224,000 vB's out there?

[George L]

Originally posted by Kier
As some of you may know, John and James are away at the moment, but where have they gone I hear you ask...

I can now reveal that John and James are currently on the first leg of a global tour of deep-sea volcanic vents, attempting to sell vB M.E. (marine edition) to their newly discovered niche market of algae and plankton...

NOOOOO! what happened to the E.T. (extra terrestial) version?

[auto]

I got an awesome idea!

How about John switches his strategy from making us pay $ for vB to paying us for using vB?

I bet no one has tried that one yet in this business. I mean there are free message board scripts, I say vB should beat that!



On an off topic note, here's something interesting-

A while ago someone here posted a link to www.interestalert.com . its like moreover, but these guys actually pay you $0.00000001 per click thru to the news from your site, and also $0.50 per referral. This is kinda pitiful, but I say it's better than not being paid at all. Well, several days ago, I got a PHONE CALL from InterestAlert, the chairman of the company or something. So he started asking me weird questions from
"How could we improve our service?" [to which I replied maybe allow the link to popup in new window might be an imporvement]
to "How do you plan on making money with your site?"
"What kind of business plan do you have?" [to which I simply had to reply " Why the hell would I tell you my biz plans?!?" But in a nice way of course]
and finally he asked me this "If we allowed you to make the news popup in a new window when clicked, will you be willing to pay a monthly fee for the service?" to which I answered "Then I will just go back to moreover" to which he replied "Moreover and iSyndicate are gone," which is a kind of a lie I am pretty sure, because they're still up n running right now
So then I just said well, then I won't run any news feeds.
To which he hastly said "Ok, thats all I wanted to know" and hung up.
My point... InterestAlert is planning on changing their strategy from getting paid by the news folks and paying out a small amount to the publishers to getting paid by the news folks and getting paid more by the publishers. And this guy who called me was very unprofessional and rude trying to stick his nose in my business, I think.

[Kier]

Originally posted by eva2000
silk pillow stuffed with $100 bills

Stuffed with algae and plankton at the moment

[Kier]

Originally posted by eva2000
NOOOOO! what happened to the E.T. (extra terrestial) version?

Due to political pressures, this edition has been indefinitely suspended in favour of vB NTEE (non-terrestrial entity edition)...

I think

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by auto
...and slept on a silk pillow.

I wish I had a silk pillow...

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by Kier
Due to political pressures, this edition has been indefinitely suspended in favour of vB NTEE (non-terrestrial entity edition)...

I think we should go with vB ME: no new features, break the features we currently have, and make it require more resources. That should be massively popular!

[Kier]

We already have a competitor who does that for us hehehe

[SteppenWolf]

Re: 224,000 vB's out there?

Originally posted by Zorg
WOW!

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Google: Searched the web for "powered by vbulletin".

Results: 224,000 listed

You can add the 73 results from the google search "Edité par vBulletin" <- from our french translation

[George L]

Originally posted by Kier
Stuffed with algae and plankton at the moment

yuk!

[George L]

Originally posted by Kier
We already have a competitor who does that for us hehehe

LOL!

[George L]

Originally posted by tubedogg


I wish I had a silk pillow...

me too!

[Kier]

And people wonder how eva managed to get over 5000 posts

[George L]

Originally posted by Kier
And people wonder how eva managed to get over 5000 posts

easy

early days = alot of question posts
nowadays = alot of answers to questions

right now.. bloody obvious post padding

[AnnaFan]

Great discussion here! I think Jelsoft must know how many licensed are out there...

[Wayne Luke]

Jelsoft does know how many licenses there are, how many are sold a month and how much money is made.

However discussing proprietary information of a private company in a public forum is not going to benefit anyone. So everyone will have to speculate while John and James finish up their swimming expedition.