Again, the US doesn't "control" the internet. ICANN does. Check the first letter there: International
Actually the "I" stands for "Internet".
http://www.icann.org/
Google has MSN beat hands down when it comes to advertisers. Google just released the Adwords API. Appearently MSN requires a $70,000 minimum commitment and will only allow advertisers to adjust their listings once every 90 days.
An interesting theory, but incorrect. While people do seek out porn, there are so many competing adult companies that advertising is extremely important. Content and delivery methods are far less important than traffic. Most online adult companies spend the lions share of their budget on advertising.
Unfortunately, all of those advertising methods are VERY efficient. Another thing the adult industry pioneered was detailed advertising to sales tracking and reporting. If you buy advertising you have to know in real time what its costing you and how much you're making on it.
If you're looking to get into the industry because you want "fringe benefits" or because you've heard its easy money, you probably won't be successful. Its a business like any other, and if you treat it as one you've got a shot. Most adult webmasters make nothing but pocket change, some do more than 6 figures a month and almost everyone exaggerates what they make.
Next time you're on an adult site, look for a link that says something like "webmasters". That's generally a good place to start.
You can also check out some of the industry resource sites: http://www.ynotmasters.com/ http://www.ne tpond.com/ http://www.cozyfrog.com/
I do most of the hiring for a small internet entertainment company in Montreal. In the past few years we've advertised job vacancies (mainly programers and graphic designers) about a dozen times in our local newspaper and online (mainly Monster). We usually get around 20-30 resumes from a newspaper ad and around 200-300 from job boards.
For most of the positions we've ended up hiring people who saw our ad online. In our experience the most qualified responses come from the job boards. However, we've also noticed that the least qualified responses also come from the job boards. Of the 200-300 responses we'll get from an ad, may 30 of them are worth considering. The rest are pure garbage.
When I have a stack of 200-300 resumes to go through initially I'm looking for any excuse I can come up with to thin the pile. Speaking as someone who's read a lot of resumes here are the things that irk me the most...
1. Language - Even though we're located in Montreal which is in a predominantly French city our ads are always posted in English. Atleast a third of resumes will come in French. A few always come in other languages such as Spanish or Polish. To me that displays either laziness arrogance or cluelessness. None of which score any points for the applicant. If they can't be bothered to send me a response in the language of the advert, I can't be bothered to read it. These resumes are generally relegated to the circular file.
2. Distance - Even if our ad is for an entry level position in Montreal, we still get a large number of responses from people who either want to telecommute or relocate to take the job. We get people apply from as far away as Africa or Asia (and rarely Europe). Some of these people will even want us to sponsor their immigration to Canada. We might go to the trouble to do that for someone with unique talents but not for an entry level programmer. These resumes also get sent to the circluar file.
3. Vastly Overqualified - Whenever we post an opening for an entry level programmer we'll get 5-10 responses from people who are so vastly over qualified that there's little chance they'd be happy here (and stay with us long term). People who were professors or who have PHDs are not good matches for entry level positions.
4. Totally Wrong Careers - We get a fair number of resumes from people who seem like good candidates except for the totally wrong career. For example we had one guy apply who had been a chef for 15+/- years. He'd attended several prestigeous culinary schools and had worked at some rather well regarded restaurants. But now he wanted to give programming a shot.
5. Egregious Resumes / Cover Letters - When you apply for a job you should make some effort to "put your best foot forward". A surprising number of people don't. These run the gamut from simply bad spelling and grammar to people who send us resumes and cover letters for different companies and positions. Then there are the resumes with obviously bullshit "objectives". I mean things like "To synergize new ideas outside the box and take my employer to the next level of ebusiness". There also was the guy who had a resume to be a mechanical engineer (or something similiar I forget exactly) who had replaced the words "mechanical engineer" with "database admin" most places in his resume. Not everywhere mind you, just most.
6. Stalkers - If you send your resume and you don't hear back from me, its fine to send one follow up email. However don't start calling, faxing, and emailing on a daily basis to make sure I read your resume. Rest assured if you do that I will read your resume but there's no chance you'll get hired. Same goes for post interview follow ups. Feel free to call me once. If I want to talk to you, I'll call you. If I don't call there's a reason.
7. Upon Request - Every time we post a job opening, we include what we want you to send us when you apply. References, portfolio, etc. It never fails that people send us resumes that say "Portfolio available upon request". Are they stupid? Did they not read the ad? I've got 200 resumes to go through am I going to take the extra time to request portfolio individually? Certainly not.
