Ted Murphy, CEO of advertising firm Mindcomet, has launched a new service called PayPerPost.com. You guessed it, it’s a marketplace for companies to connect with bloggers who are willing to blog about a product - for a price. The companies can set guidelines for their requests such as whether a picture must be included and whether they will only pay for positive blog coverage. There does not appear to be any requirement that the payment for coverage be disclosed. There is a requirement that PayPerPost.com must approve your post before you are paid.
Although we’re not entirely sure nor agree of the whole idea of writing reviews for money (makes you wonder of our credibility, don’t you think?), we’re quite eager to see how it goes. Check us often to see the update on this one.
Chinese search engine Baidu, with a market cap of about $3 billion, will be launching a blogging platform on July 13. The new search engine, called Baidu, will be online after a long period of development.
Search Engine Journal reports (but without attribution) that Cynthia He, a spokeswoman for Baidu, said in a statement:
There’s a product named Baidu Space. I can’t describe the product or give a date, except that it will be very soon and we are very excited. But we’d like to keep a little mystery for now.
Blogging in China is tricky business to say the least. And it’s fairly competitive. Nevertheless, China is a huge market (the second largest internet audience after the U.S.) and has an active blogging community. And some of the blogs are masssive. Someday, this massive community of people writing and conversing can bring China out of the dark ages freedom-wise. The more people that blog in and about China, the better.
Filemobile - A social media platform that enables people to organize and share their media with the world. Lets you upload any file to your online account by email, PC or phone. Post to your blog, record video, share RSS feeds, and more. Filemobile is an easy to use media-sharing tool. “Sharing is easy†is our tag line, and we have packed a ton of great features and functions into our tools. We put a lot of time and energy into making it easy to use.
Filemobile was born out of a love of media in all its forms and a frustration with managing it. We thought, there just has to be a better way! A better way to share your photos, videos and audio files with friends and family! How many times have you received five x 2 mb files in an email that screws up your inbox? How many times have you received files that you don’t have the software to view? Do you have a ton of video on a jumble videotapes, loose files on different computers and jump drives, and no one place to manage it all? Do you have a blog site that has awesome text, but few photos and video?
Filemobile resolves all of these issues in one simple easy to use media management tool.
PhotoZou - Free online photo sharing service with integration with Google Maps, tagging, integration with blogs, and the ability to upload 10,000 photos and videos. The Japanese version has 60,000 members and the English version is being released in private Beta now.
PhotoZou is still a closed beta. An exclusive invitation is needed to become a member. The PhotoZou team is currently circulating invitations so look forward to your invitation coming soon! If you cannot wait, check out PhotoZou Encounters? a Weblog with a blog content that picks up on topics related to Japan and has a visual twist by using photos from PhotoZou.
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Google Checkout launched early this morning and may significantly change the online shopping sector. The system offers low transaction costs for merchants and mediation between buyers and sellers online in exchange for access to what will be a huge amount of data about shopping and sales conversions. There doesn’t appear to be many benefits for buyers in the system. There are $10 discounts at many participating stores, but in order to accept a new system like this, certainly, we would need features that beat what’s already available.
Not a stored value system like PayPal, Google Checkout is more like a unified shopping identity for buyers who can give their credit card number to just one company (Google) and limit email contact received later from places they shop online. The Google Checkout site is in its infancy, with only about 100 stores listed as participating at the program’s inception and few variant URLs that redirect yet to the program page. The program, though high profile in the media, is described on its page almost entirely in terms of its benefits to sellers. The system is limited to sellers in the US, many people were hoping that it would be available in more countries than PayPal is.
AdWords participants will gain extra benefits, with a $10 credit in Google Checkout fees for every $1 they spend on advertising with Google. Transaction fees are remarkably low, roughly 2/3 of PayPal’s basic rates. The service’s pricing structure may ultimately be profitable enough for Google, but the major strategy here could be to access shopping data. The biggest question then appears to be whether consumers trust the Google brand enough to look to the company for more than just access to the rest of the world’s data, but as a repository for our own data kept private from a world of online shopping vendors. The benefits over PayPal seem clear for sellers, but whether consumers will react favorably is a question we’ll have to wait to be answered.
The Yahoo! IM team just released the 3.0 version of Yahoo! IM for Mac. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac was last updated in September, 2003.
Its feature set is interesting, but it appears to lack two of the PC version’s most compelling qualities: VOIP and the growing library of plugins built on the recently released software development kit. It’s hard imagine using any single IM client on my Mac when Adium is available to connect with all major IM systems at once.
Here’s what it does have:
Coming soon: chat with Windows Live (MSN) users. It will be a beautiful day if even the smallest amount of forward progress towards IM compatibility appears. Hopefully the VOIP and plug-ins available to PC users are included in the future features of Yahoo! Messenger Mac.
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