has no right to inflict. In addition to the bad publicity and advertiser reticence, “Predator” is also expensive to produce, according to the Times. Regarding the network’s seeming reluctance to commit to the show, Brad Adgate, senior vice president for research at the ad-buying agency Horizon Media, told the Times: “NBC’s probably thinking about what their return on investment is, and might be thinking it’s better to move on.”

A clear violation of Due Process. The men need to be convicted before exposing them on television or else it violates the Constitution. I also think it gives a false impression of child abuse . . . most children are abused by people they know, often members of their own family, and not by strangers. I also think that its mainly just another reality TV show . . . people watch it to see others humiliated just like Indian Idol, they don't change their behaviours because of it because they think it will never happen to them.

Website Help Anyone? Domain Name or Server?
I'm planning on creating a website similar to www.ratemyteacher.com but no for teachers. Anyway I don't really know much on making website but this is just a little project. Main question is that when looking for web site host I encounter much more than domain names like servers and such. For a webiste that is userbased and has ratings and such would I need a server?

In order to have your site accessible by other users you would need web hosting (or a server) and preferably a domain name, or at least hosting which comes with a sub-domain name. For hosting I use dreamhost.com and for domain names I use godaddy.com

is this proof that the media is biased?
McCain's negative coverage up as numbers go down Email this Story Oct 22, 6:50 PM (ET) By DAVID BAUDER (AP) Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., standing with his wife Cindy,... Full Image Google sponsored links Joe The Plumber Politics - Joe Thinks Obama's Economic Plan Is Socialistic. Read All About It Here bx.Businessweek.com/2008-Ele McCain on Letterman - Joost has video from McCain's Late Show appearance. Watch here! joost.com/McCain NEW YORK (AP) - John McCain may long for the days when Barack Obama got the lion's share of the media attention: Coverage of the Republican candidate has been overwhelmingly negative since the conventions ended, a study released Wednesday found. The Project for Excellence in Journalism's report illustrates how the media echo chamber can send things spiraling out of control for a candidate. It's likely to give ammunition to people who say the press has been biased against McCain, but the organization said its findings on this were inconclusive. "It's quite possible for there to be elements of enthusiasm for one candidate or another," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Washington-based think tank. "That's a failure of professionalism if it's there. But this report can't suss it out." McCain and Obama have received an equal amount of media attention since the conventions. The project judged 57 percent of the stories about McCain as negative, with 14 percent positive. The rest were neutral. Obama's coverage was mixed: 36 percent positive, 29 percent negative, 35 percent neutral, the study found. "I guess it's inevitable, but it does reflect the relentless degree to which winning begets winning," Rosenstiel said. "The polls are so ubiquitous that it is difficult for them not to be the picture frame through which the press views everything." McCain's poll numbers have been sinking. As a result, many of the stories about him are about why his poll numbers are sinking - and how whatever he says or does is an attempt to stop his poll numbers from sinking, he said. The economic crisis, and McCain's response to it, also played poorly for him in the press. His attempt to deflect attention with attacks on Obama and his ties to 1960s radical William Ayers did even worse, the study found. During this time, news organizations also did critical fact-checks on some McCain ads, including one on Obama and sex education. Changes in the media have also heightened the sense of piling on, Rosenstiel said. There are more polls to report on, hence more stories to say McCain is doing poorly in them. The 24-hour news networks are paying a great deal of attention to the campaign because it gets ratings, making for more repeating of stories done elsewhere, he said. The cable networks have been showing off new iPhone-like technology that allows them to pull up maps of the country and data, and the electoral maps haven't been good for McCain. Financial cutbacks also mean less time for news organizations to do enterprise reporting, again making for more repetition. Rosenstiel noted that Obama's coverage was negative during the week after the GOP convention, when the surging McCain had the Democrat on his heels and talking about lipstick and pigs. McCain's negative coverage closely tracks the tone of Democrat Al Gore's during the 2000 campaign, he said. A similar thing happened during the latter stages of Hillary Clinton's campaign against Obama, said David Gregory, host of MSNBC's "Race to the White House." "There's a lot of focus on the campaign that is in decline to explain why that is happening, and then it becomes in the eye of the beholder whether that is fair or unfair treatment," Gregory said. "The best we can do is challenge both sides substantively." The McCain campaign did not immediately return messages seeking comment. Sarah Palin has received three times the press attention as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, the study found. Her stories were judged 39 percent negative, 33 percent mixed and 28 percent positive. Palin's coverage started out positive but turned when reporters went to Alaska to check on her record as governor. The study found only 5 percent of the stories were about Palin's family, most of them in the days after it was revealed her daughter was pregnant. The Project for Excellence in Journalism studied some 2,412 stories from 48 news outlets for its study, including newspapers, Web sites and broadcast and cable news. A smaller sample, 857 stories, was used to judge the tone of the coverage.

I can still clearly remember back in 2000 when McCain referred to the media as his base. The media at the time was on McCain's side because of GW Bush's negative campaigning, dirty tactics, and personal attacks against McCain. Today, it's the other way around. The media is on the side of Obama because of McCain's negative campaigning, dirty tactics, and personal attacks on Obama. The same Karl Rove - tactics which McCain bitterly despised back in 2000 are now the same tactics employed by McCain against Obama. Furthermore, ever since the presidential campaign started, McCain shunned the media and refused requests for interviews. This was obvious some months ago when McCain made a trip to Colombia to meet with the Colombian president. There's nobody from the media that accompanied him on that trip. McCain also barred media access to Sarah Palin, making it difficult for the media to have an interview with Palin. McCain's ads and speeches had become so negative in tone especially now at the final two weeks of the campaign. And this is evidently reflected in the latest poll surveys.