Tech-recipes.com takes all their "profits" and sends t-shirts to its users. Nobody there is making a living off the site... I don't know how you expect to either.
Sorry. Traffic is the answer.
(Don't whine that alexa traffic isn't accurate. It isn't. However, the same people that will install alexa toolbar as the same people that will click on ads. It's good measure...)
Making money is not a bad thing for such a product. It gives the project insurance against the evils that will be thrown against it--patents, hacks, clones.
My prediction is that firefox will develop more and more commerical-like features: Bundling with certain software, branding for certain services, etc.
IE will likely develop more open-source-like features: listening to user, more standards compliance, more open APIs.)
In most battles, the enemies become more and more like each other in the end. For example, in politics, as the election draws nearer both candidates spirial toward the center.
Adsense pays my server cost. Google gives me the majority of my traffic. I can't knock google too much.
However, I hate seeing people still sniplets of my website and then paste adsense code all around it knowing that some users will get confused and click the ads instead of the links to my article.
DMOZ is another issue altogether. The majority of my sites have been placed in there... although sometimes in odd positions. I certainly can't knock someone willing to sacrifice his time in an attempt to keep the directory accurate. However, you have to worry about the integrity of some dmoz editors however.
DMOZ is another perfect example of something free on the web that at high risk of being corrupted by greed.
Hey, Matt... thanks for keeping DMOZ clean of those crap sites. Stay away from the dark side.:)
Quote: "There are undoubtedly many Web sites that are so poorly built or tested that IE7 will break them," he said, "So it's not entirely dumb to make a fuss about IE7's impending release."
Translation: IE7 will continue IE's ways of non-standardization. Expect IE7 to break your site.
What in the world ever happened to building a web site to help people, to spread information, and to build a "community." Even more so, when did money become the primary goal of a web structure?
For example, slashdot was built for fun and information spread first. Only after it became successful did it start making lots of money. Now people do just the opposite... they design the web site for money first and if the site turns out to be useful, then it's an accident.
In college, I designed the Moan and Groan Page (now very dead) where people could bitch about their hardware. It was the hardware/software explosion time and all the major players were pushing a ton of junk into the marketplace. People could search my site before they purchased anything. I got threatened my tons of companies... and lawyers who used the site came to my defense. The hosting was donated, etc. Then I started my real life (job, family) and had to leave it all behind.
Once I established all of that, I returned to the web to start another project. What a difference those few years made. I wanted to start a similar site helping people with computer problems and tech-recipes.com was born. No thrills, no fluff, no pop-ups... just helpful computer hints. We make enough money from google to pay our server costs... nothing more.
Despite the fact that we just provide raw information, we have never developed a huge community around us. Sure we receive a ton of hits from the search engines, but I miss that feeling of having tons of users helping and supporting each other.
Now I have to worry about everybody stealing my information and slapping their ads all over it...
This guy has a great sense of humor. If you scroll to the bottom of his questions/answers section:
Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of "Unleashed," when you make the case for women being able to stir a man's humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote.
C. Perla, Miami
A. Wouldn't you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?
If you like laughing at Ann Coulter, please don't miss these stories:
Slashdot has RSS ads... but they also place the entire article listed on the site in the RSS feed. I can understand that a little better...
However, listing in a typical RSS feed (with just titles and summeries) is dumb. It's like a porn site where you never know if you are going to click on something legit or an ad.
If it's anything like their current web-based service, each free 2-3 minute clip will be preceded by 1 30 minute commerical and 10 seconds of Microsoft ad space.
Plus, it looks like you'll have to sign in with passport.
If you sign-up for the free service, you'll have to agree to "INSTALL THE MSN MUSIC ASSISTANT"
To download videos from MSN Video Downloads, you need to install the Microsoft Music Assistant (the same technology that the MSN Music Service uses), which will download video content and automatically put it into the My Video folder on your computer. This will take about 20 seconds on broadband, or several minutes by modem. When you click Install, an installation dialog will appear. Click Yes to accept the MSN Music Assistant and proceed.
To download videos from MSN Video Downloads, you need to install the Microsoft Music Assistant (the same technology that the MSN Music Service uses), which will download video content and automatically put it into the My Video folder on your computer. This will take about 20 seconds on broadband, or several minutes by modem. When you click Install, an installation dialog will appear. Click Yes to accept the MSN Music Assistant and proceed.
On the positive side, it does look like it will have a bunch of stuff from FOOD TV. The more Alton Brown I can get, the better!
Actually, the DRM can be bypassed by having winamp send the audio straight to a raw WAVE file. Winamp stopped this previously by preventing DRM files from using a direct write-to-wav plug-in. However, this hack uses an additional plug-in to bypass this.
The sad thing is that the Output Stacker has been pulled from the winamp website.
Users have been posting links to sites that still contain Output Stacker in the forums.
