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I think this post is a hoax. A lot of things don't add up. I thought there would be more interesting security posts and this is the only post on the entire site. The site was registered just 2 days ago, see http://www.whois.com/whois/7xter.com . Then if you search on Google for the email that registered the site (laksshmanan51@gmail.com) you get this http://apnahindisms.blogspot.mx/2014/09/bewafa-shayari-in-hi.... that has "You can earn huge using your Facebook page. Please let me know if you are interested. Shoot me a mail laksshmanan51@gmail.com"

I think this post is a hoax. A lot of things don't add up.

I thought there would be more interesting security posts and this is the only post on the entire site.

The site was registered just 2 days ago, see http://www.whois.com/whois/7xter.com . Then if you search on Google for the email that registered the site (laksshmanan51@gmail.com) you get this http://apnahindisms.blogspot.mx/2014/09/bewafa-shayari-in-hi... that has "You can earn huge using your Facebook page. Please let me know if you are interested. Shoot me a mail laksshmanan51@gmail.com"

Didn't anyone else find this post suspicious ?

I browsed through the site thinking there were some other interesting security posts.

Turns out this is the only post on the site. Then I did a Whois and this site was created 2 days ago. It's registered to laksshmanan51@gmail.com which is apparently the same guy on the post. Then I did a search on Google for laksshmanan51@gmail.com and there are search results with "You can earn huge using your Facebook page. Please let me know if you are interested. Shoot me a mail laksshmanan51@gmail.com"

This just doesn't pass the smell test with me, seems to me this guy just pwned a lot of people to get ad clicks or something else.

Using PhoenixNAP.com/SecuredServers.com in Arizona for a few months now. Pretty stable so far for a sub-$100 dedicated with 2-drives/Software RAID-1 & 8GB of RAM.

Limestonenetworks is also good in Texas, but starter servers are over-$100 for a similar 2-drive/RAID-1/8GB RAM box.

We've built a 'Cargo freemium' application to format and convert videos. We give away daily free quotas and charge for additional quotas (if the user can't wait for the next day or has a lot of videos).

We're still on trial and error mode on what to give away for 'free' and price points.

At the start most users didn't even use 1/2 their free quota s. Which is both good and bad. Good in that most 'free' users weren't putting a strain on the servers, but it's also bad because if they were leaving half-empty (quota on the table), there was little incentive to pay up. The other variable in the process is that if the 'free' quota is too low, nobody is able to 'test' their videos for free (so it's a balancing act to get average video size too to fit in the free quota)

User acquisition and marketing has been the most problematic for us. Our conversion for paying customers is still in the 1/50 range! If you consider average adword clicks in-around the .30-.50 cent range, that's about 15-25 dollars to get a paying customer on average. Operating at this level the margins are razor thin to say the least (We've tried to cut down on the marketing costs, but bidding anything lower than that and you get little to no traffic)

The OP provides a good technical explanation. Unfortunately he fails to mention another closely related term to high frequency which is what makes this type of trading highly lucrative: 'Front running'. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running .

Front running is illegal, but if you look for successful cases of high frequency trading they are generally tied-to/accused-of front running. And as you might imagine, in order to do front running you need to be high-up on the food chain (i.e. be a market maker)

The missing key about front running in the article is the 'anonymous' bid-ask: "The matching engine takes his order and displays it (anonymized) to all other traders with a data feed." and "She places her orders, and it is again displayed to the world (anonymously) and stored.".

If you have forehand knowledge of the bid-ask (i.e. non-anonymous) the market maker can front-run and with high-frequency make a considerable profit.

I didn't want to feed attention to the particular domain if for some reason my post gets enough attention elsewhere.

But needless to say the domain as it stands parked, gets 30 hits a month, according to the broker(sedo).

The domain in question is a combination of three words in the following list: fun, video, happy, great, media, top, 10, easy, clip, cd

I ended up settling for a .net domain also made up of the previous words. Cost: The regular $10 U.S per year from a registrar.

I wrote the article and I initially offered 100 GBP (160 U.S), the domain owner counter offered with 4,977 GBP! (8,000 U.S) I think with that range difference it's an end to all negotiations.

I didn't submit my info on their site. They actually just picked up my site from somewhere else. Looking at my analytics I realized they were the ones responsible for the sudden spike in traffic.

But now that you mention solicitations, I was contacted by three PR companies in that same traffic spike. It appears to be a hot-bed for PR companies scouring for new clients. I just wonder if the site isn't run by one of these companies.

I got picked up by http://www.killerstartups.com/ a few months ago. They have a submission page (though I didn't actually use it)

I actually got about 200+ referrals from them, which was nice. In addition to multiple PR offerings.

Here is an interview with Google's David Drummond, chief legal officer at Google http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/01/12/business/124746651...

Was anyone curious as to who this 'brazen' publisher was ?

Publisher: CreateSpace https://www.createspace.com/AboutUs.jsp "CreateSpace is a DBA of On-Demand Publishing LLC, a subsidiary of Amazon.com Inc."

Seems there are still priorities at Amazon if they suddenly stopped selling it.

"Autodesk argued that if the judge decided that people own its software, prices will rise for end users." That's a software economics argument I had never seen. Unfortunate they don't elaborate on the foundations.

Unbelievable, I'll take the 'over the top titles' but false economic statements like: "When his seeds were used widely in 1963, Mexico instantly went from famine-prone to a wheat-exporter. Their wheat harvest was six times greater after"

I guess that's why Mexico has been a net wheat IMPORTER since the 70's , subsidized and even banned wheat imports to protect the agro industry. Relevant sources without the sensationalist tones:

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache%3ApHwA9V6vKXgJ%...

http://translate.google.com.mx/translate?hl=en&sl=es&...

