Wattpad operates much like YouTube, with users supplying files to share with one another.
To get started, all customers need are compatible devices and data plans, and they can download Wattpad directly through their mobile Internet browsers at no charge—the site is financed by advertising dollars. Community members can share just about any type of text files—short stories, news articles, study notes, movie reviews—anything, provided they have the appropriate copyrights. They can even upload shopping lists, driving directions or reminders (though they should bear in mind that these files are accessible to the entire Wattpad community!). Top 3 this week: an essay by Albert Einstein, a dialogue-only short story by science fiction writer Terry Bisson, and quotes from The Simpsons.
Wattpad supports a large variety of languages and special characters, and users can log onto the website to post comments, browse categories and interact with other members. Those who are looking for something particular can even post requests to the community at large via a bulletin board on the site.As with any Web 2.0 venture, Wattpad's success relies largely upon its ability to build a rich community—with more than 13 million pages already delivered to mobile phones, they're off to quite a start! Could be a handy new venue for viral marketing, too. (Related: Novels for the very small screen.)
More at: www.wattpad.com
Friday, August 10, 2007
Unusal And Untapped Business Idea Which Can Make You Rich By Just Watching You Tube Violaters
A lot of people watch YouTube videos at work. A few are actually paid to do it.
A former bartender named Joe Bersik sits in front of a flat-screen monitor about eight hours a day, pulling up Internet videos. His job is to find pirated material and get it taken off the Web.
Mr. Bersik works at BayTSP Inc., an eight-year-old start-up with big clients like Viacom Inc., the parent of MTV Networks. BayTSP employs more than 20 video analysts -- sometimes called "hashers" -- who watch videos looking for copyright violations.
Tethered to his computer by headphones, Mr. Bersik on a recent day played the music video of R&B singer Akon's hit song "Don't Matter" on YouTube. The logo of the MTV Jams TV channel was visible at the bottom of the clip. The 53-year-old Mr. Bersik watched for a minute then fired an alert to a colleague who sent an email requesting that YouTube take it down.
In about two hours, the video was gone.
Mr. Bersik and the eight men around him staring at monitors are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the people who post copyrighted clips on the Web. Working from a leafy office park on the fringes of Silicon Valley, they are key players in the legal battle over Internet copyrights between Viacom and Google Inc., which now owns YouTube.
Viacom last fall asked BayTSP to keep a running log of clips from the cartoon show "South Park" and other Viacom programs that people had posted on YouTube. In February, Viacom gave the signal to fire off a barrage of "take-down" notices: In a single batch of emails on Friday, Feb. 2, BayTSP requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 Viacom clips, in a procedure outlined in U.S. copyright law. The clips Mr. Bersik and others identified were cited in Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit filed against Google the following month. The New York media company says it pays more than $100,000 a month to BayTSP, to find infringing videos and have them removed from YouTube and other sites.
BayTSP says it has more than five TV and movie-studio clients but for contractual reasons can't disclose names other than Viacom. The closely held company says it bills clients as much as $500,000 a month to track down illegal copies of software, music and video clips. Every month it sends out more than a million take-down notices.
Other companies have started using automated technology to identify video clips so they don't have to employ a room full of people manually scanning them as Bay TSP does. YouTube, which says it complies with copyright laws by removing clips when their owners request it, is testing technology to keep infringing videos off its site in the first place. BayTSP thinks human beings will always be needed if only to inspect automated results.
"There will always be something that falls into the gray area," says BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa, 42, who is also an active race-car driver. The company and Viacom have faced criticism for mistakenly requesting the takedown of noninfringing clips such as parodies and home videos, though BayTSP says its error rate on Web videos is only around 0.1%.
It's in an open, white-walled room close to Mr. Ishikawa's race-car machine shop at BayTSP's headquarters that Mr. Bersik and the other video analysts sit side-by-side combing through clips looking for clients' content. Movie posters with mustaches drawn on actresses' faces and other defacements hang above the desks.
