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My Pagerank dropped, so what?

A few weeks ago everyone in the publisher space was running around like a chicken with it's head cut off because everyone selling Text Links suddenly found their PageRank halved or worse. Or at least, their toolbar PageRank. I saw the announcement, and kind of shrugged. The effects Here is some hard stats from a site that gets around 200 searches a day from google. This is ...

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Why I believe Twitterific should be free

Just a couple of days ago, IconFactory released a new version of Twitterific -- Twitterific 3.0. Since Twitterific first came out, I've been a huge fan of the program. It's what made Twitter useful, especially during the time that the website was taking 30 seconds to 5 minutes to load. Why I suddenly feel jipped My first reaction was: finally! I can use Twitterific on Leopard again! YES! My ...

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Sometimes, we have a bad month

Sorry it's been so long since an update -- no excuses here, other than being insanely busy with work. So let's get on to it: this past month (October) was a really shitty month for me, earnings-wise. I earned less across the board on all of my programs, and my main money maker (DreamHost) totally dried up for me this month with effectively no incoming money. But ...

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Tips to success: amass content

One of my biggest flaws as a designer/developer is the rate at which I tend to abandon projects. I find that I'll crank through a thousand lines of code in a caffeine-fueled weekend and make something from scratch to launch in under forty-eight hours. But then as time passes, I neglect the project and it dies a slow, painful death. One tip to combat this I've ...

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Sometimes…

Sometimes I sit at home and wish I could do whatever I wanted for a living. Not just working for myself -- that's easy enough in today's booming economy. I mean sometimes I just want to be able to sit at home all day and fool around with new technologies. Some days I just want to sit down and really learn Flex. Or maybe create ...

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Studio Rockstar is a site dedicated to those internet entrepreneurs out there. Stick around and learn how K makes his money, and tips for how to build your own online empire.

Got a question you want to ask K? Email him at k@studiorockstar.com.

The Goal

K's trying to make enough to quit his dayjob. He thinks there's two ways to this: saving or earning.

EARNING: He figures he needs to be making about $83 per day.

$19.08

SAVING: He figures he needs to save up $20,000 (one year's living).

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