http://mini-news.com/2008/08/google_to_buy_mini-news
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Google to Buy Mini-News
http://mini-news.com/2008/08/google_to_buy_mini-news
Monday, July 07, 2008
AllTop Mini-News
It displays only main content, - and with No ADS!
http://mini-news.com/2008/07/all_top_mini-news
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Deal Of 2007
"The Luck Of Infospace" on Sale
- for TEN MILLION DOLLARS!
Earn a HALF of it as Affiliate!
Yes! I'm selling the luck of InfoSpace, Inc., - a famous American IT corporation, market value of which exceeds $BILLION!
Luck is one of those intangible things that's almost impossible to sell. To be a "trendsetter", I simply need to set a precedent.
A kind of selling new land on the Moon:
First who claimed the ownership for the newest property, - got it!
In THIS case, I am the FIRST in the world to sell out "The Luck Of Infospace".
For beginning, I am proposing it as a whole thing. For example, to major search businesses: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc., - starting from INFOSPACE.
Initial price is only 10$M - exactly 1% of the sum of 1$B Infospace evaluates itself.
Do you think a share of luck should be less then 1% of business assets?
Nearly forgot:
Additional incentive for buyers is attaching to the package my EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS for describing the story, now and in the FUTURE, both in printed form and discussing it in media!
Practically, it should be done in a very SIMPLE form. For example, issuing a special certificate (even online), or signing a special contract - with exclusive transfer of all my rights.
Unless competitors of InfoSpace buy it, in the nearest future the LUCK OF INFOSPACE could be sold out "piece by piece", e.g., measured in percents.
Obvioulsy, if at a later time Infospace, Inc. decides to buy it back, it should cost more!
Just think for a second:
What is Infospace Without Luck?!!
Why I'm doing this? I have all reasons to believe that Infospace actually "stole" my luck, practically shutting down my web business. In fact, "wiped" me out of LIFE! For years! Even today, it does not take me seriously: I do NOT EXIST for Infospace as a human, - only as a part of their product!
Obviously, it's impossible to return those years. But I believe I have all rights to demand my luck back!
PLEASE READ MORE DETAILS HERE:
http://2Infospace.com
The proposed Sale of "The Luck Of Infospace" is not about weakening position of the leading company on the highly competetive search and mobile market. According to what I see, Infospace doesn't care about its public image. Let alone the luck..
Fortunately, the proposed luck is not a property of Infospace. Infospace's luck may not belong exclusively to Infospace! Rather, life shifts it from one entity to another.
Besides, Infospace has never claimed it wanted to possess such property.
What is more: Legally, there is no such business entity as "luck"!!!
But at this stage, I don't think that simply placing it on eBay would be effective.
The whole idea needs a really powerful Web-based PR campaign, - which I cannot afford (many thanks to Infospace).
Obviously, I would send a special offer to big businesses, investors, 100+ mass-media, etc. But I feel it's not enough. To succeed, this project must be a real SENSATION!
This is where you can help. And Today Is Your Lucky Day:
I'm going to spend up to 50% of the requested 10$M for promotion!
Call it Affiliationship Program. The main rule is simple:
If you arrange the final deal, there will be two equal checks,
- one for me, one for YOU!
Just one more word. Couple days ago I contacted CEO of a reputable mobile corporation in sunny California. I asked about his opinion about this idea. As he hasn't responded, I assume that most likely he thought I was crazy :-)
Indeed, for people in countries with "endless business opportunities", this idea may sound crazy. But for me, there is simply no option! I have to invent some crazy things!
For me, - it's the ONLY way to earn a million FAIR!
Still hesitate to be a part of it? Simply help me to promote this "crazy" idea, and got your REAL $MONEY!
I'm proposing to YOU a HALF of my share, - FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
Contact Me Now!
Good Luck!
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Free AD
Just found a Super Big Giveaway, - Water Resistant Laptop!
Courtesy of the RuffPC.com - "rugged computer":
The spec for this FREE laptop is absolutely fantastic: Intel Core Duo 1.73GHz processor, 512MB DDR RAM, 60GB Shock-mounted Hard Drive, CD-RW/DVD+RW, 14.1" TFT LCD, and a water resistant keyboard. Packed in a magnesium alloy casing (20-times-harder than a base plastic case!) to protect against vibration and drops. See more details here.
