We launched a new online service yesterday, ClickPyramid.com.
It's a system for small site owners (like us!) to generate traffic through network marketing. Basically, users of the service view 5 sites and grab codes from each page that comes up. They then enter these codes in a form, along with information about a site they would like to link to. Then they get a URL to advertise that has a list with their site at the top position and the top 4 sites on the prior list under it. Anyone following their link will go through the same process, moving the original person's ad to position 2.
Theoretically, your ad can go through 5 generations of linking (one for each position on the list) growing exponentially in reach with each iteration. Of course this type of growth is unlikely in the long term, but you should still see a decent traffic increase for a relatively modest amount of effort.
I have no intention of making money with ClickPyramid.com, especially since Google declined my AdSense application. :) I do hope it provides a useful tool for small developers like myself and gives small sites without an established audience their 10 seconds in the sun.
My article last week about operating systems made it to Slashdot.org after I submitted it in another shameless act of self promotion. (hey, if you don't promote yourself, who will? :) Unfortunately, I don't think many people read it. The article itself generated a ton of comments, but most of them substituted the word "Linux" for "Open Source" in the title and then went on to say why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. I agree with this assessment, but my goal was to move the argument away from Unix and towards free-as-in-speech Windows clones. I do appreciate all of the comments on the blog and the thoughtful emails I received.
Not too much is going on in the computer press that I can comment on right now. Apparently CA is selling off their Ingres unit and some people are (again) questioning the viability of open source as a business model. This is a little wierd, since Ingres wasn't an open source project before CA made it so, and this was only after it had lost all of its market share and most of its visibility. It isn't at all surprising that "yet another open source database" had a hard time establishing a market for itself in a very crowded space, but I think characterizing that as a failure of open source is similar to saying that Sybase declining in market share is a failure for capitalism. Products come and go, that's the way the world works.
Til next time.
It's a system for small site owners (like us!) to generate traffic through network marketing. Basically, users of the service view 5 sites and grab codes from each page that comes up. They then enter these codes in a form, along with information about a site they would like to link to. Then they get a URL to advertise that has a list with their site at the top position and the top 4 sites on the prior list under it. Anyone following their link will go through the same process, moving the original person's ad to position 2.
Theoretically, your ad can go through 5 generations of linking (one for each position on the list) growing exponentially in reach with each iteration. Of course this type of growth is unlikely in the long term, but you should still see a decent traffic increase for a relatively modest amount of effort.
I have no intention of making money with ClickPyramid.com, especially since Google declined my AdSense application. :) I do hope it provides a useful tool for small developers like myself and gives small sites without an established audience their 10 seconds in the sun.
My article last week about operating systems made it to Slashdot.org after I submitted it in another shameless act of self promotion. (hey, if you don't promote yourself, who will? :) Unfortunately, I don't think many people read it. The article itself generated a ton of comments, but most of them substituted the word "Linux" for "Open Source" in the title and then went on to say why Linux isn't ready for the desktop. I agree with this assessment, but my goal was to move the argument away from Unix and towards free-as-in-speech Windows clones. I do appreciate all of the comments on the blog and the thoughtful emails I received.
Not too much is going on in the computer press that I can comment on right now. Apparently CA is selling off their Ingres unit and some people are (again) questioning the viability of open source as a business model. This is a little wierd, since Ingres wasn't an open source project before CA made it so, and this was only after it had lost all of its market share and most of its visibility. It isn't at all surprising that "yet another open source database" had a hard time establishing a market for itself in a very crowded space, but I think characterizing that as a failure of open source is similar to saying that Sybase declining in market share is a failure for capitalism. Products come and go, that's the way the world works.
Til next time.
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