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Fodder Chief
 
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| | Build to flip is kind of a no-no. If you go into it expecting an exit, that probably says a lot about you -- namely, that you don't have the patience to actually run it. I ran into this with some business partners, in fact. We started a web software company. Our customers were small businesses. I was perfectly happy building websites for our customers all day long. Though that wasn't our reason for being in business, it was still so fundamental to the success of the business that it had to be done. Even though we were just providing a software product that was involved in running the actual website, it still required knowledge of what it took to build and run a successful website for a small business. My point is that they went into the business with the expectation that we would build it, flip it, and get out. It never occurred to them that they might have to spend the rest of their working lives building websites for businesses day in and day out to make the business successful. |
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SophomoreFodder
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| | I meant that as a joke. Most built to flip companies never flip and just sit there until the cash is gone. If I was going to build it to flip it I would already be 1/6 of the way done designing it; but I have no business model so it sits in my "idea pile". As for your example of your company; that's why I'm taking long hard looks at my ideas and deciding if I really want the spend 5-10 years doing what is required of the company. And speaking of building websites, did you see the new free Google web-page builder and hosting? www.pages.google.com" target=_"blank" class="SmlLinks">www.pages.google.com
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Fodder Chief
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| | I did see it: http://blogs.pcworld.com/techlog/archives/001496.html I know a bit about that field. The screenshot looks simple. It will be interesting to actually see it in action, which hasn't been possible yet due to the usual "high demand" it is experiencing. ;-) Ben |
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SophomoreFodder
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| It's not that great. Sure the 100M of space is great, but it is templated all to hell and doesn't even give you the option of doing ANY HTML. At least GeoCites gave you that option. I'm going to make on just becasue I'm trying to get people to join my RPG and I know that having a Google page will put me higher in the organic searches.
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The GodFodder
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| I saw that, too. Rowland, you should contact Google, Tecture's web tool is pretty slick...just need a spell checker and the ability to have people download Excel files and it's ready to rock-n-roll.
Cheers!Bill
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Fodder Chief
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| | Just wait until you see the new version of our tool... it should rock. Current tool is nice, but it is hard to keep massive sites organized, there is no internal (or external) search capability, no automatic nav bar generator, no spell check, no multiple simultaneous file upload (great for photo galleries), etc. There is something to be said about simplicity, though, which is what they are after. How long before Google ads their ads to those templated websites? That's the plan, isn't it? Ben |
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SophomoreFodder
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| | I think the plan is to have more people generate content in a format that is optimized for how Google indexes things. Google is content poor, they primarily aggregate information and content. I think both this and Google Base are a content play.
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Fodder Chief
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| | that is a pretty good point. They have created a content engine by doing this. Their tool can literally feed content into their engine. Of course, to what end? Ad serving, content analysis, what? Certainly they don't want to be a web host, but it looks like they are doing that, too. Google is about to take over the world -- it's scary, actually. |
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SophomoreFodder
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| | Here you go, a nice transmission for the future. It's really an interesting watch. It's a concept film about the future of the internet. Slightly silly, but the concepts are sound. http://mccd.udc.es/orihuela/epic/
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