All you need to do is simply to write about it in your blog. Very generous!
Did I mention that the ONLY COMPUTER I EVER COULD AFFORD IN MY LIFE has been a 8 years' old Fujitsu desktop?!! The one I'm using right now to write these lines..
Like the proposed RuffPC, it had 3 years warranty (most producers can't guarantee more than one year of work).
But I simply couldn't afford to buy an "average" PC: At the moment of purchasing, my Fujitsu had the latest Pentium processor on the market, and was the smallest desktop in the world!
In result, it served me during last 8 years! Have you had only one computer during last 8 years?!
Mine allowed me to write a MSc. dissertation, learn advanced Internet technologies, and introduce interesting Web ideas. Even today, over ten my personal websites still remain online!
It's difficult even to imagine how the newest RuffPC Laptop can boost my activity, and shift the boundaries of what is possible!
Probably I should start from extending some of my ideas into the famous "Second Life" reality!
(Current hardware in my "first" life simply does not allow me to enter that virtual space).
But ... Harsh environment the RuffPC is built for, - it's not only a risk to spill coffee on a keyboard. Awarding me that Giveaway Laptop means I will need to pay customs duty and/or taxes, - in amount that exceeds cost of several new desktops in local Ukrainian shops! However, I currently can't buy there even the cheapest computer..
Therefore, they should NOT SEND ME THAT LAPTOP!
I've got no cash to afford that FREE Giveaway!!!
Thus, living in a cold country that has average month salary of several hundred dollars, and appreciating the sincere intentions of the successful business in sunny California,
I'm making them a generous present,
- ADVERTISING THE RuffPC FOR FREE!
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Lucky Space
What makes this text so special?
- The newest way to earn millions!
Fair!
"Everything in life is luck"
(Donald Trump)
Today, November 7, 2007 is the turning point.
And it's not because today is the 90 years' anniversary since a super state called the USSR was born.
Today I decided to test my newest idea.
The secret of becoming lucky is surprisingly simple:
Always Turn Bad Luck Into Good One!
That's what I'm doing right now -
Transforming bad luck into the good one.
I used to be very naive, like American Indians who were trying to make business by selling what they had for its face value.
This time it's different. I'm going to sell just the simple words, - but for the minimal price of $3 MILLION!
How? Easy!
I will simply ask Infospace, Inc. to write me a check for 3$ million! If they are smart, they will pay the money immediately.
Otherwise, I'm going to deeply explore just one topic, -
"UNLUCKY INFOSPACE".
Believe me, the 3$M is a fair price for exclusive rights for all my works, including my future eBook "Unlucky Infospace".
What a lucky idea!
This may be the luckiest three millions!
All I need is to start writing a lucky book, - about unlucky Infospace! Research, or even dissertation: The case study will be "Bad luck of Infospace".
The idea is a fine piece of luck indeed.
The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of Unlucky Infospace.
The point is, my unluck will be finally returned to where it came from, - to Infospace.
As for Infospace, it's only a matter of digits:
Will it be 3$M, or the price for existence of the whole corporation!
- If they prefer to disappear, they WILL DISAPPEAR!
My aim is to earn 3$M fair!
The sum is too small for a serious business, but big enough to change life for one person.
If the only real way for earning a fair million is to tell the truth that will destroy public image of a billion dollar IT giant, - actually, killing their web business! - so be it.
Just one Ukrainian programmer, who despite having a honor University degrees, in his 42 has never had a car or home, -- and who is typing THIS text by stiff with cold fingers on the ONLY PERSONAL COMPUTER HE EVER COULD AFFORD IN HIS LIFE!, - aims to beat a rich American IT corporation?
YES!
Because now I'm going to live in Lucky Space!
The space that is reversed from the unlucky one created for me by Infospace, Inc. Today I see the only solution, - to turn that unluck into my luck. Or return it to where it came from, - to Infospace.
From the lowest dead end point, there is simply no other choice. From now on, my destiny is going to turn only in one direction, - for the better!
What cannot be said about Infospace ...
