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TapShirt.org now has a domain, is setup with hosting / store structure.

Newest core framework is installed on it, but we still need a layout :/. Building shirt search engine / product aggregator work is really just starting. Listing products will probably take a couple days to do, then there’s product display, shopping cart, etc. So lots of work to be done on it.

Interested in joining the small team working on it? Drop me a line at graham.stachowiak (at) gmail.com .

So I had been looking for something new and intresting to explore beyond music sites, google maps, and image hosts recently and I wanted to do something cool, new and stylish.

TapShirt, a site that (will hopefully) use the CafePress API and an online store to try and sell custom designed shirts. Technically the API creates the shirts on-the-fly with SVG and other graphics technologies but that’s the ‘tech side’. I got that covered.

But what I don’t have are:

-Unlimited servers really..

-An artist who can create layouts.

-Shirt Designs..

-I can’t even afford a freakin’ domain..

Of course would do a store XML API and aggregate content from other sites so we can sell other sites shirts / merchandise for them.

As for life-wise tommorow I gotta go to some orientation for Nova, I don’t understand why they want to move me to a ’smart school’ when I don’t work well at my current one. Hey maybe it will actually be cool(lol).

Currently in very early beta, imgbox is a basic image uploader that cuts the crap. You are sent DIRECTLY to the REAL image after uploading, hotlinking is ofcourse allowed. This service is in very early beta and expect more features to come:

http://imgbox.hostkiwi.co.uk/

tinyurl.com/imgbox .

Yep, I got time, 10 minutes before I leave so…

How to collect and sell data about people:

1. Start with tracking:

If you can track users between YOUR sites thats a start. Now I could use something like RedDot to create a ’stat tracking’ image that logs the referer, IP (or IP hash on ‘nicer’ networks ), and the visited sites. Once you can do that, you have enough to start creating a profile of that user.
2. So what do you have:

You have information you can use to profile a user. Let’s say you found a user who visits Myspace and Facebook, it would make sense to send them an ad for a site that does something like, Social Integration between myspace and FaceBook. That’s something they would be likely to click and then make YOU money.

3. Start selling this information:

If you really wanna rake in the cash then you could create a XML Based API to access your ad profiles. That way you could readily query your server for a users profile, this information / access sells well and you can charge any way you want for this data really.

4. Get people to put your dot on there site:

Now get your dot on as many sites as possible, the tracking ‘image’ and the bigger the better. The more sites you can track a user across the more they are worth.

Now you know the secret to making cash online, don’t rip my ideas . Who wants to work on RedDot?