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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!
oh yeah, had to be said. apologies.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
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...
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.
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.
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.
It's easy to get your feelings hurt on here, but just remember that it's slashdot. After all's said and done, this is just a website with a bunch of geeks spouting off :-P
And long may it continue... ;)
This is news for NERDS, not, news for dogs
The guy sitting next to me greets me every morning with 'What up dog?'. I figure the story is appropriate.
Free XBox, PS2
I pronouce this idea DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)!
Why?
No smell-o-vision. Dogs need that.
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
Looks like Dogster has been put to sleep.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
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
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