What this means:

I’ll provide support and updates for NaughtiPress.  As a side note, I did NOT inherit his mailing list–I’ll have to work on obtaining that from him.

What NaughtiPress does:

NaughtiPress is an adult webmaster affiliate plugin for WordPress.  It automatically grabs pictures and text for cam sites to post to your blog.

What now?

Now, as I do try to keep things relatively PG-13 here, I’m not going to post pictures.   However, I’m going to lower the price of NaughtiPress to $17 for the time being.  If you’re interested in adult affiliate commissions, I recommend you grab yourself a copy while it’s cheap.  There is a demo video over at http://naughtipress.com.

So I’ve had a couple of people email me in the past few days asking why I’ve pulled CC from the market. I was flabbergasted.

Yes, as my newsletter subscribers can tell you, there have been a couple of administration problems that are being addressed and slowly worked through, but Caffeinated Content is still for sale for your content creation enjoyment, and remains the premier system for WordPress bloggers. It’s not server-limited like the nearest competition, and there is no monthly fee.  Check it out at http://kansieo.com/members/buynow.

Anyway, hopefully everyone can see through the BS, and hopefully others will stop the defamation without me having to resort to threats.

On a side note, in the coming days, I’ll be migrating to a new server to make room for expansion.  Most things will occur seamlessly as the DNS servers resolve, but one or two services might take a little longer.

While useful in it’s own regard, it barely holds a candle to Caffeinated Content for WordPress.  That’s why it’s now free.   Oh yes, it’s also no longer supported or updated but it most likely won’t eat your server…this basically means that if you want new features, you’ll need to add them yourself.

Either way, enjoy!  It can be found in the members area at http://kansieo.com/members/details-cc4u.php.

Will hold as many blogs as you want, and post to them all whenever you want it to in the same way that the Caffeinated Content plugin currently works.  It’ll work with wordpress.com hosted blogs and WordPress mu blogs out there as well as your pre-created blogs.  Unfortunately, it probably won’t be able to do comments on posts due to the way WordPress’ xmlrpc works.

Option 1: Windows .NET-based software.

Pros: Windows-based.  Fast.  You control the action.  No limitations.

Cons: Windows-based.  Requires .NET.

Option 2: Kansieo.com-hosted software.

Pros: Server-caused bugs will virtually be eliminated as it will only be running on my server.  Windows .NET-based bugs will also be eliminated for the same reason.

Cons: Slower.  API-usage might kill this idea before it’s out of the water, unless I can figure out a nice method of proxy gathering…

Currently, I’m leaning toward a kansieo.com-hosted setup.  It just seems to make more sense and it won’t require anything other than a browser to use.
Any opinions?

The last 10 days have been a bit stressful to say the least, and not entirely because my wife and the baby spent half that time in the hospital.  There are some issues, but I not quite ready to speak of them yet.  Nonetheless, it is a happy occasion that was definitely needed to cheer up the family after the recent loss of my father-in-law.

I’ll put up pictures, I promise!

A few months ago, on a short weekend vacation to Washington DC, my wife spilled mango juice in her purse and managed to submerge the Canon camera I had bought for her for Christmas.  Let me tell you one thing about mango juice: it might taste good, but it turns into the most viscous sticky fluid after it starts to dry.  Horrible.  Needless to say, there was no salvaging the camera and most of the rest of her purse contents, but thankfully the SD card still works.  Yesterday, I got around to replacing that camera with a Kodak V1073 which is a pretty neat little gadget.  Keeping in-line with Kodak’s “You push the button, we’ll take care of the rest” philosophy, there aren’t many exposed controls, but almost everything else works via touchscreen which is pretty darn cool…the jury is still out on the image quality, but I should have plenty of photo-ops coming up in the next few days.

On a side note, I just got notification from Godaddy that I won a backorder for one of the domains that I lost through the whole Registerfly fiasco.  I’m still extremely bitter about that whole bit, but at least my domain portfolio is starting to come back together.  They (Registerfly) cost me waaaay too much money, and the frustrating thing is that I wasn’t even one of the hardest hit!  Oh well.

