Performancing, the people who brought you the ‘Performancing For Firefox‘ extension for the Firefox browser, the people who once brought you a great metrics program and did their best to help bloggers succeed, the company that was almost acquired by ‘PayPerPal‘ has now been acquired by Splash Press Media:
New York,NY — February 14th,2007 — SplashPress Media, owner of numerous sites including The Blog Herald, one of the oldest sites on the internet covering blogging news and new media, has announced it is acquiring the core assets of Performancing.com including the bloggers’ community and Performancing Metrics.
This appears to be an up and up group and Lorrell VanFossen of Lorrell on WordPress (one of the top sources of info regarding WordPress) contributes to The Blog Herald so I’m of the opinion that this latest Performancing adventure into surviving is a good thing.
Unfortunately the Performancing website seems to be floundering about some what with it being redirected to another website at first (found the link in my Dashboard which actually took me to Performancing.com. Re-redirected I guess) and then I found that clicking on my account link in Performancing took me to Nick Wilson’s blog and it also appears my Performancing blog has disappeared as well. This doesn’t particularly bother me that much since I didn’t use it for more than two or three posts worth but I know other members made extensive use of theirs. Perhaps that is the reason mine is no longer there…I didn’t use it enough? I still would have liked to have been notified though.
So on that note and since Performancing’s website is apparently undergoing re-birthing pains and spasms, I’ll be removing their logo from my sidebar (once again) and if and when they have finally gotten all their ducks in a row, I might consider putting it back. No offense here, I just don’t want anyone clicking off the logo and getting the wrong impression while Performancing goes through the transition and things settle down some.
Until then—I’ll be wishing them luck in their new endeavor.
Update: David Krug stopped by and dropped a comment on this post that they’re having some .htaccess problems that is causing all the funky behavior at the Performancing site and they are working to solve the problems as I write this. Just the fact that David took the time to comment here at all shows that Performancing is probably in good hands now and follows the tradition that Nick, Chris and Patrick started.
I feel a bit better about things now.
Kirk,
We will be fixing some of these horrid htaccess problems asap. Sorry about that. Not sure why the redirect is happening. Something in .htaccess is redirecting some blogs over. Mostly Nick’s user account.
Thanks for the kind words.
David
I haven’t lost faith in Performancing at all. We all have to go through some transition in life and that includes websites, businesses and personal as well.
As soon as the site is up and running to your satisfaction David, if you could give me (us) a shout and I’ll be glad to put the logo back on my sidebar. I’m rather proud of it myself.
Kirk,
I’ve got your user profile working again. Will keep diggin on that blog stuff.
David
Thanks David. I’ve just been over and logged in. Even found my old blog back in working order. Perhaps I shall post a thing or two.
Oh, and I think things are stable enough now to put the logo back.
Thanks for you continued effort. Performancing was just too good to lose.
Thanks for the confidence and kind word about me, but Blog Herald, to my understanding, is a separate entity under the SplashPress Media umbrella. They own a lot of blogs. I’m just a little cog in the wheel.
It’s interesting watching blog conglomerates grow from what was originally so personal a concept into big business. I think SplashPress Media is making some very good decisions, including hiring me.
I can remember when the internet was nothing but a simple personal type thing and I was well into my career by then but we shan’t go there will we (I hate to date myself).
SplashPress Media obviously made at least one good decision, yes indeed. And you’re humble too.