Ebay, Stumble Upon, and Photos of Lost Cities
One thing leads to another. That was the title of a song by The Fixx (back in '83?). However, it also describes plain old-fashioned web surfing.
I was surfing BBC for news and found a new story on Ebay's acquisition of Stumble Upon (now added to the blogroll) and on the front page of Stumble Upon I came across this particular site:
Lost Cities
Generally, I shy away from sites that run adsense, not that I have any problem with the adsense program itself. I run it on some of my own sites. However, it is an unfortunate reality that the vast majority of the sites in the adsense publisher content are of low quality and way too many of them are...how shall I put this---they are damned thieves! In other words, the only content they host is that which they steal from other sites (tends to be quite irriating if you've had this happen to you and I have on many occasions).
Anyway, the Lost Cities site, linked above is fairly cool and inspires some thought as to where I might like to go at some point.
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I discovered Stumbled Upon a few weeks ago. I meant to write about it and, of course, I forgot to do so.
I recently heard about adsense. Yeah I know I've been hiding under a rock I don't know enough about it to use it I'm still looking for the best fit for my website.
I've always wanted to visit Lost Cities & ghost towns.
I honestly don't know if adsense works well on most blogs. Wil Wheaton didn't, apparently, have a good opinion of it. On static websites, though, the results can be tremendous.
However, google "Jason Calcanis" if you don't already know about him. He sold weblogsinc to AOL for 25 million. He had 80 blogs (written by others0 and they were pulling in about $3500 a day from adsense. When you factor in what he had to pay the bloggers and the hosting fees, I don't what he actually made prior to cashing-out, but the blogs at weblogsinc proved that adsense can work on a blog (engadget is one of those.
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Thanks there is so much to learn, lol.
I definitely know who Jason Calcanis is hs just launched a new website http://www.mahalo.com/Main_Page it's a human powered search engine in that way it's similar to Cha Cha http://www.chacha.com/ I checked Mahalo out today but there weren't any human guides to help me out. Perhaps I wasn't in the correct place?
Don't know, really. Funny you mentioned that. I checked out Mahalo early today for the first time. I think I also read that the "wiki" in wikipedia comes from "wiki wiki" which, in hawaiian, means quick.
Don't know, really. Funny you mentioned that. I checked out Mahalo early today for the first time. I think I also read that the "wiki" in wikipedia comes from "wiki wiki" which, in hawaiian, means quick.
I has no idea about wiki.
I'll be curious to see how the human powered search engine does. I imagine there is a need for it, but I prefer to do my own searche I did try Cha Cha out a few months ago and the guide who assisted me was fairly helpful.
Cha cha? I'll have to try that one out. Actually, Mahalo sounds like the same concept being used for Citizendium. Nice ideas, of course, but I don't think these types of engines can ever really compete with Google. After "google" became a verb, it became synonymous in society with "search". There will always be room for niche sites or specialty sites like youtube and digg and stumbleupon, but the vast bulk of search will probably belong to google for at least the next few years. It's not that they're so good at it (indexing billions of pages and millions of new pages and then weeding out spam and, finally, ranking the results). It's just that the other guys do such a poor job by comparison.
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