This is basically what a New Zealand company is doing… it is an old and true algorithm, but it is recently advertised in New Zealand under the personality of Marc Ellis…
Which is an awesome idea, Marc has celebrity status down under (that’s where we like to say we are) and having him involved must have been a real asset in getting things out the door. I wish I had Marc on my side for a few projects I’m interested in building.
But mintshot really is the money - you watch a 30 second add, and depending on how much the company paid (I presume) is how much you get paid to watch it. So you get about M$200 per 30s add. Then you can go and buy stuff… except the stuff you buy is in an auction, so you compete with other people for this stuff that you need (Crate of Speight’s thanks) paying money you never really had.
OK, so it is a great idea and if Marc or anybody else is reading - I’ve a stack of ideas about how you can build on this - seems to me like you are missing some gold. But what I was also interested to see it is built on Joomla! an open source content management system, which is interesting, I wouldn’t have picked it from using the site and I think more community interaction might be cool - but then, how much community interaction is there on TradeMe.co.nz?
It is also using jQuery - but that’s probably part of Joomla standard implementation?
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Thanks punkoi… your comments have been deleted for being spam… though I credit your latest post for not looking like spam!
Unfortunately, the content wasn’t related to this post (you should have tried the post on Java and the CDT eclipse environment).
It would have also helped if you hadn’t already spammed my comments 3 times.
And thirdly, if you had followed by suggestions, then I’d not noticed… but all of your links went to the same place - not related to Java or the subjects you linked…
So now all comments will be moderated.