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24,995 | sharpshoot | 2007-05-28T00:10:07 | How a lone developer is making 6 figures in revenue from a viral game. | null | http://gigaom.com/2007/05/27/desktop-tower-defense/#more-9459 | 24 | 5 | [
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25,007 | reitzensteinm | 2007-05-28T02:34:51 | PayPerPost - I'm speechless | null | http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/27/payperpost-now-lets-bloggers-set-their-price/ | 5 | 7 | [
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PayPerPost, the controversial blogging service that lets advertisers purchase commentary on blogs, has released a new product called PayPerPost Direct. The new product is a widget that bloggers can add to their blogs that announces their willingness to sell blog posts.
Previously, bloggers perused listings on the PayPerPost website, looking for opportunities to make a few extra dollars. Now, bloggers can set their own minimum price when creating a widget, and let advertisers come to them directly.
This feature subtly shifts the way the company approaches the market. The current system has advertisers paying a set fee per post regardless of the differences in blog size or authority. The result was a low average fee of a $5 or so, which didn’t attract the larger blogs. Now that bloggers can set their own price and engage with advertisers one-on-one, we may see a few of the larger ones begin to use the service. Competitor ReviewMe has a similar approach that pays large blogs more, although the price is based on an algorithm.
PayPerPost keeps 10% of fees generated through the Direct product. Their standard fee on their normal product is a 35% cut.
We’ll wait and see if any of the large blogs adopt this anytime soon. PayPerPost is still deeply flawed – it allows advertisers to demand positive writeups, and they do not require bloggers to disclose within the post itself that it is sponsored text.
Look for a press release later this week. An overview video is available here.
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Publishing a manifesto invites criticism, but that's okay?Mozilla can take ( …
A tall order
Every revolution has its manifesto. The Internet revolution should be no different, according to Mozilla, which has drafted a manifesto of its own. It's a list of ten web commandments, but instead of being inscribed into stone tablets, the latest version was released earlier this year on Chief Lizard Wrangler Mitchell Baker's blog. Unlike the 10 Commandments found in the Book of Exodus, these are still in beta (the manifesto currently stands at version 0.9) and are still subject to debate.
Mitchell Baker,
Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler
And debate there will be. Any time you're trying to create what is, essentially, a constitution, and your body politic is made up of users from around the world, there will be plenty of opinions. Mozilla crafted the document to guide internal decision-making—which already means that this could be an important document in shaping the development of the web—but it was also designed to sound a louder call to arms, one that the entire worldwide Internet community will hear and act upon.
That's a tall order, and Mike Shaver knows it. At 30, he's a co-founder of the Mozilla experiment who has already given one-third of his life to the creation of the open-source browser and its associated tools. "I think we'd be in a great place if web companies adopted it wholesale," he says of the manifesto, but Shaver knows that any such document needs to "be something that resonates with and helps motivate a very large global community. We need to make sure that the reactions we evoke in North America—that we do the right things to evoke those in Japan and in Africa and wherever people are reading it."
I sat down recently for a lengthy talk with Shaver to find out how Mozilla's going about a big job, and where the process is likely to take it.
Meet the Shaver
Mike Shaver,
Mozilla Technology Strategist
Mike Shaver is a "Technology Strategist" at the Mozilla Corporation, a role which requires him to be part Mozilla evangelist, part diplomat, and all geek (he's worked on everything from the Gecko layout engine to the Linux kernel, and he hasn't been afraid to tackle a few filesystem problems along the way).
But who, really, is he? Here's how his official Mozilla bio puts it: "Mike has enjoyed a rare opportunity to inflict a wide variety of trials and errors on the Mozilla code and project. He is stronger for it, and hopes that Mozilla is as well. Scheming diabolically from his fortress of solitude in Toronto, Shaver meddles in matters ranging from platform architecture and implementation to licensing and organizational development. If you are short on opinions, he often has some to spare."
