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I like flagging spammers and people who submit every blog post they write.

Just saw http://www.nichum.com/ launched on a jewish yahoo group. I can see niche sites like this popping up to bring together people from all over the world who can't make it to a funeral. As baby boomers get older I'm sure these sites will gain some traction.

On a happier note, take a look at http://onlysimchas.com/ It's geared towards Jewish family celebrations - births, bar/bat mitzvas, engagements, weddings, and bdays. I know plenty of people who check it on a daily basis to track their friends and community.

You have it backwards. The more a publisher knows about it's users the more targeted ads they can sell for higher rates. Compare CPM on myspace.com (pennies) vs the wsj.com (tens of dollars). Yahoo and Google have similar people searching, but Google has been able to provide more personalized ads and therefore make more money. Advertisers measure their return for every dollar spent. If Google doesn't keep on doing a better job than other sites at personalizing pages their users will go elsewhere where they can find what they need more quickly.

Because they turn many people away. You asked for our feedback and several people made a big deal about it. Listen to us, trust us, your project needs all the help it can get. Don't make more reasons to turn people away.

What's with all the redirecting to spam sites? If we all click on every ad on the page would google see it as a click fraud site and ban them from adsense?

If they didn't have search, they'd be in trouble. Looks like the competition is heating up for space on publishers' sites.

Google Sites Revenues - Google-owned sites generated revenues of $1.98 billion, or 62% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2006. This represents an 80% increase over fourth quarter 2005 revenues of $1.10 billion and a 22% increase over third quarter 2006 revenues of $1.63 billion.

Google Network Revenues - Google's partner sites generated revenues, through AdSense programs, of $1.20 billion, or 37% of total revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2006. This is a 50% increase over network revenues of $799 million generated in the fourth quarter of 2005 and a 16% increase over third quarter 2006 revenues of $1.04 billion.

Great success with plain old cards from vistaprint.com. Use a simple design with easy to read type. Do you already have a company name? Put that on there, your name, phone, email, only put a web address if it's something potential contacts need to see like your company website not a personal blog. Doesn't something generic like "web developer" work along with a list of your language skills if you are freelancer?

So much for market research. Didn't someone here say release early, test, and improve? There goes a handful of millions.

It's the same thing that was posted here last week, just a list of names of the companies and a one sentence description.

If you go to the homepage and search for "combinator" the article will come up and you don't have to register.

No one here is offended by your religious beliefs. They just don't have a place on a commercial website, unless you are providing a service only for a group of like minded people and then done right your comments may even be welcome.

The layout for individual pieces breaks in Firefox and IE. When is Facebook launching their news site?

Anyone else think their $3 Vista PR is just a reaction to reports they've only sold 244 licensed copies in China so far?

From digg http://digg.com/microsoft/Only_244_copies_of_Genuine_Windows_Vista_sold_in_China

Reddit is for sleepers. We were playing with this last week!

You have to hand it to them for letting people switch back and forth from free 2 user accounts to paid multi users accounts and back FOREVER. Sounds to me like a great way to get people to try out your product absolutely risk free and with 2 user accounts being less than 5% of their user base they really have nothing to lose.

Will we see more of this in the multi user arena?

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Thanks to Sam_Odio for giving out the first round of invites here.

And a limiter on spam from self promoting blogs. And a filter for web 2.0 gossip blogs.

don't forget to check out ihavehundredsofmyspacefriends.fotoroll.com

Scrap the idea. If they can't relate to it who will?

The real question is which sites best hide the fact that they exist to splatter affiliate links all over the place.

While searching for hosting last year, it took me hours before I figured out that all the hosting review sites were affiliate farms. Forums too, just look at the number of people offering up $97 off dreamhost hosting plans. At a $100 per sale I can't blame them for trying.

as soon as i get my invites i'll post something on here.

Looks more like an rss thief.

And what happens to the rankings when you filter out the top 10 domains being submitted?

I didn't realize a company with only $150 million in revenue could justify an antitrust lawsuit. Don't publishers get to choose who to their ad space to?

""Google's purchase of DoubleClick combines the two largest providers of online advertising delivery and is going to reduce substantially the market competition on which Web sites rely on to provide advertising," The Journal quoted Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel, as saying. Smith said that, taken together, Google and DoubleClick would handle more than 80% of the advertisements served up to third-party Web sites when a user pulls up a page, the Journal reported."

I see this as only being beneficial to publishers. Competitors will likely offer more transparency as to the size of their commission fee and google's margins should shrink to the benefit of publishers.

Friday after the market closes is when all the dirt comes out, at least that's what it seems from reading footnoted.org.

Winning games on iilwy and who says I'm not?

If you want to get your stuff on a social news site you'd better start making friends now. A disproportionate numbers of diggs on the front page come from a small percentage of users.