On December 27, 2006, it was announced by TechCrunch and Mike Arrington that PayPerPost would be acquiring a portion of the assets of Performancing.com. Later, PayPerPost published the press release confirming that they had in fact:
"…has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire select assets of Performancing LLC, operator of Performancing.com, a popular Internet community [...]
It’s not always easy to make a relationship work, and that’s true in the real world and the world online. It appears that Nick Wilson and company were not able to put to bed the purchase of parts of the Performancing machine.
After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isn’t right [...]
Robert Scoble recently revealed to me that the popular technology news site is controlled on the back end by a human river guide. I refer to Gabe as a river guide because of the now often referred to "River of News." The guide, in this case Gabe Rivera, picks and chooses news items to appear [...]
Reading Kevin Hillstrom’s take on Coldwater Creek: The Little Engine That Could, made me begin thinking about catalogue companies and their online marketing campaigns. This is the season for catalogues to begin showing up in our bathrooms of the house with circles around those things in each that are on our respective wish lists. Somehow [...]
I have been following the story closely about PayPerPost.com and the latest release of ReviewMe.com and have watched as bloggers attempt to disclose their involvement and generally how things are going on the "paid for consumer generated content". One the people that recently posted a review for ReviewMe.com did so a little differently than I [...]
In keeping with our Gumpisms about blogging, I ran across an article today by Tom Pick. His question, and one that should be asked by every business, is whether blogs are a marketing tool or a public relations tool? He’s right there hasn’t been enough written about this dilemma of choice as to which path [...]
I was recently speaking with my friend Ben about blogs and sponsorship and I was inspired by Ben to write this post following a post he wrote about sponsors and blogs. I am taking his good advice and making it more on the extreme side of blog sponsorship. After all we all would like [...]
As the sun rose this morning we had Duncan Riley leaving b5media, and now before the sun can set in the west I hear news of Jason Calacanis leaving AOL. Is this all growing pains that blog networks will continue to see over the next few months? Has the blog network bubble began its demise [...]
I am one of the biggest fans of Dave Taylor and I always listen when he speaks because it is usually brilliant information and something that I usually implement into my own blogging practices. With that said I now have to cry foul! Dave recently posted about a blogger named Colleen that was warned by [...]
TechCrunch today invites us to visit another pay-per-post company that was just today launched to compete with Pay Per Post, CreamAid and LoudLaunch. Mike is correct, there seems to be a recent surge or "virus" of this business model as companies continue to try to capitalize on the buzz created by the word of mouth [...]
