Author Archives: Ryan Hart

Get busy living or get busy dying

entrepreneur-ship

Entrepreneur”ship”, yeah. Sometimes I think it really is a ship. You can not control the wind, the current, or the climate. Sometimes you take on water and sometime your bilges are pumping positive. The variables in your control are limited… Read the rest

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Announcing partnership with Open Street Maps API

open street map

This past month I have been shopping around trying to find a viable maps provider to power the Million Dollar Earth map. Microsoft’s Bing Maps bid $10k/year (1M page views) plus $60 per advertiser account. I am impressed… Read the rest

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Goodbye 2011, Au revoir Million Dollar Earth

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Thank you Google for allowing us to use your Maps API for an entire year. We we able to share Million Dollar Earth with 48,169 unique visitors from over 101 countries. It is unfortunate we are not able to… Read the rest

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RSS Feed Feature Added

RSS Feed embedded

Million Dollar Earth now has the power to incorporate blog posts! Check out TechCrunch’s

Thank you for all of your great ideas on how our Million Dollar Earth team can create a better site for individuals and companies… Read the rest

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Link MDE to Your Website

WWW link to your website

Browsers of the Million Dollar Earth map can now link directly to a city owner’s website. My personal favorites thus far are…

Apple in Cupertino, Charlie Sheen in Idiotville, Ashton Kutcher in LosRead the rest

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For your Friday

pacman

Blast from the past for the next lunch break.

Enjoy – Ryan

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Include a QR Code on MDE

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Million Dollar Earth’s amazing team has now built in the QR-code feature. I’m excited to see what new campaign spins this will create for the existing profiles!

For those who do not know: A QR code is a… Read the rest

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New “Click to Copy” Feature

click to copy

The Million Dollar Earth team has partnered with the bit.ly API to bring city owners a custom short link for each location. In addition, Scott (aka- grand master programmer extraordinaire), has created a slick click-to-copy gizmo on the top… Read the rest

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Foursquare Available on MDE

Foursquare

Striving to be the one place online that all social media outlets converge isn’t easy— unless you have a killer programmer like Scott Dahl of Elite Web and Graphic Design.

Now Foursquare has been integrated into each… Read the rest

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Announcing Winner of the October $1,000 City

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Which iconic landmark will you associate your brand with??? The eBay auctions for properties on Million Dollar Earth end in 8 hours, the Eiffel Tower high bid is $205… White House is $147… Taj Mahal is $197 and the… Read the rest

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