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Supergeek · 11-19-2007, 02:37 PM

Made about $16 in November. Whee.

Notius · 11-19-2007, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Supergeek

Made about $16 in November. Whee.

Congrats!

What kind of site made you the cash?

springer · 11-19-2007, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Notius

What kind of site made you the cash?

I'm guessing it was a WEB site.

Aequitas · 11-19-2007, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Supergeek

Made about $16 in November. Whee.

Congrats I've made $35 with mine in November so far but once I get all the new site upgrades done and start pushing traffic I hope to reach much much higher goals.

DBWebDev · 11-19-2007, 02:57 PM

Aequitas, that flash player thing is awesome. How did you learn to do stuff like this? You said you don't know anything about Actionscript but yet you managed to do it! I want to be able to program my own little problem solvers instead of relying on the hand outs of other peeps - grrrr.

Oh, and while we're on the subject of goals I reckon I've made about $2 but yet I've learnt chuffing craploads of information - now I'm putting all these crazy ideas into practice and it won't be long before I start seeing an increase in revenue - but hey you gotta start somewhere.

Notius · 11-19-2007, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by springer

I'm guessing it was a WEB site.

Lol. Bastard.

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Originally Posted by DBWebDev

Aequitas, that flash player thing is awesome.

DBWebDev is right the work you are doing sounds like pure genious.

I did not realize it was posssible to use your own player for another sites vids. When it comes to coding stuff I am more of a hacker then a programer but I would love to take a crack at this. Did you find some resources on how to build this or is there any information you found that helped in make this?

cashflowrusty · 11-19-2007, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Aequitas

I vote that you change the Embed graphic to the chick with her legs in the air... :-)

emp · 11-19-2007, 04:10 PM

LOL... yeah, just switch them...

Makes more sense.

::emp::

argh01 · 11-19-2007, 04:18 PM

I've made about $19 in November.

I couldn't figure out where it came from, it showed up in my amazon affiliate section.
I have several times used amazon affiliation links when I mention books or other things that someone could buy from Amazon, but I've only ever used one tracking id.

As it turns out, I'm pretty sure the money came from a site I set up a while ago and forgot about accidentally-on-purpose. I sunk about 16 -20 hours of development into, and rather than chase my tail and not make any money on it I told myself to hold off until it saw some profit.

When I did the development on it I didn't know about changing my referral code in amazon. Now tracking the hits from that site is going to be easier, but the traffic seems to have dropped off again.

ps. oh and the income was all from one specific brand of laser toner. I got hits for 10 sales of laser toner. Go figure. I've never hawked laser toner on a blogsite, so I had no clue where it came from.

rileypool · 11-19-2007, 04:41 PM

I made $2.48 from the time I joined in this challenge (Oct. 17th) until Oct. 31st. Plus, in November I've made $45.02 and counting. So that's a total of $47.50 so far.

Aequitas · 11-19-2007, 04:55 PM

Well I put the new player on the first five videos on the site now so you can play with it more, I thought I had it all working good last night and so yesterday I began putting the player onto the site only to realize I had a bunch of bugs after I uploaded it so I spent a lot of yesterday fixing them up.

There are still a few minor glitches to work out with the player but it seems to be working pretty good now.

Ok since everyone is talking about my player I have stated that this is the first one I've built with no previous background in creating flash players and I did this up inside of one week from scratch, now the reason I was able to pull it off in a decent amount of time is because I have over 6 years of programming experince in other languages which means that I understand how code is supposed to work and learning new programming languages for me goes a lot quicker then someone with lower amounts of programming experince.

With that said if you all want some really good flash tutorials then check out gotoandlearn.com - Free video tutorials on using the Flash Platform by Lee Brimelow they have some really good shit there that can help you get started with this type of thing, honestly flash and actionscript for me seems to be a lot easier to learn then other languages because there naming convention simply makes a lot of sense over others.

As for changing the girl in the share section of the player I might get around to doing another one up but I want to make sure everything is all good for now, I've still got to re-tweak my buffer system and I've also found out something very important about this type of thing.

-----------IMPORTANT ABOUT YOUR OWN FLASH PLAYERS BELOW--------

Ok the first 5 videos playing on my site right now are being hosted by me on my own servers because well I've found out something very disturbing about leaching videos from other sites and using your own flash player.

