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	<title>The act of growing up</title>
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	<description>Yeah, I'm just making things up at this point.</description>
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		<title>Agoge Inc - Goals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 04:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The new year is coming up, which means it&#8217;s time to set goals and work towards them. Over the next few days I am going to post goals up to June for each website, as well as some future projects.

Here are the stats for December, for Subeta. It&#8217;s a little off, since we had a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The new year is coming up, which means it&#8217;s time to set goals and work towards them. Over the next few days I am going to post goals up to June for each website, as well as some future projects.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-66" title="picture-5" src="http://keithkurson.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/picture-5-1024x281.png" alt="picture-5" width="711" height="195" /></p>
<p>Here are the stats for December, for Subeta. It&#8217;s a little off, since we had a little bit of downtime in the past week due to high traffic. Here are what I would like the stats to be, by June 2009.</p>
<p><strong>Views</strong></p>
<p>All Visits: 3,500,00<br />
New Visitors: 400,000<br />
Returning Visitors: 2,500,000<br />
<strong>Pageviews</strong></p>
<p>All Visits: 250,000,000<br />
New Visitors: 15,000,000<br />
Returning Visitors: 200,000,000</p>
<p><strong>Pages/Visit</strong></p>
<p>All Visits: 300<br />
New Visitors: 100<br />
Returning Visitors: 200</p>
<p><strong>Bounce Rate</strong></p>
<p>Overall I&#8217;d like it to be less than 10%</p>
<p><strong>Average time on site</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;d like it to be at least 45 minutes. Need to add features that are compelling and keep users entertained for long periods of time.</p>
<p><strong>New Visits</strong></p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to increase our advertising and get a large amount of new incomming users through the starting months of 2009.</p>
<p><strong>Goal Completion</strong></p>
<p>To complete these goals, I need to ramp up an advertising campaign that isn&#8217;t just adwords, or even advertising on sites that are similar to Subeta. I need to start making friends in the industry and start working with like minded young people in advertising our companies together.</p>
<p>Also, another major push will be getting Subeta more involved with Valenth &#8212; and increasing the amount of advertising used for Subeta on Valenth.</p>
<p>Increasing the amount of programmers that we have will be a requirement, and I hope to have applications open near the opening of 2009 with basic questions that any programmer should be able to answer. We are going to be looking for the talented pool of Subeta users because they know the site, and what the users want.</p>
<p>The achievement system is huge in keeping users on the site. I hope to add at least 20 new achievements a week to keep people on their toes, and running around the site working on completeing the collection.</p>
<p>Also, I plan to increase the social networking features on Subeta &#8212; allowing users to interact with other users. Major changes to the forums, and internal mailing system should be completed by June, including the reputation system. Also making it easier for users to communicate via profile comments, and maybe even an on-site messenger system.</p>
<p>Another thing will be integrating outside social networks into Subeta. I plan to have a facebook application ready to go by June 2009 at the latest, as well as integrating facebook into Subeta for importing friends, and finding out which of your friends have a facebook profile.</p>
<p>There are a lot of things that we can do to continue growing, and I hope that 2009 is a great year for Subeta and it&#8217;s users :]</p>
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		<title>Done Playing Nice</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/subeta/done-playing-nice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[backstabbing]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[subeta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So, a few days ago I was sent an IM from an admin over at CreatureWorld asking me if I could help them out - and advertise them once the site was brought back online. For background purposes, before I created Subeta - I worked on Creature World as a user admin, and one of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, a few days ago I was sent an IM from an admin over at <a href="http://creatureworld.net">CreatureWorld</a> asking me if I could help them out - and advertise them once the site was brought back online. For background purposes, before I created Subeta - I worked on Creature World as a user admin, and one of the old user administrators (Cydewinder) came from CW as well. So I have decently strong ties to the site, and if an old friend needed help - I&#8217;d be happy to send it their way.</p>
<p>So I told the admin in question that I couldn&#8217;t advertise on <a href="http://www.subeta.net">Subeta</a> because that&#8217;d be in the same &#8216;market&#8217; (pet sites) but instead I could op for an adoptable on <a href="http://www.valenth.com">Valenth</a> which would be just as good (if not better) for traffic.</p>
<p>I wasn&#8217;t given any information about the site and the changes that would be made while it was down, just that it was being &#8216;reset&#8217; (all the user accounts were being removed) and that it&#8217;d be a &#8216;new site&#8217; when it was brought online.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m very pleased that the valenth adoptable was never discussed past that point, because when creatureworld came back online, it seemed very familiar. The <strong>wardrobe</strong> feature in particular (which is layed out similarly to Subeta&#8217;s) as well as multiple other smaller things (for example, the same CSS used in user hovers, save changing the colors) around the site itself.</p>
<p>I understand rebranding, the old Creatureworld wasn&#8217;t working. Subeta is the second most popular virtual pet site on the internet. I understand that flattery is the sincerest form of flattery. However, when you ask for my help, knowing in the back of your mind that you&#8217;ll be bringing the site back online with obviously cloned features - that&#8217;s wrong.</p>
<p>I hope you enjoy your place at the bottom of the food chain, Creatureworld. This is the only advertising you&#8217;ll be getting from me.</p>
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		<title>This is what is wrong.</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/politics/this-is-what-is-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>PHP cURL Class</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/php/php-curl-class/</link>
		<comments>http://keithkurson.net/php/php-curl-class/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is looking for something like this, so I figured I&#8217;d post it here because I need attention. Wow at this being more than two years old. Click here.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine is looking for something like this, so I figured I&#8217;d post it here because I need attention. Wow at this being more than two years old. Click <a href="http://www.keithkurson.net/curl.phps">here</a>.</p>
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		<title>No taxation without representation</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/politics/no-taxation-without-representation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Why should I pay taxes, when I don&#8217;t feel represented in congress, or around the country? My rights are being denied on a daily basis and have been voted against.
