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A Brief Mobzor History

Between theÂ post, PBshots. Useless, and the post, PBshots, Slightly Less Useless, I talked to Andrew, the owner of mobzor.com.

He told me how he came up with the idea for a “myspace for paintball,” put the site online, and quickly found that at least two others had alreadyÂ implemented the same idea.

Â His comments were very similar to those ofÂ James in theÂ Slightly Less UselessÂ post. “IÂ don’t want mobzor.com to be a copycat site,” he said.Â He knows that he needs something to set Mobzor/PBshots apart from pbspace.com and paintballalliance.com, and heÂ has a couple things that he is working on.

He said that as long as there is a demand for a paintball specificÂ social networkingÂ site, mobzor.com will survive.Â “Mobzor’s alexa.com ranking is already higher than PBspace,” he said.Â Â “Before the Mobzor site went down and switched from phpfox to phpizabi, Mobzor’s Alexa ranking was close to breaking the 1 million mark.”
(After the siteÂ crash, all data was lost and the site restarted with zero members)

By comparison, paintballalliance.com, with over 3,000 members,Â is ranked at 719,000 by Alexa, (paintballheadlines.com is ranked at 831,000 and pbnation.com is at 17,500).

Now that Paintballalliance has been auctioned off, it will be interesting to see how the future of paintball social networking unfolds.

PbShots, Slightly Less Useless

PbShots, the photo hosting site Mobzor launched, has upgraded their limits for free users.

Now, you have 1 GB (technically, 1000 MB, 24 MB short of a gig) of space, which is still half of what Photobucket offers. No mention of an increase in bandwidth though. But it still hilariously says the limit is 20/255 in the admin panel.

You probably want to edit that config.php file, guys.

In case anyone is wondering, they are using IMS Pro, though there is a chance they’re just using the Basic version. If you want to have your own image hosting site like PbShots, all you need it to pay $100 + ~$5 month. Then you can be all cool and think you have some great idea. Though you can easily find cheaper and free alternatives to IMS Pro, that are o so much better.

Please Mobzor, stop just buying crappy scripts, slapping some logos and ads on them, and try to be some great company. It’s not going to happen. Actually code something or have a new idea. All your ideas have been done before, better. Mobzor = Paintball Alliance, but with less people (I would add pbspace, but they suck worse than you), and PbShots = Jayloo, but crappier.

And sorry for the lack of posting. Just been taking a break from things. I promise they’ll pick up again in a few days.

Dye Launches New Dyematrix.com

Dye launched a redesign of Dyematrix.com.

If you think they got rid of the gaudy flash, think again. It’s still all done in flash, except for the forums which are using the ever so mediocre Invision Power Boards. It even has some sort of music playing on the home, which the mute button is almost impossible to find, and makes a sound every time you hover over a menu link. Personally, I don’t need an audio confirmation when I hover over a link.

It also now has a few links to YouTube in their “media” section, which, for the most part, are just ads. Though, really, the whole media section is one big ad. You can even view DM7 ads. That’s exactly what I’ve always wanted to do. Too bad Adblock blocks them. And once that’s fixed, they’re still really small.

Sorry, but wouldn’t you think a 2 page ad should have a bit higher resolution.

Come on Dye, you could do much better.

PbReview “Changes Hands”

Or better know as selling it.

Last week, Andrew, the owner of PbReview, announced that he had sold Pbreview.com to Demand Media. No monetary amount was disclosed, but my guess is in the $100k range.

PbReview, according to Alexa, is the second largest paintball related site, right after PbNation, though that still puts it at around 40-80 thousandth overall. And the traffic has been pretty much lackluster, staying around that range with no obvious improvement.

From Top to Bottom: pbnation, pbreview, paintball.com, paintballheadlines

From a whois, the domain has already been transfered over to Demand Media meaning they can do basically whatever they want now.

But what’s most surprising to me is that most users aren’t mad or annoyed about the sale. They congratulate Andrew for it. Personally, I would be kinda annoyed if someone sold all my work (posts, reviews, etc) and kept all the money. But, I guess that’s just how it is nowadays.

Warped Sportz Darq 7

Sorry for not posting Thursday and Friday. Busy week. Today should be pretty good though.

Here are some pictures and info about the new Warped Sportz Darq 7, the dark version of the Marq. It’s scheduled to be released July 9th with only 126 being produced at $1250 a piece.

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