Friday, August 11, 2006

Catch Up...

Lots goin on....A lot of thinking basically. I've added some broadcast functionality to the member section of the site. This enables the generation of link feeds directly to a users audio. I have to add some tagging functionality for the file uploads, should come soon.

This has been itneresting so far, because you come to a crossroads when undertaking a spur of the moment idea and trying to make something substantial out of it. Do you work on this project with the purpose of making the big pay day down the road, or do you continue your work because you enjoy what you're doing and regardless of the outcome can be proud of it.

Admittedly, yes I pursued this after seeing "the million dollar webpage", social networking sites blow up, and all the other "web 2.0" wonder and hoopla albeit, with my own twists. With this excitement comes phantom business plans, monthly revenue losses and terribly high bandwidth costs, and etc. (Granted I do understand the value is in monetizing the vast amounts of information being uploaded by the populace, which I believe is important.)

Without a financial network or financial backing to speak of (besides my peanuts salary) , this project is going to have to take a different form. Many have been down this road before, build brand recognition, long-term plans, understand your market, yaddda yadda. All the solid business principles. I would like for this to become something that is beneficial and a worthy service, I believe it already is. Hopefully, through the one man army that is me, I can make something out of nothing.