He certainly does have them—opinions, that is—but in an hour of rapid-fire conversation, he delivers them with eloquence, grace, and a sly streak of humor. Who knew that a web manifesto could be funny?
Shaver argues that the manifesto is important because the browser is important. It has become "a portal to a huge swath of your life," he says before quoting the Spider-Man doctrine: with great power comes great responsibility. Firefox has reinvigorated the stagnating Mozilla all-in-one browser, bringing 100 million users into the fold and $50+ million a year into the coffers, and it has added a sheen of coolness to Mozilla's development work. Plenty of pundits have even given it credit for reigniting the browser wars.
Firefox and other Mozilla projects like Thunderbird have gained enough traction that their future development will impact the way millions of users access most of the content on the Internet. When making changes to such a crucial product, it helps to have a plan, and that's where the manifesto comes in.
But this isn't just a document that will help Mozilla project leads prioritize new features for inclusion in future Firefox versions; it will also guide what's left out. These can be hard decisions, especially when money is sitting on the table, and Shaver recognizes that having a good manifesto won't always be a good time.
"I think the manifesto does need to be something that will cause us discomfort at times," he says, "where we'll have to sit there and say, 'It feels like we want to do this, but it really conflicts with one of these things,' and that's a sign that we'll have to be really careful."
The Ten Commandments, v0.9
In addition to an introduction, a pledge from the Mozilla Foundation, and an invitation for readers to join the conversation, the manifesto contains 10 broad principles. Here they are:
The Internet is an integral part of modern life–a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole.
The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible.
The Internet should enrich the lives of individual human beings.
Individuals' security on the Internet is fundamental and cannot be treated as optional.
Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.
The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide.
Free and open-source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource.
Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability, and trust.
Commercial involvement in the development of the Internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial goals and public benefit is critical.
Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the Internet is an important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment.
One curious aspect of the list is that little of it uniquely applies to Mozilla projects. Instead, it's written more as a general Internet manifesto. That's by design, but it does result in a document with principles so big that they seem almost vague. The Internet should enrich the lives of individual human beings? Okay.
The manifesto has been around in various versions for some time, and I ask Shaver if it had actually affected Firefox development at a practical level. He says that it has and points to principle five—individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet. Mozilla has received plenty of offers from around the world to provide exclusive access to a regional search engine, sell space in the default bookmark list, or include local shopping links. "One constant opportunity for anyone who has a popular browser is to sell the space in it," says Shaver. But, he adds, "our users' choice isn't for sale."
Such a statement raises the question of Mozilla's deal with Google to feature its search engine, a deal that brings in most of the group's revenue. Shaver says that Mozilla is willing to partner with companies who are going to "provide search that's consistent with what we feel search can be" but says that it's "important to us that it's not locked in." In other words, exclusive arrangements that would prohibit competitors are out, but preferential partnerships with companies like Google are in.
Shaver is also proud of the work that Mozilla has done to make its browser accessible to those with disabilities and available in many languages (a key application of the second principle in the manifesto). It's important to invest in localization and accessibility "to make sure that people can participate regardless of where they come from on the globe," he says.
Accessibility, localization, and user choice have been important to Mozilla developers for years; they aren't principles that have suddenly been imposed on the group with the creation of the manifesto. The manifesto codifies the values that Mozilla has already been operating under, and so in that sense is nothing new. But there's a benefit to writing it all down: the document contains the "official" principles that guide the organization, making it less likely that Mozilla will drift almost imperceptibly away from its moorings.
Flashing the public
In keeping with principle seven, Mozilla has also chosen not to bundle certain popular but proprietary plug-ins like Flash and Windows Media with the browser. While they work once installed, Mozilla is committed to open-source solutions. The manifesto says that FOSS "promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource." Principle six, however, suggests that interoperability drives the "public resource" aspects of the Internet—a different claim. I ask Shaver whether innovation, in his view, is driven more by open-source software or by open standards.
