Flickr is profitable on its own. Caterina confirmed so in this help forum. They have many pro subscribers and they show a couple of small ads on some pages when you haven't paid for a pro account. It seems that is enough. (disclaimer, I work for Y!)
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That site is a great example of unneccessary use of drag and drop.
The irritating thing is that, unlike different operating systems, there is no real reason for different browsers to require different ways for doing things. They should all conform to standards.
I think all of us instinctively believe this and it creates this mental block that stops us from developing branching code for multiple browsers. We have this 'hope' in the back of our minds that this issue will just go away in the future once everyone gets on the same page. But, it'll probably never happen.
YES. I've been saying this forever. A public company can't be content with constistently doing a great job and providing a good service. They have to always be growing, growing, growing. That's why we end up with all these mega-mergers. The system is the problem if you ask me. Google will clearly be the next major victim of this vicious cycle.
This article talks quite a bit about "freshness" and suggests updating your pages frequently so that the "modified-by" header changes.
How does this apply to dynamic content, specifically dynamic content hidden behind apache mod-rewrite to look and act static. I would assume that any time googlebot hits such a url it will see a file listed as modified. This is especially true if the content varies dynamically with things like, for instance, 'latest comments' or 'newest' boxes and the like.
In this way, every page on my new site is always "fresh" to some degree as small pieces are constantly changing and random. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how Google treats this situation?
Personally I think this whole "freshness" idea is misguided. It just doesn't make much sense.
Exactly. Shakespeare is an artist. But he is recongnized as a playwright and not an actor. A play is essentially a written set of instructions. Each time it is performed it comes out differently. Each time, it has certain inputs (actors, stage, day of the week, weather, etc.) and a resulting output (a lovely performance). We consider this written play "art".
Now consider Typogenerator. It is a written set of instructions (the code) much like Shakespeare's play. Each time it is run it has certain inputs (a user entered string and google's image library at the time) and certain outputs (the image spit out by the program). Do we consider this written code "art"?
This seems like a potentially great service, but clearly there are some issues that they need to work out.
I think that the fact that most of the store-front searches are one or two stores off will not be a huge problem. Amazon has provided the users with a way to easily specify which is the "best picture" for any given search. I think the user base will quickly refine the accuracy of the image search using this feature. Store owners themselves perhaps might take the time to make sure that their store looks correct (amazon even lets you submit your own pictures which an enterprising store owner may take the time to do).
One issue that is confusing me, and I might just be missing something here, is that I can't seem to find the other side of the street. I did a search for my local supermarket (in manhattan) and I got a great picture of the store on the other side of the street. There's no "turn around" button anywhere. Did they just take photos of one side of the street??
Much like the language data for The Sims, the user interface descriptions for the latest Mozilla and Netscape Web browsers are stored in editable files. This allows anybody with knowledge of XUL, a language similar to HTML/XML, to rapidly reconfigure the layout and design of the browser interface. In most browsers, the upper right hand corner includes a logo known as a "throbber" which animates while loading a Web page. During my German class, I replaced my throbber with a small frame pointing to a Web site containing a randomized vocabulary word from the current chapter of my textbook. Instead of displaying a corporate logo, the throbber in the top right corner displayed a German word and image while loading a Web site, followed by the English translation when loading was complete.In my case, this simply served to flash new vocabulary words while I was waiting for Web sites to load, although such a system could be extended in any number of ways (see Figure 8).
To me, the most practical of all the ideas in the article is this one suggesting the replacing of web advertisements with language study flashcards. Is there a Firefox plugin that allows for the replacement of ads with, say, an iFrame that contains external content? If so, this would be a piece of cake to implement...
Is IE really an extendable platform? It doesn't exactly have a friendly firefox-like plugin architecture. I don't think anyone in their right mind would want yet another "toolbar" to come out. Clearly that market is saturated, despite what Netcraft may think.
Some have taken to extending the browser with its built-in, fundamental functionality. You can achieve some interesting results. Other than this type of site, I don't see how IE will continue to grow without further work from MS themselves.
What you need in the US would be a law either requiring patent rights be assigned to the inventor despite the the employer's wishes (thus making patent assignment clauses in employment contracts illegal) or the converse, i.e., a law forbidding employers from usurping patent rights of inventions by employees.
These two possible solutions will in fact result in rather different outcomes for the state of innovation in the US. The first option, making patent assignment clauses in employment contracts illegal, would encourage innovation. It would do so by allowing potential entrepreneurs to earn a living while they hatch new ideas slowly in their spare time without having to take an "all or none" approach necessitating the quitting their jobs. The second option, making the employee clauses both legal and iron-clad, would result in a scenario where the "all or none" approach becomes the only option. With limited choices, the number of entrepreneurs that will take that leap to start a new business will decrease.
