Comments on: Performancing Heading to DeadPool http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/ Startup and Technology News Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:19:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: ScribeFire Introduces Drag and Drop Ad Support http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-2393826 ScribeFire Introduces Drag and Drop Ad Support Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:52:23 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-2393826 [...] in December 2006. The following January Performancing ran into trouble and the future of ScribeFire seemed uncertain. Since then, the plugin’s technology has been acquired by MediaWhiz, a marketing [...] [...] in December 2006. The following January Performancing ran into trouble and the future of ScribeFire seemed uncertain. Since then, the plugin’s technology has been acquired by MediaWhiz, a marketing [...]

]]> By: TallTroll http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-783811 TallTroll Thu, 25 Jan 2007 11:41:43 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-783811 I wouldn't write Performancing off yet. AFAIK, Nick still owns a chunk, and wants to see it resurrected. He's got the connections to pull it off, potentially I wouldn’t write Performancing off yet. AFAIK, Nick still owns a chunk, and wants to see it resurrected. He’s got the connections to pull it off, potentially

]]> By: Alan http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-772857 Alan Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:59:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-772857 I don't mean to steer the conversation away from the main topic but i just want to back up Peters comment on Jeds work. Beautiful. The guy is going places. I don’t mean to steer the conversation away from the main topic but i just want to back up Peters comment on Jeds work. Beautiful. The guy is going places.

]]> By: Kula bácsi http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771900 Kula bácsi Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:56:57 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771900 Yes you are an idiot. Yes you are an idiot.

]]> By: wtf bbq http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771327 wtf bbq Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:01:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771327 not sure if i am being an idiot or anything but you seem to be biased towards payperpost network not sure if i am being an idiot or anything but you seem to be biased towards payperpost network

]]> By: Peter http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771317 Peter Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:58:27 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771317 Jed Brown, author of the Performancing plugin, is an S.T.U.D, stud. I've done a little firefox plugin/addon hacking and his code is usually pretty tight - and his stuff usually works. Well. And people use his extensions. Lots of people. And they like them. You could attach his name to the most worthless addon in the world and people would still download and use it. He's got serious street cred. Tellin ya - that dude - if I could get his coding skills for like two weeks, I'd turn the Web2.0 world on its head. Wouldn't be surprised if he waltzes over to Google to just hang out for a little while - if he's not there already. http://jedbrown.net/1.0/mozilla/extensions/ Jed Brown, author of the Performancing plugin, is an S.T.U.D, stud.

I’ve done a little firefox plugin/addon hacking and his code is usually pretty tight - and his stuff usually works. Well. And people use his extensions. Lots of people. And they like them. You could attach his name to the most worthless addon in the world and people would still download and use it. He’s got serious street cred.

Tellin ya - that dude - if I could get his coding skills for like two weeks, I’d turn the Web2.0 world on its head. Wouldn’t be surprised if he waltzes over to Google to just hang out for a little while - if he’s not there already.

http://jedbrown.net/1.0/mozilla/extensions/

]]> By: Martin Neumann http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771192 Martin Neumann Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:12:55 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-771192 Amazing is all I can say. I was there from day one when they were just a group blog with very good posts and building a decent-sized community. Something has gone horribly wrong along the way. I don't know what they were attempting - they seemed all over the place and one must wonder if they had a business plan and business model bedded down from day one. I hope they dump the ScibeFire name and go back to the original brand for the plugin as with 400,000 users there's got to be some monetization possibilities there. Amazing is all I can say.

I was there from day one when they were just a group blog with very good posts and building a decent-sized community.

Something has gone horribly wrong along the way.

I don’t know what they were attempting - they seemed all over the place and one must wonder if they had a business plan and business model bedded down from day one.

I hope they dump the ScibeFire name and go back to the original brand for the plugin as with 400,000 users there’s got to be some monetization possibilities there.

]]> By: Chris Paton http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770793 Chris Paton Tue, 23 Jan 2007 07:49:48 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770793 Performancing has in the past been a great place to get tips about running a blog. Hopefully this aspect will remain and continue to be successful despite letting some of their products go. They have a well established brand, high page rank and presumably a wide audience so there's no reason why Performancing can't continue being a great blog about blogging. Performancing has in the past been a great place to get tips about running a blog. Hopefully this aspect will remain and continue to be successful despite letting some of their products go.

They have a well established brand, high page rank and presumably a wide audience so there’s no reason why Performancing can’t continue being a great blog about blogging.

]]> By: Cortland Coleman http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770559 Cortland Coleman Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:27:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770559 Huge potential - terrible execution. They turned a great majority of their own community against them. They jettisoned their most useful service (PFF, or ScribeFire), the future of which now seems to be in flux. DeadPool. Huge potential - terrible execution.

They turned a great majority of their own community against them.

