nickw

Well it’s been quite a ride so far for Performancing. We’ve had to close down Metrics, but have promised to help release it as open source this year, we’ve just announced the closure of our blog advertising program, though behind the scenes some interesting discussions are being had with friends of the companies regarding that and briefly, I resigned as CEO and we had Chris takeover.

Im sad to say that Chris has decided he’s better off working on his ongoing projects , though he will remain a part of the community and will certainly remain a good friend of the company’s.. If you’ve not caught it, I highly recommend a subscription to his personal blog at Chrisg.org. Chris ‘ formal departure will be a huge loss for us, and I in particular will be at a loss when in need of advice regarding the community here — hopefully he’ll still feel compelled to add his 2c occasionally 🙂

Farewell Chris, and thankyou for everything. It was an honor.

I dont know about you guys, but even im a fed up with the constant news and announcements coming out of Performancing recently — so apart from to say that ongoing Partners obligations will be met according to plan, I’ll leave you with these thoughts:

• We are still interested in talking to potential partners that could help us relaunch our adnetwork – there is a ton of functionality never released and I’d love to have conversations with serious players re the possibilities.
• ScribeFire also needs some help. Jed Brown has gone MIA and we need some hlep talking it further.
• We still plan to open source Metrics, but there is no firm time frame
• And lastly, but by no means least. I intend to correct some of the mistakes I’ve made with community functionality and management here at Performancing, and again, am entirely open to suggestions and partnerships that will take us forward in 2007
• Many of the changes you will see in the coming weeks will be done without fanfare or fuss — enough with the BS

You can catch me at [email protected]

Did I miss anything?

After much discussion, we’ve decided that the deal proposed by PayPerPost just isnt right for us or our community. It’s regrettable that we should part ways as I still feel that Dan and Ted are stand up guys breaking new ground, but in the end, the deal was just not right for them or us.

Open Source

Our free blog statistics package, Metrics will be given back to the community with our thanks — we can no longer run it, which means the service will end, but we hope that the developer community will make good use of the code and that we can continue to help the project by hosting it and providing support where we can.

Feedburner as Alternative for Metrics

If you’re a Metrics user and dont want to wait around till the OS version of Metrics is developed (and this could take some time…), I highly recommend Feedburners Blog Stats which has just gone live. Dick and the FB guys are good friends of Performancing and I can’t think of a better place to send the Performancing Metrics users.

Where does that Leave Performancing?

Well, more details to follow but the short story is that we will continue to develop Performancing Partners, our growing blog advertising network and focus the Performancing domain entirely to that end as well as our “grassroots” community — We’re proud of what we’ve helped build here, and want to continue to evolve, develop and help the community grow — the business of blogging isnt always easy, but it’s easier when you can get some help from peers 🙂

PFF?

PFF, our free blog editor for Firefox will still be moved out to its own domain and rebranded as ScribeFire. We all love the name, and think it deserves it’s own identitiy!

More..

Of course there is more to talk about, but I’d like to get some initial reaction from the community first and answer questions in more detail over the next couple of days.

Here’s looking to the future and profitable 2007!

Whilst planning our strategy for 2007, I came to the realization that this year, I was not the best person to lead the community, and that what we really needed was a totally fresh perspective on The Performancing Blog Ad Network and a community-centric approach to growing our business.

The best person to do this, is Chris Garrett. Without any shadow of a doubt.

Chris has been with us since day #1 and has not only lead the technology side of the company, but consistently been a favorite author on the Performanicng blog, and on the quiet, is an outstanding ideas man and marketer.

I know Chris will want to post himself, and layout some plans in due course, so for now, please welcome Chris Garrett as the new Performancing CEO.

Here’s to a fantastic 2007 everyone!

publishers in the soon to be renamed Performancing Partners blog ad network will be pleased to know that payments went out without hitch this month 🙂

After the fiasco last month with PayPal they’d bloody well better have done eh?

Happy new year everyone!