According to Ad Resource, the average cost for banner ads is ~$25/CPM (that is, $25 per 1000 impressions). If AdCritic charged this amount for their 300,000 page views per day (according to their own investment page), they would take in $7500 per _day_. This is over $200k / month! Shouldn't that be enough for bandwidth expenses?
Furthermore, from an advertiser's point of view, 30 seconds of a potential customer's attention should be a lot more valuable than standard banner ads which most people ignore anyway... Perhaps the CPM price charged by AdCritic could be even higher....
The University of Iowa Surplus store used to be
pretty cool... Back when I was in high school, I got some fun things there like an old Mac, modems, a printer, a dumb terminal for a couple bucks, some old IBM networking equipment, etc. Basically a bunch of old hardware that was good to hack with. You just had to rummage thorugh big piles of cruft on the floor, and then bargain with Joe to pay $0.50 for a Gandalf box rather than $0.75:) We did this on quite a few Thursdays, usually during our school's lunch hour...
Now, UI surplus mainly packages up old computers and sells them for a few hundred bucks apiece (complete with software, printer, etc.) Most interesting items go toward this effort, and the big cruft piles are now off limits to non-staff:(
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There's a lot more info in this press release from MIT.
Using this for telemedicine sounds particularly interesting...
Furthermore, from an advertiser's point of view, 30 seconds of a potential customer's attention should be a lot more valuable than standard banner ads which most people ignore anyway... Perhaps the CPM price charged by AdCritic could be even higher....
The University of Iowa Surplus store used to be pretty cool... Back when I was in high school, I got some fun things there like an old Mac, modems, a printer, a dumb terminal for a couple bucks, some old IBM networking equipment, etc. Basically a bunch of old hardware that was good to hack with. You just had to rummage thorugh big piles of cruft on the floor, and then bargain with Joe to pay $0.50 for a Gandalf box rather than $0.75 :) We did this on quite a few Thursdays, usually during our school's lunch hour...
Now, UI surplus mainly packages up old computers and sells them for a few hundred bucks apiece (complete with software, printer, etc.) Most interesting items go toward this effort, and the big cruft piles are now off limits to non-staff :(