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foppron NY man sues dating website Match.com for deception

Hey, I don't get the humiliating part either.

Why are you disclosing that you met and married a woman online?

woohoo!

foppron WordPress Plugin Developers Get The Shaft, Donations Are 0.1% Of All Downloads

I think that's the challenge. That is, that because WordPress isn't supporting premium plugins and the market is reaching critical mass.

foppron WordPress Plugin Developers Get The Shaft, Donations Are 0.1% Of All Downloads

I think that's how most people start. The problem becomes apparent when you don't have time to maintain and support the plugin.

foppron WordPress Plugin Developers Get The Shaft, Donations Are 0.1% Of All Downloads

Maybe not rich but there are several plugin developers that make a decent amount of revenue by selling plugins. For example check out Dan Grossman and his review plugin: http://wpreviewsite.com

foppron WordPress Plugin Developers Get The Shaft, Donations Are 0.1% Of All Downloads

Joost de Valk seems to be pushing donations pretty hard yet his donation rate is 0.1%.

Do you know what kind of donate rate Rick Brewster is able to achieve?

foppron WordPress Plugin Developers Get The Shaft, Donations Are 0.1% Of All Downloads

Yes, it definitely seems unfair for the plugin developers to do all the work and receive very little compensation for all their time.

foppron Curious why so many products are crappy?

no, most are :)

foppron How Smart Are You? IQ Test Scams Facebook Users

Yeah, it's funny that everyone seems to have an IQ over 130

foppron Kiva Now Allows You to Lend to US Small Businesses

That's frickin sweet, I've been waiting for this. Boom!

foppron Why "I'd Google it" is not an acceptable Interview Answer

Yeah Bing that shit dude!

foppron Twitter Surges Past Digg, LinkedIn, And NYTimes.com With 32 Million Global Visitors

wow, that's very impressive.

foppron Google Rolls Out Home Energy Software

cool, thanks for the link!

foppron Larry Page: Twitter made Google focus on Realtime Search

you said it

foppron Twitter is retaining more users than Nielsen thinks

yeah right

foppron Justin.tv Adds Paid Pro Account Option

nice, justin.tv is starting to get traction

foppron Stephen Wolfram’s Introduction to Wolfram Alpha (screencast)

the real question now becomes where is the information WA is getting its results from and how is that chosen as the premier source for a particular query?

foppron Is This Why Twitter Changed Its Replies Policy?

the twitter execs seem to be off in lala land lately catering to celebs

foppron Tumblr's Most Popluar Bloggers Have An Affinity For Publishing Adult Content

I think the differentiating point is that Tumblr is not an adult website. Adult websites need to stay separate from those which are popular for kids <18 years old or at least have some kind of warning that informs the user about the content. We have the same thing for TV, music, movies, video, and video games too.

foppron Tumblr's Most Popluar Bloggers Have An Affinity For Publishing Adult Content

yeah, 16/20 of the top blogs on tumblr are adult oriented. so I think it is definitely because of the traffic

foppron Layoffs Hit MySpace

what took so long?

foppron Why I haven’t been blogging as much

FAQs should help that

foppron SMSGupShup (India’s “Twitter”) Grows To 20 million Users, $150,000/month Revenue

I just said the possibility is there. If you can't come up with a way to monetize that, it's your fault.

foppron Tech Jobs Still Scarce But Layoffs May Be Slowing Down

I'll believe it when I see it

foppron Of Course There's Going To Be A Newspaper Bailout

Yeah, I don't trust him. I'm afraid it's going to happen.

foppron SMSGupShup (India’s “Twitter”) Grows To 20 million Users, $150,000/month Revenue

No, it just proves that indeed this thing has legs. Once that's possible so is monetization.