samson

I getting close to launching my own startup soon with a product I've developed, and I'm curious to know what are strategies that have worked for others in acquiring users either for a paid products or free services.

I'm trying to develop a crawler that knows when the page being sent to it is the actually a Post page, and not the index,search,tag,calendar(November 2008) page.

I want these pages ->http://1vibe.net/music/jim-jones-ft-lil-wayne-noe-twista-jackin-swagga-from-us/

Not this ->http://1vibe.net/category/behind-the-scenes/ Not this ->http://1vibe.net/2008/11/ Not this ->http://1vibe.net/tag/50-cent/

From the blog post page I want to grab the title and date of that post

The way I trying to do it was to look through the DOM of the site and look for consistency. I found consistency in Blogger and Typepad but WordPress was all over the place in the formating from site to site.

So I figure I must have been doing it wrong and that there is the xml,rdf,feeds a.k.a, the intelligent way of doing it.

I appreicate it if anyone could help ( also I'm doing it in php).

I created a simple web app (Mytipnetwork.com) that lets a blogger create a page where their readers can tip them off to interesting stories, images or clips that they find on the web.

example page http://www.mytipnetwork.com/n.php?site=adtoferlnn

It works pretty simply you add a tipbox image to your page that tells you and your readers how many tips you've recieved today from them. And you can respond back by saying what you got tipped by(meaning heard for the first time and/or found interesting)

As a tool, what I thought it might achieve is help bloggers get inspired to their next blog post by their readers.

Problem is I don't have a blog, I don't have friends who are bloggers, and my only available currency towards promotion is time and energy.

I came across some code today that I wanted to see how it worked, and even though majority of it is open source, some of it is their own and is copyrighted.

Decided to check out their terms of use

"RECOMMENDED READING grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable license to use and to display and to make one copy of the Materials and to use the services, this Site solely for your personal use. Except for the license set forth in the preceding sentence above, you acknowledge and agree that you have no right to modify, edit, copy(ok), reproduce(ok), create derivative works of, reverse engineer(didn't know that), alter, enhance (also didn't know that) or in any way exploit any of the Materials in any manner. This limited license terminates automatically, without notice to you, if you breach any of these Terms. Upon termination of this limited license, you agree to immediately destroy any downloaded or printed Materials. Except as stated herein, you acknowledge that you have no right, title or interest in or to this Site, any Materials."

This is Mixx terms of use. This question doesn't apply to them alone, but to all sites.I'm just wanted to know if copyrighting JS code is a normal thing.

www.tipgroups.com

starting to think its almost ready to promote (not that I actually got a clue how to do that).

ALL suggestions are welcome. (don't spare the rod) :)

Last night I spent from 10pm to 7am this morning hacking at the school science building.This his slowly now started to become a not so unusual occurence for me since dropping out of college in the middle of the semester to work on my startup project.

I've come to accept this as a new lifestyle and a necessary exchange of time if I'm to be successful in a highly competitive internet startup scene.

Yet I can't help but hear that little man in the back of my head every once in a while saying "your young and your being dumb, you should be out having some fun".