Dawn of the Geeks

where you just can’t seem to say anything intelligent?

I’m going to try to break the cycle before I go to bed tonight.

PVX…tanking. AVN…tanking. These are the two stocks of which I own a small number of shares. AVN just sold like 13 million dollars worth of shares to investors and the stock promptly dropped below the price they were bought at. I can imagine the buyers feel a big R of regret right now. But, hey, AVN is a small company so they can just say it was charity. Business loses are also a tax right off.

I really don’t know what PVX’s problem is. I imagine it’s Hurricane Wilma threatening the oil refineries in the gulf that’s a big part of it. Otherwise, who knows. That stock goes up and down a half dollar at a time on some days. It’s rediculous. I’m used to stocks that move a few cents on any given day either up or down. PVX is having seizures.

My ad revenue is going up. I’m actually getting on track to my first $100 month. This is due in large part to using mod_rewrite and Digital Point’s ad-network program. Since both were implemented near simultaniously I can’t say which had the bigger effect. I can only judge the number of refering web-sites vs the number of search terms that result in hits. More web-site referers means the ads are working. More search term hits means the mod_rewrite is working.

indie-mobile has seen the largest increase in visitors. It should, I mean in all non-modesty, the site is awesome. The only problem is lack of exposure which seems to be getting fixed. If I want a ringtone, I use indie-mobile. If I want the lastest MP3 on my phone I can use myMobile. If I want a picture out of a magazine or a photo I took as a wallpaper on my phone, I use myMobile. It’s all free. There’s no reason to charge for a ringtone except that people will pay for it for some reason. And I don’t care to rip people off.

At the time of this entry indie-mobile has served up over a quarter of a million tones. My goal is to break 1 million before the two year mark since I started keeping count. So maybe 1/3 of a million this year and at least 2/3 next year. I think a double is a modest goal. We’ll see.