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I am a lecturer,researcher and consultant in Electronics and Computer Engineering at the University of Namibia.I am specifically involved in the development of Computational Intelligence based software for communication networks and other dynamic environments. I also have huge interest in Wireless Sensor Networks, Image Processing, and Network Security.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

SocialSpark: Is IZEA (PPP) dancing to Google's tune now?

At the ongoing PostieCon event, IZEA's CEO Ted Murphy has announced that in January 2008, they will launch SocialSpark, a “social network” for advertisers and publishers (bloggers). This will serve as a matchmaking network for bloggers and the advertisers.

I managed to get first hand information from Jim Kukral's blog. Jim is one of the speakers at the PostieCon event. He reveals that Ted Murphy told him that with the coming of SocialSpark, every publisher, in order to get paid, will have to ensure that
  1. Every link in the paid post is nofollow.
  2. A disclosure badge is included in the post.
With the PageRank upheaval of October 2007, many advertizers have resorted to asking publishers not to put a disclosure badge inside the paid post.They have strictly been opting for a a site wide disclosure only for fear of a Google crackdown, I guess. It is quite interesting to note that SocialSpark will enforce the nofollow attribute for every link in the paid post. With that done, publishers will have the freedom to disclose that theirs is sponsored review without any fear of the search giants.Google will surely like this! Is IZEA (PayPerPost) dancing to Google's tune now?

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