That is really sad. Versiontracker was way ahead of the similar sites. I really enjoyed working with it.
I went to the new CNET site and guess what, two softwares I built still there but with the wrong dl count :-/ BlogWorkz http://download.cnet.com/BlogWorkz/3000-10440_4-10254441.html?tag=mncol iBlog http://download.cnet.com/iBlog-Classic/3000-2155_4-20585.html?tag=mncol There's an interesting story there. Once upon a time, when blogs were not as mainstream as they are today, back in Mac OS 9, I created the first blog client for the Macintosh. I think I was one of the first developers to support Pyra/Blogger API 1.0. The software was called iBlog and was done with REALBasic (this is before me migrating my development to Rev). iBlog was quite successful but times marched on and Mac OS X was released. The first REALBasic release for Mac OS X was quite buggy so I decided to learn Objective-C/Cocoa to develop a native client and so BlogWorkz was built. BlogWorkz is basically a clone of iBlog implemented in a different toolkit. For a while, I controlled a big chunk of the blog client for mac ecosystem and it was fun because I controlled the competition because I made both clients and improved them like matching features on each other for a while. Some people started saying that BlogWorkz was better, others saying that iBlog was there first and was more stable, many never noticed that a single developer built both clients... I had mischievous fun seeing this happen because both clients were hosted at the same domain and no one noticed. Later I discovered Rev and reimplemented BlogWorkz in Rev. I also created BRP (Blog Research Project) in Rev which is a basic iBlog reimplementation done in a single day. I never released the new version because these days there are so many blog clients available that it is not worth to implement all the features they have just for the sake of competition. VersionTracker was my main source of customers. MacUpdate never came close. I'd spend my morning looking on the web for high profile macintosh bloggers, I would send them a free copy of my software and kindly ask for a review and feedback. This practice was responsible for maybe 30% of the sales, the rest was people searching VersionTracker. Till today, BlogWorkz still sells a license or two per year. I usually refund them and give the guys a serial anyway, it is no longer supported. On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Lynn Fredricks <lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > http://support.versiontracker.com/cgi-bin/cnettechtracker.cfg/php/enduser/st > d_adp.php?p_faqid=1988&tag=StickyWin_1283912963975;vtWelcomeModal > > > This link showed up on tidbits - very sad. Versiontracker was once the place > you just had to submit your mac product to, to get the word out. > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software > http://www.paradigmasoft.com > > Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution