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July 2011

New News Site.

I've added yet another project to my list. Over the last two weeks I've developed an awesome new news site.

It's a change in strategy from OrderedNews.com and focused on original content, rather than aggregation. It's a bit of a punt, but it's code complete within two weeks, fully socially integrated, and very mass market friendly.

It's written in .net, and I'm very pleased with the architecture, which is incredibly powerful, with abstraction, and can be re-branded and used for any number of future news web sites. I may even be able to license the technology or otherwise monetise it in the way I plan with my previously announced discussion site, which I'm still working on, but will also benefit from some of the technology I've developed over the last two weeks.

In the future I place to develop a facility for commercial advertising placement which I will also implement in DressCodeGuide.com when it is ready.

I expect to make an announcement about the new news site before Sunday when I plan to launch it. No fanfare, but I hope to develop some initial interest socially. It'll take months to get into Google - just one of them facts of life that you cannot change.

July 2011

More games.

The games thing is not completely dead by the way, although my co-investor decided not to invest the money required to complete their project, I've recently started writing games using the XNA libraries from Microsoft for the Xbox and PC.

It's surprisingly easy (I used to write games in assembly language in the eighties - much harder), and I intend to develop a few Indy games privately in the future. It's not a priority at the moment though, and will take a lot of resources and work to get something that probably won't earn any return.

For the time being, games development will have to go back to being just a hobby.

July 2011

New projects.

Last year I was working on a couple of start up projects with a private investor, including the media monitoring work and the game I was working on.

Unfortunately trading conditions and Twitter moving in on some of our territory, seems to have stalled those ventures. This is sad as we had built a great social media monitoring product which I think many businesses would have invested in to save themselves labour and time. Time is really what we would have been selling, and I think there was more to achieve.

Since then I've been working on a couple of other ventures. They are both in development so I can't say too much, but one should be a useful marketing and product development tool, and the other a prototype talking shop. Essentially a new take on the forum concept, but a bit more specialised.

Both are dot net developments for those that take an interest in the underlying technology. And both are social projects with integration with Facebook and Twitter respectively.

The first of these new projects is a large job but should produce lots of monetisation opportunities, whilst hopefully becoming and great place for consumers. It's somewhat inspired by my most recent start-up, and builds on the Facebook integration work I have already done.

I hope to have the second project completed in a much faster time frame, and although I'm not expecting to be able to monetise it directly, I think the technology could be licensed in the same way that Wikipedia's commercial company licenses it's technology. I might also consider giving it away to build a client market to advertise related products too, or on a fremium basis (free for basic, but with premium options for a fee), or maybe just provide a platform for others to set-up similar sites, funded by unobtrusive advertising related to their subject.

They are both probes into the power of social networking, so one way or the other I will learn from these projects.

June 2011

An Interesting day.

Yesterday was an interesting day. In the Chinese sense.

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