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  1. Blogs are SEO tools on When A Blogger Meets Public Relations · · Score: 2, Funny

    What is the use of a blog if bloggers are just going to copy sentences and sentiments from the puppetmaster's email?

    Blogs are used to clutter search engines. Where have you been the last few years? Most blogs are keyphrase link-fests. Another innovation from the world of online adult marketing. Porn coders could solve cancer if the money was there.

  2. What's so lame about this? on Developing Online Communities? · · Score: 1

    You have pointed out the obvious, homeskillet. Dude is working on something and you are the noise cluttering his signal. Brashly using the web as a tool like this and getting a few egomaniacal nerds -- his target market -- to respond is far from lame; it's a great idea.

    If you feel let down by your little online community, take it up with your editors who allowed something so offensive to you to spoil it.

  3. This is completely untrue on Developing Online Communities? · · Score: 1

    All a site needs to grow is targeted traffic. You can slap together YATechMessageboard.com and spend an initial investment on traffic. Throw in a free t-shirt or caffeine breath mint promotion. The need to differentiate is a myth. Replicate content, buy traffic, count the money.

    You will fail? Absurd.

  4. This is BAAAAD juju: "The third solution..." on Going Dynamic with PHP · · Score: 1

    The third solution, which I cover in this article, is to write a single class that dynamically molds itself at runtime to the fields of a given table. This class may perform a bit more slowly than its table-specific counterpart, but it saves me from having to write a lot of code. This solution is particularly beneficial at the start of a project, where tables and fields are changing constantly, and keeping up with rapid changes is crucial.

    OK bro so I am a kitschy Perl programmer who loves invoking "Laziness" but this is TOOOOO much.

    Now you can write code that is twice as shitty in half the time! And that's a feature?!?

  5. Poor quality code from the outsourced developer? on Computer Science Students Outsource Homework · · Score: 1

    I think I would choose the guy in Manila with practical experience over a recent CS grad who can code the hell out of a bubble sort in Java but can't do jack shit when you sit down behind him and say "just code a fucking email form; the test starts now.'

  6. No, Google wants TO BE the ball... on Google Developing Database Service · · Score: 1

    As a commercial enterprise, it seems that Google is in danger of forgetting exactly what its core business really is.

    Google's core business is to increase advertising revenue by having as much searchable content available as possible for AdSense and AdWords.

    Not only does Google Base address Google's core business, but it is indeed a direct step to make Google "Content Mecca" so that silly SEOs like me are obviated and every content provider relies on a partnership with Google to be profitable ;).

    It's evil, cunning, and beautiful, really.

  7. THE METAVERSE HOORAY! on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    Now they need to add 3D hookers.

  8. Welcome to 2001, Michael... on Blog Content Based Solely on High Paying Keywords · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's good to see you've made it. Don't you love that Ms. Jackson song? Yeah, I know, it roolz.

    Seriously, if you want a heads-up on web marketing, check out the porn industry today to see what you'll be doing in 2007.

  9. Reader Nath on crack? on Porn Site Sues Google Over Linked Images · · Score: 1

    Interesting that there's no Thank You from the site for the traffic that Google sends its way due to search hits; are these companies forgetting the important role that search engines play in their business?

    Yes, these companies LOVE IT when people leech their UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH by way of direct links from Google, the World's Biggest TGP.

    I am failing to see how this reader's statement is (1) relevant, (2) poignant, or (3) connected to anything having to do with companies "forgetting the role search engines play in their business."

  10. Google is alreafy YA Evil Corporation.... on Google Reports Increased Profits · · Score: 1

    ...what makes you think it's not? Google is an advetising EMPIRE. The new television.

    Ever seen the movie Minority Report? Advertising is only a fraction of a percent of how intrusive it will be in five years.

    Why do you think they acquired Blogger, for one?

  11. All of you will run out of transfer before he does on Spam's U.S. Roots · · Score: 1

    n/t

  12. Re:Silly kids, don't you know... on Spam's U.S. Roots · · Score: 1

    Then God knows he should've given me a bigger penis and hot girls with webcams who want to meet me.

  13. Silly kids, don't you know... on Spam's U.S. Roots · · Score: 1

    ...that spammers have more bandwidth than God? Tomorrow this guy is gonna see a blip on the radar and say, "Ooh, look, I got more traffic!"

  14. So I guess that means... on Geeks and Poker? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ...that the folks who consistently make money playing poker professionally year after year are simply extraordinarily lucky?