Believe me, it's not the worst catastrophe when you are not sold for a BILLION dollars.
Or may be you think that without American passport people may not have this kind of money fair?!!
P.S. Still can't believe it's for real?
Then why do you think I'm applying for a 1$M loan to one of the richest businessman of Ukraine, - billionaire Victor Pinchuk?!!
(see more about it at http://Mini-Billion.LiveJournal.com)
Unlucky Infospace
Thought is the starting point
You wanna know everything about luck? That's easy.
Enter into Google the word "luck", and obtain an inclusive space for creative reading - 150,000,000 entries.
Now try the same with Infospace's Dogpile.com.
The difference is very symbolic:
Infospace has only 58 answers..
Infospace, Inc. is unlucky?
It wasn't long ago when InfoSpace's President boasted they would become a TRILLION-dollar company. And at that time, it was worth $16 billion.
Today, PetroChina became the world's first company worth more than $1 trillion.
If this comforts Infospace, some analysts say the PetroChina's share price stems from speculation and is too high. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s recently sold off all its 2.3 billion PetroChina shares. In a plain English, - it's looks like an investing bubble.
Sounds familiar to Infospace?
Or may be that is a fair business indeed? Similar to the "fair competition" concept, which Infospace's lawyers creatively applied to me.. Oh, sorry, we will talk about it later.
At the time when Microsoft announced its plans to gobble up Seattle's aQuantive for $6 billion, Infospace was evaluated in a "humiliating" billion.
Moreover, we all want to believe it wasn't another dirty Infospace's trick: the rumors about possible purchasing InfoSpace by Spanish LaNetro Zed appeared 2 days before InfoSpace's Annual Stockholders Meeting! Happy coincidence! In result, InfoSpace's shares immediately, - what a luck!, - surged 13 percent up.
It was in May. But up to now ... nobody bought the Infospace!
By the way: I just recalled how 2 days before one of the previous Infospace's Annual Stockholders Meeting, when I informed Infospace CEOs about my intention to publish my eBook about Infospace, titled "Beyond Law Space", some anonymous person unexpectedly offered me several $MILLIONS.
Then, - exactly after ending the meeting, - the person mysteriously disappeared...
I definitely should write a special book, - "Total Recall".
Where Infospace's Unluck originates from?
From unprecedented court cases against its own founder?!!
Or from the point the highest Infospace's position was passed into the hands of current CEO? I wonder, do you know what happened with his previous company?
I'm also going to raise (and discuss on various forums) the question: Who is really interested in buying an UNLUCKY company?
For example, talk about that with LaNetro Zed.
World Wide Web, Attention:
Expect Infospace To Be Unlucky!
Just one fact: Despite all the $millions invested, Infospace has failed to become a search engine #1.
Unlucky Infospace Investors,
Unlucky Infospace Ads,
unlucky users who use the
UNLUCKY SEARCH ENGINE
(i currently don't know about the search results)
Unluck is like infectious disease, - it may affect the life of people who are around.
Of course, it's up to investors - to decide whether to invest into Infospace or not. And it's up to Infospace partners - whether to be A PART OF UNLUCKY BUSINESS or not!
My mission would be just informing them properly.
The best of all, - it's ABSOLUTELY LAWFUL!
And if something tragic happens with my life, - the unluck will not disappear, - it will move directly to InfoSpace!
FOREVER!
Lucky 3$M
Did I mention I contacted ZED when they considered a possibility for the $billion deal with Infospace?
It's not about cursing. Infospace should become unlucky since they practically destroyed my online business and forced me to spend all my LIFE SAVINGS for dealing with their lawyers!
Nevertheless, Infospace lived pretty well all those years.
In 2007, it pays a special one-time cash dividend of about $200 million!!! After that, sells its directory business for $225 million, mobile business for $135 million, etc. Revenue for the third quarter is about $50 million. Cash as of September 30, 2007 totaled $214.8 million (in March it was $412.9 million). "At the end of the quarter, the Company had no debt obligations", - boast Infospace CEOs. They really believe they have no debt obligations.
Feeling lucky? Don't! It's not for long.
Unlucky corporation practices improving its luck by making somebody unluckier?!! My guess is that they look good only against the background of poor Ukrainians' way of life. But comparing to really talented market players, - Infospace is a complete failure!