The analysts use special software to scan the new clips posted to YouTube and other video sites a few times a day, creating lists of potentially infringing ones. They can use a separate program to conduct searches for keywords -- such as "Laguna Beach" or character names -- on the sites and either flag a clip for takedown or clear it to stay up.
On a recent day, their manager, Eric Antze, pulled up a clip from Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" that one of his colleagues had identified. "This is clearly copyright infringement," said Mr. Antze, 26, as the video began playing on YouTube. He clicked "Send" in a BayTSP software program running on his other monitor, triggering the email delivery to YouTube of a takedown request. When YouTube receives such emails, employees review them and then remove the clips. Mr. Antze, who was a part-time teacher until he started at BayTSP in November, has a sheet showing the logos of Viacom's various TV channels taped to his monitors.
He says BayTSP has had more than 230,000 clips, which users had viewed more than two billion times, removed from YouTube for Viacom alone. When the Viacom takedowns crossed the 150,000 mark, BayTSP bought better chairs and desks for the analysts.
People who post videos use tricks to make it harder to locate them. Some deliberately misspell the names of shows or films to thwart searching. With music videos, they sometimes include the word "remix" in the title, because the media companies often will let videos altered by users stay. Users often figure out and try to work around the rules BayTSP's clients set for what they want taken down.
The users also remain persistent in finding ways to upload videos again each time they're removed. "By the time I send notices and take them down, they'll be reposted," says Justin Hernandez, 27, who focuses on finding feature films for a BayTSP client.
The part-time DJ says he thought the video-analyst job was "too good to be true" when a friend who works at BayTSP told him he could get paid to watch online videos all day. Analyst salaries start at around $11 an hour. Perks include subsidized 25-cent sodas.
BayTSP's analysts say they don't tell friends and family exactly what they do, because they sign agreements not to disclose specifics of their work or the media-company clients. Scott Martine, 26, says his vagueness has led friends to suspect he is in the pornography business.
Mr. Bersik tells people he works for an Internet security company. The amateur guitar player, who has worked here since January, spends much of his time taking down music videos recorded off Viacom's MTV and other music channels. He keeps a dogeared copy of the Billboard music charts printed each Tuesday in USA Today on his desk to give him ideas for songs and artists he should search for.
Some analysts complain of tired eyes, and the tedium of watching the same clips over and over. "The novelty of 'Oh great, I get to look at YouTube videos all day' -- that wears off real quick," says Mr. Martine, who has worked at BayTSP since January. "Are you prepared to watch a million videos over and over again?" Mr. Antze asks job applicants.
The men, mostly in their 20s, play basketball in the parking lot during a 3 p.m. break each day. They combat the monotony by passing links to quirky clips around the office. One recent oddball favorite was a video of a flamboyant German disco-era group performing in Genghis Khan-inspired outfits.
The analysts generally say they have little appetite for YouTube outside of work anymore, however. "By the time I'm done working on it for eight hours, this is the last site I want to go to," says Mr. Antze.
More at:http://www.startupjournal.com/ideas/b2b/20070809-delaney.html
A former bartender named Joe Bersik sits in front of a flat-screen monitor about eight hours a day, pulling up Internet videos. His job is to find pirated material and get it taken off the Web.
Mr. Bersik works at BayTSP Inc., an eight-year-old start-up with big clients like Viacom Inc., the parent of MTV Networks. BayTSP employs more than 20 video analysts -- sometimes called "hashers" -- who watch videos looking for copyright violations.
Tethered to his computer by headphones, Mr. Bersik on a recent day played the music video of R&B singer Akon's hit song "Don't Matter" on YouTube. The logo of the MTV Jams TV channel was visible at the bottom of the clip. The 53-year-old Mr. Bersik watched for a minute then fired an alert to a colleague who sent an email requesting that YouTube take it down.
In about two hours, the video was gone.
Mr. Bersik and the eight men around him staring at monitors are playing a cat-and-mouse game with the people who post copyrighted clips on the Web. Working from a leafy office park on the fringes of Silicon Valley, they are key players in the legal battle over Internet copyrights between Viacom and Google Inc., which now owns YouTube.