"I think both of those are the case," he says, before launching into a lengthy apologia for open source. Standards are great, but standards + open source = tech nirvana. "I think the ability to constantly come in and say, 'I want to write a new thing that talks to this old thing,' and being able to do that without having to license technology, you get a lot of that from having an open specification and you get even more of that from having an implementation you can play with," he says. "There's a spectrum there—and there's value all along that spectrum."
Actually, the more problematic issue with Flash has to do with the way it functions rather than with its openness (or lack thereof). "It has better penetration than any other piece of software the world right now," Shaver points out, but Flash apps are not particularly "webby." Instead, they sit on top of the web and remain difficult to edit or to disassemble or even to create without expensive tools. The tech did enable some new functionality over the web, but "the presence of Flash during the dark period of browsers took a lot of incentive off of improving the technology." At one point, things got so bad that companies were rolling out versions of their corporate sites that were nothing more than a big Flash app sitting in the middle of a window. This had obvious implications for the nature of the web: deep-linking into Flash apps was out, for instance.
Perhaps it's his curmudgeonly inner geek talking, but Shaver argues that the web will lose something important if users lack the ability to craft complex web pages in something as simple as Notepad. "Making the web such that you need tools to build it would be a big step backwards," he says, and then points out that this is another case of Mozilla putting its development resources to work in the service of its manifesto. For future versions of Firefox, Mozilla (in conjunction with the Opera developers and others) is developing a new set of tags for commonly-used multimedia functions that are now easiest to deploy in Flash. <video> will be among them, but audio tags will be present as well. Flash will always be needed for artists who want to do things like vector animation, but Shaver hopes that more basic functions can work without proprietary tools.
"A win-win all over the place"
As an organization devoted to open-source projects, it's no surprise that the manifesto praises both the FOSS development model and argues for the importance of "decentralized participation worldwide" (principle six). And yet, by Mozilla's own estimates, 80 percent of the code that goes into the browser is contributed by those paid to work on the project. Have we found a spot at which Mozilla's ideals about decentralized, worldwide participation fail to live up to the current reality of its development practices?
Shaver argues that it's not so simple and that Mozilla is actually quite committed to principle six. "We don't see that as a failure to engage the community," he says. "These are, by and large, people who have come up through that community. One of the nice things about Firefox's success is that we've been able to pay more people to work on it, people who often were great contributors and worked on it part-time, and now they've finished school, and we can bring them in, and they can focus their energies on this, which they really want to do. It's a win-win all over the place."
He also points out that, although much of the core code is contributed by paid developers, Mozilla gets plenty of help from around the world in other ways. Up to 15,000 people download nightly builds, for instance, and test them for stability and performance problems, and plenty of people continue to submit small code changes. "The best little fixes come from people who have an itch to scratch," says Shaver. As an open-source project, Mozilla makes that itch-scratching possible.
A manifesto for the future
Conversation about the manifesto is ongoing in various project newsgroups, but no major changes are expected before v. 1.0 appears later this year. For Mozilla, which has been guided by the principles in the document for some time, little will change. "There wasn't really a precipitating event for the manifesto," says Shaver. "It's an asset that's important to us as we become bigger and more influential."
The manifesto is Mozilla's attempt to explain what it's up to and to convince others that it's a vision worth adopting for themselves. One of the goals for the manifesto is to "provide a framework for other people to advance this vision of the Internet"—a vision that sees the Internet as a valuable public resource, a place where commercial development is welcome but individual choice is paramount, and a world where standards and open development are the rule.
The manifesto has yet to play that role, but give it time. After all, Firefox v. 1.0 wasn't released until late in 2004, and it has made tremendous gains in less than three years. If market share trends continue to tilt in Mozilla's favor, its manifesto might gain in popularity along with its web browser. Or it might not.
Even if no one else adopts it, though, the principles will continue to guide Mozilla's development. By publishing the manifesto, Mozilla shows that it's serious about promoting "participation, accountability, and trust"; nothing invites criticism down the road like publishing a foundational document and then trying to apply that document to all the complexity of the real world. The fact that Mozilla wants to be called to account by its users is an excellent sign for the long-term health of the project.