They jettisoned their most useful service (PFF, or ScribeFire), the future of which now seems to be in flux.

DeadPool.

]]> By: Mark Johnson http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770361 Mark Johnson Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:25:56 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770361 What a surprise, it just makes me wonder what else is going on in the company that isn't revealed. I believe those *unknown* problems were found out by PPP and maybe they realized that the company wasn't all it said it was. Very nobel of all parties to key their mouth shut and keep us in the dark. Those server problems (that happened weeks ago) was a huge problem too that caused major lag on my blog. No disrespect to the Performancing's executive team, to have 28,000+ following/ users, a fairly good ad system, a good metrics tool, a useful firefox plugin and a good blog and not be able to capitalize on it --- there IS really some sort of management deficiency there. PFF, the free blog editor for Firefox should NOT have been rebranded as well. They could have done some sort of *intelligent* monetization on that tool (enough to not make it annoying with ads). With over 400,000 downloads of scribefire and many more with the old version, they could have done a lot with it. I believe the metrics tool is (was) a great asset -- they really should think about repackaging it and not leave it where it is (in the gutter). That to me has great value if pitched to the a potential company in the right way. What a surprise, it just makes me wonder what else is going on in the company that isn’t revealed. I believe those *unknown* problems were found out by PPP and maybe they realized that the company wasn’t all it said it was.

Very nobel of all parties to key their mouth shut and keep us in the dark. Those server problems (that happened weeks ago) was a huge problem too that caused major lag on my blog.

No disrespect to the Performancing’s executive team, to have 28,000+ following/ users, a fairly good ad system, a good metrics tool, a useful firefox plugin and a good blog and not be able to capitalize on it — there IS really some sort of management deficiency there.

PFF, the free blog editor for Firefox should NOT have been rebranded as well. They could have done some sort of *intelligent* monetization on that tool (enough to not make it annoying with ads). With over 400,000 downloads of scribefire and many more with the old version, they could have done a lot with it.

I believe the metrics tool is (was) a great asset — they really should think about repackaging it and not leave it where it is (in the gutter). That to me has great value if pitched to the a potential company in the right way.

]]> By: Deepak http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770210 Deepak Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:59:30 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770210 Wow .. that was very sudden and sad. I never tried the ad product, but their metrics product was very useful and I continue to use the blog editor. I wonder what happened cause all this unraveled very quickly. Wow .. that was very sudden and sad. I never tried the ad product, but their metrics product was very useful and I continue to use the blog editor. I wonder what happened cause all this unraveled very quickly.

]]> By: David Mackey http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770162 David Mackey Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:56:28 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770162 Wow. Little unexpected. Wow. Little unexpected.

]]> By: MrRoboto http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770006 MrRoboto Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:12:02 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-770006 Looks like he stuck it to his friend Chris Garrett... http://performancing.com/node/5651#comment-15384 Playing dumb -- "That's a dreadful waste. For want of a few grand..." Looks like he stuck it to his friend Chris Garrett…

http://performancing.com/node/5651#comment-15384

Playing dumb — “That’s a dreadful waste. For want of a few grand…”

]]> By: savvix http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769984 savvix Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:02:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769984 Holy cow. From their blog posts during the PPP acquisition it seemed that the only problem was their metrics product, otherwise they seemed to be doing well with Alexa traffic being healthy and all. This is quite a surprise and I'm wondering why nobody picked this company up before it went under since they definitely had a lot of traction. Holy cow. From their blog posts during the PPP acquisition it seemed that the only problem was their metrics product, otherwise they seemed to be doing well with Alexa traffic being healthy and all.

This is quite a surprise and I’m wondering why nobody picked this company up before it went under since they definitely had a lot of traction.

]]> By: Sean http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769977 Sean Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:58:42 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769977 They should have sold out to the man. They should have sold out to the man.

]]> By: George P. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769949 George P. Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:51:25 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769949 wow, this I was not expecting - this company seemed to explode out of the gates in the beginning - ah well wow, this I was not expecting - this company seemed to explode out of the gates in the beginning - ah well

]]> By: Nick http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769945 Nick Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:50:14 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769945 I thought performancing was on the up and up around the PPP aquisition... thats really too bad I thought performancing was on the up and up around the PPP aquisition… thats really too bad

]]> By: dreadsword http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769881 dreadsword Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:27:18 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769881 Yikes - so much for that. I thought they had a good thing going; they certainly had a lot of presence in the blogosphere for so quick a flame out. Yikes - so much for that. I thought they had a good thing going; they certainly had a lot of presence in the blogosphere for so quick a flame out.

]]> By: Allen Stern http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769747 Allen Stern Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:47:17 +0000 http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/01/22/performancing-heading-to-deadpool/#comment-769747 Really upsetting. Really upsetting.

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