Matt Mullenweg, ScratchBack Will Work For Wordpress.com
Sunday
Mar 2, 2008
Mark Evans asks the question… “How will wordpress make money?” I think the better question is…
“How will a million+ Wordpress.com bloggers make money?”
Bloggers may tell you that they don’t want to earn a few bucks, or more, from their blogging efforts, but deep down, they wish they could. It makes no sense to us that Wordpress.com doesn’t give them some type of system to help them earn.
I can see many bloggers not wanting to stick with them if they don’t assist them down the road into at least some type of monetization effort.
Of course, we believe that ScratchBack.com is that solution for them. So much so that we’ve been talking for months with a top executive over at WP.com. But so far, we’ve gotten no real forward progress. Probably because as Matt states, they aren’t in any hurry to monetize.
ScratchBack just makes sense for them though, doesn’t it? We think so. So, Matt Mullenweg, ready to hear us out? info at scratchback dot com.
Comments
Speed Yo
March 8th, 2008 at 4:45 am
You have provides such a good solution for monetize the blog. I was interested to monetize my blog for the next 1 week with your plugin. I will follow with this comment for installation after coming back from holiday. Nice job!
Terrance Charles
April 17th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
One of the best I’ve seen so far. They had a couple services that tried, and I’m not pointing fingers but this way outperforms them, great job.
Terrance Charles
http://www.terrancecharles.com/blog
Dr. Mike Wendell
April 18th, 2008 at 11:00 am
As the former forum moderator for wp.com, we were always told to tell folks that not allowing advertising was to limit the draw for spammers and the like to the service.
“Tip jar” links to Paypal are allowed by the service though. Always have been.
The issue is probably more because scratchback uses javascripts. Those are removed by the service’s filters because they’re considered a security risk. Since the software that runs wp.com is shared among all of the blogs, gaining access to the underlying files puts all of the blogs at risk. Plus, since logins are sitewide, it’s too easy to lift login cookies from your visitor’s browsers.