Published by ugo on February 4, 2005
in web.
Russell:
Yep, Kanoodle didn't work out. Over two days I made $12 (where I would normally make almost $45 given my AdSense average for Wednesdays and Thursdays). And worse than that, today the Koodle ads just aren't showing up. Nothing, just a big blank box. No one's going to click on the ads if there's nothing there.
I don't even have the luxury of choosing. Kanoodle just rejected my application, asserting that this site is not catering to a US public, and their customers are apparently only interested in the US market. Where is globalization when you need it?
Of course, even $12 per day would be more than 10 times what I make daily with AdSense. Having a PR of 0 does not help, obviously. When is Google going to update PR again, by the way?
Published by ugo on February 4, 2005
in apple.
Sorry Russell but I don't buy it:
This just opened the crack just a little more to the apocolypse I was predicting for the other standards in the mobile media space. I'm not going to claim that Napster's service is going to take down Apple's iTunes for example, I'm just going to say that it's one step towards that.
The point is, nobody would ever pay $10,000 to fill their iPod with 10,000 new songs. They probably have their iPods already filled to the brim with music they already own, legally or not. Personally, I have about 1700 songs in my iTunes library and could have more if I started ripping all my CDs. Should I feel the urge to buy a new tune, I would rather pay the occasional 0.99$ (or Euros) to get it from iTMS, then pay $18 per month to rent it.
