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TRIBE VS. NING? WTF?
Sat, November 17, 2007 - 12:17 PMJust in case all the rumor-rousing IS true...write it down for safekeeping, better safe than sorry....
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Sun, November 18, 2007 - 8:38 AM
Hey B,
Tribe's been acting up so much lately it's been hard to know if emails & such are going through. The original creator of tribe - Mark Pincus is on my friend list - he blogged indicating they are considering charging $5 a month to keep it alive. below is the link and info people.tribe.net/markpincus/blog as you know, tribe has been experiencing more downtime lately and we're sorry. a lot of people have been posting and emailing with concerns about tribe. here's the quick status on tribe. tribe has been living off the cash it generates from showing adsense ads for the past 7-8 months. that has generally been enough to pay for bandwidth and two full time employees (darren and wendy) who manage the server uptime and customer support. from time to time the site has been lucky enough to get off hrs input from former developers like brian and jenni. going forward, a lot of people have offered to pay for a premium account or make donations to support the site. if we could generate another $60-70k a year (about $5k per month) we could hire a full-time engineer to work on more serious maintenance and even new features (like a cool newsfeed like facebook has). that might require 1000 subscribers at $5 per month. i love the idea of testing this out. if you have further thoughts email me (mark@tribe.net) and andrew trader (at@tribe.net). we may not be able to respond to everyone but will try. = = = = thought ya'd like to know |
