PayPerPost backs out

Mike Arrington posts that the Performancing Metrics deal is off: It’s not often that a company announces the acquisition of another company and then subsequently walks away from the deal, but PayPerPost isn’t a typical kind of company. In a post on the PayPerPost blog today, the company said “We…dug into the Metrics platform and … Keep reading

links for 2007-01-04

OpenGarden | It’s All In Your Head (tags: wiki opensource web2.0 cms) Google Tips no more (tags: google tips blake ross)

Google Tips no more

Google have removed their controversial ‘tips’ feature, according to FireFox dude Blake Ross: Google has removed the tips feature. Perhaps it was always intended as a test; I don’t know the official reason for its removal. In any case, thanks to Matt Cutts and other Googlers who listened and responded to feedback with an open … Keep reading

Search Wikia Update

One of the earliest posts on hyprtext was about the proposed new community search engine proposed by Jimmy Wales. There was quite a lot of kerfuffle about it, largely due to confusion over Amazon’s involvement, and quite a lot of debate concerning the name of the project, which everyone assumed was wikiasari. Most people agreed … Keep reading

links for 2007-01-03

Word Count Journal (tags: word count journal wordpress) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Microformats (tags: microformats) hyprtext » Blog Archive » Did Wikipedia Really Ban Quatar? (tags: wikipedia quatar) DropSend acquisition talks fall through with YouSendIt (tags: dropsend yousendit) Anatomy Of A Failed Merger (tags: dropsend yousendit techcrunch) The Usefulness of the Simple Command Line … Keep reading