So, you are starting a blog now and wish to stand out in the cyber world. Well the cruel reality you might not know is that there’re 135 millions of ‘you’ according to Technorati. Yes, as a matter of fact, blogsphere is a crowded place. Apparently, it takes a lot more than just hard work to stand out from the crowd.

From all the staff at BlueFur.com we wish you and the ones you love a Happy Valentines.To share the love today we are giving away 7 domains to the first 7 people that reply. All you need to do is post a comment with your email and I will contact the first 7. The winners will receive a free .com/.net/.org of their choice.

I won these Edifier e2100 speakers and instead of keeping them I decided to continue with this months feel the love theme. To qualify for this contest all you need to do is post a comment in this thread with how music effects your life.The best comment will be chosen next Monday and a winner will be announced. To be sure your notified of the winner I suggest you subscribe to our RSS feed or join our email newsletter.

This week on twitter I asked, how many social networks do you belong to?Here is what was said… Network_Guy @bluefur 3, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook and my preference is in that order. midspot @bluefur 8 or 9 would be my guess. Only 3 or 4 that I use often legacyb4 @bluefur More than I can count, but active on at least 3. bladedthoth @bluefur I belong (Actively) to two.

Attention bloggers if you have manually installed WordPress then you should  upgrade to 2.7.1. There are many bug fixes in 2.7.1.For those who installed WordPress with Fantastico, Netenberg usually has the upgrade released a week or two later. We do post Fantastico updates on the blog so keep an eye open for that.Please also note we will post when it is time for Managed Blog hosting customers to upgrade in this blog.