We all are going to join up to protect our shit and steal everyone else's anyways. :1orglaugh

I would check out anyone I group up with no matter what. I can deal with a couple mistakes early on, just no ongoing or they knew better bs.

I already lost money because of this thread.

:2 cents::thumbsup:thumbsup:thumbsup:1orglaugh

A number of mutually beneficial networking ideas will be discussed between a core group of legitimately interested parties - likely off the board.

My initial hope is to unite a group of maybe 6 to 12 worthwhile partners.

A vetting process should be involved, in order to weed out the following, so this core group is as honest as possible, right off the bat...

? No one running an illegal tube.
? No one offering blind cross-sales
? No one with a history of lying to, or ripping off, others in this business.

It may take a few weeks to sort out the participants, but I truly believe this is a do-able plan!

Lemme know what happens...we're really interested. :thumbsup

Been running www.Lady-Sonia.com sice the late 90s and very interested.

Looks like it may take a while to get approved for a Google Wave account...

http://www.google.com/support/forum/...6ef07962&hl=en

Bft3k if your interested I can show you ways to get it started and going while people wait for wave invites. We could use other chat software, programs like google documents, and private messengers. Yeah was saying I can help you set it up if you like.

You should come visit us, you're probably only 20-30 minutes away!

Sounds good. I just sent you an email. :thumbsup

50 good ideas!

Circle jerk?

I'm really interested. Let me know what happens. fenris_wolf3000 (at) yahoo.com

i just put up our first site - i'm defintely interested. sales at amazingcontent dot com :)

I have a spare domain or three I could set up a private message board on and make it invite only and not viewable by guests.

Gwave is going to take time, like I said I signed up probably 3 weeks ago for an invite and still nothing. :(

It's a nice thought. One that has been mentioned and tried to some extent for various different issues over the years... obscenity laws, 2257, acacia, dot xxx, etc... there has been several issues over the years. The only one that anyone really worked on together was acaci and that was mainly the "big guys" footing the bill. Other than that most people donated to the FSC and hoped they would fix most of the problems. Stolen content is just another issue in a long list of things that most of the people here will never work together on. People either make money from it, aren't affected that much by it, are lazy and don't care, or just don't know what to do. Trying to get 2 people to see something exactly the same is a challenge, trying to get 5 - 10 is almost impossible.

For a big issue to be solved the only chance that would ever have of happening is for the big guys to put their money on the table, and for them to try to unite everyone together. Companies like playboy instead of sking the site with illegal tubes actually trying to do something about it, other companies like ccbill, big porn companies and hosting companies, etc...

For the "smaller guys" it would be good for you to work together in general for your own benefit. If you are good with programming find someone who needs programming work who is good at design, etc... work together as a team. Or if you are starting out with SEO work find a couple other people at your experience level and help each other out. That is the best way for you to work together with others. Anything else is going to be a waste of your time.

The purpose of this group is not too radical; it is simply to operate as a collective, on agreed upon projects (likely smaller projects starting out), in an effort to mutually benefit all participants.

I do not believe this will be an easy task, as most of the people in this industry are very independent, free-thinking folks, so it will be a bit like herding cats, but I think, as long as the beginning project(s) are simple enough, a decent group can come together.

To start organizing a preliminary participant pool, please email me at support @ PeckerPass . com with a subject line of "INTERESTED IN GROUP" and provide your email address in the body.

Uniting the interested parties within this thread as a jump-off point is a logical start, and we can go from there.

I promise nothing, but you never know unless you try. :upsidedow

Quick Afterthought:

To start organizing a preliminary participant pool, please email me at [email protected] with a subject line of "INTERESTED IN GROUP" and provide your email address in the body.

Please ALSO include a little information about yourself, and what skills and/or experience you might bring to the group.

Always willing to help if our services can in anyway help!
GWave account for me: adultstudio AT googlewave DooT com

Sounds great, but let's not allow the Google Wave account status slow any of this down.

Once a postential list of group members has been sorted out, we can move on to the next step. Wave accounts should not be a mandatory prerequisite to get started, as it will delay any progress.

To start organizing a preliminary participant pool, please email me at [email protected] with a subject line of "INTERESTED IN GROUP" and provide your email address in the body.

Please ALSO include a little information about yourself, and what skills and/or experience you might bring to the group.

Thanks!

Thanks to all interested people above! Sorry if I missed any of you.

To start organizing a preliminary participant pool, please email me at [email protected] with a subject line of "INTERESTED IN GROUP" and provide your email address in the body.

Please ALSO include a little information about yourself, and what skills and/or experience you might bring to the group.

Thanks again!

Done! Should have added I have almost 12 yrs experience in the email but I think I covered everything else. :thumbsup

I'm interested. I'm just sitting here trying to teach myself how to navigate this biz. Used to live in NJ (exit 5) but now in upstate NY. Have a few Ideas to share.

Thanks Goldfish, I got it!

Still waiting for more....

Sent you an email offering a google wave invite.

did you get my mail?

Yes, thanks! Nice content by the way.

I have received around 8 direct replies so far.

I will be touching base with everyone on Monday... by email for now.

I just sent out a verification email regarding the formation of this potential group.

If you did not get an email, and you are interested in participating in this idea, please email me at [email protected] with a subject line of "INTERESTED IN GROUP" and provide your email address in the body.

Please ALSO include a little information about yourself, and what skills and/or experience you might bring to the group.

Thanks again!