agentbleu

Your all living in dreamland. No one is going to really give a toss about an article here or there, in whatever blog or whatever advert they see. The point is: The internet works a specific way. People who are 'in need' can find that on the net by 'search'. These are the only people that are worth targeting because they are the only ones who give a shit about what your selling/offering. The point is very simple. If you want to launch a Website you have to spend a small fortune, and heres what on:

0) Have an old domain, New domains are penalized thus take 6 months or more to get top for 2 word search terms. 1 word search terms can take 2 years.

1) Correct SEO, your site will be indexed properly and optimized for your targets. Miss this and miss your target.

2) Link building, this is getting harder all the time. Google see link building as the enemy and are doing all they can to discount unnatural links.

3) Remove all barriers to entry, no sign ups etc, immediate gratification.

4) Innovation and content. Killer apps that people find useful and content that is compelling.

For the record, I have about 10 popular domains, have been recently featured on Techcrunch twice and all of the suggested blogs, which are all good, but at the end of the day, search traffic is what counts in the long run.

This is precisely why Facebook and other social platforms perform so badly for advertisers, people using them are simply not in search mode. That and the adverts online are totally crap!

great idea

Web2.4 is all about semantics according to the RIAA who interprets the use of the term 'pirates' with a twist.

This is straight from their glossary of terms:

http://www.riaa.law/glossary.html

RIAA SEMANTIC TERMS AND NEW MEANNESS:

Definition of pirate: Someone who has an internet connection but who cannot afford a lawyer...

This is a very interesting case, but more so, shows the disgraceful practices of the RIAA.

linode

I would suggest Linode for hosting and Virtualmin (YC backed) for the panel.

Scaling is not only hard it's a nightmare. Especially given RoR is infamous for it's scaling issues.

I would argue that the law is ill equipped (or not the best place) to hammer out the rights and wrongs of emerging technologies that clearly will not go away. The only way forward for the labels is to embrace these 'upstarts' and work with all of them for a few years in profit sharing deals (reasonable ones not like the Imeem deal) and with a little lateral thinking imagine the profits to be made in a world full of content on demand (films included). But due to the nature of the beast, costs must come down 'right down' before they will go back up (legally).

BTW I think GS is ultra slick..

Good luck guys

Great positive article for London guys, London is after all the center of the world when it comes to music !!! So Silicon valley needs London's inspiration or we will all be forced to be in bowling alleys on Saturday nights... hehe

Congrats guys

How about all the many online shops that sell actual products, and others that fall below the radar, that sell everything from property advertising to job listings.

virtualmin

needs some more work :) as the videos seem to stop at mid points. nice though

wow

lol

Another question, has anyone made any money off a facebook app or myspace, etc.? I'm not convinced that providing entertainment services would be monitizable period. Thus you add value for them, spend money on servers, get 100k users, that pay you nothing.

I would be more impressed if you had turned over 2 million without funding!

Your not a machine. Hacking is hard, it taxes us like not many other jobs. I read here a long post about sleep problems, hackers get all excited whenever the sleep topic comes up (seems many suffer). The point is hacking too late into the night can upset my sleep, thus starting a vicious cycle. I'd suggest stepping back, don't push too hard, if your working during the day then maybe hack for yourself at the weekends of for only 1.30 a day.

will add this function asap, thanks

b

home link is called search, and the best way to use it is in full screen mode, then the controls are clear enough. Ideal situation is just to start it off and let it fill your day with music similar to your first choice.

b

Traffic serge has been interesting, as a result of TC article it also made the popular list on delicious and as you know here too, then other blogs kicked in, one Spanish one which seemed to bring a nice flux of traffic too. The main serge lasted about 8 hours, then flattened off, and now its back to a mix of natural traffic and some residue from the articles. Id say at this point I had about 15K uniques hit it as a direct result but thats a guess and wont know for sure until tomorrow now. I think that's not bad given TC isn't a music blog per say with limited interest from many in this sector. But I'm v pleased to have been given the opportunity and very proud to be a part of this community here.

yes they let me know it was going to be covered 24 hours in advance and I switched the server to a larger one with 300Mg more ram. It handled it all well, but Im glade I migrated it as I was down to 20% head room during the best of it.

Only currently available for macs, love it. long live Apple.

Spazmaster, for server scalability I might suggest running a linode. I run my apps from a Linode and use the YC backed startup Virtualmin for setting up the domains. I highly recommend both of these products, and my app survived getting crunched with 20% headroom all times (so far).

Believe me it was not easy. Last year I made an app and they totally snuffed it. Someone somewhere along the line made a comment saying 'just move on, make another and another', I did and they still ignored it, bastards ha (lol). There is no formula, I suggest getting whatever you're making off the ground with SEO and once you gain some traction they might just take you more seriously (hopefully).

company is based in India, it's just me that is in France ;-)

I had to kidnap MA's dog.

legal yes (see above link), in the player at the bottom right it has the track playing.

Yea I will add that in a few days.

thanks

sure will report back as it cools off

Hehe I got Hackernews'ed too Bonus points. ding ding. lol