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Main Area and Open Discussion => Living Room => Topic started by: vlastimil on September 29, 2012, 04:08 PM
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So, anyway, because Google kicked my web out of AdSense (they have probably upgraded one of their automated filters and I had a Chuck Norris icon on my web :'( - see also this topic posted by Renegade https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=32381.0 ), I have decided to run a series of free promotions (placing banners where the ads used to be) on my web and draw a bit of attention to worthy internet places.
The place that came to my mind first was DonationCoder and I have posted banners pointing here on my web. I would like to switch the promoted web site every few days and I am looking for suggestions. What web sites would deserve a bit of free promotion? If you know a perfect candidate, please leave a reply here or on my blog http://www.rw-designer.com/entry/883
Thanks...
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dailyrotation.com (http://www.dailyrotation.com)?
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Open Culture (http://www.openculture.com/)
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Nerds in Babeland (http://nerdsinbabeland.com/)
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What are some things the female nerd community would like to hear/chat or what do you “nerd out” about?
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ManyBooks (http://manybooks.net/)
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And that's just for openers! ;D 8) :Thmbsup:
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The big 3 of the DonationCoder blog sounds apt:
App's Cranial Soup
http://cranialsoup.blogspot.com/
Skwire's Blog
http://skwire.dcmembers.com/fp/?page=software
and I forgot the other. Could be used to reserve mouser's kickstarter page.
I also think not many people know that Yandex is the new no hassle e-mail account registration service.
DuckDuckGo still has a long way to go.
Ifttt.com is always an underrated service.
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App's Cranial Soup
http://cranialsoup.blogspot.com/
-Paul Keith
If you are going to suggest linking to any of my blogs, perhaps my art blog (http://russograffix.blogspot.com/) would be a better choice, since it would be more contextually relevant to the pages he would be displaying it on. His visitors might even find some stuff on the blog to make icon sets out of. (lots of CC-BY licensed goodies)
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What web sites would deserve a bit of free promotion? If you know a perfect candidate, please leave a reply here or on my blog http://www.rw-designer.com/entry/883-vlastimil
So you seem to think yours does? :P
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Thanks for the suggestions so far, some of them will make it to the final list, please keep them coming... :)
I think the next project, I'll try to draw a bit of attention to, will be ReactOS. With Microsoft making Windows more and more closed, ReactOS may play an important role in the future.
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With Microsoft making Windows more and more closed
-vlastimil
Huh? Where/why/what?
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I think the next project, I'll try to draw a bit of attention to, will be ReactOS. With Microsoft making Windows more and more closed, ReactOS may play an important role in the future.
-vlastimil
IMO ReactOS has no future. Like Mono, it's been left alone because it isn't presently viewed as a threat. The day ReactOS starts getting popular, Microsoft will litigate it out of existence.
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It is true that ReactOS has not advanced too much in the past months/years, but it would be great if it succeeded. It is not that easy to kill an open source project. The recent Oracle-Google case about copyright-ability of API and a similar case in EU seem to indicate re-implementing an API is OK, which is a good foundation for ReactOS legitimacy.
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The place that came to my mind first was DonationCoder and I have posted banners pointing here on my web.
Thank you, that is very sweet :-*
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Another good site deserving of a little more love is Distrowatch (http://distrowatch.com). :Thmbsup:
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It is true that ReactOS has not advanced too much in the past months/years, but it would be great if it succeeded. -vlastimil
I agree completely. It's also good to see a 'built from scratch' alternative to Linux/BSD.
We don't want to get all our eggs out of one basket, only to replace it with a different single basket.
It is not that easy to kill an open source project.
Disagree on that point somewhat. Most open source projects are very easy to buy out, kill, corrupt, or cripple if somebody makes the effort to do so. Fortunately, ReactOS is a world unto itself so there's good hope it will be spared much of the nonsense and machinations going on in the bigger FOSS/GNU/Linux/GPL world.
In the end it's mostly up to the project's community of developers. ReactOS seems to have a good one. So lets keep our fingers crossed and wish them well.
The recent Oracle-Google case about copyright-ability of API and a similar case in EU seem to indicate re-implementing an API is OK, which is a good foundation for ReactOS legitimacy.
Also agree - but only up to a point. Because that only covers situations where the legal arguments make some sense and are based on some possible version of reality.
When true behemoths (like Microsoft or Apple) go up against a small project that states up front the following on it's homepage, it gives attorneys a huge amount of running room for making a case for IP violations:
ReactOS® is a free, modern operating system based on the design of Windows® XP/2003. Written completely from scratch, it aims to follow the Windows-NT® architecture designed by Microsoft from the hardware level right through to the application level. This is not a Linux based system, and shares none of the unix architecture.
And when it comes to APIs and other "parts' of some big company's product offerings you need to be equally careful. Take Mono. It's a trojan horse AFAIC. The time will come when Microsoft lowers the boom. Expect it when Ballmer finally decides to quit the helm. He'll do the "dying general going out with a bang" routine. And initiating the Mono takedown will be his swan song. If it succeeds, it's a feather in his cap. If it causes a huge backlash, he'll be gone and a convenient scapegoat if Micorosoft needs to backpedal. Microsoft will be covered either way.
