p2pnet - rss feed: p2pnet for sale: update
p2pnet.net News:- By way of an update, I think p2pnet may pull through, with a bit of luck. It’ll be a completely new deal, but that’s cool and for the best. Change is what it’s all about. Anything which stands still eventually rots. Ask the cartels : )
As I told Torrentfreak over in Holland, “I’m not quitting. This is all about keeping p2pnet online.”
I can’t go into detail, but there have three buy-out offers, two of which I dismissed out of hand —- and it wasn’t because of the money — another is under discussion, there are the possibilities of two collaborative ……
[NOTE! The above item tapers off into space because I’m trying to do about 17 things at once, here, and when I posted the update, I accidentally over-wrote most of the first part of the original post, and I don’t have a copy.
In it, I said I was contemplating a micropayment plan under which readers could contribute 5 to 10 cents for stories they liked by clicking on an icon. That idea didn’t go down too well, so I abandoned it : ) ]
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UPDATE: Micropayments wouldn’t be popular, eh? I was surprised at how many people thought I meant I wanted to somehow charge for every post. How would I be able to do that? You don’t download p2pnet stories, you read them.
I say, “you’d simply click an icon to pay 5 or 10 cents, say, for a story. If you were so inclined, of course.” That means, literally, “If you felt like it.” In other words, you’d have clicked to contribute a nickel or dime because you liked the article. If you didn’t, or you thought a nickel or a dime was too expensive, you wouldn’t have clicked.
But it was a thought, and I’m considering everything. So I’ll forget about that one and if p2pnet survives (and increasingly, I think it will) I’ll stick to ads.
Cheers! And thanks.
Jon
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January 19th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
This is good news Jon. Having received the Fat Lady missive as an answer to my post of last night here, I would welcome something that would encourage the extension of the p2pnet blog. It’s really a home for me and I would so hate to have to change my home page from here.
That’s right, every day at least once if not far more often, I check in to see what’s going on here.
Thanks for the update Jon, it’s encouraging to me. The cartel watchdogs will be having fits over this one. Keep on keeping on, bud!
January 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
wish i had a spare $30k i’m pretty sure i could make that back in a year or two, while letting p2pnet continue as it is now. . . ah well, if i win the lottery tommorow or something, expect me to make you an offer :p
January 20th, 2007 at 12:55 am
Hello Jon:
As you can probably imagine I, and some of my colleagues, are following this story with great interest. I fully agree with your thoughts on micro-payments. It is an excellent idea.
It would indeed be a way for your readers to support you in a realistic manner and, provided the company you have in mind is on the up-and-up, at hardly any cost and no risk to themselves. One cannot say the same about some existing full payment online credit operations.
If you implement this and are able to get in on the ground floor, you will do very in the relatively near future. You can bank on it, and I mean that literally. But I caution you not to expect too much, too soon.
Good luck to you.
Morg
January 20th, 2007 at 1:53 am
sorry but there has to be a better way than this. What about random people viewing web pages about any topic. You might as well remove the tidbit about chinese bypass software. Now much a person can do when they can’t pay you to begin with.
You might as well sell p2pnet if you honestly think a micro pay system would work for your content.
January 20th, 2007 at 3:59 am
Don’t let all the negative people especially at Slyck get you down.
It’s your life and you do what you think makes sense.
sageadvisors@gmail.com
January 20th, 2007 at 4:02 am
I have to agree. If the only way to view the stories is to pay for them, I just could not do it. I would have to find some other form of getting my p2p news.
If it is not manditory, but rather a choice, then that is different. But if this turns into a pay site, I would have to go elsewhere.
But I do wish him luck.
January 20th, 2007 at 4:41 am
Why not go to a blog or some free service like that? MySpace aint the best… but you would be allowed to keep this going for free, and then you can have people add you as a friend… be put on there top 8 or whatever friends. It would be anoying to post that way… but its free.
-Cywolve
January 20th, 2007 at 6:00 am
I know bandwidth isn’t free, but micropayment schemes are a “death of a thousand cuts.” Screw pay toilets and parking meters. Not strictly analogous I know, but isn’t some of the filesharing ethic one of avoiding or shortcircuiting commerce models. I really value your site and your work (and I know it is WORK) but I must say if p2pnet goes the way of the slot machine, I have too many other options to exercise. It’s odd, a one time donation doesn’t irk me nearly as much. I just wish I wasn’t a broke anarchist with no bank account, so I could have helped you out of this mess before it got this far.
January 20th, 2007 at 11:56 am
this isn’t really a service, more or less a blog. micropayments are dumb
January 21st, 2007 at 5:26 am
Dunno why people think its a crap idea. I wouldn’t be paying 5c for rehashed stories, but if it would go directly to the author for an original piece, we’d see more guest writers’ original stuff being posted which Ive always liked seeing.
5c times a few thousand would make it possible for newer writers to have a go. Some will be crap and leave quickly, but the better ones would stick around and earn enough to make it worth their while.
January 21st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Good to see someone got the idea.
I’ve shelved it for the moment, but it’ll probably be back when p2pnet doesn’t depend on it.
And as I say, it would be voluntary even if I _did_ know of a way to make it compulsory, which I don’t.
Cheers!
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
“I say, “you’d simply click an icon to pay 5 or 10 cents, say, for a story. If you were so inclined, of course.” That means, literally, “If you felt like it.” In other words, you’d have clicked to contribute a nickel or dime because you liked the article. If you didn’t, or you thought a nickel or a dime was too expensive, you wouldn’t have clicked.”
If you actually read the article you would have noted that the micropayments would be totally optional without limiting access to the content of the site.
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Why are people down on VOLUNTARY micropayments to support a site they like? You would not have to pay if you didn’t want to, and there would be NO limitations on access to site content. How is that dumb?
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:53 pm
The idea of voluntary micropayments works fine for me. I was wondering, what on-line financial services support micropayments? Have they lowered the transaction costs to the point where micropayments are viable? Just curious.
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:21 pm
This is a new venture.
Cheers!