Nickeluli

Take a moment to think of how the future will look like on the internet. And what will the next generation of Internet users do online? What will be the next big thing online? When will the majority of Africa connect?

Sure, it’s very cheap to use freelancers on the internet but beware of the quality in there work. Of course, most of the people working as freelancers are very good. But as this market grows each day, a lot of non serious persons are entering the market. If you hire freelancers on the internet, make sure that they know what they are doing and they can deliver what you want before you start working with them.

Since we are about to launch Testfreaks soon, I’m handling all the quality checking (with help of freelancers of course). When I look at our competitors on the net, I see that they are more interested in having lots of products with even more reviews rather then a good quality. They have totally missed out on the quality in the service they delivering. On we want the user to comeback over and over again, because of the good quality in our service.

I talked to a friend that needed some help with his php programming and hired an Indian freelancer from one of the big sites. The prgrammer promised to deliver within five days, after five days my friend asked for the finished function but was told he needed another three days. This function was very important for my friend, since his site really needed this upgrade. Nothing happened after three more day, my friend had now lost two weeks of time. Two weeks are a long time on the internet if you should try to keep your regular users. My friend finally gave up and hired a freelancer that I recommended him, and got the job done on two days. Always beware of freelancers that promise a lot and have no feedback from old users. All the mayor big freelancer sites on the net show feedback of there users.

Good luck everyone.

Take a look at our new category page, camcorder reviews.

I read about this new company today, on idg.se, that will use Bittorrent technology to distribute new movies to consumers. The consumer will then be able to watch the movie from the computer or burn it on a dvd. Headweb have made there own client for distribution and payments. Instead of using DRM technology (copyright protections) they will make a watermark in the movie, like the one that are used for cinema film distributions. Headweb write this on there webpage about this - “The invisible watermark will not cause any problems for you legal and honest users but increases the risk of getting caught for those who illegally spread the movies. We believe watermarking is a good compromise so that you won’t have to deal with complicated copy protections.”

Headweb will in the beginning be distribute swedish and european movies in there network but they will probably be signing deals with all the big major players in Hollywood. They will have 500 titles available in the beginning.

Last week I started up a new relation with an Indian company that will deliver operators to me. Earlier I’ve been very negative towards Indian outsourcing but I’m on my way to change all this. The Indian people and companies are excellent outsourcing destinations in some areas, and really bad in other areas. I’ve been handling outsourcing here for about a year now, and so far I only had bad experience with Indian programmers. But in the last couple of weeks I’ve been focusing on non programming outsourcing.

I had my first positive experience with Indian outsourcing business four weeks ago, when I hired a new Quality analytics to help me ensure the quality of our work. I told her about my former trouble with Indians, and she told me not to worry. This girl that I found is really good, she works hard and are very eager to learn new things. So last we I decided to test another company that will deliver operators (BPO) to me. At the moment there are two people sitting in Chennai, India. And it works really good!

I will write more about this later, at the moment my team are 20 people in 8 different locations.