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How to market your website on the cheap, by co-founder of reddit.com
- axod 19y agoNice article. But did it really need to be delivered to me via flash? :/ Maybe a youtube video of a camera panning over a printed out copy next? Or perhaps a Doom level file where the pages are texture mapped onto the walls.
- utnick 19y agoyou should start a competitor to scribd called doomd that does just that
- jrockway 19y agoTo be perfectly honest, either of those options would work better (for me) than Scribd. I use GNU Gnash instead of Adobe's Flash. YouTube works fine, but Scribd doesn't work at all. Doom is also pretty easy to get working, so that would honestly be better. All in all, I can't read this article, because it's locked up in some proprietary crapware. -1.
- kirubakaran 19y agoAlso, Websense at work blocks Sribd saying: "ACCESS RESTRICTED - Website categorized as Personal Network Storage" Can anyone please host the pdf in your server and post a link?
- 0x44 19y agohttp://indistinct.org/marketing.pdf http://indistinct.org/marketing.pdf
- kirubakaran 19y agoThanks!
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- fendale 19y agoI had the same problem, but that url isn't working for me - guess I will have to wait until I get home to read it!!
- 0x44 19y agoIt should be working now, I had some problems this afternoon while trying to upgrade my gems, turns out that gem tries to load the entire tree into memory before operating. On a slice with only 256MB of ram, it sort of demolished everything. Sorry about that.
- wanorris 19y agoWow, I didn't know anyone was so paranoid about their own employees that they went out of their way to block network storage. Do you work for the DoD or something?
- axod 19y agoI think websense blocks pretty much anything that looks remotely like you could use it for personal purposes instead of business. They seem pretty harsh.
- martin 19y agoIt's common in places like banks where they need to present at least the illusion that they're doing whatever they can to prevent the flow of confidential information out of the company.
- omouse 19y ago> "ACCESS RESTRICTED - Website categorized as Personal Network Storage" Translation: "Find a new company to work for." They should be restricting you from viewing News.YC too ;)
- jkent 19y agoDoes make you wonder - why port PDFs to be cross platform when they already are?
- dmoney 19y agoMakes me wonder, why put stuff on the web as PDF's at all. Cross-platform or not, browsers handle HTML much better than they handle Flash or PDF. IMO, PDF only makes sense for e-books, and then only if the book-like formatting is important enough and wouldn't work as a web page.
- joshwa 19y agoBecause flash is faster, less bloated, and integrates with browsers better than most PDF viewers.
- Andys 19y agoInteresting perspective. As a mostly non-Windows user, I would much rather spawn a lightweight XPDF process than have to deal with the flash plugin not working properly cross-platform. I guess I'm saying, with PDF I get a choice; with flash, you have to use the official flash player to get most things to work.
- tx 19y agoNo, flash is slower and more bloated. Both of my PDF readers (on mac and ubuntu) work much faster than flash plugins. But much more importantly, Flash completely ignores every single visual setting I have set up on my PC: from font rendering options to colours and default zooming. But what's even more important, is WHY THE F... do I need an animation plugin to read goddamn text on the internet?
- kn0thing 19y agoOMG OMG THEY STOLEZ MAH CONTENTZ! j/k If you liked reading that, you'll probably like reading my blog, http://redditAll.com http://redditAll.com, in which case, you'd really like my current project, http://breadpig.com http://breadpig.com, unless you're not into pig superhero-led uncorporations -- in which case, what the hell is wrong with you?
- joshwa 19y agoJust ordered some LOLMagnetz. OMFG awesome.
- hooande 19y agoSecond time today I've seen creating fake users suggested as an option for new sites. Is anyone actually doing this? I know we certainly did it on the social site I used to own. It turned out ok, I guess. It certainly seems sketchy to me now. It seems like you would just want to improve your product until you got a lot of legitimate users, but that might or might not be the best way to go about it.