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Online Revenue Models
Problem: The socioeconomic demographic of users that click on ads is poorer than average site visitors, and they make up only about 6% of visitors as a whole. Therefore, business models that depend on advertising alone to pay for content (or a web app) will struggle unless they have a big enough market/can reach a sufficiently large audience.

Solution: The cable company, for the Internet.
Bloggers, content publishers, or web app developers choose which content they want to offer as premium, or even the entire site.

This puts up a pay-wall for users that aren't subscribers.

The visitor can choose to either watch an ad, or pay $3.99/month to PremiumContent (insert catchy name here).

The user will then have access to all PremiumContent-affiliated web sites.

Content providers are paid from the user's monthly payment proportionately based on which ones are used most by the PremiumContent subscriber.

Economies of scale would allow each individual web site to realize more profit (instead of paying Paypal fees), so it's kind of a micropayments solution.

Subscribers would be able to influence the pay-out to a specific URL with an "I like this" button.

This would allow journalists to write more well-researched articles that aren't tainted by the political conflict of ad sponsors.

Please critique and thank you for reading.
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Agree, and I'd throw in the example of Drupal: the core and a set of well written contributed modules are pretty decent. The rest of the contributed modules are mostly hacked together, poorly documented, half-working garbage.
I find that telling jokes is a better way to pick up girls than writing a proof as to why I am a superior mating candidate.

Weird, huh?
I love the iGlove. It's so bad.
As long as Apple holds it the right way, the press conference will work correctly.
It turns out rather hopeless appealing people with skills you don't have.
"The police detained Australia."

Sounds like a huge operation. By the way, I also love strawberries. Does that make me a bad person?
Well, truth is stranger than fiction:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/02/apple_glove_patent/

Edit: And it looks like someone's beaten me to the joke:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bL8PB_w0-8
Yeah they are going to announce the new Apple TV with iTunes, Hulu, NetFlix, Justin.tv and ESPN360 integration; all in 1080i HD and for only $99.
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tape + iphone 4
As the founder of the company, I'd like to say that we don't plan on any changes to the business model or pricing.

We've grown Atlassian 3x over the last 3 years, all by following our current model of reasonable, transparent pricing, and selling in volume to thousands of customers around the globe.

There are things we want to improve of course (around our products - we're never done with improving them), but we don't plan to change our model.

We spoke at great length with Accel Partner about this. They like us for what we are, not what we could be if we changed.
Over-the-top pretentious pseudo-cool! Which means they wrap right around back to cool.
SAS has a profit sharing programming. That's often a better deal for employees.

In SAS's case they pay up to $70,000 as a bonus, in Canada anyway: http://www.eluta.ca/top-employer-sas-canada. Averages seem to range from $9000 to $32,000 (http://www.glassdoor.com/Bonuses/SAS-Institute-Bonuses-E3807...)
Confirmed this guy is obnoxious: http://i.imgur.com/wffx2.png

My respect for Matt just jumped ten-fold for being so calm with this guy and I am not even a fan-boy.
Coming from VS I love netbeans for writing Rails code in.

I became very spoiled by Visual Studio's ability to let you explore libraries via intellisence. Netbeans is the only Ruby IDE I've found that comes close to letting you do that.
Tests don't make code work. The problem I've experienced with the Ruby commumity is a constant belief in "this can't be that hard, I'll just throw one together". One day I traced a major bug in a client's app to their Ruby webserver not handling HTTP 100 Continue correctly... that simply should not happen. Pulling apart the server I found that most of the behavior was hardcoded for common clients, and certainly no one had bothered to read the HTTP spec. That wasn't an isolated problem, either, but I feel like I need not go into every single library bug I've run into. I simply did not get that feeling from the large number of Java libraries I used to use, many of which were actually the official reference implementation for the specification. ;( Bugs, yes; completely misunderstanding the problem domain and thereby not really being worth using, no.
It's unfortunate Chris showed himself this way. He came across as a nice guy and impressive business owner in his previous Mixergy interview.

He is clearly emotionally invested in this debate and would be better off letting someone else represent his side in the future (PR person, lawyer, parrot etc).
Doesn't every theme call WordPress methods in order to get posts, use widgets, etc?
"Why advertise this way?"

How else is your brand going to be talked about incessantly and shared over the Internet by millions across the world? All in a 24/48 hour period. No other brand is currently being talked and raved about currently and in the same volume.