To prove this, I even agree to suspend my Internet software development, and make a kind of research on elusive luck factor. The focus will be on proving,
- Infospace is unlucky!
Then publish the eBook "Unlucky Infospace".
In my situation, it's the only real way of earning decent money fair!
This is beginning for my revolutional online experiment
- The Lucky $Millions!
Monday, November 05, 2007
"Bad luck is funny -- provided it's not happening to you"
We gladly explain the reason why we ended up where we ended up in our lives almost exclusively by our luck.
For example, imagine your salary is $100 per month (that's quite decent salary in my country). Americans would say: "You're not lucky".
Imagine, you graduated with distinction prestigious Universities in the US and UK, like I did. Got an excellent job contract in America, like I did. But at the last minute the US embassy rejects to grant you a visa. And does so several times, - without any explanation.
Americans would repeat: "That's simply bad luck".
If they ever experienced such problems, of course.
Now imagine a huge corporation without any legal reason
RUINS YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS, MAKES YOU ABSOLUTELY POOR,
and for years even does not respond to your letters,
- as if you do not exist anymore!
*** I will continue this topic in other blogs ***
Sunday, November 04, 2007
Fairy Land
under updating ...
Here will be Letter to Chief Editor of the national newspaper
of May 2007
[About Infospace - 2DInfospace story]
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Reflection
under updating ...
Here will be extracts from Russian-language part
The National All-Ukrainian newspaper VV (Vechernie Vesti)
STARTED publishing the above blog on October 5, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
TIME-LOT
Its technical concept is simple: Sell out time-based redirections to sponsors' websites for only $1 per second! More.
In my 42, I desperately need the money to buy
FIRST IN MY LIFE car, home, and ... replacement for my first ever PC.
Read more here: http://Mini-News.com/why.html.
Actually, it's not for myself only: I want to give people example, the HOPE that such things are possible, - to earn an online $MILLION FAIR from within such poor countries as my Ukraine!
However, like the famous Million Dollar Homepage, this unbelievable life story has a chance for happy ending only if it's in the focus of mass media. I don't have the initial $1,000 the author of MDHP had. But - I do have a REAL SENSATION for them!
Today I'm sending out my press releases with the question:
"Can poor Ukrainian earn a $million fair, - without
SHUTTING DOWN A FAMOUS
BILLION(!) DOLLAR corporation?"
Hopefully, I can.
We will talk about it at a later time...
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Million Dollar Air - in Russian
(in fact, a completely different project)
http://mini-billion.livejournal.com/
Friday, September 14, 2007
Million Dollar Air
On its last year's birthday I published my thoughts on the matter, - Open Letter to Alex Tew. Please, don't think my intension was to hurt that guy. I repeat: Alex is a good boy! The problem was the world started calling him a genius, while the only thing he did was just picking a lucky ticket..
Then he dropped his school (a kind of it's a waste of time to study in any University if you are a Master already). It would be relatively easy to prove the success really depended on his outstanding abilities if he was the first who explained the MDHP phenomenon. Nope. The most serious analyses I heard were not from Alex. Moreover, his recent web project Pixelotto is about a lottery. It seems, creator of MDHP believes only gambling can help to become a millionaire.
I hate to disappoint Alex, but Internet is full of still undiscovered revolutional niches worth a $MILLION each!
I'm going to explore just one of them.
With attempt to EXPLAIN it!
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
100 First Face Ads
It's not really important I limited the space with only 100 Face Ads. Resulting collection represents rotating pool of ads, as every(!) day I update it.
It may be arguable whether any particular news is good or bad. Like everything in this life, importance of every news item is constantly changing in time.
The resulting "Wall", as the whole, demonstrates transition of Quantity into Qualuty: Picture of 100 faces with 100 interesting news is attractive view by itself.
Another important point, my MyBlogLog.Mini-News.com is not the only place where people can find its Face Ads. It's not even the main place!
Preferred way of informing web users about updates in the "Wall Of Face Ads" is to export it's small part, - 4-10 fast loading ads, - to other websites as WIDGETs. Today's newest version is the
Thursday, February 15, 2007
MyReadLog
In a social sense, it was like 10 years!
