Forget "other aspects of the user experience", Nintendo's selling point is games. Even before the inverted pyramid structure. Great product placement guys. If you think about Geeknet's business, it was rather broadly spread. You can argue that MySpace was dead already. And now, surprise surprise, it's more ads than user created spaces [myspace.com]. But it's doable, and there are plenty of upmodded "contrarian" posts to show for it. Well, considering /. Here's hoping Dice knows what they're getting into. 2 ) Big plans for edgier SlashDot after future additional purchase of SuicideGirls.com.
I have never replaced a mouse due to hardware failure. Revenue multiples of around 1X annual earnings is a pretty typical price for a firm though it varies by industry, prospects and economic climate. It could be true, but it could just as easily not be true. It makes this feel permanent, it allows me to verbally pin people down, etc. Slashdot, news for nerds, and SourceForge, an open source software repository, broaden your reach to 8 million unique monthly visitors in North America.
A neutral presentation is the first thing you're taught when you study journalism. Hey, I mean, you'll have to forgive me if I can't discern whether you're saying that under duress or while you're busily shredding documents or while you're issuing cyanide capsules or if you're genuinely optimistic about the move. âoeThe SourceForge and Slashdot communities will enable our customers to reach millions of engaged tech professionals on a regular basis and significantly extends our company's reach into the global tech community.â, "We are very pleased to find a new home for our media business, providing a platform for the sites and our media teams to thrive," said Geeknet Chairman Ken Langone. Trademarks property of their respective owners. The problem is they would say that no matter what. It's just that slashdot is the last place on the internet I still go for nerd news that isn't mostly crap. Dice: This post was removed due to Dice content standards violations.
6 ) Tired of too many Apple stories? They'll start advertising 'slashdot quality' level resumes to their clients. I'm more worried about Sourceforge. has always been relatively higher then other sites. I know some ./ people did to support slashdot but other than their ads here, I wouldn't know of them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
I'm thrilled at the possibility of getting a bigger investment into Slashdot, both from an engineering perspective and an editorial perspective. All rights reserved. This is exactly the thing I would expect a new owner who sincerely believed in leaving a good thing alone to say. It collects more data while in operation than you could imagine. I wouldn't know as I have no memory of it. It's not the only way. Considering what "innovation" did to Lifehacker and other Gawker sites, I think the last thing you want is innovation. Duress isn't a factor -- in fact, one of the quotes from the meeting I most liked was in response to a question about whether we were posting news of the announcement on Slashdot, and how the community would react. If they start censoring posts you can be sure there that the ability to post anonymously will also be taken away.
Hopefully it isn't negative but I can't help but default to it being negative. The world could do with /. So you're saying that Slashdot died in 1999, when Rob sold it to Andover? All Rights Reserved. Are we missing something? One thing that sets Slashdot apart is that you can post something that goes against groupthink here and still have it modded up. 7 ) User profile now includes mandatory job history and expertise fields. Just the addition of the face***k link was proof of that. According to Netcraft, it actually died 15 years ago. Buyouts and mergers are typically done as a multiple of some portion of the earnings or revenue of the company. Comments owned by the poster. Perhaps the 'Jobs' link at the top of the page under Channels will change. Slashdot's a news site, ThinkGeek's an e-commerce business, Sourceforge is its own thing. Honestly, it felt like you guys might have lost some of your autonomy in that move.