Re: [www-vrml] ANN: 3dgraphics.about.com Shutdown

["George Birbilis" <birbilis@kagi.com>]

so did the material you had there get thrown away? that is does about.com
allow you (not sure under what agreement your pages were there) to put it up
elsewhere?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leonard Daly" <daly@realism.com>
To: "Web3D Main List" <www-vrml@web3d.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 5:15 PM
Subject: [www-vrml] ANN: 3dgraphics.about.com Shutdown


> Hello to all,
>
> I am sad to announce that About.com has eliminated the
3dgraphics.about.com
> site, along with a number of other sites, for failure to generate
> sufficient advertising dollars.
>
> According to the management at About.com, even though the 3dgraphics site
> was growing quickly and had over 425,000 page views last month (close to
an
> all-time high for the site), that growth was not as important as the fact
> that the site was of little interest to advertisers.
>
> As you can tell, I am very disappointed, but Leonard and I have decided to
> put our energy back into the e3D News (www.e3dnews.com) site. I have
> already put some of the free model indexes from 3dgraphics onto the e3D
> News site and we will soon have a news blog on the front page.
>
> Please stop by when you have a chance.
>
> Regards,
>
> Laurel Daly
> Editor
> e3D News
>
>
>
> +--------
> | Leonard Daly <daly@realism.com>
> | Internet Development http://realism.com/
> | e3D News Technical Editor http://e3dNews.com/
> | SIGGRAPH 2002&2003 X3D Course Organizer
> | Member, Web3D Board of Directors
> +------------------------------
>

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