Re: [circle] Resumption of adwords

[Thomas Mangin]

Paul.

Sorry for the message I am going to write but : circle is not ready for
prime time development. We need to make it as easy and stable to use as
things such as emule. I tried to convince some of my friends to use it and I
will tell you, they all dropped it as it was not stable and polished enough.

Like it or not, the UI need redoing, the stability improving (you want it to
be able to run in the background for days without memory or cpu hug), and
then we can hope to get critical mass. If you advertise too much now you
will probably do more harm than good to the project.

Did you look at application like piolet or emule ?

I think a roadmap should be decided on this list with clear target for a
"1.0" release which then should be advertised.

Thomas
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Harrison" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 2:06 PM
Subject: [circle] Resumption of adwords


> Hi,
>
> Some of you may remember the RSPP round i ran last year to advertise the
> Circle using google adwords (and i must admit, to try out rspp).
>
> I slowed the adwords campaign and eventually shut it off when i became
> sick, but now that i'm mostly better, and now that the shiny new release
> is out, i'm starting it up again.
>
> So far about a third of the money raised has been used. I'm targeting
> mostly linux specific searches, on the theory that people who use Linux
> will be early-adopter types who would like circle as much for the idea as
> the implementation. It does mean that number of people seeing the ads per
> day is quite low however.
>
> A non-linux specific keyword list would pick up almost entirely windows
> users, and result in a *lot* more click-throughs. It's kind of tempting in
> terms of a high risk attempt to get a critical mass of users in a short
> time.
>
> --
> Paul
>
> IM: pfh on thecircle.org.au
> Email: address@hidden
> There is no conspiracy.
>
>
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