All advertising is false representation.
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Advertising always shows the positive sides of the product not the negative. How many car ads show graphic automobile accidents? How many show people changing tires in the rain?
PanIP is not the only company shaking down webmasters on the basis of dubious patents. A company called Acacia Media (or Acacia Research) is claiming to have a patent on all forms of video served online. Currently they are going after the online "adult" industry, I guess they figure its an easier mark than mainstream. If you have videos on your site regardless of format, they want you to pay. Unfortunately there isn't a website that I can post yet, because the defense is just getting organized.
There is actually big debate within the adult webmaster community about the availability of free porn (ie via TGPs) hurting paysites and their affiliates.
Here's a thread about it from an adult forum: http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/ulti matebb.p hp?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=014029
Why anyone would want to switch to network solutions is beyond me. Network solutions has some of the WORST customer service around and charges about twice what most other registrars charge.
I've never played any games in the "MS Zone" so I may be way off base here. I assume you have to have a "MS Zone" account to play the games, what's the big deal about having a passport account instead? Whether Microsoft wants to keep seperate logins to all of their services, or one login that works everywhere doesn't much seem to matter. I don't like the idea of MS pushing Passport as some internet wide login system, but for their own sites I think it makes sense (aside from the security holes).
I really don't see what's so strange about most of the canned goods listed there. I ate about half those products while I was a kid. Quite frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom shelf of my parents pantry didn't still have cans of Jack Mackrel or deviled ham.
Pompeii was buried by ash and pyroclastic flows. Lava (which is magma on the surface) didn't come anywhere close to Pompeii. The following website has a good account of the 79 AD eruption: http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/volc anic.html
Registering a domain name costs $10-$20. Add the cost of some low end hosting for a year and you're looking at $50-$100.
Filing a complaint with ICANN costs $1000 or more. Add to this the cost of lawyers required to draw up the complaint and a company like Vivendi Universal is probably looking at $5000 to take the domain name.
Why not simply register a new name and wait for Vivendi Universal to get around to taking that one as well. Then repeat the process until you get bored or Vivendi runs out of money. Remember it costs a company about 100 times more to take a domain from someone as it does to initially register it. Under a system like this a few geeks could easily wage a guerrilla war against any opponent and either make them stop taking domain names, or drive them into bankruptcy.
So if Vivendi Universal now owns vivendiuniversalsucks.com here are a very short list of a few similar domains might still be available. With a little imagination I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of possible domains that embody the basic idea that "Vivendi Universal Sucks".
A company I was associated with for a while used UUNet to host spamvertised websites. After about a month of spamming they had the plug pulled on their T3 line.
Are you looking to buy this system or build it from parts? If you're looking to buy, you might want to check out Dolch.
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rsync is a great for transferring entire directory structures. I use it to keep our development, backup, and webservers up to date. We have about 4 gigs of data on our sites because rsync only transfers the files that have been updated syncing a day's updates across our entire network usually takes only a few seconds. However, as useful as rsync is, it is not a replacement for ftp.
Google's Zeigeist page is interesting but it is incomplete. Google excludes any "adult" searches from this page, despite the fact that such words often warrant it. I can understand why Google does this (they are a mainstream company), but I don't like the fact that they don't mention this exclusion anywhere on the page. There may also be other categories of words excluded, but I am only aware of adult.
I'm only aware of two places where you can see what people are searching for live. The first, as mentioned above, is Meta Spy. The second is the Ask Jeeves Peekhole. There used to be a third one, but Excite took that offline earlier this month.
Also, the Gnutella client Limewire has a feature where you can see the live queries as they come down the wire.
Here are a few other interesting keyword research links. They're not real time, but why would you want that anyways? You'll get a much better idea of what people are searching for by looking at a larger period of time than you're able to do with a live search.
The situation seems similar to a hammer manufacturer sending cease-and-desist letters to a nail maker because the nail makers product is in confict with the hammer maker's "One-Hit Board Fastening" patent or some other silly ip claim "the defendand reverse engineered the hammering process and is now making pirate nails!"
Slashdot Mirror
Again, the US doesn't "control" the internet. ICANN does. Check the first letter there: International Actually the "I" stands for "Internet". http://www.icann.org/
Google has MSN beat hands down when it comes to advertisers. Google just released the Adwords API. Appearently MSN requires a $70,000 minimum commitment and will only allow advertisers to adjust their listings once every 90 days.
