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This Monday (14/07/2008) VuYou launched their FREE Video Emailing application. The brain child of Terry Flores, this application has been designed to cover a wide range of users from the very young to the silver surfer. Those that are hearing impaired have also been considered with welcome videos explaining how to use the site in both British and American sign language. You can video blog, upload videos and Podcast them. As the popularity of the application grows more functionality and services will be added to further enhance the user experience.

There is no need to download any software, all you need is a webcam attached to your PC or laptop and you’re in business! Videos are recorded direct to the VuYou server and encoded in real time. Preview your video once recorded and send straight away in just 3 easy clicks!

Sign up for your FREE account today and start sending video emails today!

http://vuyou.com

This weekend (28/06/08) we will be applying some upgrades to the site. Most of them won’t be visible but will fix some of the current issues.
The main focus points are:

• Adding reliable sources to the music search


• Adding failover redundancy to the search engine index incase an issue arises


• Adding the ground work into the site so that adding new media searches becomes easier

We hope this does not affect our users, thank you for your patience

Wombat is still in beta at the moment because we have ran in to problems with duplicate site data due to us importing the DMOZ feed. I don’t think we expected it to have the same site listed many times for different categories. Thinking about it now, it was quite obvious. We are not running a large de-duping process to remove the sites. ETA is 3 days for the process to finish, after which we can start indexing submitted sites again

We have also gone back to the ISEDN.org PPC feed for the main search engine as it offers better value for our customers and also produces more reliant results on our SERP compared to Google.

More information about ISEDN.org can be found here

Apologies for the downtime we have had over the last week. This was due to us trying to upgrade our servers to MySql 5 to help prevent hacking attempts. This sadly went very wrong and took our hosts Dubhosting quite a while to fix. Dub, do an outstanding job at providing support and help which you just would not get from the larger companies. We are hoping that these security fixes will now keep Burf.com up for good.

Yep thats right, I am another year older. At the grand old age of 27, I have been working on Burf.com for 7 years. Seems a hell of a long time. At the same time its been extremely fun and this year looks very promising! Lots of new features and the traffic keeps going up!

Burf.com would like to welcome Steph to the team. Her role will be adding new content to the site and maintaining the Burf.com blog and new forum. I hope you will join me in welcoming her to site.

Burf.com has finally been updated with a new simple design to focus users on searching. It now offers users many different types of searches like music, torrent, video and many more.

Some site content has not yet been updated to the new design, however this will happen over the next few days. After this we can then focus on adding new areas to the site to help you make the most of your experience.

Burf.com’s hugely popular traffic portal is now back up and running. Apologies for the downtime. New members will get 5000 free visits to their website. Our traffic portal is backed by the largest traffic network on the planet VS TEN

More info and signup go to Traffic Portal

The proxy is back for the moment as there has been a lot of requests for it. I hope people use it for good reasons and not for reasons that promote bad things.

Thanks Simon

Burf.com Proxy

Sorry for the delay, Burf.com is now back up and running, indexing more than ever, twice as much hardware and an even bigger pipe! Please do some searches and let us know what you think!