What’s Up At Your Startup

March 9th, 2007 by lynnylchan under Paid Post

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The PayPerPost people have been tantalising us with hints of a big announcement just over the horizon. And being the fun-loving, always-up-for-a-good-time peeps that they are, they’ve asked us to present our conjectures regarding possible announcements.

It really could be anything, ranging from a blogger’s meetup (but that’s already coming, it’s PostieCon 07) to maybe a brand spanking new interface - not that anything’s wrong with the current one. It could be that they’ve secured a contract with a huge conglomerate, or they’re being bought over by Google.

Actually, the Google one is quite plausible, after all Google wants to be number one in everything Internet-related. They own Blogger.com, they bought YouTube for the videos, so maybe online advertising via blogs is their next frontier of exploration. Okay, even if it isn’t Google, it could be some other biggie like Yahoo, MSN, or AOL.

Considering that they have a picture of someone dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow as an ad for their $1000 blog opportunity, maybe they’re going to film a movie. They already have a reality TV series called Rock Startup, which chronicles the journey PayPerPost has taken so far. That would be huge news indeed! A movie like that wouldn’t really hit the big time, since paid blogging is a relatively new enterprise, but it could muster up a cult following. Then again, I am the same person who sat through a movie about Steve Jobs’ early life (like say college-age) so I might be biased in favour of such computer-related movies. The movie’s called “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, in case you’re curious. Oooh! Just like Pirates of the Carribbean!

Well, those are my guesses anyway. PayPerPost is such an unpredictable place, it could really be anything. And I mean that in a nice way.