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25,303 | bootload | 2007-05-30T00:22:15 | Carbon Offsetting Web 2.0
| null | http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/04/23/a-different-kind-of-net-neutrality-carbon-offsetting-web-20/ | 1 | 0 | null | null | null | no_error | A different kind of net neutrality: Carbon Offsetting Web 2.0 | 2007-04-23T08:12:05+00:00 | Author: Chris Messina |
A couple months ago I had an idea that I’ve wanted to socialize since, but had only taken to doing so behind the scenes. Things being as they are, I’ve had little time to really advance this cause further, other than push it on a few friends who, so far, have reacted quite positively.
Prompted by Jeremy Zawodny’s post about Yahoo going carbon neutral and in support of Chris Baskind’s month-long effort to get high quality environmental links added to his Lighter Footstep group, I thought I’d finally write this up to see if it draws any interest.
The idea is rather simple and requires but one piece of support infrastructure that fortunately my fellow citizen coworker Ivan Storck is already hard at work on (more about that later).
So what’s the idea? Well, quite simply, it’s a web service that you use to offset the carbon footprint of your customers using your app. This would be mostly beneficial for larger services, but it’s my belief that every little bits counts!
For freemium services like Basecamp WordPress and Last.fm, providing an option for paying members to add $1/month to their bill in order to offset their use of your web service is where it begins. In exchange for this contribution, they would get a special distinction within the community, like a green avatar or badge to denote their carbon neutral status:
Now, this might seem like a trivial incentive, but then you might also be surprised to learn that the number one reason that people pay to upgrade their Flickr accounts is not because they need more storage or unlimited uploads, but instead because they want that tiny little PRO label next to their name. Offering a similar incentive on social networks — and making “offsetting cool” becomes a way to propagate this behavior, ultimately working towards completely offsetting the entirety of Web 2.0.
Now, those of you who have read up on carbon offsetting or know anything about the power that servers draw will quickly be able to recognize that $1 month to offset a single user account is going overboard, given that it technically only costs a few cents per month to power most people’s individual use of social networking sites. And while you wouldn’t be wrong, you’ve hit on an interesting social component of this campaign: those who want to offset can do so, and in doing so, won’t just be offsetting their footprint, but some their neighbors as well, in an act straight out of Caterina Fake’s culture of generosity. So it’s not so much about offsetting one’s personal use, but on offsetting at a social level — and that this good deed is reflected a user’s avatar or badge means that anyone can effectively “upgrade” themselves to carbon neutral status — once they get annoyed that all their friends have “leveled up” and they haven’t. Meanwhile, those who have upgraded as a proactive choice can feel reassured that their influence is affecting those around them to make similar decisions, even if for different reasons — in the end, the result doubleplusgood.
So, about that API that I mentioned. It’s important to realize that 1) we’re in the early stages of carbon offsetting and the 2) not all carbon offsetting funds are created equal (this is something I’m becoming evermore familiar with as we move to certify Citizen Space as a green office). Therefore, Ivan (who I mentioned and who also runs Sustainable Marketing and Sustainable Websites) has begun work on an API that will allow companies to purchase carbon offsets in bulk based on the actual amount of power consumed in something like a server farm evnironment (where power measurements are fairly easy to come by). Once initiated, the purchase will likely take place through one of Ivan’s affiliates based here in San Francisco called 3 Phases. In any case, we’re in the beginning phases of making this happen, but if you’re interested in helping or in offsetting your customers’ usage, leave a comment or drop me a note and we’ll see if we can’t push this work forward.
Likewise, if you can think of other ways to minimize the environmental footprint of your webservice or web office, blog about it and let others know! We’re doing what we can to create green coworking spaces and the more success stories we come across, the better.
Inventor of the hashtag. #1 Product Hunter. Techmeme Ride Home podcaster. Ever-curious product designer and technologist. Previously: Google, Uber, Republic, YC W'18.
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