file sharing / p2p
Another Weiss Interview
Just posted another interview with Michael Weiss, CEO of Morpheus. They are expecting big news from the Supreme Court tomorrow morning, so stay tuned to Zeropaid for minute by minute updates.
gnutella paid links and updates
I have often times raved about google’s adsense. It is hands down the best solution I have ever seen to online advertising, from both an advertiser’s perspective and a publisher’s point of view. Switching gears (hang on I’m getting somewhere), file sharing programs have historically struggled to generate revenue, walking the fine line between pissing [...]
funny taste in my mouth - is that victory?
So a while back I posted about an NPD study that prompted a reporter from Forbes.com to ask me “Why is WinMX the most popular music downloading service?” I kind of let it go because after I told her i thought her study was completely erroneus she didn’t want to talk to me anymore. Go [...]
tweaks to zeropaid
Made some tweaks to Zeropaid yesterday, just want to log them here so I can do some testing.
program download pages no longer require you to login
changed text on the homepage tab to read “Top Rated P2P Programs” instead of “The File Sharing Portal”
Modified program pages to show actual rating info
Changes for today:
Change homepage so it [...]
Selling False Information
Had a conversation with a writer from Forbes.com who was curious about the stats of online music services. We chatted back and forth and she was asking why WinMX was so popular. When I responded that it wasn’t, she told me the data she had bought from NPD indicated the top 5 were WinMX, iTunes, [...]
updates, p2p revolution, bittorrent, padres
Woke up this morning to my datacenter calling me telling me they were watching my power circuit melting. Cool. So I had to go to the datacenter (my favorite place), power down 5 customers boxes (some 15), switch to a different circuit, and bring the machines back up. Of course, Murphy being the bitch he [...]
big announcement coming soon @ zeropaid
Jorge and I have been working our asses off on Zeropaid, and the results are showing. We are breaking pageview and cpm records almost daily, and our user count has exploded. We are now averaging 1,000 new members a day. That is insane.
As happy as we are with this, we are continuing to push forward. [...]
new zeropaid launched
Ok, after a pretty hassle-free evening the new Zeropaid has been launched. This despite my desktop pc waking me up this morning with “Error loading Operating System”. Used Jorge’s laptop to get it done, and it’s finally done. I am sure there are many bugs and wrinkles to be ironed out, since we don’t have [...]
hallelujah!!!!!!!
Finally got comments working on news stories for v2. What we are doing is keeping our old news but modifying the urls. So http://www.zeropaid.com/news/articles/auto/02232005a.php becomes http://dev01.zeropaid.com/news/5137/Wayne+Rosso+vs.+P2P+Community/. It’s a little more search engine friendly. We also wanted to utilize vBulletin, our bbs / membership engine, to handle news comments. So now when we publish a news [...]
Michael Weiss, Morpheus CEO interview
I was met Michael Weiss on April Fools day, no joke. He was on the panel right after mine @ Digital Hollywood, and I got to chat with him a bit inbetween. For those of you who don’t know, Mike is a very influential guy in the p2p/file sharing space, having once hoisted the title [...]