In the meantime, the 'sellout' Nix distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse will work out some sort of a license deal making them the only sanctioned platforms for anything that uses Mono. Which plays into Microsoft's grand strategy: first, drive a wedge into the Linux community and separate out the people who "play the game" (by Microsoft's rules), from those that refuse. And then pick off the holdouts one by one. Probably starting with the smallest (but still popular) distro in order to establish early legal precedent for their arguments.
I personally think Microsoft's real problem with Linux, and FOSS in general, is that so much of it is available at no charge. That is where they see the real threat - allowing people to expect to get usable and good quality software for free.
I think if most Linux distros and FOSS packages generally charged something, even as little as $1 - $5 a copy (like iOS apps) for a download, Microsoft would be breathing a lot easier. Because "free" is the one word Microsoft doesn't ever want to see regularly paired with the word 'software' - no matter who is doing the pairing.
It's all a matter of managing customer expectations. Or, in Microsoft's case, of lowering them. 8)
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Because "free" is the one word Microsoft doesn't ever want to see regularly paired with the word 'software' - no matter who is doing the pairing.
Depends. Microsoft has a lot of free software available.
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Because "free" is the one word Microsoft doesn't ever want to see regularly paired with the word 'software' - no matter who is doing the pairing.
Depends. Microsoft has a lot of free software available.
-Tuxman
I think 40hz is right there.
"Free" software from MS is only for software that supports one of their platforms in one way or another.
How many pieces of free software does MS publish for OS X or Linux? (And that isn't meant to support one of their products on that platform.)
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"Free" software from MS is only for software that supports one of their platforms in one way or another.
So?
Is there any free Canonical software for Windows?
Just asking.
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Because "free" is the one word Microsoft doesn't ever want to see regularly paired with the word 'software' - no matter who is doing the pairing.
Depends. Microsoft has a lot of free software available.
-Tuxman
Which runs on their proprietary "not free" operating system. ;)
Clever of them, don't ya think?
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Which runs on their proprietary "not free" operating system. ;)
-40hz
Oh, I'd guess Microsoft has Powerpoint Viewer for Mac or something.
"Proprietary" as a knock-out? Well, bye Linux then, too, huh?
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Is there any free Canonical software for Windows?
-Tuxman
http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/music-and-mobile
Audacity for one.
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Audacity is not a Canonical software.
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Is there any free Canonical software for Windows?
-Tuxman
Um...Canonical makes software for Linux...Microsoft makes software for Windows?
However, the WUBI installer allows you to install Ubuntu inside of Windows if that counts.
And Wine will allow some Windows applications to work under Linux - not that Microsoft has anything to do with that. It's just another FOSS project.
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Audacity is not a Canonical software.
-Tuxman
Out of curiosity, are you actually going someplace with any of this - or is this just the usual game of devil's advocate you're playing?
:)
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Um...Canonical makes software for Linux...Microsoft makes software for Windows?-40hz
Precisely. So what is the point of the fact that Microsoft only provides free software for their own environment? So does everyone else.
Out of curiosity, are you going someplace with any of this - or is this just the usual game of devil's advocate you're playing?
:)
-40hz
I just wanted to show why bashing Microsoft while praising "FOSS" companies is plain wrong.
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I just wanted to show why bashing Microsoft while praising "FOSS" companies is plain wrong.
-Tuxman
I don't think anybody is trying to do that. :-\
Now do v-man a favor and suggest a good website so we can get his thread back on topic. :) :)
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You actually did.
A good website? Deserving more attention? Mine aside?
Uhm. What about http://www.bonkersworld.net/ or smth?
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Audacity is not a Canonical software.
-Tuxman
I guess I'm confusing Canonical there. Happens.
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@Ren - Did you toss cynic.me up there as a suggestion yet? I'm a fan. :)
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Uhm. What about http://www.bonkersworld.net/ or smth?
-Tuxman
It does have some amusing stuff :) Thanks
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No problem. ;)
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Uhm. What about http://www.bonkersworld.net/ or smth?
-Tuxman
It does have some amusing stuff :) Thanks
-jgpaiva
+1!
Bookmarked. ;D
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@Ren - Did you toss cynic.me up there as a suggestion yet? I'm a fan. :)
-40hz
Nope. I don't like to be blatantly self-promotional. :) Thank you for doing it for me~!
(And good to hear that you've enjoyed some of my ramblings! - Got a "new" article on Robosoft (http://cynic.me/2012/09/29/robosoft-for-beginners/) out now that's pretty in-depth, and a story/essay that app103 did the artwork for (http://cynic.me/2012/09/29/franks-dogs/). $5 DC credit for the first person to identify the inspiration for that blog (a major one anyways)! ;) )
As for sites that I think could use more exposure, well, tonnes of them. I don't think I could be succinct with a list. Think Techdirt, Torrentfreak, EFF, etc. etc. etc. Others that I can think of would probably be considered far too fringe for most people, and probably why they could use more exposure~! :D