MyWay isn't a semi-spyware site itself, it just since day one shared an ownership connection to iWon who puts out downloadable applications like its IM client and "prize machine" game that generate pop-up ads.
In short, MyWay, Excite, and iWon all have the same base of content. It's just that...
- iWon bribes users with all sorts of contest entries. Of course, they get the money to run those contests by being one of the most ad-filled sites on the Internet. - Excite cashes in on the memory of the original Excite brand. It has about the typical level of ads on the Internet. - MyWay means it when they say "No Popups. No Banners. No Kidding." Their site is refreshingly Google-like with little ad content. This brand makes its money honestly and quietly with things like Google ads.
So MyWay isn't really pushing spyware onto you... but be careful if you stray into their iWon sister site.
When the name above the title was dead years before the show started... you're running a show based on an idea that wasn't good enough to go forward when he was alive. That's the first sign you're in trouble.
Slashdot, the only place you can make a Futurama reference and then have it expounded upon.
Futurama lasted only 72 episodes, yet is still doing perfectly well in 5-a-week infinite reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It is possible to survive with less than 100 episodes... but the show has to be detail-filed and good in general.
Enterprise keeps getting renewed because UPN needs something, anything, with the Star Trek brand in order to hold the network together.
UPN is a constant sixth who sometimes risks falling to seventh behind Spanish-language Univision. It's main problem is any time Paramount has a good show, sister network CBS grabs it. Having to eat CBS's leftovers, and then having its backbone major-city affiliates also being treated as CBS's little sister just is no way to run a network.
And so the Bad Shows were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins.
Hey, at least the 88 episodes aren't being sent to a far away planet where a young energy beam can become the only surviving fan other than somebody frozen for 1000 years.
In TV-land, 100 is a magic number for a weekly series. When you hit 100 episodes, you have enough episodes to go 5-a-week and last 20 weeks without a repeat. That's good enough to survive on cable or syndication with a nearly infinite life. Lesser series have done it, but you've gotta be really deep to not risk burn-out.
So, Andromida stopping at 88 is kinda an ugly number to get caught at. Sci-Fi might have an interest in funding a series-ending run of about 13 episodes to run as an exclusive event, and therefore give the show some life in daily reruns. 88 with an abrupt-stop ending just isn't that valuable for reruns in comparision.
Of course, that depends on Sci-Fi being able to see the value in rerun rights. If the library of Fireworks assets including the 88 existing episodes get sold to a party that's not interested in letting Sci-Fi have the show on a 5-a-week daytime basis at a reasonable price... then there's no point in doing the deal.
The Sci-Fi saves the show thread is a longshot, but it could happen so it can't be ignored. The show's not dead yet, but it's taken a usually-fatal blow.
Re:Where aren't they now...
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For Sale: Lycos.com
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Is that why CNet is using that *.com.com thing?
Yep. Same concept... it's easier to share cookies when all the sites are subdomains of the same actual domain name. CNET's idea of buying up cool-sounding domain names like news.com and radio.com seems to have totally backfired...
That means Tripod might not be around anymore. WTF are the phishers supposed to use now?
Xoom got shut down when General Electric gave up on their failed NBCi project. Angelfire is also a part of Lycos so they'll likely get the same fate as Tripod.
And then there was one... GeoCities is the last of the "free web hosting" companies left standing as an offshoot of Yahoo!.
Re:Largest domain selling amount?
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For Sale: Lycos.com
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This won't exactly count as a pure-domain transaction because there's actually some remnants of a company attached to the domain name.
Here's a quick field guide to some of the other pre-Google search engines...
AltaVista: Since it was born as Digital Equipment Corp.'s reasearch project rather than an attempt to make money, Compaq didn't exactly know what they had aquired. AltaVista suffered from an outdated ranking system and stale crawl data as it got passed from investment group to investment group. They ended up as a small fish in the Yahoo food chain at the end.
Excite: After merging with original cable-modem ISP @home, it all went down hill. An unprofitable website merged with a cable modem ISP who hadn't quite yet figured out that throtling user's bandwidth is a requirement to stay alive. In the end, they ended up selling a service for a price than less than it cost... and into the dot-bomb recycle bin they went. The Excite.com site is still up, but it's really just a less ad-intrusive version of iWon, and shares a lot in common with MyWay.com who is also from the same people. iWon, is of course known as a spreader of semi-spyware.
