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Written on 23rd January 2009
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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur
Oprah Winfrey once said “You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, even if you weren’t being paid for it.”
If this is true then there must be millions of bloggers on the road to success right now!
Surely we love our job and would do it even if we weren’t paid but it is still extremely satisfying to make some money of off the work we do here. To that end we have professionalized a few things in the past few weeks.
We now have an Ad Management system that works very well, gives us lots of options to customize everything and which makes it very easy for advertisers to get your advertisements on our blog.
In fact, it takes less than 2 minutes to get your 125×125 button in our sidebar!
Since yesterday we also started selling simple text links. We received some requests from readers to introduce this format and because it is a cheap and simple way to attract visitors and easier to set-up than designing a Button we decided to start offering it.
So, if you have a site which you want to promote you can now order a 30 day link to your site for just EUR 50-.
It is displayed in the right sidebar on the bottom and I put up a few examples in there to show you how it works. The first paying user is Best Web Hosting.
Related post: “Buy our ads or the dog gets it…“
Written on 27th June 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Today is Glastonbury day. World’s largest music festival kicks off this morning and will feature artists like the Editors, Gossip, Jay-Z, Amy Winehouse, Manu Chao, The Raconteurs, The Verve, and MGMT. The area where Glastonbury takes place is pretty spacious, so the lucky ones who got a ticket might loose their friends in the music chaos. No problem, as long as your phone works. But what if.., your battery is flat?
Lately, rumors about solar iPhones have been zooming around. But to quote the Velvet Underground, “Who Loves The Sun?” – if there’s a alternative around that’s way more fun? Mobile phone operator Orange and GotWind – a company specializing in renewable energy – have teamed up to test a product during Glastonbury that charges a phone by using your dance moves.
Instead of just enjoying the music, you’re also generating some power with a geeky cool-looking light weight device. The portable kinetic energy chargers are attached to your arm, employing a system of weights and magnet which provide electric current which is stored in a special battery.
So next time you’re at a festival, looking for your friends, try to dance like a maniac for a while and then charge that battery.
This is one of those rare posts that actually doesn’t concern the web in any way, but just tech. I just had to share it with you though. Hope you don’t mind.
Written on 16th April 2008
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Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
If fashion trends come and go with the seasons, what will happen once global warming takes over and seasons cease to exist?
That’s quite a bold question. Yet RehashClotes.com revolves around it. It’s a web site where people can exchange clothes to save the environment. Sort of a fashionable recycling service. When the guys from Orpheux Design found out that only in America, an average person throws away an average of 67.9 lbs of clothing and textiles per year, they figured something had to be done. Therefore they started working on a “a worldwide movement to lower your consumption and create a greener Earth for everyone”.
So what if you’re not into the whole Al Gore global warming thing? RehashClotes.com still seems interesting for not so green fashion victims. And not just because you change the web site’s green-colored design into a brown or blue one (did they do that on purpose?), also because it’s a good source for second-hand, vintage or original clothing. What seems worthless to you, can be valuable for someone else. And naturally, this works the other way around as well. After some quick browsing through the RehashClotes’ archive, I already found some good items, not the dull and dusty things you’ll find at the Salvation Army.
I think Rehash is part of an interesting trend. Now we’re used to buying stuff online, we also like to hire and swap our goods online. Whereas we used to place classifieds ads in local newspapers or hang up notes is supermarkets, we now just browse to our favorite web service. Craigslist started this trend a long time ago by offering these services for major cities, yet geographical distances are getting less important. Why wouldn’t we swap clothes with someone who lives 1,000 miles away? Most of us trust the web now, and that leads to beautiful initiatives like Rehash.
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