I'd love to see the effect this campaign had on their sales.
Another problem is that lilypond is slow, and any WYSIWYG interface to it would either bypass the compiler to show a "preview" of the score or would have a horrible lag whenever the user edited something. This might not be obvious, but adding or removing (or even changing the pitch/duration of) a single note can potentially lead to a solution with completely different appearance (after all it's a dynamic programming algorithm that lays things out, considering all sorts of "badness" in the style of tex). If you remove this specificity for some greedy techniques, then it will no longer have lilypond's quality.
Once you've changed that one word, how do you change all the places that reference it?
So get skills? That seems much more productive than convincing people that you have skills that you don't.
You cant fight against open source. The masses will always side with open source. But I can't blame Chris Pearson for not wanting to mess with his cash flow. Chris needs to really start thinking Legacy > Currency.
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How this article makes it clear that objective-c, java, or ... is more maintainable or easier to work with, is beyond me.

They offer a perfectly good hypothesis, actually: Obj-C and Java are older and more mature.

That has obvious drawbacks: It would be impossible to redesign Java, now, to the extent that Rails 3 just got redesigned. But, though certain Java libraries may suck, you can rest assured that they will suck in exactly the same way in five years. Not so with Rails. The platform moves, and you have to move as well.

Another obvious point is that Rails (a) just went through a big version change, which just happens to coincide with a push toward Ruby 1.9; that double-whammy is bound to produce some yelps of pain; and (b) Rails is slowly maturing as well. Sooner or later Rails will be as mature as Java is today. How will we know when that has happened? When occasional gentle rants like this one turn into numerous, big, influential rants about the prospect of breaking backward compatibility; that will be a sign that the cost of change outweighs the benefit. And then it will be time for a new framework to inherit the role of young upstart...
Because your product is exactly the same as everybody else's. Faced with a choice between Axe, whose ads give off an image I don't like, and Old Spice, whose ads give off an image I do like, I might pick Old Spice.

I'm on a horse.

Seriously though, do you actually not understand that not everybody in the universe is hyper-rational and will occasionally make purchasing decisions based on ineffable considerations of "image", or are you merely rhetorically whining that not everybody in the universe is as hyper-rational as you imagine yourself to be?
I did it much cheaper than you.

I used 4 stacks of paper for keyboard, an empty cardboard box for my mouse, and a pencil holder to tilt my monitor when I'm standing.

When my legs get tired, it takes 10 seconds to remove all of that and sit down again.
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The bottom has dropped out of everything since Napster, since Napster's rise coincided with the availability of high-speed internet access. The internet is an entertainment and information source, and all traditional entertainment and information sources have seen a decline.

There's more supply out there. Demand for a specific commodity goes down because if it. It's really basic, and only peripherally related to piracy.

Ask around: I'll bet you find close to 100% of your peers say if their TV watching habits have changed in the past ten years, hours in front of the set have only gone down. Extrapolate.
I find that writing jokes is a great way to show girls that I am not a superior mating candidate.
Yah, I don't always agree with Dave. Smart, interesting, productive guy but ...

I agree Apple totally mishandled this. I even wrote investor_relations today expressing concern.

They do need to get their PR, no, fuck PR, fire them all and just do real customer relations.
Mark, in no way did i trash on the Rails framework. I basically said that I find 3rd party frameworks to be less reliable than I have seen on other platforms. I also said that being on Rails has still helped Posterous tremendously and I'm appreciative of that.

Seems like you're trying to pick a fight here.
It's 201 karma. ;)
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Placing my bet: Free bumpers
It goes further than that, and most modern machine learning methods are fundamentally defined in a "minimizing ugliness" framework.
You can always fix it after you get the run time error ;)
They are not conscious of their mortality because they have been denying it all their life.

'Your grand pa did not ceased to be, he just went to a better place' is the lie they tell to their children, and in a minor grade, to themselves.

All those 'life after death', 'angels', 'ghosts', 'zombies' and reincarnation movies and TV programs also help accomplish that.

Now, you are not being pessimistic, just stating a fact. However, whatever the most average person can think should not and does not affect the way I see life.
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Matt, much much respect for acting like a true gentleman and staying calm, you showed Chris what he is really like by letting him make a fool of himself!
Thank you, I agree 100% and this is basically the gist of my post.

That's why there is so much fragmentation in ruby gems. When one gem fails to do something, a developer thinks, "well I can just do this myself and do it better!"

And do you end up with 10 gems that all do roughly the same thing, but not perfectly, each designed by and for a different person.
Except for the fact that Apple already said the press conference was for the iPhone 4.
As a former landlord, I can answer the latter: because it's free and it was good enough.

If there was a better free website, I'd use that; but it would have to be hugely better than Craigslist for me to open my wallet.
I suspect that this won't be a problem for grellas, whose company is his law firm.
The company that put his computer together is still around:
http://optek-inc.com/
Were you making a snarky comment about my grammatical error or where you agreeing with me? ... maybe
Yes. Everyone knows 'cool' follows pacman rules.
Does that mean a Microsoft COO is admitting that Vista is bad then? That is bigger news to me

Really? They did that years ago.[1]

And since Windows 7 is just a polished Vista...

That old chestnut, huh? Something like, "Windows 7 is a 64-bit tweak of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit user interface for an 8-bit operating system for a 4-bit architecture from a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."

