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Didn't they say they had the financials to operate a 2-3 years?
Why do they have to dump 1 billion share a month? Do you have insight into the financials we do not?
Not how I see it.
QBID creates the content and provides it to the carrier. For example the NFL is a content provider to the Networks that want/bid on the shows they produce. The carriers provide the upstream content providers (CBS,NBC,QBID,etc) with a medium to broadcast there shows.
Basically the flow would be Content provider-> Network -> Carrier.
What SIRI has the luxary of is being the carrier and a provider. Therefore if they decide they want to add a new show and a paticular channel there are only in house meetings. Otherwise if NBC wanted a channel to broadcast on they goto SIRI as the carrier and work a deal for SIRI to broadcast the NBC content.
Basically it depends on your point of view. To me Directtv is my content provider even though they go downstream to get the actual content they send me.
Cell phones should be able to integrate podcasting without to much effort. It basically uses an RSS feed to discover new content that you have subscribed to. So currently Cell phones can access the internet they just need the ability built-in to subscribe to RSS feeds and pull down the new content via the aggregator. Then playing would be done by the phones media player.
I put my major bet on Sirius and it is working out nicely for me so far. Although, I did but a small backing into XM that hasn't done bad at all.
Truthfully, I think down the road Xm because a part of Clear Channel.
I know SIRI is/did sign a deal with Sprint to deliver radio to the handsets which is great. Although, I cannot see them using the service to replace towers. The transmitter would have to be far more powerful than what cell phones are currently using.
QBID is an excellent comparision to SIRI because they are both content providers and both have had issues growing up. Also, both are facing smaller competitors offering a similiar but not identical product and a larger rival that could push and effect the market (Clearchannel & Viacom) therfore hurting the smaller companies.
It's easy to say that now that they have had success. That was not the tone when they had issues. I know several people who bailed way to quickly and regret it now.
The most important thing is bringing useful posts to the board whether they be negative or postive in nature. Junk posts are just that and there is nothing that can be said to defend them.
I figure most are more than happy to see negative posts as long as they are educated and relevant to the subject.
So what's more usefull
1) Getting insight into the community, laws, politics, and advances that effect the stock you hold. Seeing actual insight into the company and true evaulations of the PR's. Take your oil company example. Believe it or not what is happening in Iraq has a lot to do with the stock as does the politics in Nigeria and the relations they have with China. If I was invested in an Oil company I would much rather see those conversations versus pure junk posts.
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2) The following junk posts and the responses it creates.
"fulff again lol..hahahaha bagholders are getting hot nowwwwww...ouchhhhh what boiling??? blame on your gay master not posterss"
"There appears to be a sense of dread that is enveloping a lot of posters as the pps continues its downward movement. Quite a few must now recognized that they have been "taken"."
"looks like someone is losing it due to the falling pps. .0018 and going down-lol"
"another IHUB meltdown in progress..."
"the frustration is setting in for some of these guys that have a LOT of money on the line...
the month is half over and today's PR was yet another fluff piece...
It has to take it's toll on some"
Not a single one of the above posts brings anything useful to the board postive or negative. Sure they bring a lot of useless stuff out but not much more.
Let's see. Nope.
I could see where your frustrations comes from.
My general method, or madness, is to take 25-35% of anything I make on a risk stock and invest it in another risk stock. So basically I have funded my Qbid venture from profits of my last stock which is SIRI. I don't know if you saw my post on how I invest in risk stocks or not. I like to split the money I want to invest up into a long term investment and my short term. I sell and buy using the short term and let the long term sit and grow. So basically I'm willing to give Q as long as they need to grow. I mean at worst I'm losing 35% of a stash I had decided on risking anyway.
This last split though is a wierd one where I actually took the profit and split it between QBID and PDSS. I feel both companies have made progress and I will see profit in the next year or so. As far as PR's get used to them. Every company puts out false PR's otherwise the tech industry wouldn't have the vaporware awards each year, I believe wired does them. As long as I see progress in the company as a whole I'm happy.
Much largest frustration stockwise right now is SLE.
Thanks for the info. Like the layout of that site, it's the board I'm used to using. Much easier to track topics with.
Sorry. I was siting two differnt examples of wasted front page space. I replied I believe to bigtips and cited the other.
I just find it funny that posts that could actually effect a stock are removed but posts that have nothing to do with anything are allowed to stay and waste front page space. A good example is the one I replied to or post 121597.