An interesting theory, but incorrect. While people do seek out porn, there are so many competing adult companies that advertising is extremely important. Content and delivery methods are far less important than traffic. Most online adult companies spend the lions share of their budget on advertising.
Will people still visit porn sites if their employers knew what sites they visit?
A more interesting question is how many people would join a porn site if they knew their employers couldn't catch them.
Unfortunately, all of those advertising methods are VERY efficient. Another thing the adult industry pioneered was detailed advertising to sales tracking and reporting. If you buy advertising you have to know in real time what its costing you and how much you're making on it.
If you're looking to get into the industry because you want "fringe benefits" or because you've heard its easy money, you probably won't be successful. Its a business like any other, and if you treat it as one you've got a shot. Most adult webmasters make nothing but pocket change, some do more than 6 figures a month and almost everyone exaggerates what they make.
e tpond.com/
Next time you're on an adult site, look for a link that says something like "webmasters". That's generally a good place to start.
You can also check out some of the industry resource sites:
http://www.ynotmasters.com/
http://www.n
http://www.cozyfrog.com/
I do most of the hiring for a small internet entertainment company in Montreal. In the past few years we've advertised job vacancies (mainly programers and graphic designers) about a dozen times in our local newspaper and online (mainly Monster). We usually get around 20-30 resumes from a newspaper ad and around 200-300 from job boards.
For most of the positions we've ended up hiring people who saw our ad online. In our experience the most qualified responses come from the job boards. However, we've also noticed that the least qualified responses also come from the job boards. Of the 200-300 responses we'll get from an ad, may 30 of them are worth considering. The rest are pure garbage.
When I have a stack of 200-300 resumes to go through initially I'm looking for any excuse I can come up with to thin the pile. Speaking as someone who's read a lot of resumes here are the things that irk me the most...
1. Language - Even though we're located in Montreal which is in a predominantly French city our ads are always posted in English. Atleast a third of resumes will come in French. A few always come in other languages such as Spanish or Polish. To me that displays either laziness arrogance or cluelessness. None of which score any points for the applicant. If they can't be bothered to send me a response in the language of the advert, I can't be bothered to read it. These resumes are generally relegated to the circular file.
2. Distance - Even if our ad is for an entry level position in Montreal, we still get a large number of responses from people who either want to telecommute or relocate to take the job. We get people apply from as far away as Africa or Asia (and rarely Europe). Some of these people will even want us to sponsor their immigration to Canada. We might go to the trouble to do that for someone with unique talents but not for an entry level programmer. These resumes also get sent to the circluar file.
3. Vastly Overqualified - Whenever we post an opening for an entry level programmer we'll get 5-10 responses from people who are so vastly over qualified that there's little chance they'd be happy here (and stay with us long term). People who were professors or who have PHDs are not good matches for entry level positions.
4. Totally Wrong Careers - We get a fair number of resumes from people who seem like good candidates except for the totally wrong career. For example we had one guy apply who had been a chef for 15+/- years. He'd attended several prestigeous culinary schools and had worked at some rather well regarded restaurants. But now he wanted to give programming a shot.
5. Egregious Resumes / Cover Letters - When you apply for a job you should make some effort to "put your best foot forward". A surprising number of people don't. These run the gamut from simply bad spelling and grammar to people who send us resumes and cover letters for different companies and positions. Then there are the resumes with obviously bullshit "objectives". I mean things like "To synergize new ideas outside the box and take my employer to the next level of ebusiness". There also was the guy who had a resume to be a mechanical engineer (or something similiar I forget exactly) who had replaced the words "mechanical engineer" with "database admin" most places in his resume. Not everywhere mind you, just most.
6. Stalkers - If you send your resume and you don't hear back from me, its fine to send one follow up email. However don't start calling, faxing, and emailing on a daily basis to make sure I read your resume. Rest assured if you do
that I will read your resume but there's no chance you'll get hired. Same goes for post interview follow ups. Feel free to call me once. If I want to talk to you, I'll call you. If I don't call there's a reason.
7. Upon Request - Every time we post a job opening, we include what we want you to send us when you apply. References, portfolio, etc. It never fails that people send us resumes that say "Portfolio available upon request". Are they stupid? Did they not read the ad? I've got 200 resumes to go through am I going to take the extra time to request portfolio individually? Certainly not.
Advertising always shows the positive sides of the product not the negative. How many car ads show graphic automobile accidents? How many show people changing tires in the rain?
PanIP is not the only company shaking down webmasters on the basis of dubious patents.
