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By: Watch Me Make A WebSite: Part II | College-Startup

Watch Me Make A WebSite: Part II | College-Startup — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:08:30 +0000

[...] With the OneBigMaine site I’ve identified 4 regions for monetization. Region 1 is the main page and will serve as an informational guide to the state of Maine. Region 2 is a blog about Maine, focusing primarily on Maine related news. Region 3 will be a property and rentals listing section of the site where people will pay an annual fee to list their Maine vacation homes. Region 4 will be a OneBig feed list and will serve a dual function. First, it will be a huge PageRank boost (getting linked in from more than 10 other sites in the OneBig network). Second, it will serve as an informational source showing up to the minute Maine related blog headlines. Region 5 will be a Maine related niche directory. [...]

By: Announce Your Startup Business! | College-Startup

Announce Your Startup Business! | College-Startup — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:27:26 +0000

[...] A few months ago we announced an easy way for you to get started with an online presence and to acquire online leverage (which is critical at the beginning) via the One Big Startup Package. [...]

By: David Krug

David Krug — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:51:13 +0000

DAvid,
While I respect that opinion. I would ask you if Google asked for permission to include you in their highly profitable search engine. Or Live.com or Ask.com or even Yahoo.

I mean what would be the difference ?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:39:01 +0000

You start your post of with:

“You talk about not “diluting” your work, but this service completely goes counter to that.”

But then you fail to justify how this project constitutes “diluting” work.

This product allows you to create a “lens” pointing people to the best feeds on the web relating to a certain topic. Squidoo does this on a larger scale. So are you arguing that Squidoo is illegitimate?

By your logic valid businesses such as The Drudge Report (which creates lists of links to other people’s content), Google (which organizes other people’s content) and other sites which organize information are all illegitimate.

That just doesn’t make sense.

The fact is that linking to authority sites in a particular niche creates a service that is useful to both the reader and the site that is being linked to and doesn’t constitute the stealing of content…whatsoever (unless the listing of headlines with links to the original site counts as stealing).

By: David Askaripour

David Askaripour — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:49:50 +0000

WOW! You talk about not “diluting” your work, but this service completely goes counter to that. In fact, you are promoting a service that is directly aimed at profiting off the words of other writers without their permission of adding their feeds to the site — not cool dude.

I think it’s a cool idea, but you should set it up that each owner has to ask permission to use their feeds for commercial use. Or at least share the profits.

Dave
Mind Petals

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:15:13 +0000

This is a great initiative. Keep it up.

By: HART (1-800-HART)

HART (1-800-HART) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:40:05 +0000

Hi again. It’s an interesting offer .. content for barter .. thanks for trying .. but I have too much on my plate, as it is, to come up with an additional 12,500 words .. Back to the old drawing board, and my crappy feed page!

PS You need the subscribe to comment plugin!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:22:45 +0000

The only requirement for the domain names is that they start with the words “onebig”

But yes, you’ll be responsible for choosing and buying your domain name.

By: Miha

Miha — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:56:25 +0000

What about the domain name… can you use your own?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 00:50:58 +0000

Hi Hart.
I barter for content. $10 of credit per 500 word article. That would be 25 articles.

We’re especially interested in travel articles:
http://www.tenfootsquare.com