[Adium-devl] Monetizing Adium

Chris Forsythe chris at growl.info
Fri Aug 3 16:46:15 UTC 2007


Eric Richie wrote:

>>>>We all know about the tshirt store and selling Adium plushies and
>>>>things like that, but do you have any oddball, hairbrained ideas
>>>>which we could utilize so that we can start paying people to work on
>>>>Adium full time or part time?
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>>>>
>
>This would definitely come in as oddball but lets see what you guys think.
>A lot of people use the iTunes status.  I know that you can list iTunes
>songs on your website which people can then click on your link and buy
>through the store with you getting a small referral payment.  Would there be
>a way that we could take the iTunes status and turn it into a link to the
>iTunes Store which could then provide us with that referral fee?  I'm sure
>no one would fault us for this (although I'm sure SOMEONE will find a
>complaint just because it's the way of the world).  It would also be far
>less intrusive than things like ads.
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If doable that seems like a great idea.

Chris




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