"Why ERP is still so hard" - An ERP doesn't adapt to an organization, an organization has to adapt to an ERP - Old 'joke' or reality of why its hard

I believe an eminent economist named Thomas Malthus said the same thing almost 200 years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malthusian_catastrophe

Nothing has run out yet, we're all still here

"You're truly better off $$$-wise to just run the AP stories or copy-pasting your competitors stuff." This is gist of the problem.

As an aggregator you have a lot of upside and little downside, as you mention 'simply linking to coverage you can't match in house may save you money, but you won't make any off of it' but some are making considerable money with little downside.

The act of 'creating' the content takes a lot more resources, creating a greater downside. With aggregators much of the upside is taken away, there is no more exclusivity.

There is a reason why tabloids and TV networks pay 'exclusive rights' for pictures and stories, to woo advertisers with unique value. If the story is being run everywhere the value is split. The greater risk is taken on by the content producers with aggregators vying for a piece of the traffic that advertisers want.

The article fails to mention the biggest players in the ad market have a vested interest in browsers and what eventually becomes 'default behavior'. I doubt they will shoot themselves in the foot or won't lobby to avoid this becoming a default.

Microsoft controls IE, Google now has Chrome and I have to think Google still has some type of partnership with Firefox.

Interesting how even the word 'acquires' is different with IBM. SPSS is in analytics software, but its a 41 year-old company.

Its unlikely its founders 'planned' their exit strategy when they started. I also don't think I will see Google or even Microsoft 'acquire' a 20+ year old company, let alone a 40+ year old one.

Better put 'functional programming is reinventing the way unit tests are written'. Its extremely easier to 'think of' and create unit tests on business logic that avoids using state and mutable data, as do all functional languages.

On the other hand, this is pretty much offset because structuring a program ( the one on which the tests will be performed) using a pure functional style is very hard, especially when its syntax/compiler doesn't enforce it.

Languages like Java which have fields, getter/setter methods and similar syntax are mine-fields for introducing state and mutable data. Erlang really forces you to think in functional style given its 'message passing' style, so unit tests are a snap. In Java and other non-functional languages unit tests would be just as easy, the problem is avoiding state and mutable data.

Though I would still argue the effort forgone in unit testing, still needs to be invested designing the actual business logic taking care it doesn't introduce state and mutable data(non-functional behavior).

Glass-Steagall was enacted to avoid 'runs' on banks when speculation was rampant, which was the cause of the great depression in 29'. It separated consumer funds from investors to avoid all out panics, and its wby the FDIC has that $100,000 'insurance' on your commercial bank account.

Frauds and undisclosed conflict of interest still occur, but that is a matter for the SEC, which oversees investments.

Interesting in various fronts

* Economic That banks with the 'deal power' of Goldman and Morgan would set themselves up to the scrutiny of the Fed (adopting a commercial bank) is just amazing. These banks made the money they made and had the salaries/bonuses to go with it because they had little regulation with respect to commercial banks.

* Power Jobs / Career Tracks I don't know what the bulk of MBA's will aspire to now -- or Hollywood for the matter. Investment banking was regarded as a golden standard for 'making it'. So no more, now that investment banking has gone down the toilet.

* Regulation / Legislation Ironic, but the Glass-Steagall Act which was enacted in 1933 after the great depression was precisely the OPPOSITE: To separate commercial banking from investment banking! REF: http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/important/index.html (So it looks like the cycle has started once again)

There is even a simpler explanation: 'Fear is temporary, greed is permanent'

In practice, they have the Google home page to promote it...which is perhaps the only thing that can make a dent against something like IE which comes with the OS.

It will likely affect Mozilla, though for the moment it doesn't look like it, since they have extended their partnership for 3 more years. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10028096-93.html .Though it will be interesting what will happen in that time.

I wasn't referring to what other people think. I was referring to kids when they grow up ;)

As if parents weren't chastised enough by how they bring up children, now there is more reason to blame: 'your ancestors’ diet, smoking habits, exposure to pollutants and levels of obesity could be affecting you today'

Its tough to be a parent

Right on, even makes you think if Joel Spolsky product's are the money-makers, when the conference has a sub-line : "A Joel on Software Conference"! ( http://www.businessofsoftware.org/ )

Remarkable in the sense that BOSS is a search service that will have 'No Restrictions on Presentation' and 'Blending of Proprietary and Yahoo! Search Content Allowed'.

But AMAZING it will have monetization, even though right now its says 'Coming Soon', wouldn't be strange if they took a while on this.

Its their kind of resources and scaling capabilities that allow 'THEM' to monetize search the way the do, now they will give everyone the same crack at using their same power and on top monetize it..wow..sounds like this will shake things up a bit in search, if BOSS delivers on what it says it will.

Value was : "search arbitrage" In essence, taking a profit out of google's adwords/adsense program while google kept fine tuning its pricing algorithm.

The term may sound fancy, but this business model has been questionable from the get go. I've read a few studies, and this type of practice artificially inflated prices on certain keywords, the process would start by these companies buying a few ads on the main google page(via adwords), if a user clicked on the them, they were sent to a landing page with more ads of the type(via adsense), in the hope's they would make up the difference clicking on more ads....that's were the 'arbitrage' came in, Google didn't have the pricing model right: to the tune of $100 million a year, its certainly isn't illegal, these companies just figured out what keywords were being paid more on the content side and cost them less to advertise themselves.

As an added note, this type of practice or 'search arbitrage' tends to beget more shady practices, since the revenue margin is so tight ( and its been getting tighter ) practices domain tasting and domain kiting, I wrote a more thorough piece on this whole subject: http://www.webforefront.com/archives/2008/01/advertising_con... ( Toward the end is a news link on how Google is cracking down on this type of 'search arbitrage' which more than often equals: domain tasting )