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- theredbicycle, on 10/12/2007, -15/+148It's ok, here's how to get better:
1. Build a Bridge
2. Get the ***** Over it - dogfood, on 10/12/2007, -6/+50That comment is a dupe.
- blapierre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45It's Tucows.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20I love tucows :)
I remember exploring tucows with a 14.4kbps battery powered 'pocket modem' (god knows why) in 1997 - and screwing up my computer on a daily basis with a bunch of crappy shareware. Those were the days. - cgohier, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15A Web 0.1 site buys a Web 2.0 site...
- kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12eBay gets $3887.06 for this.
"5.25% of the initial $25.00 ($1.31), plus 3.00% of the initial $25.01 - $1,000.00 ($29.25), plus 1.50% of the remaining closing value balance ($1000.01 - closing value)" - Rice, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13You... hate.. the intarweb.
Then get the ***** off of it. :P - ryanryanryan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11I thought Tucows was gone until my company moved down the road from them. Then I looked at their financial reports (they are publically traded) and saw that they have revenues of around $70 million per year. Obviously they have the cash to spend on Kiko.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10I hate the intarweb too, the Internet is much better.
- addakorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9This is assuming that they do not pay with paypal.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Podcast interview with Richard White of Kiko:
http://www.web20show.com/articles/2006/08/31/the-death-of-web-20 - kodek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8An upgrade? :D
- Jaymoon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Know why Tucows really bought it?
Publicity, publicity, publicity.
And you know why Kiko sold their "goods"?
Publicity, publicity, publicity.
Imagine how many millions of people signed up for kiko as soon as they read about it being sold. Without them selling themselves, I'd have never even heard of them. - Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I was expecting a story about the new prince of Japan. Odd how this story and that story suddenly pop up (see http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609060095.html)
- pintong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is hilarious. I just visited Tucows about half an hour ago for the first time in ages and thought, wow, they're still alive? Next thing I know, they're on the front page of Digg!
- u2wedge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'd actually like to know who some of the other bidders were.
- dogfood, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8That's so awesome.
- Tanbo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Speaking of Kiko, I did point out earlier that she had a baby boy.
http://digg.com/world_news/Japanese_Princess_Named_After_Defunct_Web_2_0_Calendar_Delivers_Baby_Boy - felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Man, Kiko didn't even leave Tucows any positive feedback after the auction. I'm gonna remember that next time I think about buying a quarter-million dollar web app from them.
- kendawg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Did anyone else notice what site the ie logo on their main page is hyperlinked to?
- aboyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Dude, ryanryanryan is obviously talking about the Net Revenue at the top of the chart. $48,517,000 for 2005 is a fine lead-in for a $70,000,000 2006. Since he is down the street from Tucows, he may have heard $70,000,000 as their projection for 2006. It's a totally reasonable number considering the link you provided.
- MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Does anyone know how much eBay gets for huge transactions like these? I never saw the original news about this..
- Ecazi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Kiko seems to have a bias against IE (not that I mind).
They have three icons for their supported browsers in the upper right of the front page, but the Firefox icon is linked to http://www.mozilla.com/firefox and the IE icon is linked to http://getfirefox.com - Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7oops minus the ) http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609060095.html
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4kiko.com is really friggin slow right now. hopefully tucows helps that out.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7fscking sounds like a unix command.
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -12/+15fscking?
What the heck does that mean.
I care, thats who, and obviously 99 other people who dugg it. - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4... or just not use it
- ZPWeeks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You cancel your demo account right on the main page.
- UGM2099, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't think they're totally serious about this being the death of Web 2.0 as some have said. This is just coinciding with their podcast changing names from the Web 2.0 Show to something else.
- rrwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Totally tongue in cheek. And I didn't make anywhere near the selling price, I wasn't a founder.
- rrwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We're tricky like that :)
Who in the web development industry doesn't have a bias against IE? - szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@discreet: god forbid you actually put the name of the ***** company in the summary!!!
- wspence, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1well i hope the reason that its slow as dog ***** is because of the digg effect and not the actual site. now the sites down i believe.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I didn't hear the podcast, yet, but I'am not secure about the title "The Death Of Web 2.0". Spoky thing, considering that he just earnt $258,100 for something he says is dying.
- rossrader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Not down. I'm using it as we speak. Definitely digg'ed, but not down'ed...:)
-ross
(more on our plans here: http://kiko.weblog.info/2006/09/welcome_kiko_su.html) - psxman, on 10/12/2007, -13/+14http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fsck&oldid=66208722
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3You should spend more time understanding basic financial terms, instead of wasting time proving something that you apparently do not understand. Revenue is NOT income, many companies have billions of dollars in revenue, but have negative income, such as Ford or GM. Also, having a larger than market cap revenue is very common, for example GM have a 205 Billion dollar annual revenue, but GM's market cap is 17.22 Billion.
- trealtney, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3If you think you only need to look at revenue, you should sign up for one of those "cash flow industry" infomercials they show all the time. You'll be retired in 6 months ;) After all, Enron generated $101 billion in revenue in 2000...that's got to be worth something with your logic.
Who gives a ***** if you can generate a billion dollars of cash (revenue) if it costs you two billion to do it. - rrwhite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A few people have in the past... and yes it is on purpose
- cviebrock, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@Killah,
You forget ... eBay will take off a nice percentage! - cviebrock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They're still waiting for Fedex to ship.
- blacjak2100, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2http://www.kiko.com/user/destroy
- gmillerd, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Where do I cancel my demo account with them, lol.
Good for them, its easily worth it I would cost that easily to develop. Its such a good product. I wouldnt be surprised if they turn it around as a product to resell. - trealtney, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Tucows has never had $70mm in revenues (that's more than their market cap). They had an operating income of only $1.85mm in 2005.
http://yahoo.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?FetchFilingHTML1?SessionID=NQ_-jAWGR690mcu&ID=4285845#A06-2985_210K_HTM_ITEM6_SELECTEDFINANCIALDATA_091422 - JOJOFACE, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This is such good news. Kiko was by far the best Web 2.0 calendar. Good to see they got quite a deal out of it. :D
- Digg_Harrison, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yeah, but the trend of this world is that the business people get the money and the orginal authors just get the small amount for selling theird idea. Sad..
- PetrGasparik, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0how to make cash... just hang on modern wave
I think authors deserve their money - MicroBerto, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Thanks KenDawg! woof woof woof!
- tmcpheeters, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8who still has ads on their page?
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