Eventually, Shirky theorizes, society will have to create a space that's implicitly private even though it's technically public, not unlike a personal conversation held on a public street
Now registering personal conversationheldonapublicstreetbook.com (starts coding)
I really don't think Radiohead expected to make more from the download then from regular record sales. It's an acknowledgment that there is no longer any value in the digital music file.
The mp3 is now being used as a promotional tool for the band. Building the brand and then selling other things that can be attached to it.
Will they make more money then if everyone bought a copy for $19.99. No way. That time has passed, technology gave musicians the ability to sell music, and now technology is taking it away. Bands will still make money, but not nearly as much as before.
From my experience any company/industry has ever adopted a mainframe system (Like the AS/400) never gets rid of it.
I believe this is because of the following reasons:
1.) Massive upfront investment. You can buy a PC for $500 bucks, a monthly lease payment on a mainframe is more then that. Since a customer is paying more, they feel they get more. 2.) Big and ugly. It looks like a safe, this inspires feelings of security, and durability. 3.) Limited User Interface. Yes I know a main frame can serve web pages, and run any type of app, but the programs that run on these systems are good old terminal applications. Once you learn the simple interface you can fly though applications. No mouse required.
Even though the system is clunky, ugly, and over priced companies will never give it up. The mainframe has become part of corporate culture.
This weekend I was at my Mother in law's house for dinner with my wife. Her computer was very old, PII running windows 2K. She was sick of it, and wanted a newer, faster computer. So being the computer expert in the family I went to Best Buy after dinner and picked out a nice little laptop, (Basic Celeron, 1 Gig of Ram) She loved it, it was small, compared to her old CRT and CPU. I pressed the power button to start what i figured would be a brief setup session.
It took 45 minutes to get past the 'Starting windows for the first time' (Rebooted 3 times) to a usable desktop.
45 Minutes with Vista pre installed. Give me a break.
GoDaddy has this thing where you pay $20, and when the domain becomes available they'll buy it for you and put it under your name. Has anyone tried this service and had it work? I have a sneaking suspicion that they are the ones doing the parking themselves (that's where I do most of my domain checks), and just trying to get another $10 out of you for the domain.
I have first hand experience with this. (I just got cl1p.com back).
GoDaddy.com backorder does not work, and never will. This article here explains why.
Basically the expired domain market is owned 100% by three players. Snapnames.com, enom.com, and pool.com. These guys are first in line when a domain expires.
I purchased godaddy.com backorder service to get my domain back from a squatter. I noticed that I was expiring in Dec 06. So I waited. When it got closer to the expiry's date I did a google search and found that godaddy.com would not work. I registered at snapnames.com, enom.com, and pool.com and its a good thing i did. It seams that domaincontender.com (The register the domain was currently under) has some sort of deal with snapdomains.com and puts it up for auction a few weeks before it can go to the other two players.
If I haven't registered, it would have probably gone to some other squatter.
Even with all the many perks at Google, you just can compete with freedom. Doing only what you want to do, and doing it the way you want to. That's something worth more then money.
But you need money to get there, it's the truth. Live below your means and you will get there. Live above your means and you never will, no matter how much you make.
TechCrunch makes $60,000 a month for just 2.5 Million page views. Thats $24 CPM ($ per 1000 page views), or 2.4 cents every time a page is rendered. This bubble will burst.
The average joe is lucky to get $2 CPM. Which I think is much more reasonable.
The thing is everyone at the C level has been working extreme flex time for many years. Its hard to notice that your staff isn't keeping working 8 - 6 when you don't.
I don't think anyone believes web 2.0 is bubble proof. While some of these companies are going for a ton of money. (youtube, myspace) given there ranking in terms of Internet traffic these amounts are not absurd.
The others seam to be going for less then 50Mil. This is not a lot of money considering how much it would cost a big company to.
a) duplicate the software, b) Advertise it, and build a brand c) grow a community.
On the topic of Java and Ajax you should check out icefaces, its a great Ajax framework and its completely free, and does not require any javascript programming.
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Eventually, Shirky theorizes, society will have to create a space that's implicitly private even though it's technically public, not unlike a personal conversation held on a public street
Now registering personal conversationheldonapublicstreetbook.com (starts coding)
I really don't think Radiohead expected to make more from the download then from regular record sales. It's an acknowledgment that there is no longer any value in the digital music file.
The mp3 is now being used as a promotional tool for the band. Building the brand and then selling other things that can be attached to it.
Will they make more money then if everyone bought a copy for $19.99. No way. That time has passed, technology gave musicians the ability to sell music, and now technology is taking it away. Bands will still make money, but not nearly as much as before.
And I'm not sure if thats a bad thing.
A long time ago i created a spell check task for ant to do just this.
http://code.google.com/p/antspell/
It looks like it has been forked http://code.google.com/p/bspell/ seams to be in active development.
