Performacing has decided to nix the deal with PayPerPost and will offer their blog statistics software, metrics, as open source. Nick Wilson has even recommended that if you don’t want to wait for an OS version of the software, you go checkout FeedBurner’s new stats (which I have just installed).
There is a lot of mixed reviews on the deal between Performacing and PayPerPost and the fact that it fell through. PayPerPost wanted to acquire Performacing which would give it access to their database of more than 28k subscribers. The Performacing community was pretty upset about this as there is alot of controversy surrounding blogging an PayPerPost. In the end though, it looks like Performacing chose to side with their community and while it won’t affect their wallet quite as soon as the PayPerPost deal would have, they have even more loyalty which I think will pay off over time.
A big thing I was wondering was, what would happen to Performacing for Firefox. I love this little extension and didn’t want to see it go away. Instead, it got it’s own little name: ScribeFire. If you’re a blogger and you haven’t used this extension, I highly recommend it, especially if you have more than one blog.