Viacom last fall asked BayTSP to keep a running log of clips from the cartoon show "South Park" and other Viacom programs that people had posted on YouTube. In February, Viacom gave the signal to fire off a barrage of "take-down" notices: In a single batch of emails on Friday, Feb. 2, BayTSP requested that YouTube remove more than 100,000 Viacom clips, in a procedure outlined in U.S. copyright law. The clips Mr. Bersik and others identified were cited in Viacom's $1 billion copyright suit filed against Google the following month. The New York media company says it pays more than $100,000 a month to BayTSP, to find infringing videos and have them removed from YouTube and other sites.
BayTSP says it has more than five TV and movie-studio clients but for contractual reasons can't disclose names other than Viacom. The closely held company says it bills clients as much as $500,000 a month to track down illegal copies of software, music and video clips. Every month it sends out more than a million take-down notices.
Other companies have started using automated technology to identify video clips so they don't have to employ a room full of people manually scanning them as Bay TSP does. YouTube, which says it complies with copyright laws by removing clips when their owners request it, is testing technology to keep infringing videos off its site in the first place. BayTSP thinks human beings will always be needed if only to inspect automated results.
"There will always be something that falls into the gray area," says BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa, 42, who is also an active race-car driver. The company and Viacom have faced criticism for mistakenly requesting the takedown of noninfringing clips such as parodies and home videos, though BayTSP says its error rate on Web videos is only around 0.1%.
It's in an open, white-walled room close to Mr. Ishikawa's race-car machine shop at BayTSP's headquarters that Mr. Bersik and the other video analysts sit side-by-side combing through clips looking for clients' content. Movie posters with mustaches drawn on actresses' faces and other defacements hang above the desks.
The analysts use special software to scan the new clips posted to YouTube and other video sites a few times a day, creating lists of potentially infringing ones. They can use a separate program to conduct searches for keywords -- such as "Laguna Beach" or character names -- on the sites and either flag a clip for takedown or clear it to stay up.
On a recent day, their manager, Eric Antze, pulled up a clip from Comedy Central's "Chappelle's Show" that one of his colleagues had identified. "This is clearly copyright infringement," said Mr. Antze, 26, as the video began playing on YouTube. He clicked "Send" in a BayTSP software program running on his other monitor, triggering the email delivery to YouTube of a takedown request. When YouTube receives such emails, employees review them and then remove the clips. Mr. Antze, who was a part-time teacher until he started at BayTSP in November, has a sheet showing the logos of Viacom's various TV channels taped to his monitors.
He says BayTSP has had more than 230,000 clips, which users had viewed more than two billion times, removed from YouTube for Viacom alone. When the Viacom takedowns crossed the 150,000 mark, BayTSP bought better chairs and desks for the analysts.
People who post videos use tricks to make it harder to locate them. Some deliberately misspell the names of shows or films to thwart searching. With music videos, they sometimes include the word "remix" in the title, because the media companies often will let videos altered by users stay. Users often figure out and try to work around the rules BayTSP's clients set for what they want taken down.
The users also remain persistent in finding ways to upload videos again each time they're removed. "By the time I send notices and take them down, they'll be reposted," says Justin Hernandez, 27, who focuses on finding feature films for a BayTSP client.
The part-time DJ says he thought the video-analyst job was "too good to be true" when a friend who works at BayTSP told him he could get paid to watch online videos all day. Analyst salaries start at around $11 an hour. Perks include subsidized 25-cent sodas.
BayTSP's analysts say they don't tell friends and family exactly what they do, because they sign agreements not to disclose specifics of their work or the media-company clients. Scott Martine, 26, says his vagueness has led friends to suspect he is in the pornography business.
Mr. Bersik tells people he works for an Internet security company. The amateur guitar player, who has worked here since January, spends much of his time taking down music videos recorded off Viacom's MTV and other music channels. He keeps a dogeared copy of the Billboard music charts printed each Tuesday in USA Today on his desk to give him ideas for songs and artists he should search for.
