I’m sure you’ll all be glad to know that i’ve got some new websites running, which are going nothing less than perfectly. I’m in the process of setting up a company/network site, although i want to think of a name that I will want to keep forever. Many people emailed me about twoslice.com, however i just wasn’t happy with that one. We are currently hiring developers, if you are highly skilled with PHP, MYSQL, XHTML and CSS (photoshop skills are a bonus) and are looking for work, please contact me @ buckleyjosh [at] gmail [dot] com

Other than that, tomorrow is my last day of school My GCSE exams are coming up, which i’m fairly confident about, but it’s not too important to me what i get in them.

I have been on twitter lately, and you can follow me at www.twitter.com/joshbuckley

Firstly, i have some new sites that have now brought my income back up. This is a good feeling, knowing how well i can control my own income and make it rise fast. This has been one reason why i haven’t updated my blog, as my sites are taking priority because i don’t see my blog as an earner.

I invested $x,xxx in a site and got a 200% return when the site sold just over a month later. That’s been great, after no work - it still amazes me, the power of investments and something i definitely want to do more in the future…

School has probably also been one thing taking up a lot of my time. I have about 2 months left of compulsory school, in that time i have my GCSE exams so i’ve been needing to revise a lot.

My brother and his girlfriend/soon to be wife are having a baby, congratulations to them

On another note, i promised a friend to plug their site

Indiestartups  is a great new blog by my friends Jon Wheatley, Dave Myers and Julian Targowski. It covers independant/bootstrap startups. I love the design by julian, and the content covered so far is great, go check it out and subscribe!

Also, the theme needs re-uploading. No idea how i deleted that, but let’s just say i’m still getting used to coda on the mac..

 edit: all fixed now

So, in an hour i’ll be meeting up with friends and having a fun day today

I’ve recently started doing consulting jobs to webmasters, and i’m really starting to enjoy it. My rates are currently $65-100/hour. Get in touch if you want to know more. I’ll see if i can get some testimonials from my clients.

I’ll try to get some proper updates out asap.  Thanks for sticking around.

Basically, it’s called google image labeler. It’s a small game, where the users do the work for google. Ingenious! I wish i could think of more ways to do this with my sites. You are partnered up with another web user, almost instantly, then you are both shown an image from google images. You both come up with words to describe the image, and once you both come up with one that is the same, you will move on to the next. A great way of improving google.

How does it work?
You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will:

* View the same set of images.
* Provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see.
* Receive points when your label matches your partner’s label. The number of points will depend on how specific your label is.
* See more images until time runs out.

After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.

Go check it out.

Blogussion
Blogussion is a fairly new blogging forum, for any aspiring bloggers out there. If you run a blog, and wish to talk with like-minded people, this is definitely a place for you.

Eatfruitplease
Eatfruitplease is the blog of a designer-friend of mine, James Mcdonald. His blog is very interesting, and he makes cool designs Definitely go check him out!

Lushable
Lushable is a brand new technology blog, that is competing with the likes of techcrunch and mashable. It’s still heavily under construction, but its owner, Jason has big plans for it and i would watch out for this one in 2008.

Jon Wheatley
What can I say? Jon’s ad was very creative I had to get him back by purchasing an equally “creative” advert on his blog.

Thanks to all the January sponsors! I will be keeping February at the same price, $30/month. If you wish to buy a spot, visit my advertise page

uaddit -  Web 2.0 workplaces
Not so much a blog post, but a forum post. But this post is definitely worthy, images of the offices of all the major web 2.0 workplaces.  I found it really interesting.

Copyblogger - Four Easy Ways to Create Innovative Content with Interactivity
Copyblogger never fails to come out with great articles. This post on user interaction is definitely a good read for any other bloggers out there.

Zen habits - Top 30 Tips for Staying Productive and Sane While Working from Home 
I think nearly all of us can benefit from this post. Although i don’t work full time at home, i have school - I definitely always have room to improve my productivity for home working.

Jon Wheatley - Very interesting web marketplace stats
Jon had an awesome script developed which will check the average price of marketplace listings on website marketplaces.  It’s definitely interesting, and will be very helpful once he collates a couple months worth of stats.

Dailybooth, the web application that i hold a share in for my venture capital is looking to be more and more promising by the day. I can honestly seeing this website alone completing my first 2008 goal, which is probably the most important to me. We have reason to believe, that if we decide to sell in the future, maybe early next year that we can get a very nice sum of money,  $xxx,xxx if not $x,xxx,xxx. That might seem like a crazy thing to say for a site that has not even opened yet, but i’ve had recent news from Jon that is going to dramatically increase the traffic, branding and value of the site.

With these recent developments, and if all goes as planned, this could easily become my biggest project to date. And, what’s great about this is that i’m a sleeping partner. I’m requried to do no work, my money does all the work.

We have 3 developers currently working on the project, and we should be heading dead on our release date of march the 1st. I’ve allready been showed a working, yet very basic client of the booth from our developers and things are looking to be very good. We have also chosen to redesign the site, i can only see things getting better.

Things are going to get big.