What fascinates me most about sites such as hotornot is the frequency with which picture posters return to see their rating. They are camping the site as hard as the folks doing the rating.
If the purveyors of hotornot and similar sites were smart, they would parlay their site's popularity and sell out to the personal care/comsetics industry quickly. Imagine hotornot "augmented" with:
Live consultations with plastic surgeons
What's wrong with the way I look? Q&A/feedback
Online image analyzers that analyze faults and recommend improvements
Gym partnerships
Online hair, make-up, etc. product ordering, etc.
This is a would-be goldmine for predators of the insecure.
SAN JOSE, Calif. (BS) --
eBay servers reportedly crashed today following a user's attempt to auction off his own profile information on the popular auction site. Sources familiar with the matter cited stack overflow as the likely cause.
The real problem with MSIE isn't a lack of open source, the browser/OS integration, or a weak security model...... it's that malicious executable code doesn't have its own MIME type!
application/x-trojan baby!
Portal sites, I don't believe there is any future in a portal site concept, people do not go to a website because it is part of
a network of non-related sites, the idea that you can cross-market a webcomic with the selling of a vacuum cleaner is
not going to cut it.
Isn't this a bit like suggesting supermarkets couldn't succeed because people wouldn't want to buy meat, vegetables, and magazines from the same place?
With $1.7 billiion in the bank, they're hardly "out of money".
And I'm guessing that when you talk about 4-5 people "writing Yahoo" you're probably thinking about their directory (http://www.yahoo.com/) and neglecting the nearly 100 other properties they operate, including their finance, personals, sports, and news sites, which are consistently best-in-class (though, unfortunately, not adequately monetized).
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You raise a good point and my guess is that they would cop out and have something such as the following pre-printed on every phone:
"To receive calls, have your party call 1-xxx-QUIK-FON then dial the phone's serial number, 111141569281"
Or maybe this will motivate 4-digit area codes (joy).
Why not make them reusable?
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"Disposable" sounds nifty, but why not implement a "recharging" system/infrastructure that allows the phones to be used indefinitely?
Put recharging stations alongside ATM's in malls, 7-11's, grocery stores, etc. and let people use them indefinitely.
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Will users of these monitors who also wear 3-D glasses be at risk of time travel?
I'm going to get one of these babies, load up Photoshop, and show my wife the true meaning of gradient fill.
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If the purveyors of hotornot and similar sites were smart, they would parlay their site's popularity and sell out to the personal care/comsetics industry quickly. Imagine hotornot "augmented" with:
This is a would-be goldmine for predators of the insecure.
The real problem with MSIE isn't a lack of open source, the browser/OS integration, or a weak security model ... ... it's that malicious executable code doesn't have its own MIME type!
application/x-trojan baby!
I suppose this contest is intended to prove that wireless messaging is a legitimate medium, in that it is neither rare nor well done.
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Isn't this a bit like suggesting supermarkets couldn't succeed because people wouldn't want to buy meat, vegetables, and magazines from the same place?
I wonder what audience reach numbers would look like if you limited the sample to users who typed, clicked, or chose a bookmark to get to a portal.
With $1.7 billiion in the bank, they're hardly "out of money". And I'm guessing that when you talk about 4-5 people "writing Yahoo" you're probably thinking about their directory (http://www.yahoo.com/) and neglecting the nearly 100 other properties they operate, including their finance, personals, sports, and news sites, which are consistently best-in-class (though, unfortunately, not adequately monetized).
You raise a good point and my guess is that they would cop out and have something such as the following pre-printed on every phone: "To receive calls, have your party call 1-xxx-QUIK-FON then dial the phone's serial number, 111141569281" Or maybe this will motivate 4-digit area codes (joy).
"Disposable" sounds nifty, but why not implement a "recharging" system/infrastructure that allows the phones to be used indefinitely? Put recharging stations alongside ATM's in malls, 7-11's, grocery stores, etc. and let people use them indefinitely.
According to Tim Koogle, they're better off going after the psychic friends network patent.