Some analysts complain of tired eyes, and the tedium of watching the same clips over and over. "The novelty of 'Oh great, I get to look at YouTube videos all day' -- that wears off real quick," says Mr. Martine, who has worked at BayTSP since January. "Are you prepared to watch a million videos over and over again?" Mr. Antze asks job applicants.
The men, mostly in their 20s, play basketball in the parking lot during a 3 p.m. break each day. They combat the monotony by passing links to quirky clips around the office. One recent oddball favorite was a video of a flamboyant German disco-era group performing in Genghis Khan-inspired outfits.
The analysts generally say they have little appetite for YouTube outside of work anymore, however. "By the time I'm done working on it for eight hours, this is the last site I want to go to," says Mr. Antze.
More at:http://www.startupjournal.com/ideas/b2b/20070809-delaney.html
BillingOrchard is an online electronic billing software application that maintains hourly time billing
BillingOrchard is an online electronic billing software application that maintains hourly time billing, along with flat fee and recurring billing, managed using your web browser. Integration to Authorize.Net and other leading payment gateways provides hands-free recurring billing. BillingOrchard is the ideal solution for web hosts and hosting resellers, lawyers, web developers, consultants, and others requiring time-based and recurring client management.
Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at only $14.95 per month.
More at:http://www.billingorchard.com/
Electronic billing and invoicing software, starting at only $14.95 per month.
More at:http://www.billingorchard.com/
What is The Million Dollar Wiki?
The creativenesses of Internet entrepreneurs never cease to amaze me. Take for example Graham Langdon, 21 year old senior from the University of Connecticut. Like many college students, Graham has enormous college debts that he needs to pay off. He also wants to open the best bar in the world, right in the heart of Boston. How does Graham plan to pay for all this? He’s hoping The Million Dollar Wiki is the answer.
What is The Million Dollar Wiki?
The Million Dollar Wiki is basically a pay-per-page version of wikipedia. There will be a page for literally everything. However, instead of being open for anyone to edit, one person owns each page. Each page cost $100 and Graham plans to sell 10,000 pages so he can make his million bucks. Graham is off to a good start with the project. Since starting it two months ago, he has sold 158 pages and made $15,800. The FAQ gives a complete explanation on what the site is about and how it can make you money.
Every page is dedicated to a unique word or phrase. The content on each page is controlled by the page owner. Owners use the site, and specifically their page, as a vehicle to generate traffic, revenue or publicity. Other benefits include:
Secure an exclusive niche in a growing micro-economy.
Raise awareness of your website, product, or service.
Cultivate a heightened web presence.
Share traffic generated by the entire community.
Join a resourceful community of motivated entrepreneurs.
Receive storage space on our server for your page’s content.
Link quality content to your relevant website for better SEO.
Make Money Online with The Million Dollar Wiki
Because you own the page for your chosen keyword, you can do whatever you want with it. Monetization of your page can range from selling products or service to putting on advertising like Google AdSense. You can also resell the page for a profit.
Ownership of the page is forever. In this case, forever is until 2022 - the hosting of the site has been covered until then. It’s Graham’s intention to keep the site up forever but it’s guaranteed to be up for the next 15 years. Some examples of Wiki pages created by users include:
The music page
The campus cuties page
The design page
The forum
Buy a Blogger.com
There are a couple of case studies showing how the Wiki pages are making money for their owners. The Million Dollar Wiki offers several ways to promote your page. You could show up on the front page as a featured page, you could show up when a reader clicks a random page and you are also listed in the most popular pages. Currently, the most popular page is the keyword for Business, with 28,085 views.
The Power of Viral Marketing
Like the Million Dollar Homepage, The Million Dollar Wiki is based on the power of viral marketing. How well the Wiki does will depend greatly on how well Graham gets the message out about his project. Right now, he has the advantage because he is the first mover into this new space. After working the numbers - $100 over a minimum of 15 years - I decided to buy a page. I now own the Wiki page for Make Money Online.