You see when you create your own player and then use Live HTTP Headers (Firefox plugin) to get the flv location of the videos you want and you begin to play the file in your player for the first time everything works 100% no problems what so ever. Good right? Well this is what really got me fucked up yesterday.

You see the file locations for videos on YouTube and LiveVideo (Most likely all other sites as well) have some sort of dynamically generated codes which disable you from leaching there videos with another flash player.

See yesterday I set up the first 5 vids on my site and was leaching the vids from LiveVideo and YouTube but after about an hour all the videos stopped working on me and I didn't change anything at all so I was like ok what the fuck happened, then I began to dig and learn more.

I realized that if you take the flv location and use it to play your files (Like you have to in order for it to work), it plays perfect for a few plays, sometimes it works for like 10 plays sometimes it stops working after you've played it only 5 times and basically I tracked it down to leach security on the part of the other sites.

See YouTube and LiveVideo have many many video servers all running in order to support the bandwidth and traffic levels they get but (And I haven't taken the time yet to trace this) they have Javascript which reads the url location and transfers it to the right server with authorization of some sort in order to say hey this video can be played.

LiveVideo on the other hand might have this type of security built directly into there flash player (I've built my own security directly into my own flash player so people can't leach the vids from my servers as well).

Anyway to put it simply there are one of two ways to leach the videos from other sites, the first way is you don't and the second way is that you dig through there Javascript and try to figure out what values they are changing to make the authorization work but again I believe they may also have this type of security built into there swf file which means it'll be fucking impossible to crack unless your very experinced.

So in my first tests the leeching of vids from other sites worked great thats why I thought it would work but as I've stated they will only work for an hour or two and then your fucked the vid won't play anymore cause of some sort of leech protection thing they must have built.

However as I said I haven't done a lot of digging into exactly how they do it but I do know that there is security there.

Anarkist · 11-19-2007, 05:35 PM

Aequitas, what is your view on this ..... just something that popped up after seeing your post.

Now I am not sure, how you've made it so that the FLV plays from the server directly, maybe a file leecher that let's you insert the direct link to the FLV on the youtube or LiveVideo server.

Now FDC servers have been my favorite for all my filesharing experiments, it's the closest I have gotten to being on something that's actually unmetered.
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Let's say you code a script that downloads FLV straight from Youtube to your own server (in this case an FDC unmetered VPS) and we utilise this FLV link for embedding on our server. This would prevent the NaN Anti-leech errors and let us stream from our own server without having to go through a lot of trouble.

Check out Rapid Leech - This does exactly what I said before file sharing sites like rapidshare and stuff.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers

Aequitas · 11-19-2007, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Anarkist

Aequitas, what is your view on this ..... just something that popped up after seeing your post.

Now I am not sure, how you've made it so that the FLV plays from the server directly, maybe a file leecher that let's you insert the direct link to the FLV on the youtube or LiveVideo server.

Now FDC servers have been my favorite for all my filesharing experiments, it's the closest I have gotten to being on something that's actually unmetered.
FDC - Services - Virtual Dedicated Servers :: Dedicated servers, Colocation chicago, Virtual dedicated servers, Dedicated server forums, virtual dedicated server forums, VDS, VPS, virtual private servers

Let's say you code a script that downloads FLV straight from Youtube to your own server (in this case an FDC unmetered VPS) and we utilise this FLV link for embedding on our server. This would prevent the NaN Anti-leech errors and let us stream from our own server without having to go through a lot of trouble.

Check out Rapid Leech - This does exactly what I said before file sharing sites like rapidshare and stuff.

Let me know what you think.

Cheers

Hmm I like the idea but in a way I would do more research on the servers, for instance with my GoDaddy account I get 100GB of storage space and 1 Terabyte of transfer each month, now this works out to be about 3000 of my hosted videos played each day.

The price is currently set at about $70 a year so around $6 or $7 per month, with prices like that its pretty fucking cheap, so when the time comes and I exceed the 3000 played vids per day from my server I can just buy another hosting for another $70 per year now if the site cannot make more then $70 per year or $7 bucks per month with 3000 vids being played each day then there is something really fucking wrong with the site.

