been 10 yrs so I like Dr cool's input, sounds sane

we used to do streaming on real media boxes for shareholders meetings and stuff, pretty cool stuff, we do a ton where I work now but not in my portion of the company, we also have massive numbers of servers doing it, obvious overkill

you had to go and spoil the punchline Torben


pretty cool stuff though

luckily I have been thrown into windows 7 at work or the xp > 7 switch might have hurt a fair bitt

gamer and programmer, so, you know, kind of attached

it's older than my daughter who's 6, I built it right before she was born

the last 6 months I have burned all my dvd drives (at once, hehe), 2 vid cards, had a hard drive go, power supply is probably a little pressed, sound card, monitor

now it's bsd most of the time

luckily alienware has agreed that if i give them money they will send me a new one

I'm still sad that it is dead, gonna gut it when the new one comes so i can add drives and the sound card and whatever else

I am recently but have done the same thing in many different areas

well, the trick is to define your free/paid split, we relly like them to sign up, so we really want to tease them into doing that, needs to be fast and easy, if they try and back out of it, then hit em with guns blazing, cookies for the various steps of sign up or that represent specific actions you want to key on work. You can then read those cookies in other places to see if they have "gone backwards" or they didn't finish a signup. I'd rather get a 10$ first membership and recur at 20 than nothing and I can always recur at the normal price, t tht point I could make their first period 5$, who cares. I make the money on the recur.

everything they see and touch is controllable, the amount of free content, how many clicks, sections, thumbails or large pics, everything. We decide on a site by site or even page by page basis. At some point you need to group things or you can go insane with the granularity. We split the content too, makes for less accidents our free stuff is on the free side, the paid stuff is under lock and key. Doesn't mean people can't steal it but they pay to do so.

For the free side it all comes down to configuration of the site, settings for all sorts of thresholds and when they try to go farther, pay. Then you can offer varying levels, down to trial size, real cheap. From the members section we just check on every click what people have access too and of they don't we offer them various ways to get that instantly, no waiting. We also don't give everything away, we stage it, people like updates, daily/weekly something needs to be in their email. Bit by bit, dole it out and they're happy. We break down our content in different ways and feed out pieces here and there. We also log everything, and we do something with the data, push things people like and kill what they don't

obviously the type of content maters but voraciousness for the updates surprised me, which showed me how having useless updates could really hurt or an email that offers garbage info or is put together in a way that the user doesn't find valuable. Finding out how they want that email is important.

facebook proves one thing, people want tons of bullshit useless info, it makes them feel informed, they also want control of that bullshit because it makes them feel powerful

so herd em like sheep and let them feel like the shepherd and you're good

early morning 2 cents

for this style of paging where you don't hit the db for every 10 items and reload the whole page you need some type of caching but really it depends on how slow the queries are, if db traffic is an issue it may be you need more server or it may be innefficient queries, hard to say

tsome solutions load the whole shootin match and then page them which works for middling sizes, what that means depends on too many things

essentially if you feel it's slow then you need to change something, jquery is less about efficiency (my opinion after viewing a bunch of implementations) than it is about pretty. The cool thing with only changing a div is the user still has stuff to look at, not a blank screen waiting for a page to load, so long as the user feels like they are in control (less than 1 sec loads) then you're fine

the issues I have had with some of the grids is some load the full dataset everytime and when you page through they load it again, and again

aside from that they're kinda purty when they don't load 30k records to show 10

I can't really recommend anyone but this is kind of my bread and butter so I know a fair bit

right now we run massive homegrown sites with rebrandable software, controls accesses, cross sells, upsells, gets you when you back out, we get them with 1 clicks and resales, prolly other kinds I'm not thinking of, they're pretty big systems though because they have to manage every touch on everything

right now we're workin on allowing logins all the time and then reselling you when you try to access anything, always entertaining the number of ways to catch a click

I assume at some point they realized how much money they were wasting so they started their own processor, those guys sit not far from me so our ability to do interesting things is enhanced.

I guess i am  crappy resource unless you want some pointers on rollin it yourself, that's the only way I've done it

well look at all the cat dragged in, damn cat must be tired

I'm jatar_k

forums kinda bore me even though I seem to have lived and breathed them for so long

I have been programming in php forever, worked for wmw for a while then did some hardware authentication stuff and then worked in gambling affiliate networks, terrible company, now I settled into the very large Montreal adult scene. Massive volume, no mistakes, good pay, good experience and good people.

I don't do much seo these day but the seo guys I run into in my daily life usually make me laugh

nice to see you all