A company called Acacia Media (or Acacia Research) is claiming to have a patent on all forms of video served online. Currently they are going after the online "adult" industry, I guess they figure
its an easier mark than mainstream. If you have videos on your site regardless of format, they want you to pay. Unfortunately there isn't a website that I can post yet, because the defense
is just getting organized.
There is actually big debate within the adult webmaster community about the availability of free porn (ie via TGPs) hurting paysites and their affiliates.
i matebb.p hp?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=014029
Here's a thread about it from an adult forum:
http://bbs.adultwebmasterinfo.com/ubb/ult
Here's a short list of adult websites (or groups of websites) that are easily worth over a million dollars.
x .come rvice.com. pythonvideo.com
http://www.cybererotica.com
http://www.karasxx
http://www.ifriends.com
http://www.gammae.com
http://www.adultrevenues
http://www.sexaddicted.com
http://www
http://www.pornholio.com
Why anyone would want to switch to network solutions is beyond me. Network solutions has some of the WORST customer service around and charges about twice what most other registrars charge.
I patched IE 5.5 on Win95 this morning. I had no problems.
Shouldn't that be Mr. Ashcroft now?
I've never played any games in the "MS Zone" so I may be way off base here. I assume you have to have a "MS Zone" account to play the games, what's the big deal about having a passport account instead? Whether Microsoft wants to keep seperate logins to all of their services, or one login that works everywhere doesn't much seem to matter. I don't like the idea of MS pushing Passport as some internet wide login system, but for their own sites I think it makes sense (aside from the security holes).
I really don't see what's so strange about most of the canned goods listed there. I ate about half those products while I was a kid. Quite frankly I wouldn't be surprised if the bottom shelf of my parents pantry didn't still have cans of Jack Mackrel or deviled ham.
Pompeii was buried by ash and pyroclastic flows. Lava (which is magma on the surface) didn't come anywhere close to Pompeii. The following website has a good account of the 79 AD eruption: http://urban.arch.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/volc anic.html
Registering a domain name costs $10-$20. Add the cost of some low end hosting for a year and you're looking at $50-$100.
Filing a complaint with ICANN costs $1000 or more. Add to this the cost of lawyers required to draw up the complaint and a company like Vivendi Universal is probably looking at $5000 to take the domain name.
Why not simply register a new name and wait for Vivendi Universal to get around to taking that one as well. Then repeat the process until you get bored or Vivendi runs out of money. Remember it costs a company about 100 times more to take a domain from someone as it does to initially register it. Under a system like this a few geeks could easily wage a guerrilla war against any opponent and either make them stop taking domain names, or drive them into bankruptcy.
So if Vivendi Universal now owns vivendiuniversalsucks.com here are a very short list of a few similar domains might still be available. With a little imagination I'm sure there are hundreds if not thousands of possible domains that embody the basic idea that "Vivendi Universal Sucks".
vivendiuniversalreallysucks.com
vivendiuniversalreallyreallysucks.com
vivendiuniversalsucksbad.com
vivendiuniversalreallysucksbad.com
vivendi-universal-really-sucks-bad.com
vivendi-universal-really-really-sucks-bad.com
vivendiuniversal-reallyreally-sucksbad.com
etc...
A company I was associated with for a while used UUNet to host spamvertised websites. After about a month of spamming they had the plug pulled on their T3 line.
They'll probably take a pointer from the Australian Refund Scam.
They'll probably take a pointer from .
Are you looking to buy this system or build it from parts? If you're looking to buy, you might want to check out Dolch.
rsync is a great for transferring entire directory structures. I use it to keep our development, backup, and webservers up to date. We have about 4 gigs of data on our sites because rsync only transfers the files that have been updated syncing a day's updates across our entire network usually takes only a few seconds. However, as useful as rsync is, it is not a replacement for ftp.
I'm only aware of two places where you can see what people are searching for live. The first, as mentioned above, is Meta Spy. The second is the Ask Jeeves Peekhole. There used to be a third one, but Excite took that offline earlier this month.
Also, the Gnutella client Limewire has a feature where you can see the live queries as they come down the wire.
Here are a few other interesting keyword research links. They're not real time, but why would you want that anyways? You'll get a much better idea of what people are searching for by looking at a larger period of time than you're able to do with a live search.
The situation seems similar to a hammer manufacturer sending cease-and-desist letters to a nail maker because the nail makers product is in confict with the hammer maker's "One-Hit Board Fastening" patent or some other silly ip claim "the defendand reverse engineered the hammering process and is now making pirate nails!"