Peace

K.I.

Don’t understand why someone would sale a USD 399 value script by USD 90, moreover the auction finished and the site was bought by USD 200, so the owner loosed at least half. But is not because of that i’m commenting this post, but i/o, why didn’t you mentioned like Dan Cohen did, a free and open source script that let’s everyone build a portal in minutes. There are some, like Posh.
By the way, i’ve googled a little bit with following words “Alstrasoft+rapidshare”, and than i got what i think is true.

Dan, cool to see you stop by and defend your product.

Might not resolve yet as I’ve only just uploaded, but I’ve got some cool plans for site (including option to put ads or use search engine on for revenue share – which will always remain optional).

Create your own homepages and test it out. Pretty nifty:)

P.S.: Next time I am selling a Pligg powered Digg-clone at DigitalPoint, I’ll mail you. Please techcrunch it.

Now that you have revealed that the “secret to success” in creating a personalized homepage product is purchasing a web site for $90, there may in fact be an army of personalized page clones forthcoming (there were in 2005 – where are they now?). In fact, I’ll do you one better. As an exclusive for TechCrunch readers, I’ll let you know that our cofounder and CTO Omar published a book on how to develop an AJAX personalized portal, compete with source code, and it’s available on Amazon for $29.69 (http://www.amaz...T/dp/0596510500).

I just saved each member of the forthcoming army of our competitors $60.31!

I agree with you that on the surface, anyone can make a functioning drag-and-drop AJAX portal demo site where an experienced tech user can drag-and-drop RSS feeds and place widgets. However, as my colleagues at Pageflakes and my former coworkers at iGoogle or My Yahoo can tell you, it takes, shall we say, just a tad more than $90 and hell of a lot of smart, talented people, investment and hard work to bring a successful product like Pageflakes to the international mass market. To suggest otherwise is not only very disappointing to them, but it may be extremely dangerous to someone taking your suggestion to the contrary at face value.

Our community of users, Pagecasters, and private groups sharing and creating Flakes and Pagecasts already know this (www.pageflakes.com/community/). In my years working in this product category, I can tell you that among many other things, we need to address challenging issues in usability, personalization, internationalization, privacy, editorial and community moderation, as well as in building a massively complex infrastructure that will scale and reliably store user’s pages and permit publishing, sharing and social features.

Don’t believe me? Buy Omar’s book – and good luck!

http://www.sout...5/epi415script/

Howard Stern: Now, some people that all you guys do is perform sick and disgusting acts for shock value and money, which makes you whores. But I’d like to prove them wrong. So what I’m gonna do… is I’m gonna offer each of you $50,000 to write a netvibes clone script with a lime green tangent of facebook functionality for me right now.
Tom Green: I’m in.
Johnny Knoxville: Me too.
Kenny: (And me!)
Howard Stern: Oh.
Tom Green: Fine! I’ll do it for 40!
Johnny Knoxville: 30.
Tom Green: [points at Johnny] 20!
Kenny: (…Ten bucks!)
Howard Stern: Ooh, the kid says he’ll do it for ten bucks.
Tom Green: Damnit. I’m out.
Johnny Knoxville: Me too. I guess he is the biggest whore.

it’s the people, and money behind it – that can make something grow