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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Throwing in the towel, giving up the ghost...you get the idea.

Well, I made a major decision this week, for better or worse.
The major decision is that I will stop developing the interest-based Mac communities that I had started working on early this year. Here is a listing of each site, what I've decided to do with it, and why:

MacJukebox
MacJukebox never achieved the level of functionality I had hoped it would. The reasons for this are varied, but for the most part, it all boils down to my inability to manage the project. iCompositions has done extremely well as far as development, so I will most likely approach them about integrating MacJukebox into iCompositions in some form.

MacMovieMaker
I was fortunate enough to have some very generous individuals volunteer to run MacMovieMaker from the very beginning. MacMovieMaker has been somewhat successful, and it is still growing in a healthy manner, so I have decided to give the site to the four main people who have helped make it what it is today: Mark, Pablo, Nik, and Dave. It is my hope that they will be able to accelerate development of the community without me bogging it down.

PokeMac
PokeMac was pretty much dead a few days after it launched. It will most likely be shelved.

Macopolis
As the "network" identity, I hope to see Macopolis reborn as the new identity for a new generation of Mac communities. It's such a cool name, I'd hate to see it go to waste.

That's iLife, MacinShots, FreeMacStuff, MacGamingZone
These sites never really even got off the ground, although I believe that at least a couple of them would be really strong sites and/or communities. In particular, I believe FreeMacStuff would be a great service and revenue generator for the right network, and I think MacinShots would make a great name for a Mac-based photographers' community.

Non-Mac sites (HomeVidXchange.com, OtherSolutions.info)HomeVidXchange.com
HomeVidXchange was conceived as a place for home videographers to exchange footage of events (like children's recitals, graduations, and other sentimental events) so they can have a wider source of footage for their personal projects. While the site isn't intended to host the footage, it will serve as a place for people to arrange the exchange of footage themselves, either via postal mail or from their own servers.

OtherSolutions.info
OtherSolutions.info was conceived as a resource for alternatives to the Microsoft monopoly. It is intended to serve as an advocacy site for alternate operating systems (Mac OS X, Linux, Unix), alternate software solutions (OpenOffice, Adobe applications, others), alternate browsers (FireFox, Opera, Mozilla), and any other solutions that help to loosen the death grip of mediocrity that the Redmond behemoth has foisted upon the computing public. OSinfo will serve to empower consumers with education and information that will encourage them to break free of thestranglehold that M$ has on their computing lives.
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