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More Guessing Goodness

April 21st, 2007 by lynnylchan under Paid Post

*Paid Post*

PayPerPost has just announced to us Posties that they have acquired a company. The official announcement will come next week, leaving us in suspense. This makes for profitable suspense, because now we Posties get to blog about our conjectures regarding this latest happening.

I blogged some time back, when PPP had a big announcement, that perhaps they were taking up a joint venture with Google. Well, obviously that’s not the case here, since they are acquiring a company, so it’s probably a smaller startup with goals similar to PayPerPost’s. What could it be, though?

I’m thinking a webhosting company, because that way we Posties can get both a hosting account for our blogs, and get paid to blog! I just like convergence, that’s all. I don’t know if any conflict of interest issues will arise from such an arrangement, though.

Seeing how PayPerPost is a pretty innovative startup, their new acquisition must be cutting-edge as well, so I’m thinking Web 2.0 with user-created content. Among the different possible kinds of user-created content are blogs, pictures, movies, music… could it be a photo-sharing site to rival the likes of Flickr? A music-sharing site, like Myspace without the juvenile feeling? Maybe it’s a file-sharing client, or something.

There’s no reason why PPP can’t just buy over another paid blogging network, though. I’ve heard of Helium, where you can write on topics and get paid from ad revenue, which is similar to PPP although the business model is different. Such a combination would mean more advertisers and more bloggers, geared towards the same thing - writing for money.

Whatever it is, I’m sure it’s going to be very exciting for the Posties - it feels good to be part of an organization that’s constantly innovating and trying new things. Us creative types can’t deal with stagnation, you know.