Some time ago, I launched the Evil or Not? website. My plans were to add lots of features in the next months and make it popular, but I could never find the time necessary for this. Given the number of projects and things I have currently going on, it’s unlikely that I will ever be able to do anything more than check from time to time that it’s still running. Which is a pity, since I still think it’s a cool idea and could attract some traffic if properly developed and promoted.
So, the options are to either let it float for some more time, or try to find someone who is willing to raise it to new heights. In this case, I’m ready to give away the idea, the domain name, the code and all the data (5 months of trends), for a reasonable price. Ideally, I would like to find someone who is able to broker a good deal, but I’m ready to accept direct offers.
From a technical point of view, it’s just a simple Ruby on Rails web application with a PostgreSQL database underneath (but could be ported to something else like MySQL in minutes).
In case you’re interested, just drop me a note.
Mike Arrington: When is the last time Google released a product that really changed our lives? For me, it was (and is) their core search engine. I grant that Google Maps pushed the envelope and forced the other big Internet guys to improve their own offerings (but today Microsoft and Yahoo are both significantly better than Google). And I do appreciate the POP access to Gmail (this was the one thing that converted me from hotmail for personal email). Everything since has been, well, somewhat underwhelming.
Hmm, yes. I’d give a bit more importance to Gmail, not so much for POP (I would vastly prefer IMAP) but mostly for SMTP: Between it and the web interface, I am pretty sure I can send email wherever I am, no matter what account I am sending mails from. I am also confident that I can go to a single place when I need to find an old message, whether sent or received by me.
Google Maps is cool too, especially now that they are covering Europe, but I have to admit other services are better when it comes to finding addresses and routes.
As for Spreadsheets, it’s probably the right service for me, since I seldom use Excel and only at the most basic level. What I find very interesting about it is the sharing of spreadsheets online. Much more effective, privacy concerns aside, than sending Excel files around attached to emails.
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Published by ugo on June 7, 2006
in books.
JPod, by Douglas Coupland.
Why should I spend my money to carry around thirty or so pages of random numbers and digits of pi (with an error inside, so they’re not even good for cryptography) just because Coupland felt he needed to use filler when he had nothing interesting to write?
Predictable. Stereotyped. Not fun. The portrait of twenty-something geeks in the game development industry might be accurate, but totally uninteresting. What a letdown.
