As some of you may know, one of the other websites I own is The Ad Feed. I’ve been working my ass off when I can, building the new version of the site and resurrecting it.

I had to collect some data a moment ago to get an idea of where I stand, and came across a listing on Get A Coder, from only a couple weeks after I launched the site. The title of the listing is “RSS Parser – Clone Of Theadfeed”

Had they looked at the footer of my site, they would have seen a link for the open-source, completely free, application that powers it, and saved the $100 or so they were looking to pay for cloning my popURLs clone. Surprisingly enough, I get an e-mail every other week or so from all over the world, asking if I could help them build a site like mine.

Oh well. Still feels good to see The Ad Feed being referenced as original. Yippee!

Domains have been a common topic of discussion lately in the forums. Some young go getters have shelled out the value of a tasty lunch to grab a catchy URL. But our acquisitions are chump change compared to an auction that took place yesterday in New York.

T.R.A.F.F.I.C. is an enormous gathering for the domain elite to buy and sell the URLs we all wish we had thought of back in ’96.

Some of the bigger auctions included:

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Yesterday, the Chicago whiz-kids known as 37signals, wrote one of their better posts in years, in my opinion. Restrictions and guidelines are essential in directing your creative. With many young go getters working in the realm of the internet, we’ve become accustomed to a wide-open medium.

Virtually everything works on everyone’s computers nowadays (flash, ajax), screen resolutions vary from 800×600 up to 1920×1200, enormous applications are now browser based, and content management systems like WordPress and Drupal enable you to create unlimited types of websites.

But I don’t need to rehash the 37signals post. Read about their experience when developing for the iPhone and it’s restrictions, here.

Business week had an interesting story last week about figuring out who your customers are and finding the best way to reach them. Linked along with that post was a very interesting chart that showed the web usage of different age groups… creators, critics, collectors, joiners, spectators & inactives.

The Youth (18-21) seem to be the most active web users in all sectors. Click here to see the details.

Akismet Spam (725). Unread RSS posts (1537). Technorati, Alexa, and Adsense stats (not a clue). This isn’t a Mastercard commercial. This is an idea of what happens if you stop doing what you normally do for a week.

Adbusters has their TV Turnoff Week; I had a Habit Turnoff Week. Which is why you haven’t seen many, if any, posts from me this past week in the blog or forum. And also why hundreds of blogger’s subscriber counters dropped by one. Oh, the madness.

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