I was reading the latest Business 2.0, and in it was an interesting article on Various, the company that owns AdultFriendFinder (amongst many other *FriendFinder.com sites). It also had an article on LibraryThing, where people can pay to list books they own (the first 200 are for free). An interesting point by the owner of [...]
We keep an eye out for mentions of our properties. Two reasons: 1) useful suggestions and 2) mis-information I recently read this post on optimizing a specific website. One of their suggestions was the following: Check stat metrics and see when the last time BlogTopSites or BlogFlux sent you traffic — you’d be surprised. Why [...]
With big sites like Blog Flux, when you deliver a service, you better have it ready for scaling. We cache every single pagerank request to our Pagerank Checker. Obvious reason – PR updates rarely, and when it does, we can just flush the cache. In the meantime, if we keep asking Google the pagerank every [...]
Synergy was an awesome buzzword. Not only does it mean something, it just sounds awesome. If you had synergy, you couldn’t go wrong. People have often asked me – is there something wrong with me? Do I have ADD? (not to imply ADD is wrong, but you get the idea). Why can’t I just *focus* [...]
It was interesting last night -I talked to the other data brokers. No one has a clue. One of the reps claimed 20 million listings (their first question was how many listings we had). Yet their own ads spoke of more than 5 million less. TrueLocal claims 92% accuracy – how can they measure that, [...]
Having driven 1200 km (roughly 750 miles) in 36 hours, I truly realize that driving a long way to ‘relax’ is a surefire recipe for disaster Regardless, blogging will be light for a while. Nose to the grindstone for the impending launch of iBegin Source, and if it all goes right, it should be live [...]
iBegin Source [click to see magical quotes] is right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing for me: break time Driving off to some interesting natural hot-springs resort with the missus to prepare the body for the onslaught. Be back soon
We just sold a notable site for a decent sum. Will post about it soon. Read about CSSVault being sold.
I’ve bought dozens of sites. From smallish ($250) to largish ($xx,xxx) one of the first pains we go through is – what to do with the site. One thing I hate about PHP is how simple it is. If you thought BASIC was easy, PHP is even simpler. It makes complex things so simple anyone [...]
I never understand people who try to build a large web-presence on the back of a $7.99 hosting plan. The same people that will spend 10x that on lattes in a month. What I do find amusing is when people claim that hosting fees are a negligent part of a web-business. Ugh. Hosting is one [...]