Google: Good or Evil?

There has been much discussion of late about Google’s antics in providing ‘tips’ at the top of searches. For example, try running a search on the word ‘blogging‘. What’s that, just under the sponsored links? A tip telling us to give Blogger a go! Not WordPress.com, or LiveJournal, or TypePad, but Blogger, Google’s own blogging … Keep reading

ScribeFire

I wrote a couple of days ago about the purchase of Performancing Metrics by PayPerPost. The Performancing blog editor and advertising partnership programme were to be continued by the same team under different banners. Well, the blog editor is now going to be called ScribeFire, which is a nice enough name. You can still download … Keep reading

links for 2006-12-29

Bribing Bloggers – Joel on Software (tags: article blogs ethics marketing microsoft) PayPerPost buys Performancing.com (tags: payperpost performancing metrics) FirefoxNewVersion – Community Ubuntu Documentation Update Firefox in Ubuntu (tags: firefox ubuntu)

links for 2006-12-28

StaticDnsWithDhcp – Ubuntu Wiki (tags: linux ubuntu linksys) Netvibes v. Personalised Google (tags: netvibes portal google zoho)

PayPerPost buys Performancing.com

PayPerPost, the people who line up advertisers to pay bloggers to write nicely about their products, have bought Performancing.com – specifically the website and the Metrics system. Performancing for FireFox and the Performancing Partners advertising programme will continue under a new banner(s). Something along these lines has been coming for a while and it’s fair … Keep reading