I cringed about twice every sentence; his writing style is terrible.
Which isn't to say the message isn't useful to people (although I nearly spit out my soda upon seeing him go on about The Secret).
It sounds like he has a good sense for churning out websites which are useful to people though, so kudos to him (and hopefully he can pull another one out and actually hold onto the money this time).
Yeah the writing was terrible, no doubt about that. I definitely feel there was a great lesson there in his simplicity of execution - he saw people using myspace sites so he built one. The massively introspective and precious process of coming up with "ideas" that I can't help be a little obsessed with seems ridiculous compared with just seeing and doing.
While that's true, he seems to reiterate over and over that his aim from the beginning was just to "make money"; which while I have nothing against (I'm certainly not a socialist), I think is detrimental to actually creating something worthwhile.
Reading the post reminds me of a lot of kids I grew up with who were basically hustlers; they just wanted to be rich and would try anything they could think of (usually some combination of managing musicians, selling drugs, or stealing cars) to attain it.
In retrospect, I don't think any of them ended up being rich.
Well myspace profile tools whilst not exactly a long lasting boons to society were pretty useful to people. It's not content scraping or otherwise just gaming the system. I won't post what the article makes this guy sound like to me, seems unfair after I've said I found it informative :)
I feel like I got a good impression from the picture he posted (which had the added bonus of letting me know that I charge more for a portrait shoot than Michael Vincent...which is odd because he's a much better photographer than I am)
Which isn't to say the message isn't useful to people (although I nearly spit out my soda upon seeing him go on about The Secret).
It sounds like he has a good sense for churning out websites which are useful to people though, so kudos to him (and hopefully he can pull another one out and actually hold onto the money this time).