Genovese provided SecurityFocus with an address on his website featuring what appears to be grainy candid shots of Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton.
Okay, all my Karma points for a link.:)
The same source also offers an explanation for the secrecy surrounding the case: the Secret Service, the source says, has offered to put the hacker to work, pleading him out to a single felony, then enlisting him to catch other computer criminals in the same manner in which he himself was caught. The source says that Jacobson, facing the prospect of prison time, is favorably considering the offer.
As much as we make fun of the computer knowledge of our governments, they finally seem to be on the right track. You must have some of these guys in your pocket to really have a chance. Can you trust them? Probably not completely... but if they bring you some knowledge, skills, and some of the most damaging players, then it's worth it.
Our initial impression is that it works as well as Giant software does.... with similiar false positives.
It's a beast when it runs and will easily suck up all available CPU cycles.
It asks if you want to report your spyware information back to the mothership as a way to make that the global big-brother database is kept up to date. It asks at least.:)
You have to have admin rights to run... but you gotta imagine Microsoft pushing this thing in a few months... much like the SP2 roll-out.
As a doctor I have felt this was silly for a long time... our EMTs are well trained and usually do the right things in transport until they get to us.
However, I have recently changed my mind.
Several new studies have shown in sepsis (severe infections) that the early treatment is the most important treatment. When you combine this with the "early is better" studies in heart attacks and strokes, I think the time has come for this.
Telemedicine is on its way... for better or for worse.
Slashdot Mirror
He just did advertise on slashdot! For free.
He is greatly mistaken by the amount of traffic that he belives he has. Compare the alexa data at trmag with the alexa data for tech-recipes.com.
Tech-recipes.com takes all their "profits" and sends t-shirts to its users. Nobody there is making a living off the site... I don't know how you expect to either.
Sorry. Traffic is the answer.
(Don't whine that alexa traffic isn't accurate. It isn't. However, the same people that will install alexa toolbar as the same people that will click on ads. It's good measure...)
Nvidia has released a faster card. It's better than anything out right now.
Stay tuned next week. ATI will do the same.
Rinse, spin, and repeat.
For once the slashdot cliche actually works...
Making money is not a bad thing for such a product. It gives the project insurance against the evils that will be thrown against it--patents, hacks, clones.
My prediction is that firefox will develop more and more commerical-like features: Bundling with certain software, branding for certain services, etc.
IE will likely develop more open-source-like features: listening to user, more standards compliance, more open APIs.)
In most battles, the enemies become more and more like each other in the end. For example, in politics, as the election draws nearer both candidates spirial toward the center.
Yeah, producing ethanol from corn does produce more energy...
However, growing other plant materials (from waste or whatever) is much more efficent.
Ethanol will work... just not from corn.
Did anybody think the transition would be easy?
Adsense pays my server cost. Google gives me the majority of my traffic. I can't knock google too much.
:)
However, I hate seeing people still sniplets of my website and then paste adsense code all around it knowing that some users will get confused and click the ads instead of the links to my article.
DMOZ is another issue altogether. The majority of my sites have been placed in there... although sometimes in odd positions. I certainly can't knock someone willing to sacrifice his time in an attempt to keep the directory accurate. However, you have to worry about the integrity of some dmoz editors however.
DMOZ is another perfect example of something free on the web that at high risk of being corrupted by greed.
Hey, Matt... thanks for keeping DMOZ clean of those crap sites. Stay away from the dark side.
Quote:
"There are undoubtedly many Web sites that are so poorly built or tested that IE7 will break them," he said, "So it's not entirely dumb to make a fuss about IE7's impending release."
Translation:
IE7 will continue IE's ways of non-standardization. Expect IE7 to break your site.
If you are depending on the user agent string, your web site design is flawed already.
Sure IE is broken... but you just have to format to fit the lowest common denominator.
Trying to detect the browser type for the majority of web designers is just silly.
Money, money, money...
What in the world ever happened to building a web site to help people, to spread information, and to build a "community." Even more so, when did money become the primary goal of a web structure?
For example, slashdot was built for fun and information spread first. Only after it became successful did it start making lots of money. Now people do just the opposite... they design the web site for money first and if the site turns out to be useful, then it's an accident.
In college, I designed the Moan and Groan Page (now very dead) where people could bitch about their hardware. It was the hardware/software explosion time and all the major players were pushing a ton of junk into the marketplace. People could search my site before they purchased anything. I got threatened my tons of companies... and lawyers who used the site came to my defense. The hosting was donated, etc. Then I started my real life (job, family) and had to leave it all behind.
Once I established all of that, I returned to the web to start another project. What a difference those few years made. I wanted to start a similar site helping people with computer problems and tech-recipes.com was born. No thrills, no fluff, no pop-ups... just helpful computer hints. We make enough money from google to pay our server costs... nothing more.