Why should I pay my taxes when I am obviously discriminated against by my own country?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why should I pay taxes, when I don&#8217;t feel represented in congress, or around the country? My rights are being denied on a daily basis and have been voted against.</p>
<p>Why should I pay my taxes when I am obviously discriminated against by my own country?</p>
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		<title>Proposition 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Has passed - and that just goes to show that our nation doesn&#8217;t have the ability to move forward. It seems in every generation we have a civil rights movement that needs to happen, to give someone their rights. Americans have had to ask themselves, are black&#8217;s equal? Are women equal? And now they are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Has passed - and that just goes to show that our nation doesn&#8217;t have the ability to move forward. It seems in every generation we have a civil rights movement that needs to happen, to give someone their rights. Americans have had to ask themselves, are black&#8217;s equal? Are women equal? And now they are asking themselves are gays equal.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s now how things are supposed to be. It should be a simple choice, <strong>yes</strong>, and it is written in the constitution.</p>
<p>What about those women and men who were married? Successfuly. Has California exploded? Is there a wave of crime from Lesbians? Is that the reason that the Mormon Church spent so much money to have this simple request stamped out? Could the dress makers not keep up with women wanting to marry, or were there not enough suits for the men?</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t understand how these men and women can bring it upon themselves to do gods work. God judges in the end if being homosexual is a sin, not the people on this earth. You don&#8217;t get to judge one thing, and completely ignoring that you&#8217;re passing around hate and in the end will probably end up burning right next to me.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t believe that California passed it. I&#8217;m beyond disbelief at this point.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll be making a future post on the exit polls and the demograph (blacks) that voted <strong>in excess</strong> of proposition 8. I&#8217;m appauled that a community that has easily had one of the roughest times in the history of America, could so easily vote to do that to someone else.</p>
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		<title>Is mars ready yet?</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/uncategorized/is-mars-ready-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m ready to get out of the US.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m ready to get out of the US.</p>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t do it!</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/politics/dont-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://keithkurson.net/politics/dont-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 06:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<title>uTorrent for Mac ;)</title>
		<link>http://keithkurson.net/mac/uturrent-for-mac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who enjoy your mac, but miss uTurrent, it&#8217;s almost ready.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those of you who enjoy your mac, but miss uTurrent, it&#8217;s <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/utorrents-mac-client-leaked-080923/">almost ready</a>.</p>
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		<title>Twin Skies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith</dc:creator>
		
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I just wanted to point out that I&#8217;m super impressed with Adam and Donna of Neopets fame for stepping up, and moving out to make their own site.
First of all - I think that it shows that they understand that their plan for Neopets didn&#8217;t come out like they intended. Though they haven&#8217;t publically aknowladged [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">I just wanted to point out that I&#8217;m super impressed with <strong>Adam</strong> and <strong>Donna</strong> of Neopets fame for stepping up, and moving out to make their own site.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">First of all - I think that it shows that they understand that their plan for Neopets didn&#8217;t come out like they intended. Though they haven&#8217;t publically aknowladged it (And probably, it&#8217;s still for the best for them. They made a lot of money on their first huge project) I still think it shows that they know it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">And that hopefully, they have an completely different idea for this run. I saw that they don&#8217;t intend on being ad-supported, which is a huge A+ for them on that note.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I&#8217;ve been looking around, and this twin skies seems a little bit&#8230; like it doesn&#8217;t know what direction it&#8217;s going in. Regardless, I&#8217;ve pushed a friend of mine into applying for the open PHP/MySQL position (and even toyed with the idea of sending in an application myself. Could you imagine?!) <img src='http://keithkurson.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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