Now obviously there are tons of issues with not running your own servers and its 10 times better to run your own servers but the main thing to keep in mind I think will be price, storage space, and bandwidth.

I mean fuck for around $2K I can build my own server with a Terabyte or more of storage space and I could go down to my local internet service provider and see how much they would charge me per month to hook up my server to there connection if I do all the maintience and keep my server out of there way.

This would enable me to have complete control over my own server but again it would be interesting to know how much bandwidth allowment my local ISP would give me for a specified price.

The rapid share script looks very handy and I'll have to try it out, it could really speed things up when adding new videos to your site just as long as I could somehow change around the naming convention with it all.

But its definately a kick ass idea to look into more.

SEO_Mike · 11-19-2007, 11:07 PM

Monkey see, monkey do. I love the idea of messing around with Flash whenever I get the chance, but more often than not I build sites that don't use any. So, my flash skillz really are hurting right now.

Here's my lame attempt at the player:
SEO Mike's Flash Player Test Page

It's still a work in progress, but I wanted to see it on the net, rather than my local machine, so I uploaded it. The video is a rip, so it is actually hosted on my server. Feel free to make fun of it (the player) or whatever. Like I said, it's a work in progress, and likely won't look anything like the final product.

Enjoy.

Aequitas · 11-20-2007, 01:01 AM

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Originally Posted by SEO_Mike

Monkey see, monkey do. I love the idea of messing around with Flash whenever I get the chance, but more often than not I build sites that don't use any. So, my flash skillz really are hurting right now.

Here's my lame attempt at the player:
SEO Mike's Flash Player Test Page

It's still a work in progress, but I wanted to see it on the net, rather than my local machine, so I uploaded it. The video is a rip, so it is actually hosted on my server. Feel free to make fun of it (the player) or whatever. Like I said, it's a work in progress, and likely won't look anything like the final product.

Enjoy.

Thats a fucking awesome movie haha and don't worry mine looked like shit until I got it done up, its all about the finished product.

I wanted to ask too what do you all think of the promotional material I got going? - YouTube - 2 Girls Giving 1 Girl A Lap Dance

springer · 11-20-2007, 01:03 AM

OK, I'm pretty clear on the player. Where and how do you get the videos?

SEO_Mike · 11-20-2007, 01:29 AM

Thanks Aequitas! The player is pretty much finished now, just need to figure out how to integrate with a db and XML and then I'll be ready to do some damage.

Springer: get the Firefox plugin called Download Helper then visit YouTube or any other site that uses .flv files and just rip away.

Aequitas: Hot chicks...umm...let me think...Yeah I like it! Nice clip on YouTube man, should attract some attention. BTW, you have:

Code:

NaN:NaN

showing up beside your Play button. Otherwise your player looks sweet! Nice job man!

/edit/ also, your player locked up on me after the video finished and I copied the embed code.

springer · 11-20-2007, 01:50 AM

Thanks Mike. +rep

11-19-2007, 04:10 PM	#458 (permalink)
emp Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 3,399 iTrader: (5)	LOL... yeah, just switch them... Makes more sense. ::emp:: __________________ My blog -Blind Ape Seo ¦ My WickedFire articles TopContentData.com Get Free and Premium Content Databases for your Empire!

11-19-2007, 05:35 PM	#462 (permalink)
Anarkist Me loves Wordpress! Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 334 iTrader: (1)	Aequitas, what is your view on this ..... just something that popped up after seeing your post. Now I am not sure, how you've made it so that the FLV plays from the server directly, maybe a file leecher that let's you insert the direct link to the FLV on the youtube or LiveVideo server. Now FDC servers have been my favorite for all my filesharing experiments, it's the closest I have gotten to being on something that's actually unmetered. FDC - Services - Virtual Dedicated Servers :: Dedicated servers, Colocation chicago, Virtual dedicated servers, Dedicated server forums, virtual dedicated server forums, VDS, VPS, virtual private servers Let's say you code a script that downloads FLV straight from Youtube to your own server (in this case an FDC unmetered VPS) and we utilise this FLV link for embedding on our server. This would prevent the NaN Anti-leech errors and let us stream from our own server without having to go through a lot of trouble. Check out Rapid Leech - This does exactly what I said before file sharing sites like rapidshare and stuff. Let me know what you think. Cheers __________________ Yeh the site's down... coz my VPS guys screwed me over!

