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(...) Brickshelf is not in Perl. It is in C. Jennifer Boger www.Peeron.com (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Ditto. I'm a Perl guy, and I believe the existing Brickshelf code is written in Perl. I'd love to see the code be released as an open source project (unlikely if Kevin intends to continue with maj.com but I can always hope), and would be happy (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Another thing about Flickr - you can get the Flickr Uploadr program (for Mac or Windows) to do drag-n-drop uploading of images. It's sooooo much easier than creating a zip file or uploading one file at a time on Brickshelf. Also by getting a (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks for the information, Eric. It's hard for most people (including myself) to get a grasp on just what resources are needed to run such a site. With respect to targeted ads, Kevin was using Google Adsense, and I believe (from seeing (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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I am with you all the way, Jake. I think Flickr is an incredible deal, and one that will probably be around for a long time thanks to it being integrated with Yahoo and with the revenue streams from printing, etc. For $25 a year I can archive my (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) As I understand it, BitTorrent is an additional option on top of the standard functionality. More info here: (URL) is dealing with a massive amount of files by the minute based on S3. Here's the info: (URL) success stories: (URL) story of (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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As someone who operates a blog (brickpile.com) about LEGO I agree that there is very little revenue from ads. The problem with ads in a LEGO-related site is that there are only so many times people can click on links to legoshop.com and there just (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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"Tim David" <talltim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:JL6w33.4L7@lugnet.com... (...) I've been using imeem to share photos and videos. Here's a sample video I uploaded: (URL) also financially (and bandwidth) stable because they just inked a (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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For those of you who don't know me, I've been in the AFOL community for a long time. I'm also one of the largest hosters of LEGO clubs and other LEGO-related sites. Most of these sites are donated to help the clubs have an internet presence, Some of (...) (17 years ago, 16-Jul-07, to lugnet.general) !!
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(...) Since S3 is talking about using BitTorrent to move data, this would not be a good solution for data that needs to be available on a real-time basis. It sounds like it's more appropriate for an online backup solution. (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Replying to my own post: According to a whois lookup, the brickshelf.com domain name expires 20 August 2007. If a new site rises from the old, it would be nice for it to have the same domain name. I don't know if Kevin would be interested in (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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Just wanted to throw out a potential solution for Kevin - Would Amazon's S3 product be a solution to the bandwidth/storage concerns? (URL) heard both first and secondhand stories about how S3 is a lifesaver and budget saver for data/bandwidth (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) You're referring to the US Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). (There are similar things in many other countries, but as I understand COPPA is one of the most stringent, so it's what many people deal with as a default) Basically (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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I'm a web developer. I can help build such a site. (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I'll tell you, I have absolutely zero problems paying $25/year for the Flickr services. I use it daily now, uploading tons of RAW photos at full quality. Plus you get some additional features that are pretty handy. I've been posting the baby (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Christopher, I agree with your sentiments. I'm not a terribly active AFOL. Still, I've sent $10 via PayPal to Lugnet, and to Brickshelf, and to Peeron. My son and I have certainly gotten more than our money's worth from these great online (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Per the Brickshelf terms of service, still available at (URL) 13. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE Brickshelf reserves the right at any time and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Didn't you do that anyway ; ) ..a little humour on a dark day... God Bless, Nathan (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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Hey, Sounds good. Let's look to see what we can do positively rather than sit around and gripe about things. I would be happy to act as a moderator of a resurrected variant on Brickshelf. I'm sure we could easily create a large team of trusted AFOLs (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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(...) Brickshelf used to use real names but there have been some laws passed in the past few years that make that problematic. For one thing, there are laws against collecting certain information online from people under the age of 13. The idea is (...) (17 years ago, 15-Jul-07, to lugnet.general, FTX)
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