I wish Graham luck on this project. I really hope he makes it because everyone loves an Internet success story. One thing for sure, paying $100 to own a Wiki page seems like a better deal than paying $100 for a little square.
More at:http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/
Via-JohnChow
What is The Million Dollar Wiki?
The Million Dollar Wiki is basically a pay-per-page version of wikipedia. There will be a page for literally everything. However, instead of being open for anyone to edit, one person owns each page. Each page cost $100 and Graham plans to sell 10,000 pages so he can make his million bucks. Graham is off to a good start with the project. Since starting it two months ago, he has sold 158 pages and made $15,800. The FAQ gives a complete explanation on what the site is about and how it can make you money.
Every page is dedicated to a unique word or phrase. The content on each page is controlled by the page owner. Owners use the site, and specifically their page, as a vehicle to generate traffic, revenue or publicity. Other benefits include:
Secure an exclusive niche in a growing micro-economy.
Raise awareness of your website, product, or service.
Cultivate a heightened web presence.
Share traffic generated by the entire community.
Join a resourceful community of motivated entrepreneurs.
Receive storage space on our server for your page’s content.
Link quality content to your relevant website for better SEO.
Make Money Online with The Million Dollar Wiki
Because you own the page for your chosen keyword, you can do whatever you want with it. Monetization of your page can range from selling products or service to putting on advertising like Google AdSense. You can also resell the page for a profit.
Ownership of the page is forever. In this case, forever is until 2022 - the hosting of the site has been covered until then. It’s Graham’s intention to keep the site up forever but it’s guaranteed to be up for the next 15 years. Some examples of Wiki pages created by users include:
The music page
The campus cuties page
The design page
The forum
Buy a Blogger.com
There are a couple of case studies showing how the Wiki pages are making money for their owners. The Million Dollar Wiki offers several ways to promote your page. You could show up on the front page as a featured page, you could show up when a reader clicks a random page and you are also listed in the most popular pages. Currently, the most popular page is the keyword for Business, with 28,085 views.
The Power of Viral Marketing
Like the Million Dollar Homepage, The Million Dollar Wiki is based on the power of viral marketing. How well the Wiki does will depend greatly on how well Graham gets the message out about his project. Right now, he has the advantage because he is the first mover into this new space. After working the numbers - $100 over a minimum of 15 years - I decided to buy a page. I now own the Wiki page for Make Money Online.
I wish Graham luck on this project. I really hope he makes it because everyone loves an Internet success story. One thing for sure, paying $100 to own a Wiki page seems like a better deal than paying $100 for a little square.
More at:http://www.milliondollarwiki.com/
Via-JohnChow
AdSymetrix is an ad campaign tracking system that lets you keep up with how your ads are performing whether its online, email, or via phone
AdSymetrix is an ad campaign tracking system that lets you keep up with how your ads are performing whether its online, email, or via phone.
What you do is tag your various ad campaigns so AdSymetrix can keep tabs on your campaign’s performance on three different fronts. See how your ad is being passed along, see who responds to email newsletters, find out which websites are best for your particular ad, and see how many phone calls you get based on a particular ad method, whether it be a flyer, billboard, phonebook, etc. AsSymetrix also offers reverse lookup functions so you can see who’s actually calling you. This all indicates that you may need a different phone number as a way to tag each ad method.
This system may appeal to many that are entering the online business marketing world, or may be wondering about comparison points in regards to offline and online ad methods. Most businesses don’t have an online presence, and could even use this service to see how many customers come in from phone calls alone.
More at:http://www.adsymetrix.com
What you do is tag your various ad campaigns so AdSymetrix can keep tabs on your campaign’s performance on three different fronts. See how your ad is being passed along, see who responds to email newsletters, find out which websites are best for your particular ad, and see how many phone calls you get based on a particular ad method, whether it be a flyer, billboard, phonebook, etc. AsSymetrix also offers reverse lookup functions so you can see who’s actually calling you. This all indicates that you may need a different phone number as a way to tag each ad method.