Perhaps the unique position between these two ends of the spectrum that we find in the US is the reason why we have been such a hotbed of innovation throughout our short history. Decisions made by the courts over the years have changed our position on this spectrum, but have we been moving in the right direction?
Why is everyone so interested in having the human species survive? I want to survive along with all my friends and family and all you lovely slashdotters.
We don't need to spread out and have 5 humans here and 10 humans there. I mean who really cares? We'll all be dead anyway and I don't know much better we'll "feel" in the afterlife knowing that a few humans are still hanging around somewhere.
We need an escape plan so that WE can live in the face of a global disaster, not just the species. We need to be able to see that asteroid coming and get the hell out of here. The first goal of the space program should be colonization of other planets so that they become suitable as a destination during an evactuation of earth. Then, step 2 is to devise a reasonable way to get everyone from point A (earth) to point B (mars?) as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately the site doesn't yet work with Safari. We are currently working on a Mac friendly version. Thanks for checking it out though. I will check into the reloading thing.
The spread of Firefox has really impressed me. I think it will only continue to grow, but I'm not sure if the ad will have too much effect. The biggest growth will come from those 11 million people telling their friends and family to give it a try.
I have been recently trying to promote my own new site breasy.com(coincidentally something of a Firefox competitor) and I am learning how difficult it is to get the word out about a new piece of software, even if it is extremely useful and free! So, I am impressed even more by the quick spread of firefox. I have also noticed in my site's logs that IE is only used about 80% of the time. I think its share is definitely decreasing.
The problem with bookmarks is that they are tied down to one computer! I have to maintain two different lists at work and at home. Not to mention when I'm over at a friend's house and I'm trying to remember the url for one of them. I've found breasy.com to be a good solution. Could this be done in a Firefox plugin somehow? I suppose you need a central db to make it happen. Will the tinfoil hat crowd shy away from this?
Appending a unique string to the end of the url is not a good idea. First, it looks ugly. Second, caching is good. Your dad's bandwith costs will be lower than they would be if a hit to the server had to be made each time. The only advantage would be that it would become easier to verify Google's numbers.
Perhaps google should make this a user preference in Adwords. "Check this box to turn on cache bypass mode". This way people could temporarily turn this option on until they felt comfortable that their logs matched Google's numbers.
I just went to the "submit a site" area, because I need all the exposure I can get, and upon submitting the form I get the not-often seen "This form is being submitted using e-mail." message box. Wow, I expect this from a 14 year old working on his first website, not from a search engine.
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http://www.flickr.com/forums/help/9191/?search=pro fitable
Flickr is profitable. There goes that theory smart guy.
Flickr is profitable on its own. Caterina confirmed so in this help forum. They have many pro subscribers and they show a couple of small ads on some pages when you haven't paid for a pro account. It seems that is enough. (disclaimer, I work for Y!)
That site is a great example of unneccessary use of drag and drop.
The irritating thing is that, unlike different operating systems, there is no real reason for different browsers to require different ways for doing things. They should all conform to standards. I think all of us instinctively believe this and it creates this mental block that stops us from developing branching code for multiple browsers. We have this 'hope' in the back of our minds that this issue will just go away in the future once everyone gets on the same page. But, it'll probably never happen.
This is very similar to Google's offering. I kind of like it better as well.
They want to track the number of downloads for marketing purposes. That's my best guess.
1) Tools -> Extensions
2) Click on Greasemonkey in the list
3) Click on the "Uninstall" button on the bottom
4) Restart Firefox
Jealous?
YES. I've been saying this forever. A public company can't be content with constistently doing a great job and providing a good service. They have to always be growing, growing, growing. That's why we end up with all these mega-mergers. The system is the problem if you ask me. Google will clearly be the next major victim of this vicious cycle.
*yawn* I suppose 38 vacation days wasn't quite enough this year.
This article talks quite a bit about "freshness" and suggests updating your pages frequently so that the "modified-by" header changes.
How does this apply to dynamic content, specifically dynamic content hidden behind apache mod-rewrite to look and act static. I would assume that any time googlebot hits such a url it will see a file listed as modified. This is especially true if the content varies dynamically with things like, for instance, 'latest comments' or 'newest' boxes and the like.
In this way, every page on my new site is always "fresh" to some degree as small pieces are constantly changing and random. Anyone want to venture a guess as to how Google treats this situation?
Personally I think this whole "freshness" idea is misguided. It just doesn't make much sense.
Try using 1em instead of 10px. It's similar to saying 100%, but I've had good cross-browser results using this approach.
