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Mark Madsen: Clipper, ex-Laker and domain name speculator(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
2 points by bjplink 17y ago|1 comments
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by bjplink 17y ago
Here's a question this post prompts for me: What is a startup and what is just a website that sells license plates? People use the term startup, around here especially, a whole bunch but it feels to me like there should be some kind of clea
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by bjplink 17y ago
For what it's worth, 100% of my fear wasn't about you being right but about Yahoo being officially dead.
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by bjplink 17y ago
The very first thing I thought of when this deal was announced was how similar it felt to how Google first got traction by lending their technology to a Yahoo "front-end." This feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water all over a
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by bjplink 17y ago
I'm not 100% sure Google Voice is a valid example for this theory but here goes: By accepting applications that compete with the iPhone's core capabilities they stand to lose way more revenue than they do by angering some nerds by banning t
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by bjplink 17y ago
How many people out there know someone with an Android phone? I personally don't know anyone but I run in a decidedly non-techie social circle. I think we sometimes think our outrage over "huge mistakes" have something in common with the ge
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by bjplink 17y ago
The problem with complaining about being imposed on via Twitter is that you can't be imposed on unless you invite them to bother you. While spammers, scammers and a-holes run rampant on Twitter right now they're only effective if you open t
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by bjplink 17y ago
I find this particularly interesting because I run a golf handicap site with a free account that lets you enter up to 5 rounds worth of scores. At that point, the demo shuts down and you need to upgrade to lift the barrier. The limit of 5 w
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by bjplink 17y ago
This story is kind of more of the same and I'm sure a lot of the readers here have heard it before; if not about Joel in particular, than at least about ArsDigita and Razorfish and this era of the tech boom in general. What IS interesting t
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by bjplink 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is "obviously questionable" or not but every person who sells a WordPress theme or plugin apparently doesn't have a leg to stand on if anyone challenges them by releasing their works for free.
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by bjplink 17y ago
Spammers have thousands of accounts each on Twitter. I don't see anyone suggesting that they should spend a billion dollars to buy the service. What reason would Google possibly have for ever buying Twitter? I would hope they're gun-shy on
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by bjplink 17y ago
6. Bots (spiders) are excluded from JavaScript based analytics To me that is actually a benefit of JS based analytics programs. When I check Google Analytics in the morning I don't want to see how many search engine bots and scrapers hit my
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Themes are GPL, too(wordpress.org)
2 points by bjplink 17y ago|0 comments
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by bjplink 17y ago
This site isn't nearly spammy enough for the savages over at Digital Point but Flippa might be worth a try. Also, if you're serious about selling, put a very visible graphic on every page with a link to a sales pitch PDF. The basic stuff ev
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by bjplink 17y ago
I've only had my iPhone since the 3GS launched (so barely two full weeks) but I've already stopped taking my laptop with me when I work out of town. I used to lug my laptop around as more of a precautionary measure and not out of necessity.
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by bjplink 17y ago
This is actually a really clever way to advertise his real site: http://themeshaper.com I'm sure a lot of people will follow the funnel from this site to his store. And if they don't he's only out a $10/year domain registration fee and so
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by bjplink 17y ago
Here's a few of the more common places to buy and sell domain names: http://www.dnforum.com http://flippa.com/buy-websites?filterby=domains http://www.sedo.com http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=59 That should be enou
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by bjplink 17y ago
Third vote for Fusion. I'm on 4 gigs of RAM as well and I run XP alongside my other programs all day without problems.
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by bjplink 17y ago
I've been a freelance web developer, off and on, since I graduated from college in 2003. My latest "freelance stint" has just recently passed the one year mark. In between I've had full-time jobs for people who eventually became steady free
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by bjplink 17y ago
You're right. I believe the premise of the $7 ebook is that $7 is the "breaking point" price that people can buy something they're unsure about and not be upset that they've wasted too much money.
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by bjplink 18y ago
I originally wrote an incredibly snarky reply (it even had a link to a simple Google search) but I'm reconsidering now... In any collegiate environment you should be able to find plenty of art students looking for opportunities to build a p
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by bjplink 18y ago
I have some experience building enterprise software and I'd have to say the problem was that it is mind numbingly boring to do. A lot of it sucks, so to speak, because people can't stay motivated to give a damn. It's pretty soul crushing to
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by bjplink 18y ago
I think all of Stunt Software's products come with 20 day trials. My experience is with version 2 of On The Job but the newest edition looks even better so I'm probably going to upgrade shortly.
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by bjplink 18y ago
As a Mac user, I'm a huge fan of On The Job ( http://stuntsoftware.com/OnTheJob ). You enter in a task and the charge per hour, hit play and go to work. You hit stop when you're done and it builds the invoice for you automatically.
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by bjplink 18y ago
Ha, I knew that one would provoke a response. Click fraud is a very real problem with AdSense that I wish drew more attention. I'm going to stop now because this is diverging into a pissing match of sorts, but I've been in the business of m
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by bjplink 18y ago
I can think of two things, right off the top of my head, that FeedBurner could do better: #1. Accurately measure subscriptions. That seems obvious but FeedBurner is actually terrible at one of their core features. It's not uncommon for your
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by bjplink 18y ago
For every person making $XXX a day with AdSense there are a thousand making $XXX a year. Or things are humming along smoothly until you wake up one morning and you've been smart priced back to the stone age and aren't making anything per cl
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by bjplink 18y ago
The problem with ad revenue as a business model is that you're beholden to something you can't control directly that is controlled by a third party. With products/subscriptions it's an A to B relationship without the extra C group of advert
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by bjplink 18y ago
I spent several years working for a very small commercial printer and was in charge of the billing/inventory system there. Eventually, since I was tracking the raw materials, I was put in charge of ordering paper. We only three mid-sized pr
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by bjplink 18y ago
I have some experience in the printing industry and this doesn't come as much of a surprise to me. Printing is a hugely difficult business to turn a profit with. The harsh reality is that the cost of doing business is so high that profits a

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