Wikipedia has a good article on new features in Windows 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

[1] EDIT: Reading comprehension failure on my part: somehow I missed the capital "COO" in the sentence. However, various Microsoft employees at various levels in the company have admitted Vista is bad.
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Hey guys, not sure if you know about this yet or if you're interested, but a group of people over at reddit created http://oldspicevoicemail.com using his voice. Go check it out if you get a chance.
After they first tried to downplay it, then claimed it was a display issue, I honestly can't see them admitting it's a design issue. They've dug themselves into a hole.

I think it'll be an all out pro PR offensive.

They will announce/reveal 4.01 with the "improved signal display", and reiterate that the antenna on the iPhone is actually better (probably true), and that all phones are susceptible to signal loss if held a certain way (true, but massively disingenuous). They'll also talk about how few people have returned them for a refund due to this issue, but they will extend that offer anyway.

There may be some announcement of cheap/free bumpers, but if so it will be presented as something that helps ALL phones avoid interference, not just the iPhone 4, and they're doing it because they want their customers to have the best experience. These bumpers will be either black, or a different "I have the free signal panic bumper" color to keep enticing people to pay $30 for a $3 piece of plastic.

I suspect they hope that this message and the subsequent articles by the carefully picked pro-Apple press will be enough to make the signal issue go away, or at least become something people have no interest in talking about any more.
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It seems it will catch people in order to raise revenue but not stop people from initially thinking twice about running that particular intersection and maybe saving a life.
I believe so. For me, I'm always squashing stress balls (not because I'm stressed), twirling pens around my fingers, or playing with rubber bands (in addition to bouncing legs).

I've always been on the thin side which people put down to high metabolism, but I suspect a lot of it is also to the fact I am in fact almost always in motion (even if only a small part of me).
His point is that he HAS to monkey patch, but it clearly saying that it shouldn't have to be that way, if the underlying frameworks, plugins, and gems simply worked the way they should from the beginning.
I gotta say, I was in the audience for this and it was stunning to hear. If you have not listened to the full audio it is well worth the listen. Huge props to Andrew for doing awesome moderation. This whole thing went down because his booked guest canceled so Andrew moderated this very heated discussion on the fly.
Themes, most likely; Apps, not likely. I think confusion occurs when themes become web apps with their own internal codebase outside of Wordpress as a blog platform.

The crux of this issue seems to be a philosophical debate.
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There is something to be said for the amazing contributions the Apache group has made to open source. I pick Java mainly to benefit from their brilliance (I suppose I could use Scala, Groovy, etc. instead though).
So instead of journalists being tainted by the political positions of companies that bought ads from them, they would be beholden to PremiumContent's politics?
Other url shortening providers are doing fine in the stream, with and without PowerTwitter. The screenshots I sent to Bit.ly show this. I guess Bit.ly would rather defame other services like PowerTwitter. Here are the emails:

From:	rex@bit.ly on behalf of Support @ Bit.ly (support@bit.ly)
Sent:	Wed 7/14/10 9:10 PM

What does the screenshots prove? Power Twitter has nothing to do with Bit.ly. You may want to contact their support, as you state on 2 of the screenshots - the bit.ly works just fine. In screenshot 2, that is what you state "When link converters like Power Twitter are turned off" - turn them off if they are causing issues, contact their support about the issue you are seeing.

As far as the bit.ly goes, you even state they work fine. If somehow this is still misunderstood, please explain why you believe this is a bit.ly issue. As of now, there isn't one, and you even state that. Thank you.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:45 PM, I wrote:

Dear Shahzad Chaudhri, Andrew Cohen, Jehiah Czebotar, Richard DiMartino, Todd Levy, Hilary Mason, Michael Richman, Jay Ridgeway, and Gregory Tomlinson,

Since you were unable to realize the fact that Bitly has been hacked, I spent my lunch time putting together screen shots illustrating your inability to grasp what is going on with your service.

You owe me a sandwich.
Doesn't that usually involve giving up your passion? Not every skill is worth getting, don't get me wrong though - I am apprehensive at doing things just to please some people.
No. I also think that we are atoms in a void.

How that makes everything meaningless is totally beyond my grasp. It however mimics the message of 'doom' that some religious people uses to attack atheism.

Having read only a part of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach', I realize that the fact that we know some of the rules that atoms follow, and can predict how in average a given bunch of atoms will act, helps us nothing to explain how complex things form.

Never mind life, the most complex form of matter we know.

This in my view, makes all life (not just mine) very, very valuable. We are the most precious matter in the universe.

Most small things act 'in a way' when studied alone, but form incredibly complex patterns and 'behaviors' when acting in great groups that are totally unexpected, by anyone who studied the small things in single quantities.

