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Re: Brickshelf and the AFOL community
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:44:34 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Kerry Raymond wrote:
> > Advertising services like Adsense can generate pretty well targeted ads, and
> > although the revenue is less than getting advertisers directly, it is much less
> > work. BRE, with only 50-60MB/day bandwidth, and pretty unobtrusive ads, is
> > easily able to cover the $10/mth hosting fee without even doing any of the
> > things Google recommend to get better results. I'm sure a site with traffic like
> > Brickshelf could generate significant income from such a service with a little
> > work.
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> Hmm. If Brickshelf was attracting plenty of money through advertising, why would
> its owner close it down? Unless we think Kevin is joining a monastery and
> devoting himself to a life of poverty, that's not rational behaviour. If
> Bricklink was really bringing in megabucks in advertising, Kevin could afford to
> hire someone else to maintain the site if he was too busy.
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> So, my guess is that the Brickshelf was not making money or at least not making
> enough to be worth Kevin's time maintaining it.
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> Kerry
Or he's focusing his efforts on maj.com, which as far as I can tell is based on
Brickshelf's code.
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| (...) I just hate speculating in the dark about all of this, but that's my sense. For now, I'm simply going to reupload all of my pics to my maj.com account (which is the same username and password for all former Brickshelf accounts). I just hope (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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| (...) Hmm. If Brickshelf was attracting plenty of money through advertising, why would its owner close it down? Unless we think Kevin is joining a monastery and devoting himself to a life of poverty, that's not rational behaviour. If Bricklink was (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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