Despite the fact that we just provide raw information, we have never developed a huge community around us. Sure we receive a ton of hits from the search engines, but I miss that feeling of having tons of users helping and supporting each other.
Now I have to worry about everybody stealing my information and slapping their ads all over it...
What a difference a few years make...
AC
This guy has a great sense of humor. If you scroll to the bottom of his questions/answers section:
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Q. I greatly enjoy your reviews and the thoughtful observations they contain. However, I get a little worried about the strength of your argument in your review of "Unleashed," when you make the case for women being able to stir a man's humanity by using Ann Coulter as your example. That is the same person who claimed women should bear arms but not be able to vote.
C. Perla, Miami
A. Wouldn't you sleep more soundly at night knowing Ann Coulter was in the Army and not in a voting booth?
If you like laughing at Ann Coulter, please don't miss these stories:
http://ifuckedanncoulterintheasshard.blogspot.com
http://backinanncoultersasssaddleagain.blogspot.c
(bye karma...)
TorrentSpy Rocks
Slashdot has RSS ads... but they also place the entire article listed on the site in the RSS feed. I can understand that a little better...
However, listing in a typical RSS feed (with just titles and summeries) is dumb. It's like a porn site where you never know if you are going to click on something legit or an ad.
Thanks. Working well thus far.
preceded by 1 30 SECOND commerical... sorry...
http://www.msnvideodownloads.com/
If it's anything like their current web-based service, each free 2-3 minute clip will be preceded by 1 30 minute commerical and 10 seconds of Microsoft ad space.
Plus, it looks like you'll have to sign in with passport.
If you sign-up for the free service, you'll have to agree to "INSTALL THE MSN MUSIC ASSISTANT"
On the positive side, it does look like it will have a bunch of stuff from FOOD TV. The more Alton Brown I can get, the better!
I always felt that my batteries did better after a couple of charges. Maybe the new one was too new?
What?
I have seen packets of it sending the current URL to questionable websites... especially right before it pops up a window.
Spyware, no doubt.
hah!
Actually, the DRM can be bypassed by having winamp send the audio straight to a raw WAVE file. Winamp stopped this previously by preventing DRM files from using a direct write-to-wav plug-in. However, this hack uses an additional plug-in to bypass this.
The sad thing is that the Output Stacker has been pulled from the winamp website.
Users have been posting links to sites that still contain Output Stacker in the forums.
This recipe contains the step-by-step directions for the hack and active links to the plug-ins.
As long as you can get it onto a computer, people are going to figure out how to make it copy it.
Just take the new napster mess where everybody is loading up on free music right now:
Napster/Winamp hack to get unprotected free music
I'll take the hit to my Karma.
:(
Johnny Carson is dead.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6504289/
RIP
AC
Genovese provided SecurityFocus with an address on his website featuring what appears to be grainy candid shots of Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, Nicole Richie, and Paris Hilton.
:)
Okay, all my Karma points for a link.
The same source also offers an explanation for the secrecy surrounding the case: the Secret Service, the source says, has offered to put the hacker to work, pleading him out to a single felony, then enlisting him to catch other computer criminals in the same manner in which he himself was caught. The source says that Jacobson, facing the prospect of prison time, is favorably considering the offer.
As much as we make fun of the computer knowledge of our governments, they finally seem to be on the right track. You must have some of these guys in your pocket to really have a chance. Can you trust them? Probably not completely... but if they bring you some knowledge, skills, and some of the most damaging players, then it's worth it.
You can also just download it from here:a milyId=AD724AE0-E72D-4F54-9AB3-75B8EB148356&displa ylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?F
Our initial impression is that it works as well as Giant software does.... with similiar false positives.
:)
It's a beast when it runs and will easily suck up all available CPU cycles.
It asks if you want to report your spyware information back to the mothership as a way to make that the global big-brother database is kept up to date. It asks at least.
You have to have admin rights to run... but you gotta imagine Microsoft pushing this thing in a few months... much like the SP2 roll-out.
Alex, I appreciate the link to tech-recipes, I need the traffic. :) But I'll save myself some bandwidth and just post the links here for you guys. :)
Direct Download Link from Microsoft
As a doctor I have felt this was silly for a long time... our EMTs are well trained and usually do the right things in transport until they get to us.
However, I have recently changed my mind.
Several new studies have shown in sepsis (severe infections) that the early treatment is the most important treatment. When you combine this with the "early is better" studies in heart attacks and strokes, I think the time has come for this.
Telemedicine is on its way... for better or for worse.
The true monopoly here is the cable and satellite companies.
They can package their services and rent them out cheaper than any of us can buy the hardware.
A good MPEG 2 capture card costs $150. Hard drive/CPU/video output is at least $200.
Heck, I can get PVR service for $8 a month.
As much as I would rather do-it-myself... it's hard to beat a rock-stable $8/month service.