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We Have A Solution To Ping.sg’s Commercial Blogs Problem
It seems that the bad blood between Ping.sg and a whole host of individuals is due to the policy of not having commercial blogs on Ping.sg. While we admire that stance, Ping.sg is in the red and need of advertisers. We think we have a solution.
It really isn’t a solution we thought of. A kind reader of Techmeme pointed out to us that Techmeme has a section dedicated to sponsored posts.
We believe that Ping.sg can create a similar platform for commercial blogs to reach out to its users.
Blogs that are commercial in nature could request to be on Ping.sg for a fee. Their entries will be distinguished from the other entries by having a different background color.
To ensure that Ping.sg does not get spammed with commercial entries, the agreement would be that the commercial blogs can only ping a certain number of entries per day. The agreement can further be extended to limit the number of entries per hour, per minute, per second.
To be fair to these sponsors, the blogs and their entries cannot be hidden by the users.
We believe that such a solution would help Ping.sg in the long run. To increase the value of being a commercial blog sponsoring Ping.sg, there should be a limit to the number of such blogs.
Also, a clear definition of what constitutes a commercial blog should be established. We at The New Socialite feel that some commercial blogs are already sneaking their way in.
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Errrr….
You’re not supposed to announce that before me!
(OK I didn’t tell thenewsocialite that but yeah it’s an open secret now for Ping.sg since you’ve made this post)
oops… sorry.
hmmm.. so to encourage sponsors to join ping 2.0 commercial service - just ban them first from ping 1.0 - with no regard and expect them to come back happily and pay for the honor of being in the ping community once again ? Interesting strategy…
You make what Ping.sg did sound worse than it actually is. That’s our job!
Mistakes happen. Live and let die. I mean, live.
Actually a part of me hopes to be able to put our blogs into selective categories. Hence, different people interested in different things can go to the diff sub categories to read up. Those who want to know what’s happening in the commercial blog world can do so. In my opinion, it should be quite easy for someone to start a new ping kind of site for commercial blogs. I seriously doubt some of the commercial blogs are going to come back after being dumped.
[...] The New Socialite highlighted a solution for Ping.sg and the founder of Ping.sg is also looking at the same direction for a solution. [...]
Well, its gonna take time and effort to develop the code to segregate commercial and non-commercial blogs.
PHP isn’t one of the friendliest server side scripting languages to develope.
Its a little unfair to expect so much from Uzyn to make such accommodations for the commercial bloggers.
My 2cts.
Sounds very noble. Wouldn’t Ogilvy like to advertise at Ping.sg?
If Ping has less advertisers, that will mean that their ad rates are lower, and that Ogilvy can take them for a free ride.
$1 to outsource all of ping.sg ad space. Take it or leave it.
to Ogilvy: please do not misuse the name of the company. I’m sure if Ogilvy is interested about advertising, they will do it through the proper ad-buyers.
@brian - do you want us to remove that comment?
i don’t think it’s necessary as much as i think it’s the best course of action.
but i have no intention of removing something that has already been approved. - i’m just not a big fan of identity theft and baseless accusations.
thanks for asking, hopefully we can all stick to what this blog post is about instead -)
I wouldn’t touch ping.sg with any of my clients brands.