I prefer to see her information. As an investor in Q everything related to the product is appreciated. This includes news on new laws passed, other companies in the sector, new entertaiment and ways of delivering it,etc,etc.
I don't just look at MS as an investor. I look at competing products, news, court cases, etc. Omly a blind investor would not be worried about everything relating to the sector. Another example is SIRI which I also own. I'd be a fool not to closely watch competing products such as XM and clearchannel or any laws that could impact both companies. Even it's a rumor such as requring all radios to be able to recieve both sat companies signal.
Also, a forum is not going to get new investors or get rid of old investors. They generally serveas a place to get easy links to DD.
I take all non DD posts such as the stock will be in the mid-teens soon because I'm a stock chart god and can foresee these things, the stock will go through the roof soon because if have an inside source you don't, I talked to so ans so because I work in the sector and you don't, and on and on and on with a grain of salt.
Just remember everyone on the internet is a billionaire, has worked in the sector and has inside contacts, etc,etc. A grain of salt. The smart person looks at everyone on the net as an idiot until proven otherwise. Prove to me you know you stuff and you might get some cred but otherwise I'm here to see good DD which only a few people bring to the table here.
Where would one go to get actual information on Qbid versus all the noise? It's getting harder to find the real informaton every day. A few good posts still filter in with actual information but I'm getting tired of the junk posts.
Just off hand that seems high.
Plus, from my experience with people filling out on-line surveys they are rarely truthfull and tend to exagerate or flat out lie a lot.
Just like everyone here is a billionaire, near billionaire, millionaire, works in just the right profession for the topic at hand,etc,etc.
I put little faith in data collected like this. I'd like to see the real numbers straight from Q.
Froy,
Are we sure on that assumption? The market in general is having a bad day. I would fully expect Qbid to reflect market trends also.
My screens are 98% red today.
I see no reason not to hold long-term. This is a risk stock and what I see as a growth company. When I see an oppurtunity like this I simply set an entry price and buy my long term shares.
I have no reason to sell these once purchased. I have set aside the money as a complete risk and am willing to lose every cent of it. I use to go crazy watching news and worrying about stocks like this.
Now am I going to look at the stock and see if I can make money on it in other ways. Sure who wouldn't but I will not touch my long-term shares. They are there to do what they will. No more buys or sells or allocation in the long term basket of the stock.
I would however buy a batch just to trade when the price goes up like we are seeing today. This helps offset the cost of the orginal buy in and on almost all risk stocks you should be able to hit at least one bounce during the long term hold.
Define advertising networks for me please. Trying to get a grasp of your point of view.
Are we talking about blogging networks, locals, television, print.
Pretty general blanket statement.
Please explain? You understand which area of business? I assuming you mean the running of a television station.
There is no reason for Q to be ran over they are not catering to the same market as Logo or Here right now.
I never see much DD that's not related to Qbid. Now i do see a lot of sarcastic comments and other such non-sense that's not related to QBID.
When investing you have to look at news in the sector, news about competing companies, new technolgies and news about laws & legislation that could effect your investment.
As an investor in Intel I want to know the advances that are happening with any other chip manufacture. As an investor a few Stem cell companies every bit of news on stems cells effects my investment. Same can be said for any other stock I own.
There is no way other than a direct form, e-mail, or poll for them to tell who is a potential subscriber. Assuming everyone who goes to your website is a potential subscriber is just a bad assumption. Even if you pull only unique hits it's a bad assumption.
FACT: It is impossible with out direct input from an end-user to determine if he is interested in your product. You can make assumptions based of of visits and time on the site but nothing more.
The fact is simple. The PR needs clarification and was poorly worded. It would be nice to see a clarification on this issue in the morning.
Oh well. Last post. Everyone have a good one.
Hey I asked for it. It's thrown around so much I figured I should know where I'm placed.
Interesting very interesting.
So your telling me it has nothing to do with basic or general knowledge. Go study the dictionary a little more.
Nice dictionary. I understand ignorant people use them.
When refering to the uneducated it is based upon a general education or a lack of basic knowledge.
So not knowing the exact location of website counter does not ear n an ignorant tag in my book.
So your saying that the location of a counter on a web page is basic knowledge?
So that somehow since he does not know the actual location of a counter on a web site he is lacking a general education?