The concept began as my response for projects of the Million Dollar Homepage family. In particular, the 2000 Bloggers and FuelMyBlog.
Their problem #1 is a huge website size!
Use it, IF YOU CAN!
He actually DID NOT CARE!!!
I wonder why he didn't launch a "MILLION bloggers!" :)
I don't know about you, but I spent several HOURS(!) only to get on his sign-in blog - at that time it has only 700 entries. And it cost me my week's(!) norm of Internet traffic.
Some analysts predict that this year Internet can collapse because of overloading. Well, with such sites as 2000 bloggers it looks quite possible.
Here I must say: I respect what Tino has done.
My version of the same theme is, hopefully, more manageble.
First MyBlogLog-News contained space for only 100 pictures. The final version even allows visitors to control number of loaded photos.
My initial idea was to invent a simple but cute form for recording what I read online.
A kind of MyReadLog!
Crowd of small faces saying "Hey, this is my news!" looks cool.
What is more, I've made another move: allowed distributing small pieces of my website to other websites, - in the form of WIDGET.
Web widgets are mini-programs designed to be run inside mini-windows on your site.
Yesterday I left a comment in the famous Newsweek's article
"The Year of the Widget" :
"Any widget technology by itself is not going to be a king for users. Underlying content is.
So, I wrote a simple homepage and started making my records.
Advantage of a human reader is that his or her output is not a set of random links. Nor result of manipulating with votes. Disadvantage - it's always subjective.
But before asking "Why to the hell I need to know what a guy from distant Ukraine was reading today?", please take into account the following:
The Face Ads I publish are a form of free exposing for YOUR content, - on my site AND on all the sites that installed my widget (advantages for using widgets are described at MyBlogLog-News.blogspot.com). The more often you are selected, the more attention your site gets! And the wider and more popular this network becomes, the more advantages are for being a part of it.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Valentine's Day!
Well, I don’t mind watching good celebrity up-skirt paparazzi pictures. But my project is different. The MyBlogLog-News gallery is my personal highlighting faces of people linked with what interesting they said on the Web at a particular point of time.
Today my news gallery consists exclusively of beautiful women's Face Ads. It's not to say the rest women in the world are not beautiful. But this is the BEST what I read today, February 14:









Mouse over the photos to see news headline! Click to see the full news.
* pictures from mybloglog.com
I READ YOU! I LOVE YOU ALL!
Sergiy Beloy
Saturday, February 10, 2007
news scale
In fact, all I did was adding a small switcher. But the JavaScript code behind it is rather advanced, as it controls "scale" of webpage.
The idea was to allow visitors choosing how much news they want to see on entering the page. The option is 10-100 Face Ads. Default is 30.
Thus, those of you with a poor Internet connection who complained that 100 images load slow, now are able to "scale-down" my website and load only a part of it. It will work FASTER!
Your recent scale settings are saved automatically in your browser with cookies. So, next time you visit my site, it will be shown accordingly.
Thus the whole MyBlogLog-News project has became scaleable!
The information can be scaled down with the switch. Or by exporting to other websites in the form of tiny widgets.
The scaled up version can be found in my MyBlogLog-News community message board, - in the form of a list of all news tips, - controlled by MyBlogLog.com.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
"Face Ads"
Image-based "Face Ads" are a private case of the more general HTML Ads (main idea behind Mini-News.com). The "Face Ad" is the simplest HTML minipage: just thumbnail photo with a link!
The resulting service is going to be FREE for members of my community MyBlogLog-News in the form of "Wall Of Face Ads" at MyBlogLog.Mini-News.com
Thursday, January 25, 2007
MyBlogLog + Mini-News
Not because I was impressed by the fast growing popularity of FuelMyBlog.com. Guys, your site is great indeed! But it's not about my preferences for your French-English free fun, - I simply CANNOT AFFORD launching websites as a hobby!
The reason is the following.
From very first steps, i focused my web project mostly on the needs of big media businesses. Mini-News.com is about offering them a unique life STORY, plus(!) unique technology for THEIR promotion.
What is more, i proposed THEM a way to earn a BILLION!