Inktomi/"HotBot": Inktomi got bought up by Yahoo!, and now powers the web results once again after being deposed by Google for a time. HotBot.com was always just a licensee of Inktomi's data. It started as a spinoff to Wired Magazine, and ended up getting included in the sale of Wired News to Lycos. It's still ticking now as a unified interface for three of the web crawlers left standing... Inktomi, Google, and Ask Jeeves. They most likely will be part of this spinoff of what's left of Lycos.
Infoseek: Infoseek sold out at the height of the market to the mouse ears. Disney had the bright idea of uniting all of their web content under the Go.com brand, which also would allow all of the Disney-owned sites to share Go.com cookies so that a registered user's cookie from abc.go.com could also be read by espn.go.com. Infoseek would become the search engine portal that'd power the www.go.com portal at the center of the Go Network. A few years later, Disney realized their mistake. Nobody cared about the search engine portal... so they gutted the Go Network brand and turned www.go.com into nothing but a bare-bones portal with a Google-powered search. Inktomi as a search engine is no more. However, they did keep go.com domain in use in order to keep that cookie-sharing going.
GoTo.com: They were never really a search engine, they just licensed Inktomi's results. However, they invented the pay-per-click-search-placement model years before Google came on the scene. When Disney launched the Go Network, they sued saying that the Disney logo and branding was too close to their own, and won forcing the Go Network to change its logo. Shortly after that, they changed their name to Overture and got out of the direct search portal business. They've since been snapped up by Yahoo. Overture technically owns AltaVista just to show where they are in the pecking order over there.
What else can you do with a failed site?
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For Sale: Lycos.com
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Got a failed domain that still has a few hundred thousand people a day typing it in forgetting that you bit the dust long ago? Turn it into a porn site and get some cash out of those otherwise useless hits...
I can't even count the number of gone-under sites that have pulled that stunt.
I'll just wait until they fail to renew the domain and just pay the 35 bucks.
Who's stupid enough to pay $35 a year to register a domain anymore?
Re:Crashing back to Terra, er, Earth...
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For Sale: Lycos.com
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...$200 billion going in, $12.5 billion going out...
What are you smoking?
Sorry... 90s era accounting. Can I restate those numbers to be in the millions instead?
Crashing back to Terra, er, Earth...
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For Sale: Lycos.com
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Terra's aquisition of Lycos was an exercise in stupdity. See, Terra's a pretty big company with plenty of successful Spanish-language sites... but there's absoultely no synergy to be found in merging a group of English-langauge sites with Spanish-language sites. You can't share content accross the langages unless you have a ton of people doing translations.
One of the original webcrawling search engines ended up getting bought up by somebody who didn't know what to do with it. So, it got shuffled asside into a "network" of poorly defined brand, and faded into obscurity. Lycos as a search engine is now worthless. Maybe there's some value left in the brand name for somebody who wants to do a relaunch, but this dog has been relauched so many times I don't think you can teach it any new tricks anymore.
The market scorecard shows it exactly... $200 billion going in, $12.5 billion going out. They misplaced 15/16th of the value that they started with.
Unfortunately, these hackers need only be sucessful once to net thousands in profits. They can be rejected 99.9% persent of the time, but that still nets them an average of hundreds of dollars per attempt.
That's why spammers can keep going too. They only need a small fraction of payouts to win...
Wife: Honey, the deaf Nigerian man is on the phone and he wants another $10,000 worth of raw diamonds. He wants to put the order on five different credit cards.
Husband: Hot-diggidy! Another vacation in Malibu!
The store wouldn't react that way. If they ship diamonds to the fraudster, they're going to get burned because those stolen credit card transactions might get approved at first, but will be charged back eventually. If they smelt fraud, they'd hang up and refuse the order...
Yes, but it's possible to write privacy protection laws that assure that the embarassing-but-legal phone sex call stays private, but the funny-smelling caller who insists $1,000,000 of product be shipped to Nigeria right away can be reported.
Bringing in the lawyers is the only way to stop GPL violators. There's just no technical way to test whether somebody who's claiming to comply with the GPL is really doing so.
They could have just put "GPL" in the string and the kernel would be fooled all the same.
Since/0 is the string-termination character, would it be possible to convince a court to see the decloration the way the kernel does, and therefore hold them to the GPL since they're the ones who declared it?
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MyWay isn't a semi-spyware site itself, it just since day one shared an ownership connection to iWon who puts out downloadable applications like its IM client and "prize machine" game that generate pop-up ads.
In short, MyWay, Excite, and iWon all have the same base of content. It's just that...
