A couple of days ago, I wrote about Performancing being sold to PayPerPost. As we learned more, I was happy to see that their blogging plugin for Firefox was not included in the deal. Now we’ve got confirmation with the introduction of ScribeFire. Ryan Carter over at Download Squad has some details:
Performancing Firefox plugin is now ScribeFire - Download Squad
Now you know that PayPerPost acquired Performancing, right? The Performancing Firefox plugin (the blog editor) is now rebranded as ScribeFire. I’m glad the plugin is still its own entity. I am a huge fan of it, and I would hate for any kind of merger, acquisition, or take-over to mess with it. I like it just the way it is.
powered by performancing firefox
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been contemplating the possibility of targeting 2007 as the year that I migrate totally to computing on the ‘cloud’. By this I mean eliminating the use of specific computers (laptops, tablets, PCs) and depending on ubiquitous internet (cloud) connectivity to handle all my storage and processing needs. Even as recent as the last New Year’s holiday, this seemed to be just out of reach. Now, primarily due to the EV-DO access on my Palm 700p, the ability to ‘hit the cloud’ from just about anywhere - with reasonable speeds - seems possible. The anchor application for this approach is a rock solid, lean and efficient email application. Gmail has been the obvious choice. With a growing number of incremental enhancements, massive storage capability, and a decent, recently released phone (Palm compatible) client, I was ready to take the leap. Then…..this happened. Yikes!
While Google claims only a small number of users were affected (it seems that the issue had more to do with a bug in Firefox than a Gmail related issue), the blogosphere has been abuzz with the news. The thought of losing so much aggregated knowledge in the blink of an eye is really a frightening, and sobering reminder that living on the cloud’s edge can be a dangerous place to be.
I guess I’m still going to move ahead with the plan to migrate to the cloud (I’ll post details of my approach soon), but I will still rely on having a solid offline backup - which is further backed up by Carbonite.
To address the immediate issue of vanishing gmail, I recommend using a pop3 application, like Thunderbird, to suck down all emails from gmail for safe offline storage.
Michael Arrington broke the news yesterday, Performancing - makers of the excellent blog posting add-in for FireFox - has been acquired by PayPerPost. PPP has been very controversial in the blogging world, as it operates a service whereby bloggers get paid by product companies to blog about their respective products. Hired guns, essentially. Many have argued that this amounts to blog spam…others are less kind. As for me, I’m sad that Performancing sold itself to PPP; I can’t imagine they were the only offer around for this toolset. I’ve been using Performancing to post for a while now, having switched from BlogJet (which is excellent too, but not as ‘in-line’ as Performancing is), but I may consider leaving it as my blogging tool of choice given these turn of events.
Techcrunch » Blog Archive » PayPerPost In The News Again
They will be announcing the acquisition of blogging tools and services company Performancing
UPDATE: It looks like I, and others, may have come to the wrong conclusion on the PPP acquisition of Performancing. As Matt states, PPP is buying some of the assets of Performancing. This deal does not involve the Firefox add-in. That’s great news. I guess all’s well on the blogosphere this evening.
Merlin Mann, over at 43Folders.com, has compiled his 8-podcast interview with David Allen into one mega podcast. Each one of the episodes contains several pearls of GTD wisdom, and I highly recommend listening to them in your spare time:
Productive Talk Compilation: 8-episode podcast with GTD’s David Allen | 43 Folders
As promised, here’s the single-file compilation of the Productive Talk podcast interviews I did with David Allen, the author of Getting Things Done. The final version’s eight episodes clock in at a considerable one hour and twenty-six minutes, so this should give you plenty to listen to while you’re in line at the DMV.
