Techcrunch has an interesting post about a new service called Payperpost. This service is a marketplace that will connect bloggers with advertisers that want to promote their products throught blog entries. This will obviously bring a lot more “noise” in the blogosphere which is already swamped by splogs and because of that there are quite a few reactions from bloggers. However, this is already happening, it’s just that until now there wasn’t a site or a company dedicated to it.

I just took a look at Payperpost.com and some first observations that will make this a failure in my opinion are:
1. They have to approve your post in order to get paid, that means that you could blog about something and not get paid at all.
2. There are no requirements for PR, traffic, age of blog etc That might lead a lot of people to create splogs just for using to promote payperpost’s advertisers.
3. The payout is extremely low 5-10$ per post? That’s a joke

Anyway this is something that has be happening and that will continue to happen in the future but to be honest I don’t see how payperpost could be succesful if they don’t change their business plan

According to this article Google will launch it’s new service, a payment system that most people currently call GBuy on June 28. GBuy looks to be a direct competitor to eBay, however until it is released no one can say for sure what kind of features it will have and how much similar to eBay it will be. To be honest I wouldn’t mind eBay getting a bit of competition, some serious competition I mean.

The article closes:

“Short term, GBuy is more negative for eBay than it is positive for Google,” Rohan said. “Longer-term, it could be a game-changer.”

Google has released their finance tools today and of course, it’s under beta (would you really trust a google product if it wasn’t under beta, its almost part of their brand now).

It is really nice looking and as are all google products quite clean. Two noteworthy features are the fact that when a quote search is done it also pulls up related blog posts and discussion.

And of course there is a whole bunch of “cool ajax” so take a look.

Wow, am I ever excited at what this could mean. Google Base is now also a payment platform. Google is currently only taking a cut from payment processing not listings. Hopefully this forces Ebay to take a good look at themselves and realize their fee structure is out of control.

As the number of Google services has increased, we’ve continued to build on our core payment features and migrate to a standard process for people to buy our services with a Google Account. Examples of this migration include enabling users to buy Google Video content, Google Earth licenses, and Google Store items with their Google Accounts. We also just began offering similar functionality on Google Base.

Looking ahead, we want to continue building payment services that meet the needs of Google users and advertisers. We expect to add payment functionality to Google services where our users need a way to buy online. For us, it’s all about bringing our users a better online experience whether they’re searching or buying.

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