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New Year’s Eve is one of the biggest holiday celebrations of the year. We celebrate our past year’s successes and look forward to what a new year will bring us, our families, our jobs, our friends.

If you haven’t been celebrating New Year’s Eve and would like to get some party ideas to help you decide what to do, read on for these tips to help you have a fun, safe and exciting New Year’s celebration.

Plan Early

Many people fail to plan their New Year’s Eve Party early enough and at the last minute decide that indeed they’d like to have a party or somehow celebrate. Don’t wait. No matter what type of party you’d like, the earlier you make all the arrangements the better the selection of venue, entertainment, limousine and party supplies you’ll find.

New Year’s Eve Party Ideas — Book a Restaurant

Having your New Year’s Eve party at a restaurant is a fun and easy way to get together with your friends or family.

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HOUSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Planet, the global leader in IT hosting, today announced a broad range of new options for its Hosting Partner Program. For the first time, The Planet is opening its entire product portfolio to partners, which adds valuable opportunities and the power to choose precisely the best services for both their businesses and their customers. Partners are now able to resell not only The Planet’s dedicated servers, but also managed dedicated servers, managed hosting or data center colocation services. Hosting Partners program members can accelerate revenues by reducing provisioning time from weeks to days or hours for setting up their customers’ IT infrastructures.

“In today’s economic climate, more companies are looking to reduce their IT expenses using hosting services”

The Planet offers partner-only discounts up to 15 percent, contingent on the amount of business conducted with the company. Additional discounts are available for customized opportunities and long-term contracts. Hosting partners gain access to a full portfolio of marketing sales tools to support the growth of their businesses.

“In today’s economic climate, more companies are looking to reduce their IT expenses using hosting services,” said Steve Kahan, vice president of marketing and product management with The Planet. “Our newly expanded Hosting Partner program provides a significant advantage to partners and resellers who can now provide value-added services to their customers, backed by our world-class data centers, and enterprise-class network and support.”

Hosting partners and resellers can sell services in any of the company’s six data centers in Houston and Dallas; it’s soon-to-be-opened 86,000 square foot data center in Dallas; or in its new London facility.

Combined with The Planet’s Referral Partner program, customers now have an option to simply refer business and receive a commission, or provide hosting services to their own customer base using the company’s world-class data centers.

About the Hosting Partner Program

By becoming an Authorized Partner of The Planet, customers can tap into the growing and global multi-billion dollar hosting and data center services market to generate new revenue and business from current clients:

• Eliminate upfront costs: Hosting partners can provide their clients more competitive bids by eliminating cap-ex requirements and using The Planet’s enterprise-class network and SAS 70 Type II-certified data centers.
• Lower risk, flexible contract terms: Partners can reduce their risk and choose contract terms as low as month-to-month, a one-year option or other negotiated terms up to three years.
• Gain faster time-to-market options: Many orders can be placed and provisioned in less than 24 hours.
• Receive around-the-clock support: Technicians actively monitor The Planet’s hosted environment 7x24x365.
• Use our turnkey infrastructure: Hosting Partners gain access to eight world-class data centers, multiple tier-1 bandwidth providers and Dell hardware, which eliminates partner upfront investments.
• Obtain discounted rates, promotions: The Planet offers exclusive reduced rates and promotions for partners contingent on the amount of service conducted with the company.
• Boost recurring revenue: By using continuous monthly billing for high-margin services, partners gain recurring revenue without additional staff time.
• Power to choose: The Planet offers the broadest range of products and services in the industry, which provides hosting partners with a range of choices to fit their customers’ requirements.

To learn more about The Planet’s Hosting Partner program, visit the Web site at theplanet or call #

About The Planet

The Planet is the leading provider of On Demand IT Infrastructure solutions, hosting more than 20,000 small- and medium-size businesses and 15.7 million web sites worldwide. Customers have the power to choose from the broadest range of hosting solutions in the industry, from dedicated servers, Managed Dedicated Servers, Northstar Managed Hosting and data center colocation, all backed by 24x7x365 support. With the best choice of servers, software tools and world-class service, backed by state-of-the-art data centers and an enterprise-class network, The Planet turns IT into a powerful competitive advantage that enables customers to grow their businesses. For additional information, visit www.theplanet.com.

Social networking websites are popping up everywhere. Photo sharing is part of networking with friends and family. Here is a brief sampling of some of the different types of social networking sites based on shared interests, activities, views and other ways people connect.

What is a Social Networking Site?

Social networking is about communicating using Web-based services. These Web services offer a place online where individuals can construct private or public profiles. They can share information, links and photos with anyone they wish to see their profile. These sites also offer the user the ability to create lists of people whom they share a connection, are member of the same clubs, classmates or any other type social connection. These lists allow other users to connect with them and they, in turn, can be on another users list. People using open profiles can meet new people and connect with others who share their same interests.

The interests and types of users that participate in the site can define each social networking Website. There are business specific sites, linguistic group sites, such as French only sites, soccer sites and a variety of other special interest sites. Most social networks have some software that enables the user to upload images to their profile and share a variety of images and graphics with other users. This is a list of a cross section of social networking photo sharing websites. This list is not a recommendation or a rating, but a diverse list of available photo sharing sites that are free to join.

Facebook

Most people have heard of Facebook. Facebook has millions of users from a cross section of society all over the world. Many people use Facebook to keep in touch with family by uploading pictures of the kids and family. Images can be uploaded anytime. The maximum file size for an image is 15 MB and they accept jpeg, gif, bmp and png files.

The user can link their Facebook account to a variety other social media sites that belong to such as RSS feeds, blogs and Webpages. They have other features such as calendars, notes, links, places and groups that help link the user to others with similar interests or keep track of dates and events. Facebook offers personal and business accounts. They also have plenty of advertising on the Website.

Flickr

Flickr is another well-known social networking photo sharing Website. It is designed around communication with pictures in a photo stream. The idea is to tell stories using a series of images with notes about the people in the images, the location or anything else that pertains to the photo stream. The user creates galleries with any information they want to add to each picture. It can be set up so anyone can comment on the pictures. Anything can be added to a picture so other people can view and comment. Tags can be added to the pictures to help others search and locate images. Flickr also allows the user to connect easily to other social networking sites and send updates and images to these other sites.

Picturetrail

Picturetrail.com is similar to Flickr’s concept and size. They have a large user list and share stories and communications by using photos. They have a variety of services such as photo sharing slideshows, picture view stats that let you see how many people are looking at your pictures, photos can be sent as digital postcards and they offer Website hosting. They offer free basic accounts, but also offer premium accounts for a fee.

Photoblog

Photoblog.com is a photo sharing networking site that is set up in blog style. It has a variety of themes and is easy to set up, but has lots of advertising. The user can look through other photoblog logs for the most popular, most recent or just browse through the different photoblogs. A wide selection of users creates a vast variety in different photo stories. It is fun to just look around.

Fotki

Fotki.com is another photo networking site that is easy to use and offers photo galleries, geo-tagging images, video upload and a build in geo-mapping feature that connects your images to the Google Earth map. Fotki is a large community that encourages browsing and commenting on photos. The gallery layout is simple, but the overall site is busy and has lots of advertising. It is a fun site to look around with lots of good photography to check out.

Other Photo Networking Sites

Here are some other online social networking photo sharing sites are worth browsing.

Faces.com

Tabblo.com

Dotphoto.com

Buzznet.com

Fotolog.com

Photobucket

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