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July 26th, 2008 by StephenPosted in Communication, Community, Networking, New Media |
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I was introduced to lijit by my friend Ryan Rasmussen recently, so I have added the wijit to the sidebar so that you all can find other projects that I am working on.
It looks like this:
Please let me know what you think.
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July 26th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
As a business consultant remember to analyze revenue in addition to function, especially when it comes to your unique content. Along with consideration of functionality is the critical sanctity of Publishers private statistics. We at P.U.B. consider the safety of the information any app or widget(s) may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them.
P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!
P.U.B. expected to hear back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. So far all we’ve read is a public blog response from a Lijit employee advising Lijit has no money, and more recently, we received an email from Lijit’s CEO, Todd Vernon, attacking P.U.B. and falsely accusing we are writing fictitious emails. Any actual answers to our questions about the use of Publisher’s stats, or revenue as it applies to Lijit? Nada. Nothing. P.U.B.’s job is to fight for Publishers by asking the hard questions and demanding answers. If all Widget companies respond as Lijit’s done up to this point, P.U.B. has a big workload for our Publishers, and your membership and support helps us all as Publishers, thanks.
If P.U.B. gets a straight answer on topic from Lijit, not smoke and mirrors, we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their exact revenue/statistics use/sharing deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets, and the actual ownership of content pulled by widgets from our blogs.
Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.
Sincerely,
Barney Moran
Founder, P.U.B.
July 28th, 2008 at 11:21 am
Stephen, thanks for giving Lijit a try. We appreciate the support and if you (or your readers) have any feedback on the widget’s functionality, you can send it my way. I’m tara[at]lijit[dot]com.
Also, in case Barney (or anyone else) would like to read about how we are using publisher data, you can check out this blog post. We value our publishers and being honest with them is a priority.