By the way, those of you who told me I would never earn a billion simply had NOT READ my website: Unlike Alex Tew who wanted a million for himself, aim of Mini-News.com has been to assist in earning the billion for participating sponsors. It means, potentially for YOU!
It's amazing, I spent my LAST money for lauching my website and initial promotion. That even included contacting a HUNDRED of the most famous names in the industry. All what I actually asked them was "Please earn YOUR BILLION!"
Up to the moment I've got a lot of messages from "ordinary" people, private persons like you or me, - but NONE from the media!
It's not that I'm deeply hurt by their silence, it looks like I simply
do NOT EXIST for them!
Practically each of them has website with PR8 or higher, but they haven't mentioned my story. I think it's partly a reaction to the lie in Alex's projects, - now people do NOT BELIEVE EVEN IN TRUTH!
In my case, EVERY WORD of my life story is true, but who cares?
Practically each of them is able to buy the whole my project, - many times! But hasn't bought even one iframe spot yet. Even for the fraction of its cost (see auction).
Meanwhile, projects like Million Dollar Homepage simply do not work without media! The more they write about it, the more popular it becomes. And in my case - the more money they can earn! But once again, who cares?
First time in my life I hasn't paid a rent for my housing for previous month (see why here). But even if I die of hunger, i doubt it would make a difference...
At the same time, there are successful web projects who were lucky to get noticed. For example, the American startup MyBlogLog.com, just weeks ago purchased by Yahoo (according to Forbes, - for $10M). Their idea implements the fair principle:
the more you read others, the more they read you!
Hopefully, my new Billboard Of News
You are welcome to be on my website!
Thursday, January 18, 2007
FuelMyBlog
The attractive price of $0 seems was the main reason for the super fastly growing popularity of this REALLY VERY GOOD SERVICE!
I signed up FuelMyBlog.com with this blog yesterday, and would be glad to share my first impressions.
First, the process of ordering is a snap! Very simple, it took only a minute or two, - YOU should go for it with your blog too! Right NOW, while the space is not too croweded.
Kevin Dixie, creator of FuelMyBlog, wants to create a colorful Great Wall of Blogs! More precisely, there are four pages, each with 625 blocks of the size 40x40 pixels.
Financial side of the project is less understandable. The initial motivation to keep it as a hobby, - for me, it would be simply impossible to maintain it for free!, - smoothly moves towards perspective to find rich ads sponsors.
Well, it may have a sense. I heard TechCrunch charges $10,000 a month for a 125x125 ad. However, - attention, this is important!, - FuelMyBlog has some internal design disadvantages, which can become evident only at later stages.
1) Size of FuelMyBlog.com.
Index page, currently filled only in a half, - is over 5.5Mb already!
And loads several minutes. It's because it uses a great number of images.
Just try to be realistic, what do you think is a webpage with 625(!) images, "up to 500 KB" each!
Have you ever tried to download a 300 MB into your browser?
The same issues were typical for original projects of Alex Tew. His Milion Dollar Homepage of 1.6Mb, for example, crashed my PC several times.
For comparison, my Mini-News.com page page is under 300Kb.That's because I use compact HTML text, rather than images.
2) In general, what is a value of the ad placed on the page with 625 other ads?
Surely there will be many first time visitors. But will they go to the constant collection of links year after year?
For comparison, Mini-News.com shows LIVE news!
3) The 40x40 is not suitable for reading!
What all visitors are actually doing is expanding the size to a more readable format. To see, in fact, one additional sentence.
For comparison, Mini-News.com shows its 100x100 iframe pages in full from the beginning.
What can be a Million Dollar Homepage without the Million?
Once again, I like the FuelMyBlog service. But I would simply could not afford it if it's not free.
I don't know about France, but life in poor countries has almost no space for running business for free!
It's interesting what would Bill Gates say if i advice him to give away his Windows soft? msn.com would be the best in Alexa!
Anyway, the FuelMyBlog.com is a bright rising star, great FUN to use.
THANK YOU, Kevin!
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
always say "always"
It may be I found no right words to make this clear: Mini-News.com sells media and other serious content providers iFrame spots for the price of $10,000. The auction was an exception, - I was attempting to give an affordable chance, - the shockingly low price of $0.01 per pixel, - to any website! Including YOUR website!