Exactly. Shakespeare is an artist. But he is recongnized as a playwright and not an actor. A play is essentially a written set of instructions. Each time it is performed it comes out differently. Each time, it has certain inputs (actors, stage, day of the week, weather, etc.) and a resulting output (a lovely performance). We consider this written play "art".
Now consider Typogenerator. It is a written set of instructions (the code) much like Shakespeare's play. Each time it is run it has certain inputs (a user entered string and google's image library at the time) and certain outputs (the image spit out by the program). Do we consider this written code "art"?
Maybe we should. Is it really so different?
This seems like a potentially great service, but clearly there are some issues that they need to work out.
I think that the fact that most of the store-front searches are one or two stores off will not be a huge problem. Amazon has provided the users with a way to easily specify which is the "best picture" for any given search. I think the user base will quickly refine the accuracy of the image search using this feature. Store owners themselves perhaps might take the time to make sure that their store looks correct (amazon even lets you submit your own pictures which an enterprising store owner may take the time to do).
One issue that is confusing me, and I might just be missing something here, is that I can't seem to find the other side of the street. I did a search for my local supermarket (in manhattan) and I got a great picture of the store on the other side of the street. There's no "turn around" button anywhere. Did they just take photos of one side of the street??
Is IE really an extendable platform? It doesn't exactly have a friendly firefox-like plugin architecture. I don't think anyone in their right mind would want yet another "toolbar" to come out. Clearly that market is saturated, despite what Netcraft may think. Some have taken to extending the browser with its built-in, fundamental functionality. You can achieve some interesting results. Other than this type of site, I don't see how IE will continue to grow without further work from MS themselves.
These two possible solutions will in fact result in rather different outcomes for the state of innovation in the US. The first option, making patent assignment clauses in employment contracts illegal, would encourage innovation. It would do so by allowing potential entrepreneurs to earn a living while they hatch new ideas slowly in their spare time without having to take an "all or none" approach necessitating the quitting their jobs. The second option, making the employee clauses both legal and iron-clad, would result in a scenario where the "all or none" approach becomes the only option. With limited choices, the number of entrepreneurs that will take that leap to start a new business will decrease.
Perhaps the unique position between these two ends of the spectrum that we find in the US is the reason why we have been such a hotbed of innovation throughout our short history. Decisions made by the courts over the years have changed our position on this spectrum, but have we been moving in the right direction?
Why is everyone so interested in having the human species survive? I want to survive along with all my friends and family and all you lovely slashdotters.
We don't need to spread out and have 5 humans here and 10 humans there. I mean who really cares? We'll all be dead anyway and I don't know much better we'll "feel" in the afterlife knowing that a few humans are still hanging around somewhere.
We need an escape plan so that WE can live in the face of a global disaster, not just the species. We need to be able to see that asteroid coming and get the hell out of here. The first goal of the space program should be colonization of other planets so that they become suitable as a destination during an evactuation of earth. Then, step 2 is to devise a reasonable way to get everyone from point A (earth) to point B (mars?) as quickly as possible.
Unfortunately the site doesn't yet work with Safari. We are currently working on a Mac friendly version. Thanks for checking it out though. I will check into the reloading thing.
The spread of Firefox has really impressed me. I think it will only continue to grow, but I'm not sure if the ad will have too much effect. The biggest growth will come from those 11 million people telling their friends and family to give it a try.
I have been recently trying to promote my own new site breasy.com(coincidentally something of a Firefox competitor) and I am learning how difficult it is to get the word out about a new piece of software, even if it is extremely useful and free! So, I am impressed even more by the quick spread of firefox. I have also noticed in my site's logs that IE is only used about 80% of the time. I think its share is definitely decreasing.
The problem with bookmarks is that they are tied down to one computer! I have to maintain two different lists at work and at home. Not to mention when I'm over at a friend's house and I'm trying to remember the url for one of them. I've found breasy.com to be a good solution. Could this be done in a Firefox plugin somehow? I suppose you need a central db to make it happen. Will the tinfoil hat crowd shy away from this?
Appending a unique string to the end of the url is not a good idea. First, it looks ugly. Second, caching is good. Your dad's bandwith costs will be lower than they would be if a hit to the server had to be made each time. The only advantage would be that it would become easier to verify Google's numbers.
Perhaps google should make this a user preference in Adwords. "Check this box to turn on cache bypass mode". This way people could temporarily turn this option on until they felt comfortable that their logs matched Google's numbers.
At least if this trend continues we'll only have 1 of these awful things running on our machine at any given time instead of 10. Better than nothing?
I just went to the "submit a site" area, because I need all the exposure I can get, and upon submitting the form I get the not-often seen "This form is being submitted using e-mail." message box. Wow, I expect this from a 14 year old working on his first website, not from a search engine.
take a look at http://breasy.com. Just what the doctor ordered...