Hello there, my name is Alex Pooley and I'm a freelance web developer residing in Perth, Western Australia.
My passion is in the development of web sites that solve everyday problems. Here's a
gallery of some of my notable work. If you need a web site designer
or developer, contact me with further details. Lastly, you can read more
about me.
Scribd is a new document library that has been getting a lot of press lately . It’s from Paul Graham’s Y Combinator outfit, and has received two reviews from TechCrunch. You add a document, and others read it. You can use the content on your site with the embedded flash reader, vote for articles, etc etc. It’s a bit like Youtube for documents I guess.
One common way to build traffic in the world of SEO is to write a document, and then add it to a document library for others to use on their own web site. The optimizer builds a keyword laden document and includes links back to their site, and the person using the article gets free content.
I threw in my global warming report to see what would happen.
I’m subscribed to a few mailing lists. These lists I’m a member of are the Internet equivalent of infomercials. You know the ones with the overly enthusiastic presenter with the over the top marketing strategy… “I’m going to suck up this cup of rice with my 1500 Watt cyclonic vacuum cleaner. Look at how easy it is!” I bet you roll your eyes when you see that sort of crap right? The mailing lists are a bit more intellectual but still in the same vein. The reason you see this sort of stuff is because it works. Sad, but true.
One of the lists was plugging a recent promotion - Day Job Killer. As you can already tell, the marketing is a bit over the top. But, there’s nothing over the top about this…
Day Job Killer pulled in as many max page views in 2 weeks, as TechCrunch has built up over about 18 months. Apparently DJK sold 5,000 copies at $77 each in the first day. Not a bad result.
This is the result of old school marketing, Internet 1995 style. In contrast, Web2.0 is fun, and technically exciting. The problem with Web2.0 is that the emphasis is on the technology, and not on the business.
Here’s more reviews from people with questionable credibility linking to DJK with an affiliate ID. You could only affiliate with DJK if you had purchased the book.
I haven’t released them just yet. I’m after people to help me try the plugin, and gadget and return any feedback. If you want to be one of the coolest kids in 2007 then contact me and I’ll send through instructions! If being cool isn’t quite enough, then for Wordpress blogs, or public pages where you have added the Google Gadget, I’ll include a link from my blog and possibly from ScribbleHere and Msgpad. Just think of all that glory.
You can see the Wordpress plugin in action at the top of my blog within the orange border. Like I mentioned above, the plugin does not have to hog as much real estate as on my blog. Here’s what looks like on my Google personalized page, and on the desktop.