Just believe me, - I did EVERYTHING that was possible in my situation!
Friday, January 12, 2007
etc
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
auction promo
By the way, the Yahoo! has bought the website services recently, - for the sum they prefer not to disclose!
Another excellent site I found is SpicyPage.com. I've seen many good sites during last months, but this one is a really nice! Made in a democratic Digg style, it allows interactive rating the sites you know.
My advice is to visit the SpicyPage.com and post YOUR website, if it's not already there!
moves frustratingly slow. On the other hand, how it could be faster if most of my time I need to spent on things like this:Last night I was planning to devote for sending messages about auction to as many people and sites as possible. I came to Internet cafe (i'm not telling you the name of the company as up to the last night it was my favorite one), paid for 9 hours of working in Internet, but shortly after starting the Internet completely disappeared!
The personal could not guarantee it would be restored in the nearest time, if ever. All that they suggested was just to wait. I was waiting: 10 minutes ... half an hour .. 1 hour. After almost two hours without Internet I decided to go somewhere else and asked my money back.
However, having paid for Internet and having no Internet appeared not enough for the refund. They had internal rules not to return money no matter what. My arguments "I gave you money for your service, but if there is no service I want my money back immediately" did not work. I was advised to contact their(!) internet provider, come next day to find their chief manager, owner, etc.
The situation complicated by the fact that at the moment I had no money with me to pay the same price in another internet cafe, or even return to my home, - public transport (excepting expensive taxis) starts work hours later. I appeared locked in the useless place forced to do nothing .
Only after long and very embarrassing dispute, their manager in charge (he refused to identify himself with his last name) agreed to refund. A kind of, he makes me a favour and pays from his own pocket (he took, however, my check for his personal refund). But he did it with, - literally!, - cursing the money he returned!!!
That's Ukraine! And that's the everyday life context in which my Mini-News.com is developed!
I thank the God that during working on the project there were not many electricity blackouts! The last one, for example, caused corrupting results of my week's work on the computer I was working with...
Sunday, January 07, 2007
My Birthday + Christmas
I got only one present. From myself.
I've set up eBay auction:
Monday, January 01, 2007
2007
#1 IFRAME 10,000 pixels ad spot on Mini-News.com
is to be started next week, - on January 7, 2007.
Why? You may laugh, but I did not receive a confirmation email from eBay. Simply didn't...
Besides, at the time of registering, eBay offered only USA, Canada, UK, and Australia signups: Choosing the option "See all countries" produced no changes! And by the way, my IE6 browser alarmed me of some errors detected on their webpage.
The delay may be for better: January 7 is my birthday!
It also the Christmas holiday in Ukraine. Yes! I was lucky to be born in the same day with Jesus Christ.
Meanwhile,
Happy New Year to You!
Saturday, December 30, 2006
auction
On January 1st, I'm going to start the online AUCTION
for my Iframe Ad spot No.1
- with initial price of only 0.01 US$ per iframe pixel!
In fact, I was trying to setup the web auction ten days ago, on my Mini-News Grand Opening. At that day I spent a lot of time for registering with the popular free auctions.yahoo.com. I went through all their procedures correctly, - and even several times! But instead of publishing, on a final stage Yahoo's website kept forwarding me back to their welcome page. Of course, with wiping out all the data I entered. And only two days later, I got the response for my requests to their support team:"We're sorry to inform you that only IP addresses and Yahoo! accounts registered within the United States are allowed to participate ..."
It appeared that only citizens of rich countries are allowed to use the FREE services! And many sites, e.g., blujay.com, simply don't have Ukraine in the list of countries on their signup pages.
Promoting from a poor country sucks!
Yesterday I left the message in the BBC feedback inbox:
BBC triggered success of British student Alex Tew last year. Several weeks ago, BBC was among the first who covered next idea of this ex-poor ex-student. However, it hasn't even mentioned a much bigger, BETTER web project started by honor graduate of the UK University at about the same time: Mini-News.com, - first in the world IFRAME Ads space worth a BILLION!!! It's absolutely original concept, technology, and even story: At his age of 42, he wants to buy his FIRST car, FIRST house ... - and replace his FIRST (now it’s 8-years-old) PC he could afford in his LIFE!
