[144134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: serviceproviderworld.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Swafford)
Sat Sep 3 07:56:47 2011
In-Reply-To: <03db01cc6913$c0a8ba00$41fa2e00$@org>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 07:56:17 -0400
From: David Swafford <david@davidswafford.com>
To: Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Good concept, here's two points of feedback:
- Given the very early stages of the site, in terms of content, I
would kill off the ads for now. If you leave it ad-free for a little
while, I think people would be more willing to make use of it
initially. Leaving the ads in place, it feels like the sites purpose
might soley be for generating traffic to the ads, which hopefully was
not the intent.
- The layout feels very much like the common "free PHP app" format,
I'd look at tweaking the setup a bit and getting away from the
straight-line/box feel if you can.
David.
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Paul Stewart <paul@paulstewart.org> wrote:
> Hey folks...
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> I know a couple of folks behind this new site and thought it would be
> worthwhile for the NANOG community to be made aware of it.
> http://www.serviceproviderworld.com/
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> It's basically going to be a directory of service providers across the wo=
rld
> - that's the plan as I understand it. =A0End-users can visit and review t=
heir
> service providers etc.
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> Personally, I think this is a great concept - I've seen some online
> directories of providers and most of them are either entirely Canada base=
d
> or US based and in my opinion not that great. =A0Please bear in mind that=
this
> site is literally getting started - there is an email link I =A0found at =
the
> bottom of the site where you can email the group for
> assistance/questions/feedback.
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> Just an FYI ...
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> Thanks,
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> Paul
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