[Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] clker.com - part 3

[Jon Phillips]

I completely agree... :) If you are really keen to understand
competition, check out their web stats vs ours on http://www.alexa.com

Jon

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 12:21 -0700, Alan wrote:
> Very good conclusion
> 
> Nicu Buculei wrote:
> > Greg Bulmash wrote:
> >   
> >> Maybe he's geotargeting, but there's Google ads all over the site when I 
> >> go there.
> >>     
> >
> > Let's not turn this in a "who is profiteering more" contest, for me both 
> > sites display ads (one is more obtrusive than the another) but this is 
> > allowed.
> > There are also other sites doing so, like wpclipart.com
> >
> > The key is, in my opinion, finding a way to convince those people 
> > contributing back in the areas where we need most, like php coding.
> >
> >   
> >> momo at lumenstudio.net wrote:
> >>     
> >>>> I wouldn't consider a casual user a leech, but someone who uses a huge
> >>>> chunk of the library and makes money from it can afford to donate some
> >>>> or time back to continuing to improve the library.
> >>>>         
> >>> AFAIK www.clker.com is not profitable, there are no advertising, no paid 
> >>> services, and no cliparts are being sold. The only thing this site's 
> >>> doing is providing a better GUI than the actual OCAL website. If the 
> >>> creator of clker.com would like to help making OCAL better by 
> >>> contributing code it'll be very nice, but I repeat that calling it a 
> >>> leech just because it doesn't contribute clipart or money back to OCAL 
> >>> is somewhat unfair.
> >>>       
> >
> >   
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