Even at the beginning, Alex had at least one THOUSAND dollars promotion budget.
Well, i don't have this cash amount. (By the way, it's nearly a year's average salary in Ukraine). And don't have friends or relatives who are capable to pay me this kind of money. Also, I'm not applicable for any bank credit: these guys provide big money only to the people who already(?!) have big money.
I know today it's Christmas! Then it will be the New Year holidays..
But for me another, more appropriate time for this may simply not exist...
Hopefully, my future eBay auction will work out better!
Please help me to spread the news about the auction!
Monday, December 25, 2006
Sunday, December 24, 2006
pre-Christmas
Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” Is Us (not YOU).
At the same day I sent her my comment:
Amanda, to become "Person of the Year" YOU need to live in rich US (or UK)!!!
Look at the last year's one, - Brit. student who set up a simple Million Dollar Homepage. Would he earn the million on supposingly open Internet from my Ukraine? Absolutely not! And it has nothing to do with creativity. Unlike that boy I'm a honor graduate from the UK University. But while during last weeks he easily earned $300,000 on his old, last year's idea, right now I'm spending my LAST money trying in a cheap Internet cafe to launch much BETTER, BILLION Dollar information project ...
The message wasn't published, so I'm sending her another one:
Amanda, as you rejected the comment I made to your post yesterday, you might ignore what I'm saying today:
All my life I've tried to create revolutional software, but without US passport there are almost zero chances for becoming YOUR Time's Person of the Year! You, rich countries' insiders, prefer not to know that people like me need apply MILLION(!) times more efforts just to ENTER your media revolution space.
Right now I'm desperately trying to launch an original Billion Dollar web project with $0 in my pockects, -- on my first and the ONLY personal computer I ever could afford in my life!
And despite what you said, - "the cover of Time should only be bestowed upon those who have actively created something - anything - online this year" - I am not allowed even to YOUR blog community...
Friday, December 22, 2006
first steps
Wednesday, December 20, 2006
GRAND OPENING
- final version of the
first iframe-based website:
Welcome to the Mini-News.com
It doesn't look as the world's event of the year, - no fanfares, champagne, fireworks.. Rather, highlighting the fact of my being.
Of course, I wrote a press-release. However, as all i can afford are FREE web services, - e.g., pressbox.co.uk, - it will be published within several days only ...
Unlike the very first Mini-News version, the final one is written in JavaScript. Because of that its mini-Web files are smaller (less than 10 Kb), and the whole website is under 200 Kb.
promotion novelty
A copy of my open letter to the news businesses can be found on the press page.
Alex got his million from homepage owners. But the real driving force behind his success was mass media. Media is power. It's capable to promote any interesting idea to new heights. It actually made the Million Dollar Homepage.
There are many ways for how to attract attention of media. But the most amazing one is to ... SELL IT TO MEDIA, DIRECTLY!
Well, with a zero promotion budget it looks impossible. Nevertheless, there is a chance. It can be done if we turn the technical ideas into media project from the beginning! To create incentives to write about it, to earn on it, to buy it.
Yes, it's introduction of a new technology. But the LIFE story, a real person behind it is its the most important integral part. The whole project is a kind of the fantastic "From $0 to 10$M" internet challenge, and now I'm selling it to media!
Actually, I have a little choice.
While Brit. students may be quite happy with limiting their targets by 1 or 2 million, i've got to really "think bigger", setting my imagination free. This is how the mini-news.com was born.
Value of any Pixel Ad project, - but without Alex! - is 1 million times less than MillionDollarHomepage.com?!
The Mini-News.com allows sponsors to promote their iframe copycat(!) projects on almost UNLIMITED space at subdomain of their choice, e.g., bbc.mini-news.com.
While Alex wishes to make several millionaires per year just by permitting them to WIN, I would show people how they can EARN!
Once again, I wish Alex success!
I'm not a competitor to his pixelotto!
There may be people who adore a process of clicking..
In contrast, Mini-News is created for those who likes READING!
$Million ... $Billion ...
The only thing I want most right now is to have couple hours to sleep!