- iWon bribes users with all sorts of contest entries. Of course, they get the money to run those contests by being one of the most ad-filled sites on the Internet.
- Excite cashes in on the memory of the original Excite brand. It has about the typical level of ads on the Internet.
- MyWay means it when they say "No Popups. No Banners. No Kidding." Their site is refreshingly Google-like with little ad content. This brand makes its money honestly and quietly with things like Google ads.
So MyWay isn't really pushing spyware onto you... but be careful if you stray into their iWon sister site.
When the name above the title was dead years before the show started... you're running a show based on an idea that wasn't good enough to go forward when he was alive. That's the first sign you're in trouble.
Slashdot, the only place you can make a Futurama reference and then have it expounded upon.
Futurama lasted only 72 episodes, yet is still doing perfectly well in 5-a-week infinite reruns on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It is possible to survive with less than 100 episodes... but the show has to be detail-filed and good in general.
Enterprise keeps getting renewed because UPN needs something, anything, with the Star Trek brand in order to hold the network together. UPN is a constant sixth who sometimes risks falling to seventh behind Spanish-language Univision. It's main problem is any time Paramount has a good show, sister network CBS grabs it. Having to eat CBS's leftovers, and then having its backbone major-city affiliates also being treated as CBS's little sister just is no way to run a network.
And so the Bad Shows were executed in the mannor most befitting virgins.
Hey, at least the 88 episodes aren't being sent to a far away planet where a young energy beam can become the only surviving fan other than somebody frozen for 1000 years.
Action/Sci-Fi is a very expensive form of TV show due to the need for special effects. To do it cheap always results in looking bad...
Maybe CanWest is doing a good thing by putting FireWorks out of its misery rather than delivering sub-standard final seasons.
In TV-land, 100 is a magic number for a weekly series. When you hit 100 episodes, you have enough episodes to go 5-a-week and last 20 weeks without a repeat. That's good enough to survive on cable or syndication with a nearly infinite life. Lesser series have done it, but you've gotta be really deep to not risk burn-out.
So, Andromida stopping at 88 is kinda an ugly number to get caught at. Sci-Fi might have an interest in funding a series-ending run of about 13 episodes to run as an exclusive event, and therefore give the show some life in daily reruns. 88 with an abrupt-stop ending just isn't that valuable for reruns in comparision.
Of course, that depends on Sci-Fi being able to see the value in rerun rights. If the library of Fireworks assets including the 88 existing episodes get sold to a party that's not interested in letting Sci-Fi have the show on a 5-a-week daytime basis at a reasonable price... then there's no point in doing the deal.
The Sci-Fi saves the show thread is a longshot, but it could happen so it can't be ignored. The show's not dead yet, but it's taken a usually-fatal blow.
How about Beenz?
What about Flooz? I've got an eCard with Whoopi Goldberg's picture on it... how can that have become worthless?
And that wasn't even the first time they made that mistake.
Is that why CNet is using that *.com.com thing?
Yep. Same concept... it's easier to share cookies when all the sites are subdomains of the same actual domain name. CNET's idea of buying up cool-sounding domain names like news.com and radio.com seems to have totally backfired...
That means Tripod might not be around anymore. WTF are the phishers supposed to use now?
Xoom got shut down when General Electric gave up on their failed NBCi project. Angelfire is also a part of Lycos so they'll likely get the same fate as Tripod.
And then there was one... GeoCities is the last of the "free web hosting" companies left standing as an offshoot of Yahoo!.
This won't exactly count as a pure-domain transaction because there's actually some remnants of a company attached to the domain name.
Here's a quick field guide to some of the other pre-Google search engines...
AltaVista: Since it was born as Digital Equipment Corp.'s reasearch project rather than an attempt to make money, Compaq didn't exactly know what they had aquired. AltaVista suffered from an outdated ranking system and stale crawl data as it got passed from investment group to investment group. They ended up as a small fish in the Yahoo food chain at the end.
Excite: After merging with original cable-modem ISP @home, it all went down hill. An unprofitable website merged with a cable modem ISP who hadn't quite yet figured out that throtling user's bandwidth is a requirement to stay alive. In the end, they ended up selling a service for a price than less than it cost... and into the dot-bomb recycle bin they went. The Excite.com site is still up, but it's really just a less ad-intrusive version of iWon, and shares a lot in common with MyWay.com who is also from the same people. iWon, is of course known as a spreader of semi-spyware.