Yes, that too.
From my experience any company/industry has ever adopted a mainframe system (Like the AS/400) never gets rid of it.
I believe this is because of the following reasons:
1.) Massive upfront investment. You can buy a PC for $500 bucks, a monthly lease payment on a mainframe is more then that. Since a customer is paying more, they feel they get more.
2.) Big and ugly. It looks like a safe, this inspires feelings of security, and durability.
3.) Limited User Interface. Yes I know a main frame can serve web pages, and run any type of app, but the programs that run on these systems are good old terminal applications. Once you learn the simple interface you can fly though applications. No mouse required.
Even though the system is clunky, ugly, and over priced companies will never give it up. The mainframe has become part of corporate culture.
Mod up. Right on the money.
This weekend I was at my Mother in law's house for dinner with my wife. Her computer was very old, PII running windows 2K. She was sick of it, and wanted a newer, faster computer. So being the computer expert in the family I went to Best Buy after dinner and picked out a nice little laptop, (Basic Celeron, 1 Gig of Ram) She loved it, it was small, compared to her old CRT and CPU. I pressed the power button to start what i figured would be a brief setup session.
It took 45 minutes to get past the 'Starting windows for the first time' (Rebooted 3 times) to a usable desktop.
45 Minutes with Vista pre installed. Give me a break.
GoDaddy has this thing where you pay $20, and when the domain becomes available they'll buy it for you and put it under your name. Has anyone tried this service and had it work? I have a sneaking suspicion that they are the ones doing the parking themselves (that's where I do most of my domain checks), and just trying to get another $10 out of you for the domain.
I have first hand experience with this. (I just got cl1p.com back).
GoDaddy.com backorder does not work, and never will. This article here explains why.
Basically the expired domain market is owned 100% by three players. Snapnames.com, enom.com, and pool.com. These guys are first in line when a domain expires.
I purchased godaddy.com backorder service to get my domain back from a squatter. I noticed that I was expiring in Dec 06. So I waited. When it got closer to the expiry's date I did a google search and found that godaddy.com would not work. I registered at snapnames.com, enom.com, and pool.com and its a good thing i did. It seams that domaincontender.com (The register the domain was currently under) has some sort of deal with snapdomains.com and puts it up for auction a few weeks before it can go to the other two players.
If I haven't registered, it would have probably gone to some other squatter.
They going to war and treating their customers like criminals, just in an attempt to get an extra 20-30%.
Of that 20-30% how many of them would switch to an alternative, if they couldn't get a pirated copy.
That 20-30% is how windows gets to 90%+ market share.
I about a hundred years, assuming no maintenance is required.
The only thing missing from tagging is search. The API is standard already, (Flickr -> pictures, del.icio.us -> Resource Sites, News Sites: News)
I would love to have a tag option in Google.
Even with all the many perks at Google, you just can compete with freedom. Doing only what you want to do, and doing it the way you want to. That's something worth more then money.
But you need money to get there, it's the truth. Live below your means and you will get there. Live above your means and you never will, no matter how much you make.
I just gave it a shot a few days ago. All I can say is WOW.
If you have not tried Ubuntu, please do. I can't say enough good things about it.
For some sites this is a bubble.
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TechCrunch makes $60,000 a month for just 2.5 Million page views. Thats $24 CPM ($ per 1000 page views), or 2.4 cents every time a page is rendered. This bubble will burst.
The average joe is lucky to get $2 CPM. Which I think is much more reasonable.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business
http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s26techcrunch
Time to build my coin melting robot!
Well If there is one thing humans can do, it's heat up a planet!
Please let me rephrase
Everyone at the C level has been on extreme flex time for year. It's hard to notice your staff isn't working 8 - 6 when you aren't.
The thing is everyone at the C level has been working extreme flex time for many years. Its hard to notice that your staff isn't keeping working 8 - 6 when you don't.
is the table?
Both Java apps, is Java king of temp e-mail apps?
As an aside, if this app makes it to the front page, then why not cl1p?
Putting people in cube farms is how a business tells you:
1. Your job is easy to do.
2. You are not vital to the companies goals.
3. You are easy to replace.
4. You are not likely to find anything better.
Are they wrong?
I don't think anyone believes web 2.0 is bubble proof. While some of these companies are going for a ton of money. (youtube, myspace) given there ranking in terms of Internet traffic these amounts are not absurd.
The others seam to be going for less then 50Mil. This is not a lot of money considering how much it would cost a big company to.
a) duplicate the software,
b) Advertise it, and build a brand
c) grow a community.
Its simply cheaper and easier for them to buy.
On the topic of Java and Ajax you should check out icefaces, its a great Ajax framework and its completely free, and does not require any javascript programming.
Check out their Component Showcase.
What about people who watch DVD's on the plane?
"We don't have major discoveries every week. But we do expect some major new discoveries when we get inside Victoria,"