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theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."
Oh yeah, and (from the article):
Simon
Physicists get Hadrons!
Likes to sniff butts!
And here I was thinking it was a dating site for fugly chicks!
So sad that so many people out there need to get a life. Yeah, those of us with pets love them a lot, but this is a bit extreme... though knowing our twisted society, it'll probably make for the best IPO in history in a few months...
Is there a separate section for same sex dogs?
The only thing necessary for Micro$oft to triumph is for a few good programmers to do nothing". North County Computers
oh yeah, had to be said. apologies.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
Obviously, this is the application for which the British are working on smell for email.
However, do you realise how much "dog butt" carts are going to cost?
www.eFax.com are spammers
Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.
[cue porno bassline]
--saint
I'll bet you two bones that the gusy that created the site were victims of outsourcing.
... in the net nobody knows you are a dog.
Obviously this site is out to change that.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
There is a bakery in my town that sells ONLY dog treats. They are in the shape of cookies, pastries, cakes, etc. But they're for dogs.
It is sad, but if money can be made doing it, I'm sure someone will.
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
www.microsoft.com
Check it out my dog did a really good job.
WLTM Bitch in Heat for romantic butt sniffing and frenzied humping. Any breed or cross breed is fine, I'm not breedist. Must have own walker and a good turn of speed. I'm a 200 pound Newfoundland so small dogs might not want to apply, unless you have been around a bit.
Likes: Butt sniffing and frenzied humping
Dislikes: Buckets of Cold water
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
slashdot is pretty much the same than that doggie site... imagine those pet-holders thinkin about a weblog all about computers and linuxes and geeky stuff. Theyd probably think the same what we think of them...
So much for "on the Internet no one knows you're a dog." :-(
-Peter
[The 21st century's answer to Aristotle, Euripides and Sophocles] launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves.
Ha! Take that, Library of Alexandria!
Guess you don't look so special now, with your dusty old Greek plays and crap, huh?
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
What a wildly inappropriate slashdot article. Eight thousand pictures of dogs on the internet? Wow, that's really stretching what's possible with our infrastructure in a geek-friendly way.
Welcome to the world of slashdot Dogster...
Let that be a lesson to all of you!
See, this is why we need to further develop the Scented Email...my dog said it want's to get a wiff of the ass of CutePup316
The coolster suffix for all those dudesters who dream of starting their own boomster sitester.
Catster.com for pussies? Ratster for rodents? How about Hamster.com for those who like smoked pig thighs? Chickster.com for girls?
We can make it even more cool:
Dogsta! Chicksta! Gangsta! Hamsta!
Hey d00d, I'm a Slashsta!
Ceci n'est pas une signature
Yeah - I scoffed at the article. Then I read it and scoffed a bit more. Then i went and registered our two dogs. And you know you did the same thing.
I, for one, would like to welcome our Canine overlords! Woof!
Sorry Slashdot readers, but I'm a little pissed.
Dogster. Wonderful. I write an Open Source Social Network program, and Slashdot rejects any sort of story on it only to put a story about Dogster.
Sorry, but I feel a little shunned. I do have a little bit of pride in what I do, and things like this kind of shatter it.
Yeah, I know, the type of site I'm doing has been done... But then again, does that make Linux "Just Another Kernel?" I'm sure that would be up for debate.
Yes everyone, the ideal is novel. But hello, anyone? This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs. We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO. This fits under neither.
This wasn't even marked as "Humor". I'm not laughing anyway.
/Rant off.
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
Everyone seems to be passionate about one thing or another, for many /. readers it's open source software, criticizing George Lucas, or karma whoring. For these people it's their dogs. Whenever I see someone who is so obsessed with a subject as to be considered disturbed, it makes me depressed. At first. Why don't you find beauty and inspiration in nature I think, or the arts? Get a hobby!
But wait, you have one already...
These people may have "nothing better to do with their time" or are "lonely and sad" but the fact is that everyone is passionate about one thing or another. If we all enjoyed the same interests then this world would be a very boring place, and there wouldn't be the advances in science and technology that there have been. So don't bash the hobby-freaks too much, as you're probably one too. Freak is in the eye of the beholder, as it were.
