Painful Ways To Make Money Out Of 'Free'.
I have been thinking about the psychologically of making money out of free online services largely as a result of having developed services that have attained healthy traffic, yet failed,…
Steven Carrol
Steven is a web applications developer, living in south of France, originally from London. His current project is Myplaylist.biz. In the nineties, he was a designer / director of a highly successful design, manufacturing and distribution company (Intimidation).
Stories by Steven Carrol
This Week At Microsoft
KillerStartups has been in the news recently as a result of buying the domain name Startups.com. TechCrunch reported that they may have paid somewhere in the realm of $500K for…
Learn from CD Baby and make $20 million without stress
I first came across Derek Sivers (founder and director of CD Baby) about one year ago. He had done an interview a few years prior on Venture Voice which I…
Ep5: Companies Who Make Money: Stylizer visual CSS editor
Following on from Patrick’s wish for a specific tool to edit the theme of WordPress blogs, I want to introduce a company that I would love to use and have…
Ep4: Companies Who Make Money: Datapresser
Many of you have been surprised by the sheer number of articles that we have been publishing on TheNextWeb recently so I’m going to let you into a little secret…
Ep3: Companies Who Make Money: JumpBox
At The Next Web conference earlier this year, those tech savvy entrepreneurs Patrick, Boris and the rest of the crew set up live streaming for everyone who like me could…
Ep2: Companies Who Make Money: Armin Heinrich
Recent buzz and hysteria surrounding overnight success stories of applications built for the iPhone seem to have been garnering almost more hype than that which surrounded those early Facebook applications…
EP1: Companies Who Make Money: Virtualmin
All too often we hear that so and so has secured x.000,000.00 of financing in round (x). What we don’t hear much about are quiet little companies who make niche…
Why Is Paypal Always Down These Days?
Being a web developer and system admin for my own network, I have more sympathy than most when it comes to problems with scaling and general system admin. But this…
Facebook Under Massive Phishing Attack From China
Facebook is under attack with numerous phishing scams. It looks like the network effect is coming into full swing to allow the prolification of these scammers to spread virally. The…
Balsamiq Mockups Makes Big Impression on Hacker Community
Balsamiq Mockups is a new product launched on the Adobe AIR platform which allows developers to make mockups of their designs in no time. Think MSWord for hackers. Since its…
The Biggest Social Network You Have Never Heard Of
The Saatchi-Gallery is probably one of the biggest sites you have never heard of, they are one of the most trafficked sites in the UK, with 70 million hits a…
Facebook & Youtube help the fight for democracy in Egypt
Young activists are organizing rallies, strikes, and protests using Facebook in Egypt. Others are using YouTube to distribute videos showing torture and oppression. For over 27 years, President Mubarak has…
Slide says 'NO MORE' Facebook Applications
Silicon Ally Insider reports today that Slide is giving up making new FB apps. Instead they intend to focus on monetizing their existing apps. Just last week Slide also announced…
Facestat will either kill or boost your self-confidence
Facestat a new service by Dolores Labs (a nifty outfit that develops interesting data analysis tools which work out meanings and relationships in data), just made the front page of…
