We continue to work day to day on addressing issues, and making the user experience better, but alongside that work we’re also continuing to push on new features.
We’re at a stage with one particular new feature where it needs to go before Ted for review, a process almost identical in stress and fear to being audited by the IRS. Ted is a picky guy. He has veto power over any and all features in PayPerPost.com and is a harsh taskmaster, particularly when it comes to visual design.
I had the team demo the new feature to me last night, and I put on my very best “What would Ted say” thinking cap to hit the new feature hard. Honestly, I was a little worried. From what I saw of the feature Ted would tear the team apart on it. THe functionality was all there, it did exactly what it was supposed to do, but from a usability and design standpoint there were a bunch of things that had to be done.
Ted’s been out of the office for about a week and is due back today. I normally work from home today but out of concern for the kicking the team might get I came in this morning. We’d all agreed last night on the big ticket items that had to be addressed and so the first order of business this morning was to run through the new changes.
It looks stunning. I’m not allowed to tell you what this feature is, what it does, how it does it, or why we did it, but I’m terrible at keeping secrets. So, here’s the skinny.
Basically posties and advertisers have been asking us for some time for the ability to fanschwiddle. Obviously in a fanscwhiddle situation, one party would do an initial dooblegoober, and then the other parter would gooberdoodle back on the fanschwiddle. When both parties are in complete gooberstang, the system will now go ahead and take a gorbleschnid. The fanschwiddle then begins again, with dooblegoober following gooberdoodle until both parties are in complete homperdoodad.
Then bingo – you’re done. Quick, fast, painless and a great addition to the PPP feature set.
How cool is that!
(note from editor: keywords relating to the feature and describing in any way what it does were replaced with complete and utter garbage to keep things a secret).
The gooberdoodle part of it is particularly boogiewaddle!
I’m in complete gooberstang with you on that one Dang.
Clear as mud, Pete – it’s all clear as mud!!Thanks so much for the update!
I once knew someone who had too many fanschwiddles, he got a gorbleschnid and his finderwinger got a nasty jingamathig.So I hope this fanschwiddle is different.:-P
Oh .. cool .. haggling …
Hope it’s a feature that allows advertisers to approach specific bloggers about doing posts…
Owen, I think you are right – notigating on prices, or requirements.Like If you are only going to pay $X then I’ll give you # of words – but if you up the price to $X+Y, then I will give you #+n of words.Or, BloggerAleph will do it for $P but I’ll do it for $P-q!I’ll guess we will see when the obervongel is release on Durnsday.
my head hurts…
Arrggh…Pete almost made sense and Owen and Chad have to make me confuse. Now I have boogers coming out of my nose, ears and I won’t be able to sleep until I crack the codes! LOL
Tease.
What?! You getting things more in a muddle than I could think of.What I want to see:On Opps Panel,Immediately to know what PR,Tech,ALEXA in the field, and that will give us a vague idea of which site we can do.Nickname our blogs, so in the above senario, we can know which opps can fit which blog and “show opps for ThisParticularBlog” featureA detailed Report for Earnings to date,to month, date/month etc specific, range so I can present it to IRS/HMCE.Advertiser Panel:When we select a feature, it will show how many posties/blogs can take with that requirement, ie, PR+Tech+Alexa=number of sites, with a view of the CURRENT EARNINGS/MEDIAN on the Marketplace so we don’t oversell or undersell. Better if we can know what is the ongoing market value, ie median / graph of how much a postie willing to work for that particular requirement.That gives us a propability of how many percentage that the particular opp will be taken.Overall, I WOULD like to see how many click thrus are made thru my site and pageviews etc so I can optimise the viewership more..both as an advertiser and a blogger.CLARITY my friends….is just a simple request.azrin.PS: Azrin is not AZDana (Arizona Dana) who is being mistakenly ….(fill in the blanks!)
Kind of like Sponsored Reviews does it now?
Ok so im reading this post scratching my head all the time thinking wtf. The whole time I’m thinking this is some blogger language that I missed somehow. Si im thinking as soon as im done reading this i have to head over to the boards and get the definitions for these words. duh! Theres the note lol I’m a complete a**. How dumb am I.
Ooo that is just mean!
Why?
Part of me wants to think I know what it is…keywords mean nothing to me if you pay close attention to the rest of the post
It all made sense to me. At least Pete’s description did.Now if I can just get my blog’s PR sorted out before the fanschwiddle is put into operational status, because I would hate to have an advertiser dooblegoober me with my PR and gooberdoodle down. That could get embaressing if you know what I mean. Not to mention cost me possible gorbleschnids because me and the advertiser can not come to a gooberstang on a PR 4 blog that is showing PR 0 or N/A. ::sigh:: Me and the PPP PR checker need to come to a homperdoodad ourselves.
I’ll see what I can do to the flux capaciter on the PR checker before hand. I just don’t think it will gooberstang with the low amount of jigawatts so I may have to finkledoodle a new one.