Inktomi/"HotBot": Inktomi got bought up by Yahoo!, and now powers the web results once again after being deposed by Google for a time.
HotBot.com was always just a licensee of Inktomi's data. It started as a spinoff to Wired Magazine, and ended up getting included in the sale of Wired News to Lycos. It's still ticking now as a unified interface for three of the web crawlers left standing... Inktomi, Google, and Ask Jeeves. They most likely will be part of this spinoff of what's left of Lycos.
Infoseek: Infoseek sold out at the height of the market to the mouse ears. Disney had the bright idea of uniting all of their web content under the Go.com brand, which also would allow all of the Disney-owned sites to share Go.com cookies so that a registered user's cookie from abc.go.com could also be read by espn.go.com. Infoseek would become the search engine portal that'd power the www.go.com portal at the center of the Go Network. A few years later, Disney realized their mistake. Nobody cared about the search engine portal... so they gutted the Go Network brand and turned www.go.com into nothing but a bare-bones portal with a Google-powered search. Inktomi as a search engine is no more. However, they did keep go.com domain in use in order to keep that cookie-sharing going.
GoTo.com: They were never really a search engine, they just licensed Inktomi's results. However, they invented the pay-per-click-search-placement model years before Google came on the scene. When Disney launched the Go Network, they sued saying that the Disney logo and branding was too close to their own, and won forcing the Go Network to change its logo. Shortly after that, they changed their name to Overture and got out of the direct search portal business. They've since been snapped up by Yahoo. Overture technically owns AltaVista just to show where they are in the pecking order over there.
Got a failed domain that still has a few hundred thousand people a day typing it in forgetting that you bit the dust long ago? Turn it into a porn site and get some cash out of those otherwise useless hits... I can't even count the number of gone-under sites that have pulled that stunt.
I'll just wait until they fail to renew the domain and just pay the 35 bucks.
Who's stupid enough to pay $35 a year to register a domain anymore?
...$200 billion going in, $12.5 billion going out...
What are you smoking?
Sorry... 90s era accounting. Can I restate those numbers to be in the millions instead?
Terra's aquisition of Lycos was an exercise in stupdity. See, Terra's a pretty big company with plenty of successful Spanish-language sites... but there's absoultely no synergy to be found in merging a group of English-langauge sites with Spanish-language sites. You can't share content accross the langages unless you have a ton of people doing translations.
One of the original webcrawling search engines ended up getting bought up by somebody who didn't know what to do with it. So, it got shuffled asside into a "network" of poorly defined brand, and faded into obscurity. Lycos as a search engine is now worthless. Maybe there's some value left in the brand name for somebody who wants to do a relaunch, but this dog has been relauched so many times I don't think you can teach it any new tricks anymore.
The market scorecard shows it exactly... $200 billion going in, $12.5 billion going out. They misplaced 15/16th of the value that they started with.
Unfortunately, these hackers need only be sucessful once to net thousands in profits. They can be rejected 99.9% persent of the time, but that still nets them an average of hundreds of dollars per attempt.
That's why spammers can keep going too. They only need a small fraction of payouts to win...
Wife: Honey, the deaf Nigerian man is on the phone and he wants another $10,000 worth of raw diamonds. He wants to put the order on five different credit cards.
Husband: Hot-diggidy! Another vacation in Malibu!
The store wouldn't react that way. If they ship diamonds to the fraudster, they're going to get burned because those stolen credit card transactions might get approved at first, but will be charged back eventually. If they smelt fraud, they'd hang up and refuse the order...
Yes, but it's possible to write privacy protection laws that assure that the embarassing-but-legal phone sex call stays private, but the funny-smelling caller who insists $1,000,000 of product be shipped to Nigeria right away can be reported.
If they got Windows Media 9 Series completely into Linux... does that also mean they'll be able to playback DRMed WMA files?
If so, this would open the door to some of the RIAA-approved music download sites to Linux users for the first time...
The mod was because I posted about "/0" when I should have talked about "\0"... typo city.
Bringing in the lawyers is the only way to stop GPL violators. There's just no technical way to test whether somebody who's claiming to comply with the GPL is really doing so.
They could have just put "GPL" in the string and the kernel would be fooled all the same.
I'd have said so... but I'm sure they'd come up with a typo argument, or something similar.
If they want to claim typo, then they'd at least get ordered to fix it and to never release anything with that "mistake" in it again.
Since /0 is the string-termination character, would it be possible to convince a court to see the decloration the way the kernel does, and therefore hold them to the GPL since they're the ones who declared it?