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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 12:42 PM
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Default Solution to vB - simple.

Get Cameron to front for a server call the website "AudiPlanet", run Kawf, let current admins administer it.

Let the IB vB AW dry up and blow away.

Cameron could actually make money on the deal...
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 01:18 PM
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I signed up to an American ex-pat forum which is vB .. This is gruelling.
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 01:28 PM
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Default I'm actually not kidding.

I have no idea what would be involved. But there are folks here who know *exactly* what's involved. And know how to make it happen, how to get advertisers, and how to get the thing to make money such that IB might find it an attractive purchase.

If I knew anything about it, I'd try and make it happen. But I are ignorant of the intertubes way of life.
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 03:53 PM
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Default It's the part about 'making money' that will be the struggle...

Suffice it to say, there's a reason that Bverticals sold AW, and it's not because it was making boatloads of money.

Everyone wants it to be free, no one wants to see ads.

Pretty hard to run a site of this magnitude with huge bandwith usage, and multiple front end and back end servers, for free.
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 05:53 PM
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Default I made that joke about a month ago...

then i actually looked ...Audiplanet already exists. I think somebody made a post on it a few months ago (or was that years)... its as dead as the Irish Audi website.
Anyway lets give the guys a chance to run the new SuperVB here first. Plenty of time to pack the bags later. That's the great thing about the instant-net. Every day is a vote.
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Old Jul 15, 2008 | 07:12 PM
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Default uhh.... it is easy to make money.

step one: set up a site
step two: get hype, like viral marketing
step three: profit
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 05:09 AM
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Step 4: Pay nobody nuthin'. (Oh wait, that's what they do now!)
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 09:58 AM
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I would have thought IB demanded some kind of non-compete as part of the AW purchase.
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 10:34 AM
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I have no idea, I was not involved in that..
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Old Jul 16, 2008 | 11:35 AM
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Its pretty standard to include multi-year non-compete + non-solicitation.
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