So if someone doesn't know something they are ignorant?
Why take it as anything more than a simple question? Asking how they gather the data or where the cool little counter is hurts nothing and should not bother anyone.
So you think numbers are dead on?
There is doubt in what he was considering a request as I pointed out in another post. It has nothing to do with how the data was counted but rather in what he was talking about at all.
If he had said we have 1.5 million requests versus using the terminolgy he did then I would feel better about the numbers.
For now it's best to look at it as 1.5 million hits are generated each month. Which isn't a bad thing but it doesn't equate to 1.5 million requests for service.
What false information was posted?
Yes. Here's the info.
Search results for: 216.105.98.178
OrgName: Savvy Networks USA
OrgID: SNU-2
Address: 777 Old Saw Mill River Road
City: Tarrytown
StateProv: NY
PostalCode: 10591
Country: US
NetRange: 216.105.96.0 - 216.105.127.255
CIDR: 216.105.96.0/19
NetName: SNU-2
NetHandle: NET-216-105-96-0-1
Parent: NET-216-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.SAVVY.NET
NameServer: NS2.SAVVY.NET
Comment:
RegDate: 2003-09-12
Updated: 2005-01-11
OrgAbuseHandle: SNAC1-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Savvy Networks Abuse Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +1-914-345-0373
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@savvy.net
OrgNOCHandle: SNN5-ARIN
OrgNOCName: Savvy Networks NOC
OrgNOCPhone: +1-914-345-0373
OrgNOCEmail: noc@savvy.net
OrgTechHandle: JMG94-ARIN
OrgTechName: Godofsky, Jerrold Michael
OrgTechPhone: +1-914-345-0373
OrgTechEmail: mgodofsky@savvy.net
OrgTechHandle: JCA75-ARIN
OrgTechName: Callaway, Jesse
OrgTechPhone: +1-914-345-0373
OrgTechEmail: jesse@savvy.net
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You do realize that my tracert will not look anything like yours except for the final destination.
"announced today that its website is receiving more than 1.5 million hits per month from potential subscribers requesting that their local cable or satellite carrier air the Q Television Network."
This is a blending of information. The key here would be "potential subscribers requesting that their" this would tell me that it's not how many people hit the page but how many people actually e-mailed, filled out a form, etc.
"The number of hits our website is receiving validates the huge demand for Q,”
This seems to tell me he is using the web page stats to determine this but it doesn't match the orginal statement if that is in fact true. Just because someone hits your page doesn't mean they are interested in your product. They could be directed to the site via a Joke IM or a web stumbling application.
The clear route is to e-mail investors relations and see if a clarifiation is put out on how they got the numbers.
I take them at face value and assume he is saying that 1.5 million page hits occured which all in all is not a bad fact to have. I also assume that the counters ignore repeat requests.
Web Information/Counters
Why argue the point of the counters? The PR did not say how he determined the numbers. So I would consider a hit a hit period. So that means the page was loaded 1.5 million times as worst case scenerio. Best case scenerio is that 1.5 million unique IP's hit the page. Even knowing that will not tell you how many unique individuals hit the page. So even under best case scenerio your still assuming that 1. No one has access from multiple machines or 2) More than one person is sharing connection. So the numbers can be wrong both ways.
So now on to the silly debate on counters.
First off the counters do not have to be in the visable code. I have not looked at the site but doubt they are using a Hosted counter. As a business they would more than likely be using a log analyzer versus any Hosted or stand alone counter. This gives them the ability to track every object on the site and would give more detail than counters. Even then if they are using a hosted or stand alone counter the majority ignore the Head request which is basically sent when a browser wants to see if new information is availabe. Also, don't forget most pages give you a cookie to determine if you have been there before and when. There are a lot of pages that use that method and only count you once per day.
With the log analyzer you can determine Unique IP's,Unique Ip's for a day, week, month. So they can get detailed information on exactly what is going on.
So in closing take 1.5 million hits to mean 1.5 million hits. No matter how you look at it the fact is still good news.
In my opinion we need to see positive forward progress with the company.
All other issues will work themselves out as long as there is forward progress. Doesn't matter if it's carriers, stock issues, exchange issues. Everything needs to be taken one step at a time.
I will continue to hold without worry as long as I see forward progress and good news.
Interesting. I found the posts relevant and informative regarding Q Televsion and it's markets and sector.