This system may appeal to many that are entering the online business marketing world, or may be wondering about comparison points in regards to offline and online ad methods. Most businesses don’t have an online presence, and could even use this service to see how many customers come in from phone calls alone.
More at:http://www.adsymetrix.com
SteamStreet is a site for managing your portfolio with a chart that shows you the ups and downs, letting you see how your shares performed over time
SteamStreet is a site for managing your portfolio with a chart that shows you the ups and downs, letting you see how your shares performed over time. You can also see transaction histories for each stock, and you can easily update them. SteamStreet gives you secure controls to share your holdings, portfolios and notes with friends or with the public. You can even let your profile be public and let the world view and make comments on your investing strategy. The site also has a trading journal where you can keep notes about your trading ideas. It's free and easy to register with SteamStreet.
Now you can see exactly how well you're doing with true rate of return calculations and comparisons against any stock, fund, index, or friend's portfolio.
SteamStreet offers free, no-nonsense financial organization with plenty of options according to personal tastes. People may or may not like sharing their stock strategies, but this is an optional component anyway.
More at:http://www.steamstreet.com/
Now you can see exactly how well you're doing with true rate of return calculations and comparisons against any stock, fund, index, or friend's portfolio.
SteamStreet offers free, no-nonsense financial organization with plenty of options according to personal tastes. People may or may not like sharing their stock strategies, but this is an optional component anyway.
More at:http://www.steamstreet.com/
InvenTube, a brand new website designed to connect inventors with manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, scouts, attorneys, and retailers
InvenTube, a BRAND NEW website designed to connect inventors with manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, scouts, attorneys, and retailers like never before...
InvenTube is FREE to sign up, FREE to promote your patented concepts, and FREE for companies to browse your patent listings! You have the BEST chance to succeed with your brilliant ideas here at InvenTube.com! (and it won't cost you a dime!)
Experience the FASTEST growing professional online community for creative thinkers...
Built especially for inventors, BY inventors.
The site is designed for showing off your inventions, networking with your fellow inventors, and for getting your ideas patented. Companies and scouts are invited to browse the patent listings and discover new, innovative products at a competitively low cost. Other features include business directories, a discussion forum, members search, blogs, event listings, and resources. It’s free to join.
More at:http://www.inventube.com/
InvenTube is FREE to sign up, FREE to promote your patented concepts, and FREE for companies to browse your patent listings! You have the BEST chance to succeed with your brilliant ideas here at InvenTube.com! (and it won't cost you a dime!)
Experience the FASTEST growing professional online community for creative thinkers...
Built especially for inventors, BY inventors.
The site is designed for showing off your inventions, networking with your fellow inventors, and for getting your ideas patented. Companies and scouts are invited to browse the patent listings and discover new, innovative products at a competitively low cost. Other features include business directories, a discussion forum, members search, blogs, event listings, and resources. It’s free to join.
More at:http://www.inventube.com/
"Online Virtual Office" It will be helpful for companies that have workers spread across the globe
OvoSuite.com will easily organize the information of the company online and control who in the company is able to access it and who is not. Everything from Document Management to User Audit to Voting, yes there is even a voting feature.
It will be best suited for those company who are outsourcing its business to another location so they can remotely store all their information and be able to monitor who accesses these things and when. The smallest plan is free and the plans go up to corporate, but none of the prices are listed on the website. Hopeully this site can get up and going quickly so we can see how effective that it can be, as this is a sound service that clearly would be enjoyed by many businesses all over the world.
It will be ideal for companies that have workers spread across the globe that need to communicate with each other and share the same documents.
More at:http://ovosuite.com/
It will be best suited for those company who are outsourcing its business to another location so they can remotely store all their information and be able to monitor who accesses these things and when. The smallest plan is free and the plans go up to corporate, but none of the prices are listed on the website. Hopeully this site can get up and going quickly so we can see how effective that it can be, as this is a sound service that clearly would be enjoyed by many businesses all over the world.
It will be ideal for companies that have workers spread across the globe that need to communicate with each other and share the same documents.
More at:http://ovosuite.com/
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