13 Responses

1. tbd February 5th, 2007 at 12:42 am

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   Dude, you need to learn a lot about online media. The reason Weblogs, Inc. declined you was because they are a “AOL Company” – wholly owned by AOL. They are a real business generating and landing multi-million dollar ad accounts from Verizon, LG and other big brands. Not to mention, they are content focused and very professional.

   You cover whatever you feel like it. That’s not how the media game works.

2. tbd February 5th, 2007 at 12:45 am

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   Not to mention, b5Media recently got funded with venture capital, so they are going to just as professional as Weblogs, Inc. if they want to exit the company, so it’s only a matter of time before they get strict as well.

   It’s not just about getting a bunch of blogs together and running Adsense together. You need to be much more serious about running it as a company with pro ad sales people, management execs, marketing people, ad ops, operation ops.

   Have you thought about that? If so, looking at Desinotes.com, I don’t think you are at all ready to make it a business.

3. Sunny February 5th, 2007 at 2:19 am

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   You have a good time degrading me left and right. Of course I know AOL took it over a while back. But their network started by simple bloggers. Simple bloggers make up a giant network, it’s common sense. Look at YouTube; it won’t be as big as it is today without small time users. This site started as a personal blog and it’s slowly working it’s way up so, of course I’m not going to write that profesionally.

   You said “You cover whatever you feel like”; this is a blog, of course I’m gonna cover what I feel like covering otherwise why would I blog. I blog about things I like talk about not about things that I write just for the hell of it.

   “It’s not just about getting a bunch of blogs together and running Adsense together.” Do you really think I would choose any blogs to the network? If I were to choose a blog for the network then I would check it’s legitimacy. I would check this quality of the blog b4 approving.

   I don’t want to be as big as Weblog Inc., I got other things to do than to sit in fornt of a PC all day as a full time blogger. They make good money but that’s not my goal.

   You mentioned, “ad sales people, management execs, marketing people, ad ops, operation ops”. Why the hell would I need all tht when I have no intentions of making the network as big as the others.

   Of course I want my project to be significant but my intentions are different.

   You seem to degrade me in a negative manner in every post. Tell me what’s your problem with who I am and this blog?

   If you think you know all about business then let me see your site. Show me your business.

4. tbd February 5th, 2007 at 4:02 am

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   Honestly, I really don’t have a problem with you, but I’m keeping you in check. You seem to think, at least in this case, that it’s easy to scale a media network or whatever, but your post doesn’t reflect your maturity level.

   “Weblogs Inc. rejected my site for some wierd reason.”

   If you know Weblogs, Inc. was acquired by AOL, then how in the world can you really think that they would accept your blog? They are a closed network with professional journalists and bloggers running every blog. Your goal isn’t obviously to be a major media network.

   Go to Engadget.com – a Weblogs, Inc. property. Do you really think you can match their quality, frequency etc. with Desinotes or other small time casual blogs for your network.

   Besides, what’s the point of having a network with random blogs about people’s personal thoughts. The only thing you can do to generate revenue is integrate Adsense. That’s it. No big brand advertiser will ever sign up regardless of how many blogs or traffic you have in your network.

   I’m just giving you a reality check on a lot of things that you seem to be very naive about. There’s nothing wrong with that. At the end of the day, you can take this advice and be more informed about what it is you are doing. If replicating Weblogs, Inc. was really that easy, do you think AOL would need to buy it and wouldn’t there be more people doing this?

   While you do understand the big picture, albeit at the very basic level, you (no offense) don’t understand the core details or the fundamentals.

5. Sunny February 5th, 2007 at 4:46 am

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   I submitted my blog to Weblogs Inc. long time ago before I knew they were accquired by AOL. I found out about their new owners later. When they sent me the email they didn’t give me a reason for not accepting me so that’s why I said that.

   “Besides, what’s the point of having a network with random blogs about people’s personal thoughts.” You assume that I would choose blogs like that. You think I can only do AdSense because that’s what I showed on to DesiNotes. I can do alot more but it takes time to raise the credibility of a site so it would be eligible for other advertisers. Where is your site???

   “No big brand advertiser will ever sign up regardless of how many blogs or traffic you have in your network.” What are you, crazy. YouTube wouldn’t be bought by Google if they didn’t get all that traffic to give them their authority. Traffic matters for any website or online network. Only people who made wesites would understand that.

   I really want to see what you did to show your credibility. You talk as if you know everything that is to know.

   You mentioned reality check, the reality is a person does his best to improve his work, which is what I’m doing. A person learns through experience, not take in negative and degrading comments from people like you.

   It’s ok, your degrading of my standpoint and blogging is only motivating me to make my site better.

6. tbd February 5th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

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   If you are so confident about YouTube then you must also know that Verizon, Best Buy and a lot of other advertisers have protested against advertising on YouTube because they are afraid of putting their brand infront of a racial, sexist etc. video. YouTube is having a lot of problems selling ads on its site and videos and THAT’s after YouTube has support from Google, which is an advertising powerhouse.

   So, if YouTube and Google are having problem with low quality content (YouTube is pretty low quality a lot of the time), then same will be true with DesiNotes Network. And you don’t even have the resources to tackle such a problem.

   You say you are interested in enticing other advertisers. Tell me – what advertisers are you hoping to attract? Multi-billion dollar brands like HP, Dell and Intel?

7. Sunny February 5th, 2007 at 1:06 pm

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   Why would I go for these big million dollar companies. This is a blog; there are advertising companies for blogs such as Intellitext, Bidvertiser, Text Link Ads, Commision Junction, and others.

   You’re thinking that I would be in that level, which is not my goal. I don’t know why you’re thinking like that. You think all blog sites are meant to be big? I’m not here to attract any big advertisers. You’re assuming something that I don’t want.

   Look at StevePavline.com, he has a big blog but no big advertisers other than Google and other little advertisers, and he makes more than money than the average medical doctors.

8. Al Davies February 6th, 2007 at 9:08 am

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   I’m trying to figure out if this tbd person is for real or not. Is he/she just stirring the pot to get you fired up or is it supposed to be constructive criticism. That’s the first time I’ve ever seen a criticism from someone without a posting of their own site… like “you want to do a particular thing… look how i did it…”

9. tbd February 6th, 2007 at 10:19 am

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   All of this is valuable advice. I don’t need to post a link to my site to prove anything.

   And yes, it really is criticism to help him out and give him a heads up on some of the possible problems he could face that he might not be ready for.

   Can you not look at the positive side of the things?

10. Sunny February 6th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

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    It’s more of a strong criticism than any advice. Anyways, you have no credibility because you have yet to show any site that you own. You have nothing to show.

11. Oshin February 6th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

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    I love desinotes!! =D !!

12. tbd February 7th, 2007 at 1:02 am

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    Yeah, it’s constructive criticism. As far as my credibility is concerned, all of the facts that I have presented can be confirmed – feel free to do that.

13. Lament February 7th, 2007 at 11:25 pm

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    tbd bro just let it go…if sunny ever face those problems that u just adviced to him then guess what first thing he will remember is your name TBD and not to mention also ur constructive criticism…:D