Since I started selling my plugin, I’ve been noticing my stuff on a couple of warez boards. On top of that, I get daily searches landing on my site looking for caffeinated content registration key, caffeinated content keygen, “caffeinated content” key, etc. My first instinct, and I think first instinct for any new software author is to get mad, upset and try to report these websites and/or the links on the software sharing portals like RapidShare…it’s either that or quit trying to make a living by providing top-notch money-making software.

Thankfully, I’m not going to do either. It’s not worth my time, and well, it’s good free advertising.

This is not an open invitation to warez out my software. Obviously I’d prefer that you paid for it, if you don’t do PayPal we can work something out (slave labor or something). In reality though, I accept the fact that whatever protections I use will be broken (except for the super-duper anti-cracker BFG I installed under the hood–that will break you!). I also accept that most people who receive it through less-than-savory means are also not exactly the type of people that will whip out their PayPal account and give me cash. They, in turn, have to accept the fact that they probably won’t be receiving the latest software updates, cool new money-making features, and my personal support (:)).

This is a new role for me…up to this point I’ve used my software only for personal gain in the search engine marketing world. This next step, allowing others to purchase my software, enabling others to do things they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise was a big one for me. There is a lot of stuff that goes hand in hand with online-marketing that I wasn’t exposed to before releasing Caffeinated Content for WordPress to the public. Customer service, warez, hackers, etc. Before, it was just a matter of putting up sites and waiting for the paycheck. Now, I must be constantly vigilant with updates–if WordPress or Yahoo or Google changes a bit of code, everything could stop working.

In retrospect, if you’re looking to pirate my software, email me first…we might be able to come to terms, and your server’s kneecaps won’t need to be broken.

For example (note, this isn’t my DB setup, it’s just an example):

$query = "INSERT INTO users ( `ID` , `email` , `password`) VALUES ( '10', 'myemail@email.com', '12345')";

mysql_query ($query) or die ('Could not create user.');

$query = "SELECT id FROM users WHERE email = 'myemail@email.com'";

$result = mysql_query($query);

This should give me a result set consisting of the 10…instead it gives me nothing.  In debugging, both queries work, so it’s not a syntax error.  And viewing the table after the fact, the record appears correct.  As a workaround, I currently close the database connect between the two mysql_query()…but that seems like a
silly thing to need to do.

Any thoughts?

I’m without a keyboard until I make it to the electronics store.  As much as I like the Asus Eee PC and spelling with flickr, they aren’t exactly put together for PHP development or web design.

Everyone’s account should currently show an affiliate link. It will work if someone signs up through it. I don’t have any means to do reporting yet, however, and thus payouts will be delayed until I set that up. Payouts, when solidified, will be between 10% and 25% of the sale price, held for a two weeks or a month to ensure no chargebacks occur.

In any case, it’s a good way to make a couple extra dollars–hopefully a generous portion of that first million.

Caffeinated Content for WordPress (originally known as: WordPress Auto Q&A Plugin)

YACG Hooks:

Caffeinated Content for YACG

Yandex Scraper

Other:

A whole bunch of PLR stuff.

Excellent material for people looking to start a website without anything to begin with.

Enjoy.

It’s all fixed now, anyway…all post-purchase processes should carry on automatically.

Anyway, to encourage commenting, I picked up the “dofollow” plugin. It removes all instances of ‘rel=nofollow’ so you’ll get link credit from the big ol’ G for any comments you leave here.

Ain’t I nice?

Anyway, on our way out, I saw this in a shop window and had to snap a quick pic:

Think that’ll be my new tagline…

I’m in the midst of a database backup right now. Already grabbed the file backup from the server.

Going to pop in a different OS to better serve my needs (really, I’m not much of a sysadmin…more of a tinkerer. The gentoo install I’ve got going on right now caused me a lot of pain). I need something that “just works” along with a reasonable amount of control.

If all goes well, everything should be back to normal by 9AM EST. If all doesn’t go well…well, lets just leave it at everything going well.