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by javery 17y ago
Yes, my NC account was canceled. (and one of my sites made all of its money from Amazon Associates)
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by javery 17y ago
The countdown to their affiliate accounts being shutdown starts now.
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by javery 17y ago
It looks like the majority of TC is being run through Google Ad Manager with lots of inventory going to them (notice all the google ads). I don't see iSocket's ad script anywhere on their page, maybe they interface to Google Ad Manager?
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by javery 17y ago
Maybe they should stop saturday delivery and stop undercutting FedEx and UPS on shipping charges and they might stop losing money. The government only stops them from expanding their business and closing rural branches. Also sell sponsorshi
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by javery 17y ago
Is relying on blogging really the reason Fog Creek hasn't crossed over or is it because they write tools that only 5-10% of the programmer audience are interested in?
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by javery 17y ago
It appears so. I guess my main point was that MS seems to be trying to do what Apple does (limit hardware, make tough choices), but when you have vendors and partners that strategy is pretty rough on them.
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by javery 17y ago
If you read this article [1] (which is where I think the other sites are getting their quotes) then it sounds like its more than just a couple buttons: "There could be more to this than just the sin of having two buttons too many, however:
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by javery 17y ago
They kept trying to emulate their desktop success on mobile, build a general purpose operating system and then let any and every hardware manufacturer ship it with their hardware. It worked great on desktop, a thousand IBM clones beat down
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by javery 17y ago
I knew Windows inside and out, used it from 3.1 and could do just about anything I wanted to do and fix just about any issue. 3 years ago I moved to Mac OS and I am still working on getting myself to the same place.
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by javery 17y ago
This shows Microsoft is really trying to follow Apple's playbook here and stick with very strict hardware specifications. Honestly it's probably a smart move, if you don't think the hardware is perfect for the device then don't let users ru
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by javery 17y ago
The design of something is the first indicator I use to evaluate how trustworthy a site is. The better the design the more I know that these people put alot of thought into it and spent money and time on it. Now, overly clever stuff is defi
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by javery 17y ago
I agree with most of the content of the article but the term passive income always bothers me, running both styles of businesses right now (subscription and ad firm) I can tell you that neither of them feels very passive.
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by javery 17y ago
Servers and Bandwidth for a site doing 1 million page views a month should cost at most a couple hundred bucks, maybe $500 if you go overboard. If he is spending $1900 a month on servers that is ridiculous.
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by javery 17y ago
The site looks nice and I get the idea, I think the only problem is that I would see this as way to formal with my friends and family. If I pick up dinner with friends, or if I pay his part of the cab fare.. he just buys me dinner or a beer
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by javery 17y ago
I don't know why they don't just move these off to their own section, like NC-17 rated section and make it so they don't show up in the charts. The room at the back of the movie store has worked for decades and seems like a perfect strategy
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by javery 17y ago
[bug] - search for books with nothing in search field.
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by javery 17y ago
How quickly will Moby Dick be the most read book on this site....
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Alibris to acquire Amazon partner Monsoon Works.(amazonstrategies.com)
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by javery 17y ago
That's the most interesting piece to me, they slipped in that basically everyone who was using Ad Manager for 90M+ now has to pay. As someone who is working on a for-pay ad server this is good news.
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by javery 17y ago
Not totally random as the first 5 seem to stay in the top 5.
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by javery 17y ago
If you have something with a fairly simple architecture then I would stick with Heroku or Slicehost, they are both very affordable. If you need more flexibility I would go with EC2 (or EC2 through Engine Yards Cloud stuff)
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by javery 17y ago
http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/39545/possible-negat... - interesting comment from Joel over on meta.stackoverflow.com
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by javery 17y ago
Didn't think it was an attack, was just using my experience as a reference. :) I agree that lots of affiliate stuff is valuable, I wrote a site a couple years ago that makes it money through affiliate ads and provides value to both the vend
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by javery 17y ago
There is plenty of information out there from great companies who are making money from day 1 while providing value, it seems like it's pretty damn simple actually. Create a product that does something useful, charge people for it.
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by javery 17y ago
That's quite a leap you made there, the businesses I run have been profitable from day 1 and also provide value to people. Making money is one of the best ways to know that are providing value, if people will pay for your app on a monthly b
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by javery 17y ago
When did "build something people want" turn into making money at any cost? This is the 2nd or 3rd highly voted article about ways to make money without building a startup that provides meaningful value to it's users.
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by javery 17y ago
Thoughtful aggregation does add value, to me it sounded like the idea was to grab the first X videos on youtube.
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by javery 17y ago
Yeah, the people who created the owl videos are providing value, youtube is providing value by making them available, the owl site is just leaching off of that to make a buck.
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by javery 17y ago
So these might be great ways to make a little bit of money, but they don't really create value (except for the theme). Creating a successful startup should be more about creating value then making money, if you create value the money will c
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by javery 17y ago
That's because most of the Review my startup posts are really "check out my weekend project I threw together". You can get all the advice you need through great books and online content, and reach is simply a matter of building up your onli

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