Adblock doesn't scare me. Adblock will not signal the end of the commercial web. Adblock will not bring Rapture upon the internet faithful before Armageddon. I don't care if they claim 300,000 people are downloading it a month. It just doesn't phase me. It's only physically blocking ads from people that mentally block them anyway. I make money on the internet. I make money off ...
An interesting mini-debate has been going around lately which started from Lussomo's decision to start including "sponsored links" inside their Free, Open-Source Forum Software, Vanilla. Matt Mullenweg made a short comment on the issue, as well as posing a question as to how well open-source projects are transitioning into the commercial sector. The issue fired up pretty fast once Duncan Riley posted an article on TechCrunch, ...
I just ran across an extraordinary site by R.I.M. (manufacturers of BlackBerry) and Sprint. The site illustrates of the key factors is doing viral right: don't sell to your intended audience. Obviously, they're not looking to actually sell to anyone terribly rich -- but that's exactly what the piece outlines. Most of the time the most successful viral pieces are the ones that either ignore, or make ...
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EARNING: He figures he needs to be making about $83 per day.
SAVING: He figures he needs to save up $20,000 (one year's living).