    That's absurd. Part of the appeal of poker is the that "one cannot really control it." But that doesn't mean you're flipping a coin whenever you play.

    In fact, poker is a great test of a person's ability to "experience" statistics and probability first-hand... and yet continue to ignore it.

    For instance, if you're holding two suited cards in a hold'em game, you've got a 20% chance of the board giving you a flush. But if you got lucky the last time you foolishly played for that result and that result only, you might be convinced you made the correct decision the next hundred times you're faced with the same situation.

    You are also completely forgetting about the concept of bluffing in your one sentence assessment of poker.

    I'd invite you to play a few sessions with my group, but it just might reinforce your belief in minimizing losses.

  15. Yeah, but did you optimize? on In Google We Trust · · Score: 0

    I pwnz0r Google. pr0n is KING. Learn from us.

  16. Re:Maybe it's because of their audience on Online Porn - The Technology Testbed? · · Score: 0

    Are you a techie? If so, you've got the upper hand.

    There are at least a thousand adult affiliate programs (or "sponsors") out there who will provide you with free content to promote their sites.

    If you can make a web page, you can make money. Starting on a shoestring budget (like I did) you just need to think:

    1) How can I get traffic?
    2) How do I qualify my traffic (source, niche)?
    3) How do I get my surfers to click my ads and sign up?

    If you are interested in spending a couple hours a week, hit me up at spentrent@yahoo.com and I'll help get you started.

  17. Speaking of porn on the resume... on Online Porn - The Technology Testbed? · · Score: 0

    If I'm hiring someone to take care of online marketing, they BETTER have porn on the resume.

    Porn marketeers are the innovators... there's NO competition like online porn competition. In fact, I'd wager that if you take any SEO (search engine optimizer) who works in porn and ask him to get a page one listing for "widgets" in any SE, it will take him/her less than a week.

    Why promote porn? Where else are you gonna get $30 commission? Where else are you gonna get that kind of volume?

  18. Re:Spam is very simple to fix. on Peer to Peer and Spam in the Internet · · Score: 0

    "Follow the money?"

    Where? Straight to Canada and Asia?

    Then we get the SortaInternet.

    Psssst! Ever look for free porn on the Internet? If so, you are supporting spammers. Vote with your wallet.

    Yeah, that's gonna happen.

  19. DRM _could_ be cool on DRM Technology To Be Added To MP3 Format · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'd like DRM more if it would make me a fucking cent.

  20. Re:Search Engine Optimization Professional on Yahoo! Vs. Google: Algorithm Standoff · · Score: 1

    FOOLS! Flash is a GREAT MARKETING TOOL. OF COURSE you won't use Flash on a site about liver diseases in 16th century Europe...

  21. Re:Look at this: on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Homeys, you take all this info the wrong way.

    Instead of bitching about it, take advantage of it. How many times do you come up with an idea that, if only you had the time, would make a million bucks?

    Imagine you have an Indian* programmer at your disposal... you give him a grand a month to code whatever you think up.

    Think like a capitalist pig and it starts to make sense.

    Oink!

    [*] or a student, hobbyist, etc

  22. Innovate on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    Instead of bitching about this, take advantage of it. How many times do you come up with an idea that, if only you had the time, would make a million bucks? Imagine if you had an Indian programmer at your disposal... you give him a grand a month to code whatever you think up. Think like a capitalist pig and it starts to make sense. Oink!

  23. Re:The gold rush is over on JRR Tolkien: Return Of The Domain Name · · Score: 1

    Dude, you can find ALL TEH NEKKID CHICKS YOU WANT at http://www.sex-paris-hilton.com

    I swear! The gold rush never ended! Penis enlarge! Mortgages! Horny Housewives!

    Signed, Dirty the Whore

  24. Re:Internet advertising on Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models? · · Score: 1

    I miss the old days of the net when it was almost purely information in nature.

    The same information you mention still exists. Professors and students "publish" their work on the world wide web with with wild abandon.

    If you are suggesting that commercial news and sports sites have ruined the web, then you obviously do not play fantasy football. I personally welcome all those banner ads. And sometimes I click on them.

    Someone's gotta pay for the hosting, the content, and the maintenance -- oh, and whatever marketing was required to get you and me to site X in the first place.

    Information, the abstract concept, doesn't have a price. This is the nature of "information." But, practically, access to information indeed does have a price, like it or not. This will not change.