My girlfriend and I can no medically have children. This is something that we have known for a while. Instead, we have Cricket, Cupid, and Prancer. They are our children. Cricket sleeps with his head on the pillow in bed. Cupid rolls up behind his mommy's(girlfriend)legs. Prancer sleeps on the floor.
Cricket has missing front teeth from his owners in Winnsboro, South Carolina kicking him. He also suffers epilepsy. Cupid has no fur where his two previous owns let him get fleas, which he was allergic. Prancer has no fur at also.
There is nothing wrong with us as a family. I care for them and pay their doctor bils. They are similar to a small child 6-7 years old. They love to go for rides in the car and also know when we are having a bad day.
I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy in the same way they make mine happy and soothe my needs to have children.
So please do not put down pet owners or say they are freaks. You may simply not understand the bond that people have with their animals. I know that I consider Cricket to be my son and when he gets a shot, he reaches for me just like any child would to their parent.
^---- Chichiuahuas. --- Spelling bad.
Only because they can't get their noses through the screen.
I pronouce this idea DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)!
Why?
No smell-o-vision. Dogs need that.
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
really big bags of venture capital, a sock-puppet mascot and some future felons currently employed as stock analysts.
When they outsource it to India, will it spin-off a Cowster.com?
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
with Doggie Style sheets?
They like cats to as they also have catster.com registered.
Registrant:
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: CATSTER.COM
Created on: 14-MAY-00
Expires on: 14-MAY-04
Last Updated on: 21-FEB-04
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Rheingold, Ted info@onematchfire.com
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
US
415.552.9594
Domain servers in listed order:
FIRE.KSPACE.COM
MIZAR.KSPACE.COM
and dogster.com
Registrant:
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San francisco, CA 94117
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: DOGSTER.COM
Created on: 12-APR-00
Expires on: 12-APR-04
Last Updated on: 09-AUG-03
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Rheingold, Ted ted@onematchfire.com
One Match Fire
825 Oak St.
San francisco, CA 94117
US
415.533.8855
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.ATLANTIC.NET
NS2.ATLANTIC.NET
"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." -Albert Einstein
Karma? There's a serial modder out there.
Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear
and thought WTF is happening hear?
Uhh... Could everybody stop going to the site? It's really feeling the burn of /. and my dog is expecting a really important e-mail from this bitch he met online last week.
...
This could very well be the most important civil rights issue in a long time. ;)
I am a:
...
__ man seeking woman
__ woman seeking man
__ man seeking man
__ woman seeking woman
__ dog seeking dog
__ man seeking dog
__ woman seeking dog
__ dog seeking man
__ dog seeking woman
Same here. I wrote a little program which automates installing source packages for stupid people (i.e those that don't want to use the terminal). It was basically just a little thing that could provide a massive bundle of help for many. Indeed-imagine if this were integrated into KDE! Click a .tar.gz icon and watch it compile and install right before your eyes! It could be like RPMs, just without dependency hell. It could be like Portage on any distro. It could be like Debian, but with no need to apt-get -f install, or type in some obscure library name.
But no. Of course, dogs on a fucking website makes more sense than something that could help a lot of people, and a lot of sysadmins.
If anybody thinks the program is a good idea, mail me or put a comment on my blog somewhere. I lost the tarball a while back, but I'm willing to redo it.
I'm amazing. You aren't. SUCK IT
Looks like Dogster has been put to sleep.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
But, ahhh, the girlie dogs loved him! Because Gus had a special passion for using his little dog tongue to please the ladies. It was his favorite passtime. One petstore owner actually had to ask me to stop letting him please the bitches. Too bad, because the bitches had no complaints.
Boy, that woulda made a great social networking page. Rest in peace, Gus, we miss you, and your girlie friends miss you too.
I've found that my posts don't format quite right w/o a sig.
Dogster. Wonderful. I write an Open Source Social Network program, and Slashdot rejects any sort of story on it only to put a story about Dogster.
Perhaps that's because the owners of this site feel that nobody would care about your web site? Or are you just upset that you can't get free advertising? Not to put too fine a point on it, but you sound like a kid whining because nobody comes to your birthday party. You can't force them to come, you know. If people see some value in doign so, or satisfy some personal need in doing so, they will come.
