This is in response to my homie at bloggerista where he possess the question of PayPerPost filing an antitrust claim against Google?
To think that an antitrust case isn’t part of the exit strategy at IZEA is probably naive. -> As stakeholders in what happens, a lot of bloggers like myself are anxious and impatient, but we don’t have the wherewithal to fight the battle in court.
Hold up tiger. Has an exit strategy been discussed by Izea? If you have an inside source you’ve been holding out on us. 
Google is doing what Microsoft does best. Leveraging their monopoly position to stomp out competition. Izea’s board of directors should have suggested immediate action in saving face with the bloggers that make up PayPerPost. Instead Izea followed immediately behind Google and dropped us like hot potatoes. This was a huuuge mistake.
Robert MacEwan said…
Is Izea going to address those of us that previously had higher PR? We really should have been grandfathered in for the opps reserved for higher PageRank.
You dropped the ball on this.
Nov 18, 2007 11:47:07 PM
We’re bloggers. We blog about things. So what do you get with disgruntled blogs? Lots of bitching. So if the real exit strategy was to go public or merge with Yahoo! or Microsoft then they screwed their reputation in the long term.
It would have taken two to three months for Izea to prop their bloggers. Long enough for everyone to feel happy and throw their support behind SocialSpark and IzeaRank. Advertisers would flock to the platform seeing all these bloggers going ape shit with crazy love for Izea.
Ted Murphy said…
@Robert MacEwan:
We cannot adjust or grandfather old PR as that is not what advertisers are paying for. If they pay for a PR4 they should get a PR4.
Nov 19, 2007 8:41:19 AM
Instead you have bloggers discussing how poisonous a relationship is with PayPerPost. “Posties” made the company so why ignore their needs. This was the perfect chance to use the David (Izea) versus Goliath (Google) card.
So now it’s nearly Feb. 2008 and instead of SocialSpark being heralded by the masses of bloggers as the second coming of online ranking. We see them discussing jumping/dumping the PayPerPost ship before it sinking into irrelevance.
Referenced
http://community.izea.com/blog/2007/11/google-goes-aft.html
http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/could-pay-per-p.html?cid=97926018#comment-97926018
http://bloggerista.net/2008/01/16/should-payperpost-file-an-antitrust-claim-against-google/
