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Agree that more info is needed to proceed, but lovely theme though! Is this a bootstrap theme or something made from scratch?

What? The highest electricity bill I ever paid is 400 pesos (~26 USD) a month. If your startup can't pay that, much less it can pay salaries.

So, they run their campaigns with an open targeting and then they trimed the websites to the ones users clicked, and then, selected which ones had better brand value for them. That's simple optimization and they should have always been doing that.

The question arrises when you have to start from scratch. They would also have to start with an open targeting to learn what performs for them.

Simple: I just don't see the point on using these new TLDs, they are confusing, it's not clear how the work and stupidly expensive... Seems just as an snobby thing.

Am I the only one surprised, and disgusted, about the .google TLD?

Did someone put it as SaaS already?

Nice initiative, please consider adopting IAB standard ad sizes like 300x250, 728x90, 468x60, etc so you can access to more remnant inventory.

Right now many ad companies use Greenpeace or Red Cross for serving something when they run out of ads. It shouldn't be hard to get some impressions from them, but the standard ad sizes will be a common requirement.

Good luck!

You can, there are plenty of XML feed providers who will provide you an XML of ads relevant to the keywords you provide, which you collect server side and display to your users.

Are you sure the Garden Hose has free access? I can't find any public access to it in the docs, everything directs me to their "data partners", which charge for this information.

Love these scrapper template generators. I wonder why you chose Java instead of something like PhantomJS to run the scrapper.

I don't think there's any value and the differences between BTC and LTC are not substantial (IMO).

But my guess is that being the second immediate P2P currency will give traction to LTC and some people who came late to the BTC party will jump in rising the value for a while.

Bought it a few years ago... and I wouldn't recommend it. It was created in a pre-iPad/iPhone era and it's not comfortable to use from anywhere else than a PC.

I followed the link thinking of some kind of challenge, what can I actually ship for 300 USD? That idea actually triggered a lot of thinking in my mind. - What would I do with that money and just a few days.

Then saw that it was just a poorly redacted (3 lines) cheap job post.

I don't like this, beyond the discussion if 3rd party cookies are good or bad, these measures are always for the worst.

Not long ago IE set DoNotTrack by default. What happened? Every single company that respected the user decision for DoNotTrack, stopped doing so since it wasn't the user, but a browser the one who decided that.

Long story short: All the effort done with DoNotTrack was wasted.

With this story, cookie tracking is far from perfection. It might be great for ad companies, might me useful for retailers and might be creepy for some users, but IMO is the safest way there's to date to keep the equilibrium. There are choices to be protected from cookie tracking and there's plenty of information.

Kind of old, but in it's time PlentyOfFish.com was 1-man startup. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlentyofFish

I would love to get a list of 1-man-startup/companies and their experiences, but chances are that these guys are way too too busy to blog about it.

So cool, a few questions:

1. The prices info, I assume is for US only, right? 2. Are you only analysing new products or also the used ones?

I created a similar (but very, very modest) proof of concept to track mercadolibre's prices (http://numok.com/products/view/samsung-t24a550/9), however it seems to be unusable without a human verifying each listing, as you state in your blog:

> This isn’t the highest price that we’ve recorded for a product though. Turns out this Samsung TV was priced at $1,000,000,000,000.00 ($1 trillion) in early November last year. A dozen sales of this would have gone a long way towards offsetting the American national debt!

3. Are you doing this validation in some way or unreal prices should be expected by using your API?

As stated before, great pricing! Although I'm not sure how does the limit of products work for the two initial account types (Up to 10,000).

Overall, I'm glad to have this API, thank you!

Why don't you create a facebook app for this? It could be quite viral if you give it a shot...

Rights come with Obligations, so as long as they pay their taxes too, I'm OK with this

I haven't found so far how to import my own Bitcoin wallet...

Made something similar just tracking products in Argentina, where I'm from, pretty much the same concept but I don't understand why don't you put a big nice button with an affiliate link to buy the best price listing you found for today, that would help, believe me :)

This is my version: http://numok.com

PS, the guys from priceonomics.com seems to be the leaders in this.

Looks interesting, I've signed up, but it would be nice to have ANY way of getting in touch with you! I haven't found your contact info anywhere...

I already want this as a captcha solution:

Say 3 with your fingers to prove you are not a robot.

> There is even a, small but real, possibility things could collapse into a failed state or dictatorship if the economic situation spirals out of control.

Not a chance. At all.

I'm reading the definition of Sybil attack... but I do not understand how multiple accounts per user could damage the platform. Do you mind to extend a little your point?

Def: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

I sent a token request almost a week ago, do you send positive and negative answers on this?

Thanks

Yes, textile please!

Shouldn't this be cheaper the younger I am?

My chances of dying at 27 are not as high as 24 USD per year.