Yeah, I know, the type of site I'm doing has been done... But then again, does that make Linux "Just Another Kernel?" I'm sure that would be up for debate.
You hit the nail on the head: "it's been done". And done more than a few times. And been done probably better than you did it -- better than I would have done it, too. That's just reality.
But what gets me is that you compare your web page to an operating system's kernel. Newflash: one is important in the grand scheme of things, and one is not. Again, that's just reality. I'm a little surprised that I even have to say that. I mean, your comparison isn't even close to valid. It's like you're complaining that nobody cares about the really nice and intricate paper airplanes you've made, and all anyone talks about is 747's. And now all everyone -- the ingrates! -- is talking about this new Airbus thing. Where's the justice? Seriously, can't you see where your anger is just a little misplaced?
Yes everyone, the ideal is novel
Again, you hit the nail squarely on the head: Dogster is a novel idea. My mom even knows about it. My relatives who hardly use computers think it's just fabulous, and put up profiles of little Fluffy the poodle. The idea has traction, for whatever reason (quite a bit of that reason is being the first to do it).
Yours is not a novel concept, and is probably somewhat played out by now. You're late to the party. Time to look at reality again. If you did "Catster" or "Birdster" or, hell, even "Hamster" people might come. But imagine if you did a Dogster clone. Can you see anyone coming to it? No? Why not? Probably for the same reason that nobody comes to your Friendster clone: it's an already crowded market, with no room for your efforts. That may be sad, but it's true.
But hello, anyone? This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs. We typically like things like anime, Open Source, Star Wars and SCO. This fits under neither.
Try not to tell people what they like. That's likely partly the cause of your problems.
I'd suggest abandoning the Friendster clone you've done and spending time and effort on something else. You've probably learned a lot from your efforts, so it likely wasn't a completely lost cause. Use that knowledge to make a new site, if a web site is really what you want, only this time find a novel concept. Slashdot, even though it's been copied over and over, was novel when it started out. That's why it's popular (and regardless of what you think about its occupants or its design, Slashdot is popular).
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
For me to poop on!
:/
Sorry
Yuma, AZ...You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.
It's official: Friendster and Instant Messaging are in a bubble. I swear to freaking god, people will fall for the same crapola time after time after time after time. Remember, people once thought pets.com was a GREAT idea!
It's times like this I'm glad Silicon Valley is being outsourced.
Waste of time, yes, but it sounds quite lucrative for the site operators.
Most of the crap here on the internet is targeted at small demographics, but due to the large geographic market, they can be quite successful.
There's probably still lots of untapped market in the pet oriented websphere. If you are a pet owner who knows how obsessive some pet owners can be, then why not? (note to self: remember this and get to work!)
Too many people here seem to expect the web to remain self-referencial forever, but how many websites about web technologies do we really need? The money is not going to be made off of geeks, rather it will be made off of the mundane, niche-market foibles and obsessions of the common person.
Read, L
The comment about Slashdot Personals being a refuge for ugly chicks is really not in very good taste, considering that several of them will see this message should it be modded up high enough. I'm sure that most girl geeks don't consider themselves sex goddesses (although a few of them are nice enough to give us guys something to fantasize about) but I doubt there is really any girl who wants to hear that she's ugly. Considering the many guy geeks have probably been mocked by the pretty, popular girls during school years (and the fact that we are so constantly overlooked by women in our 20s as well) I would think that guy geeks would have more understanding of the concept of "total beauty" (as opposed to superficial or physical-only beauty) and have more respect for girl geeks. At least not blatantly accuse them of being ugly on a site that they frequent.
You're not going to find any girl geeks who look like Playboy playmates but they have a beauty all their own. I know that I find a woman much more attractive if she is intelligent, thoughtful, inquistive, and skillful. Given a choice between a sexy girl who is an airhead or a reasonably attractive geek girl, there's no question in my mind which one I would pursue. So please guys, show the girl geeks here a little respect. It's not fun for them to be bombarded with images of impossibily beautiful women in the media. It's not fun for them to have to put up with their mothers complaining that they should spend less effort on the career and more time finding a suitable husband and producing grandchildren. The last thing these wonderful women need is to be bombarded with this type of "geek girls are ugly" crap on slashdot.
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