http://ryanmay.ca Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:11:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I realized there is two very different revenue and mental models, between 2 seemingly very similar products. The lines between a traditional desktop application you download and install, versus a service you simply use on the Internet through a browser, have becoming very close in the last few years. However ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/software-vs-web-apps/ I am not one to complain about people optimizing their websites for adsense, or the seas of research being done in how close they can get an ad to a place you may click by accident.  For many websites this is a revenue stream. I understand how a website like ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/online-revenue-tricks/ Lifeyo.com has been a full time labor for the last year and a half.  Simply put, its a website the lets people make websites. On the development side of things it has been an incredible learning process.  Conceptually to develop a product with the internet that allows others to again make ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/lifeyo-com/ If your a developer you are familiar with the term "Bandwidth" in some for or another.  In essence bandwidth is the amount of data you serve to people usually calculated in MB or TB / month.  A website like Craigslist.org even though it has a lot of users is able ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/unlimited-bandwidt/ So I was browsing ebay, one of my typical activities and came across this macbook air. I have always wanted a gold Apple laptop but have never gone actually all the way of taking a case in to get it anodized or coated. Starting bid $3500. Hmmm..  My boss told me ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/golden-macbook/ So my beautiful wife has taken off early to visit London England before she ends up back home in Toronto for x-mas.  My freezer full of frozen foods has depleted faster than expected, and now I am on to the canned goods. I cant wait to go home and experience the ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/betsys-in-london/ This was an interesting project I started several years ago, and is still in its beta stages.  The concept was to help take the content that MP3 search engines are able to find in blogs and on people websites, and organize it back into artists and albums, the same way ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/musicpinch/ This simple yet stylish fashion blog was designed for up and coming fashion blogger Betsy B. She wanted a simple design logo and interface that would let her content do the talking.  Betsy blogs from all over the world and needed things like custom categories, and comment RSS feeds. Some ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/razorblonde/ The Faux Fire iPhone application came after many demands for a mobile version of the popular http://fauxfire.com home page from 2008.  This application was the first I have created of this kind.  After becoming  enroll in Apple's iPhone developer program, a good book and a weekend was all it took ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/12/faux-fire-iphone-app/ For the 2009 holiday season FauxFire.com was given a revamp which was going to include several items for sale. I decided to make a complimenting website to host the information on these new products. It may look straight forward but there are several tricky things going on here. Some of ... http://ryanmay.ca/2009/11/fauxfire-site/