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Re: Questions for PressDemocrat.com’s Online Director

admeyer — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:45:38 -0000

Good point.

Re: Questions for PressDemocrat.com’s Online Director

benvanderbeek — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:32:52 -0000

But if they didn't have that website, what would the Department of Incorrect Voter Information spend there time and tax dollars on?

Re: burp.

benvanderbeek — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:11:27 -0000

this song is great, this video is intense.

Re: Three Well-Designed Products I Recently Purchased That Make Me Happy

benvanderbeek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:29:47 -0000

My wife will be so stoked when she sees the fitball.

Re: Blood Test

benvanderbeek — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:50:14 -0000

Cause if you can make up a date in the past, you're obviously who you say you are.

Re: Forget Oprah's Book Club, Jon Stewart Tells Me What To Read

benvanderbeek — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:53:40 -0000

Um, speaking of shameless, I'm already a Duke of Splog. E.g. http://reformerclass.com http://schwinnexercisebike.com etc!

Re: Forget Oprah's Book Club, Jon Stewart Tells Me What To Read

admeyer — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:47:12 -0000

No one has scooped up daily-show-books.com, yet. Let's go halfsies and become splog kings.

Re: Forget Oprah's Book Club, Jon Stewart Tells Me What To Read

benvanderbeek — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:44:33 -0000

Man, be more shameless!

Re: Forget Oprah's Book Club, Jon Stewart Tells Me What To Read

admeyer — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:36:32 -0000

Haha good point. Didn't want to add links to the books AND my wishlist. It might induce someone to vomit on their computer screen. :)

Re: Forget Oprah's Book Club, Jon Stewart Tells Me What To Read

benvanderbeek — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:23:20 -0000

Kind of ironic you're talking about how the Daily Show should make some affiliate money linking to books... But as you list out books you're interested in, they're not linked w/ your own affiliate tag. ;) Maybe you need to start a daily-show-books.com blog until they get the picture.

Re: burp.

benvanderbeek — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:05:16 -0000

Luanne Platter brought us these words of wisdom: "It *will* grow back."

Re: burp.

malbatron — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:35:35 -0000

thanks for the compliment! I thought my old wussy ears wouldn't be able to hang with this crazy hard rock music, but I guess they (my ears) aren't quite willing to grow up yet! And you have awesome music by the way --- really great stuff! thanks for sharing!

Re: burp.

benvanderbeek — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:13:50 -0000

I have gone through several of these self-listening phases. I'm definitely sure I like my music more than anyone else does. www.apologyfest.com.

Good song, too intense for my old wussy ears.

Re: Kiva’s Addictive Cycle: Invest, Repaid, Reinvest

benvanderbeek — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:17:41 -0000

So awesome. My wife and I were just talking last night about how to make giving decisions together. This is a rad thing to look into, thanks. I was only familiar w/ http://www.prosper.com/ along these lines.

Re: Am I Left-handed or Right-handed? 23andWe Wants to Know.

benvanderbeek — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:16:08 -0000

Right-hand power? You know the lefties are gonna revolt, I'd play nice.

Re: Watching Dara Torres on Jay Leno Let Me See the Future of Online Video Monetization

admeyer — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:59:05 -0000

Please do. That would be awesome.

I'm thinking something like AdSense running in sidebar of Gmail emails and
blog posts, but instead of pulling ads triggered from keywords in the
email/blog post text it would be triggered by products mentioned in the
video or triggered by product shape/size recognition. I'm sure Google is
working on this now.

Re: Watching Dara Torres on Jay Leno Let Me See the Future of Online Video Monetization

benvanderbeek — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:54:25 -0000

One of my old bosses had this idea to make websites for movies where there would be screenshots of various scenes in the movie and every item within it could be clicked on and purchased. As I talked to him more about I realized his idea was very poorly conceived and he basically thought if we created this skeleton of a movie website on a shoestring budget we could pitch it to Hollywood types and make money. I was thinking... if that's your whole business model, and the movie company liked the idea, they'd just go make a similar site themselves.

All that to say, yes, this product purchaseability has to be extremely well integrated into video, and it's got to be everything mentioned or visible in every shot.

I'll be right back, I'ma go make that technology up, on a shoestring budget.