11-19-2007, 11:07 PM	#464 (permalink)
SEO_Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,344 iTrader: (25)	Monkey see, monkey do. I love the idea of messing around with Flash whenever I get the chance, but more often than not I build sites that don't use any. So, my flash skillz really are hurting right now. Here's my lame attempt at the player: SEO Mike's Flash Player Test Page It's still a work in progress, but I wanted to see it on the net, rather than my local machine, so I uploaded it. The video is a rip, so it is actually hosted on my server. Feel free to make fun of it (the player) or whatever. Like I said, it's a work in progress, and likely won't look anything like the final product. Enjoy. __________________ Copeac Mutha Fucka's. That will be all. Auggie's the shiz-nit for Design Work! "How are you going to get things done if you spend so much time planning to get things done?" - chatmasta

11-20-2007, 01:03 AM	#466 (permalink)
springer Makes homely girls happy Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 692 iTrader: (1)	OK, I'm pretty clear on the player. Where and how do you get the videos? __________________ Quit Messin' Around! Get Serious About Your Web Hosting I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings!

11-20-2007, 01:29 AM	#467 (permalink)
SEO_Mike Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 4,344 iTrader: (25)	Thanks Aequitas! The player is pretty much finished now, just need to figure out how to integrate with a db and XML and then I'll be ready to do some damage. Springer: get the Firefox plugin called Download Helper then visit YouTube or any other site that uses .flv files and just rip away. Aequitas: Hot chicks...umm...let me think...Yeah I like it! Nice clip on YouTube man, should attract some attention. BTW, you have: Code: NaN:NaN showing up beside your Play button. Otherwise your player looks sweet! Nice job man! /edit/ also, your player locked up on me after the video finished and I copied the embed code. __________________ Copeac Mutha Fucka's. That will be all. Auggie's the shiz-nit for Design Work! "How are you going to get things done if you spend so much time planning to get things done?" - chatmasta

11-19-2007, 02:37 PM	#451 (permalink)
Supergeek The Uberest Nerd Join Date: May 2007 Location: Denver Posts: 496 iTrader: (0)	Made about $16 in November. Whee.

11-19-2007, 02:57 PM	#455 (permalink)
DBWebDev $0.50/week Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 81 iTrader: (0)	Aequitas, that flash player thing is awesome. How did you learn to do stuff like this? You said you don't know anything about Actionscript but yet you managed to do it! I want to be able to program my own little problem solvers instead of relying on the hand outs of other peeps - grrrr. Oh, and while we're on the subject of goals I reckon I've made about $2 but yet I've learnt chuffing craploads of information - now I'm putting all these crazy ideas into practice and it won't be long before I start seeing an increase in revenue - but hey you gotta start somewhere.

11-19-2007, 04:18 PM	#459 (permalink)
argh01 Little Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 387 iTrader: (5)	I've made about $19 in November. I couldn't figure out where it came from, it showed up in my amazon affiliate section. I have several times used amazon affiliation links when I mention books or other things that someone could buy from Amazon, but I've only ever used one tracking id. As it turns out, I'm pretty sure the money came from a site I set up a while ago and forgot about accidentally-on-purpose. I sunk about 16 -20 hours of development into, and rather than chase my tail and not make any money on it I told myself to hold off until it saw some profit. When I did the development on it I didn't know about changing my referral code in amazon. Now tracking the hits from that site is going to be easier, but the traffic seems to have dropped off again. ps. oh and the income was all from one specific brand of laser toner. I got hits for 10 sales of laser toner. Go figure. I've never hawked laser toner on a blogsite, so I had no clue where it came from.

11-19-2007, 04:41 PM	#460 (permalink)
rileypool Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Tulsa, OK Posts: 81 iTrader: (0)	I made $2.48 from the time I joined in this challenge (Oct. 17th) until Oct. 31st. Plus, in November I've made $45.02 and counting. So that's a total of $47.50 so far.

11-20-2007, 01:50 AM	#468 (permalink)
springer Makes homely girls happy Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 692 iTrader: (1)	Thanks Mike. +rep __________________ Quit Messin' Around! Get Serious About Your Web Hosting I'm not an alcoholic, I'm a drunk. Alcoholics go to meetings!