In fact, a single brain will never be able to understand how a brain works. Thousands of brains, or a bigger electronic brain, probably can. But they themselves will never be able to explain how all the group or the electronic network works to produce knowledge.
Product exchange program. First 1,000 people to return their iPhone 4 get a free BlackBerry and $1,000 but can never use an iPhone again.
Wow, the amount of ignorance displayed here is significant. It's painful just listening to it, and the blatant double think -- I'm protecting my rights by disregarding your rights...
I equate Apple's problems to the Nintendo lawsuit over their wrist straps. Not everyone was throwing their controllers through their TV screens, but the select few who did caused an uproar. It also didn't stop Wii consoles from selling like hotcakes either. It took a class-action lawsuit to get Nintendo to take action. The solution was very simple -- give everyone free wrist straps for each of their controllers.

I think Apple needs to take a similar step to alleviate the problem.
It only makes sense if there's a competitive advantage to the upgrade. For the vast majority of businesses there isn't. In that scenario the cost of sticking with XP is actually a competitive advantage for those companies when the economy is weak and budgets are tight. For tech companies it's not an issue since tech is their business having the best is a competitive edge.
I think they are going to own up. I mean, even Microsoft called iPhone4 "Apple's Vista moment". Steve must have spit his coffee out and said "Oh crap! I have to make this right".

Anyway, that is what I am hoping.
For the amount of money it costs, Confluence's search is atrocious. Finding a document on Confluence can be an exercise in patience.
Guys, it's important for you to not frame your opinion solely on this interview. Take a look at Matt's tweets prior to this as well as his comments elsewhere. He's far from a gentleman or patient.
SMARTASS! :) Fair enough - that is admittedly not at all mathematically correct and we should have chosen a different way to graphically show which side was "winning". You got us - questionable design decision.
Bitly is run by a brown robot.
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Because their brand isn't better than the competition - it's just different. Old Spice and their competitors all have pretty much the same ingredients (save their scents), and work pretty much the same - and if one is slightly better, it's so little that you wouldn't lead an ad with that even if you could find a number.

Since they can't sell a concrete product as better than another one, they're selling the associated image - and betting that you will buy one of many indistinguishable products (theirs) because you like that image.

It's like Coke vs, Pepsi (or Sprite vs. 7-Up) - in a blind test, they taste pretty much the same. One isn't empirically better than the other. So instead they sell the images the drinks associate and the brands, and compete in that sphere.
Seriously, I feel like I just wasted 3 minutes of my life reading that article, then 1 minute typing this response. Writer is pissed because he waited in line for iPhone 4 and then his phone loses it's connection when he grips it a certain way. It's not the end of the world. Return the fucking phone and get on with your life. This feigned angst at being slighted by the big bad Apple that ruined your life is getting old.
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I have to agree... I hate to cross post, but I posted this in the other Apple thread:

I equate Apple's problems to the Nintendo lawsuit over their wrist straps. Not everyone was throwing their controllers through their TV screens, but the select few who did caused an uproar. It also didn't stop Wii consoles from selling like hotcakes either. It took a class-action lawsuit to get Nintendo to take action. The solution was very simple -- give everyone free wrist straps for each of their controllers.

I think Apple needs to take a similar step to alleviate the problem.

... and free bumpers would be it!
you should have taken the FriendFeed route and written your own blazing fast http server and framework. but no, you had to do it the lazy way. :)
I have not checked. Do other CMS projects force the GPL license on themes?
What's up with that esoteric rant about systems by Chris? What the hell is that guy talking about? Sounds like Sarah Palin.
Chris misinterprets GPL and fails to give valid argument. He even comes off as Sarah Palin of the WordPress community.
well, they have a real product and real paying customers. that goes a long way I hear.
You need to find yourself a friend that will be brutally honest on just how bad or offensive your jokes are. I found someone like that quite accidentally and it's really improved the quality of my humor from other people's perspective.

I'm still trying to figure out what makes some stuff funny and others not. For example randomly yelling "You're fuzzy!" at a cat during a heated discussion works if I use it sparingly around my close friends. Other people just give you weird looks. (My rule of thumb: most humor is best used sparingly and definitely around the proper audience.)
Perl definitely focuses on tests. I can't say "more" because that is subjective (although "I" think so). I would say the testing mindset is huge in the Perl community.
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Great analogy. You even had the PS3 (Android) and Xbox (Blackberry/RIM?) fanboys fueling the flames because 1 or 2 people threw their Wiimote through a flat screen (held their phone left handed while completely covering the antenna in a bad signal area).

My prediction: On Friday, they are going to announce that there are free bumpers available to all iPhone 4 customers. Total cost to Apple: about $5 a piece. Total sales lost - absolutely zero because everyone that actually owns the phone realizes it is the best phone they have ever had, and a free fix takes care of the only minor issue that it had.
I looked at his tweet, what are you referring to?