Owen said what I was thinking. I think I like.
Let me give you my personal interpretation.Basically posties and advertisers have been asking us for some time for the ability to negotiate. Obviously in a negotiation situation, one party would do an initial offer, and then the other parter would counteroffer back on the offer. When both parties are in complete agreement, the system will now go ahead and take a opportunity. The negotiation then begins again, with offer following counteroffer until both parties are in complete agreements. Just my thoughts. I know nothing.Owen said it first, and it makes complete sense to me that the new feature is haggling.
Cool! I love fanscwhiddling! I just hope that there’s a bit of a time limit on the dooblegoober so that it doesn’t sit there forever and ever without a counter gooberdoodle ’cause that’s frustrachen. I also hope that when both parties are in gooberstang that there’s a bit more time to complete the gorbleschnid than there is with the current gorbleschnid system. Are we keeping the current gorbleschnid system in addition to this new fanscwhiddle system? That’d be amazenschnidoodle!
Nah, Chad and Owen. That sounds too complicated. The best thing about PPP is how fast everything moves. An advertiser can “set it and forget it”. Check back the next day and see all their slots filled (or not). Negotiating would take too much time. Time is money and advertisers don’t have time to haggle over each slot one by one… I mean they do like 10, 50, 100 slots at a time — that would take too long.I do like two other ideas posted:- the “elusive” blog counter which shows how segmentation reduces the available pool of Posties.- the ability for an advertiser to approach a specific Postie they want, i.e. Colleen. This would help PPP avoid the situation where advertisers contact their faves directly and cut PPP out of the loop.
Nevermind…. reading that coded spoiler seems to fit the negotiating scenario.Sounds slow but I guess it’s really targeted at the high rank bloggers that a post from the earlier week hinted at. I guess for $100, $200, $500 Opps, the number of slots is very small, so negotiating could actually work. I’m sure an advertiser would rather want to spend a little time negotiating the price with big time bloggers (i.e. Colleen) instead of just having their Opps site there.
Let me guess… we will be following and linking to other blog posts to increase the impact of our individual blogging.I hope this is it, because I do not haggle.
Interesting… Pete, ever thought of CIA as a career?Anyway, isnt it a bit unfair to other members that advertisers can directly approach their faves OR higher ranked bloggers can negotiate the requirements/money? Doesnt it undermine the public system, and give way to favouritism, corruption, and well, unequal sharing of the opps in no set pattern.Segmentation is meaningful, and its good that you get paid to how much your blog is worth.But what Owen and Chad are suggesting… Well… its just another extent, and it could just crumble….And if Ted’s hot taskmaster, he’s never gonna agree to something like this. (unless he has been blackmailed/brainwashed by George W Bush
)P.S: Pete, I wasted my 10 minutes, Googling for, and searching in Encyclopaedia Brittanica for, “fanschwiddle”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!P.P.S: Did you know that when you search for “fanschwiddle” you get only 1 result = PPP Blog?????????What IS fanschiddle? Some keyword conspiracy? 
Man, I almost got arrested last time I gooberdoodled…I won’t be doing that in public anymore!
Pete, have you ever given thought to a career in politics? You’ve got the language to explain things down perfectly!
LOLOLOLOLOOLOL All wonderful guesses
I can’t wait to fanschwiddle! Thanks, Pete
Fanscwhiddling has been banned in 7 states!
My guess is that it will be a system whereby Advertisers can contact posties directly and make an offer. Is that it?
It’s posts like this that make me really dislike this company. Sure, they sound all cool and hip, but in reality they’re still bleeding red ink and just recently bought out another, related company.Talk about ignoring your core concept! PPP should change thier acrononymous title to FOS, because they are.Postiecon is undersubscribed because they jumped the gun on that, low PR posties aren’t getting enough posts to support a bread and peanut butter diet.Phooey on PPP.
But Rick, I like peanut butter and bread! Yummmmm….
Rick – the lowest opps are worth $5 each, and they are open to anyone. If you take 3 $5 post a day – that’s $15. $15 a day 5 days a week is $75 a week. Times that by 4 weeks – that’s $300 a month. It’s not enough to live off of, but that’s not too bad for writing a couple hundred words a day.And it’s more than enough for 100 PBJ sandwiches.
If I could do that, I’d be fairly happy, but I haven’t been able to get 3 posts in a day on a regular basis in over a month – since segmentation.I have two blogs registered with PPP both PR 2, decent Alexa and lousy technorati. I do have 5 tacks, however. So, it’s a matter of quality vs. quantitiy. I’m a better writer than probably 90% of bloggers, so I’ve sold links and posts myself and am making more than I expected. I don’t need PPP anymore, but they act like I should care.This company will never be much bigger than it is now because the blogger community is full and the ad community is limited.I give them a 8 months to a year to burn through what’s left of their $3 million and then go belly up.I’m not a hater, I just call them as I see them. PPP has made many, many business killer mistakes.
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