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You have zero credibility until you spill which sites you started.

yeah agreed

1, His latest "website" is using a gmail account for his old website talkburst@gmail.com....you'd think a millionaire entrepreneur would have his own email account

2. His old website only has a PR of 1 and doesn't even rank for it's own name on Google.

3. No other sites that he is connected with

TalkBurst isn't a success of mine. I own sites that rank in Alexa's top 50 and 500.

sure you do, that's why on your facebook page the only pages you link to are the 2 "failures"

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503922675

btw here is a list of the top 50 Alexa sites...and you aren't a founder of a single one of them:

google, facebook, youtube, yahoo, live.com, wikipedia, baidu, blogger, msn, qq, twitter, yahoo japan, google india, tao bao, google germany, google HK, sina, wordpress, myspace, google uk, microsfot, amazon, google france, bing, ebay, yandex, google japan, 163, google brazil, linkedin, flickr, mail.ru, fc2, craigslist, google italy, rapid share, vkontakte, google spain, livejasmin, conduit, soso, imdb, bbc, go, aol, double click, apple, sohu, blogspot youku

Damn, it's not in the top 50 anymore? That sucks. I haven't checked it in a while.

I didn't expect this thread to turn into a big investigation.

I suppose I can reveal a closed site of mine (one of my first success's) I was the sole founder of MovieForumz.com which reached a best rank of around 480ish (global) and had profits in the millions.

I'm a top ClickBank affiliate and part of the APEX program. If you are also part of APEX, you can can confirm my e-mail address in the leaked e-mail from them last year (they used CC instead of BCC).

MovieForumz.com sounds shady (and was http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://MovieForumz.com).

I wonder why you'd link to this. Everyone here tries to figure out if you're a hoax or not, linking to a (illegal) sharing site doesn't really help.

That's why it's closed.

When it was runnning, linking to copyright content(on sites like YouTube and DailyMotion) wasn't considered infringement. I made a strategic decision to shutdown after that changed (court precedents where set that could now be used against me)

LOL MovieForumz.com Alexa rank 9,684,222

Several sites that rank in Alexa's Top 50 and Top 500. I'm not sure if I want to reveal them at this point, for various reasons.

I'm pretty sure I don't believe you at this point, for obvious reasons. You come out making grandiose claims and then get cagey when somebody asks for even the most basic details? Would YOU believe you in our shoes?

I'm not getting "cagey" - I'm just not sure if I'm going to reveal my sites right now. Plenty of people know what I've created and you could probably figure some of them out yourself. Others you probably won't figure out.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=503922675

That's my Facebook if anyone wants to add me.

Wouldn't revealing your sources be beneficial in making this new project, SinkFloat, a success? I've seen several posts on HN move to the top because the person behind them was credible.

You clearly have no concept of what it means to be a Top 50 or even Top 500 site.

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