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Flattr Statistics of May 2010

Christian Riesen — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:42:38 +0000

In the interest of some arguments and some transparency, here are my values for the month of May 2010 of what happened on my Flattr account. In total I had 24 of my things flattred, with a grand total of 66 clicks, so that means my average was 2.75 clicks per thing. 19 of these things were actually posts on the Flattr Forum. I made a total of 11.34€ which then averages in at about 17 cents per click. The averages for single clicks on a per thing basis, were from the smallest at 0.02€ to the largest at 0.45€. In multiple cases, more clicks didn’t mean more income and I made more money with fewer clicks that were each higher valued. The biggest gap was one thing with 4 clicks, totaling at 0.52€ (0.13 average) and one with 2 clicks at 0.72€ (0.36 average).

Of course my sample size is rather small, Flattr is still in it’s early and humble beginnings and many options are still missing from Flattr. But for a first full month, this is a respectable kick off.

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iPad the larger iPod for who?

Christian Riesen — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:11:38 +0000

Ok, so Apple is about to ship their iPad. Aside from the rather unfortunate name in so many ways, what do people get? An iPod with a larger screen and wifi connection for sure, if you pay $130 also 3G connectivity, for data only though. So it’s not an iPhone. It’s not a netbook, it’s not even a real tablet. You can’t phone with it, you can’t take pictures, you have no keyboard, you have no removable battery (again). The main thing here though is that it will just barely survive a day in use (nothing new there either) before it needs a recharge.

Will Apple sell them? Yes for certain. Will they be the next big thing? No.

While the phone part was rather restricted, in this niche they are aiming at here, there already is a large selection of many different things going on. The most prominent spearhead there would be the Amazon Kindle. It’s about half the price of the lowest version of the iPad, holds out on it’s charge for an eternity (thanks to the display) and already has a massive backing of books and papers. It has it’s own shortcomings, but for that price and that niche, it does just brilliantly.

Others aren’t sleeping either. MSI is preparing one, HP said it’s gonna do one, Dell is on it too and so is ASUS.

Especially the ASUS DR-950 has a lot of potential, coming with a lot more punch to the game, while being also a lot more open.

The question is for whom is this iPad exactly? It’s not useful as a phone. Anyone needing something more, usually goes for the macbook (if you want that apple logo on your gear). So unless you just want another toy, who is going to use it? The only real use seems to be books and news papers, but for that it’s not really very well equipped either. It can’t play flash, so you couldn’t even see anything from any video streaming site. Using it as an iPod will suck the battery dry even faster.

I keep using my Palm TX for now and wait what happens with these devices.

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Making someone happy can cost only 20c

Christian Riesen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 19:04:40 +0000

It’s hard to make people happy usually. Everyone wants more of everything, bigger better, faster, while otehr starve to death every day. That’s live. But even in the better to do place that I live in, there still are chances where with only 20c you can make someone happy.

An old lady on the bus was not riding it for over a month. I got my yearly pass so I don’t care too much about the ticketing machine but she was almost having a seizure. The price was raised from 2 bucks to 2.20 and she had only exactly the two bucks on her, just to take the bus home. As the lady came to the front to ask the bus driver what she should do, I took out my wallet and fished 20c out and gave it to her unasked. She was very happy and thankful, first she paid her ticket, then she came up to me again and thanked me, although the details were lost on me because she spoke Italian and my Italian is very much Swiss, full of holes. She thanked me again as she left the bus, just the second stop before mine, so she even lives in the close area.

I won’t miss those 20c any time soon, but making that old lady happy with such a little act has been pretty much one of my highlights of the past weeks. Small kindness goes along way I figure.

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Everyone got something to say

Christian Riesen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 06:25:19 +0000

So everyone got themselves a blog. I tried already once before, but this is just not my thing. I just don’t want to post daily or even weekly.

Still, there are things that are interesting to me and sometimes I have spent considerable time and nerves in something which might come in handy down the road for someone else. Or for myself, again. So besides the occasional rant, my content here is simple and straight forward.

Solutions to problems we didn’t know we had.

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