You currently have the best Pro Lijit response to date and its duly noted.

Have you considered doing PR for Lijit? They could certainly use you!

Barney,

P.U.B.

Several times this summer I've been concerned with putting our data on proprietary services with architectures beyond our own control, such as Twitter. It has been a long winded concern, but was further provoked by Twitter prohibiting me access to my own data (everything beyond 200 tweets in my back catalogue – which is about 80% of my/our Twitter activity). Now, Twitter has opened up again, but it remains a deep concern of mine the way we enthrust web services with “our” data.

Now, as I explore deeper what public feeds entail, I'm less worried. As long as the service offers ways to feed/export data, users remain in control. What we need to work at, then, is improve the feeds and make it easier to extract the information we need from them.

Facebook and other such architectures which offer no feeds/export still present a lot of problems, however.

Re: blip.fm and revenue models : Wouldn't they get a cut of all the songs “sold” from their site? Say 95% of listeners don't pay, but 5% buy a song, from which blip.fm earns a dime?

And now I'm a DJ! http://blip.fm/terris

So, the video you posted is dead on, and we're in year 3 of his predicted 50 years of chaos.

identi.ca, twitter, and blip.fm have NO REVENUE MODEL.

So google had better f-ing figure this out.

Once P.U.B. has reviewed Lijit's plan when released, we will update our recommendation for Publishers accordingly.

Thanks for this post,

Barney Moran,

Founder, P.U.B.