MESH has been an interesting conference. Aside from being called "The most evil man in the room" by Mike Arrington during the keynote address yesterday the conversations and people have been fantastic. Mike spoke very candidly about his need to sensationalize what he blogs about, I guess he felt it was time to take that to a whole new public forum. His slander was uncalled for, but to each his own. We have some great video of Mike's keynote which we will post on a future episode of RockStartup. I feel a nomination for a Golden Donkey coming on.

I was happy to see Loren Feldmen of 1938 media here. That guy is a no BS barrel of laughs, and always has something to say. From the minute I saw him again I could tell something was different. I asked him why he was beaming and he quickly told me that he had found the women of his dreams. Congrats buddy! If Loren seems too happy in his future videos you now know why : ) We hung out last night at a VIP dinner in the Distillery District...that place is very cool, eh.

My breakfast and lunch conversations were intriguing. Canadians aren't as familiar with PPP as people in the US. After Mike's comments yesterday I found myself explaining the model and trying to set the story straight the best I could. Have you ever sat down with someone you never met and had them say "Hey aren't you that evil guy?" It was funny... the first 10 times. The good thing was everybody knew me. The bad thing was they were wondering what Mike's beef was.

Loren and I just wrapped up an interview where Loren kissed me (on the cheek) for the second time in 24 hours. That guy is too much! True, I kissed Travis on the cheek but that was Vegas and I had just won a ton of money. Loren was completely out of the blue. I guess he is just so happy with his new girl that he is spreading the love around. There is no FTP access here so look for that video on his site later tonight or tomorrow.

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If you are a Postie or an Advertiser and would like to meet me for a drink I will be at The Boiler House tonight along with a bunch of other people from MESH. I will be at a special event prior to the The Boiler House and should be there about 10pm or so.

Event info here

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UPDATE!!! Mystery no longer! Well, actually, it's been on our boards for a while...no matter! We're quite pleased to let our posties know that Chris is the lucky blogger that snagged our last HDTV Tuesday Opp! You can read Chris's post here, but don't be too jealous!

And Chris, we couldn't have said it better ourselves,

I just never knew they could bring a man, a tv set, and happiness together so well.

What a great quote! Many thanks to PayPerPost for this tremendous HDTV, and also, to Jeff. Whoever you are, you showed Chris the blogging ropes. Now that's a good friend. W00t!
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[This is not the original post, but I tried to remember the basics of it! Don't judge!]
As of this morning, the HDTV Opp had been taken by a very patient blogger! The Opp was released just before 5AM EST. Yes, we know who it is- no, we're not sharing!

After a few tweaks have been made to his post, we'll release for all the world [read: you anxious folk who keep coming back here!] to read. :) Patience, patience!

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Travis and I arrived in Toronto last night. It took us awhile to get through customs and get our bags but we finally made it. Apparently Travis looks a little suspicious. I am here for the MESH conference, I will be speaking tomorrow on a panel about monetizing the long tail of the Internet. The conference starts in about 20 minutes with a keynote by Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, should be interesting to hear what he has to say.

So far I like Toronto. I was amazed at how green the city is when flying overhead. The only thing driving me a little batty is that the sun sets so late and rises so early. I don't sleep very well when it's not dark outside. I'll post a few updates over the coming days.

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We are so excited to be nominated under the category of "Publishing" for a CNET Webware 100 Awards. Please support PayPerPost by casting your vote here.

Webware.com is the site where online users can learn about new and useful Web applications. Check them out here www.webware.com. Remember to get your vote in for PayPerPost before June 11 2007.

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It's going to be a long night! Why??? Sometime between noon today and noon tomorrow we will be creating an Opportunity that has a brand new Sony 50" Grand WEGA LCD HDTV attached to it. There will only be one Opp and one slot, the first person to grab it gets it.

The last Opp sat out there for over an hour before someone found it. Maybe you can be the lucky person to grab this Opp.

Sorry, U.S. residents only (yes, I know...).

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I am totally fired up about an Opportunity that we are posting today. Universal Music Group has partnered with us to bring an exciting new Opportunity to the Posties. As I am sure many of you already know the Police are doing a huge tour this year. I know that Robb from the sales team was lucky enough to score some tickets. What you may not know is that Universal Music Group is releasing a new 2-CD Police Set.

This thing is awesome! It's called "The Police" and it includes 28 classic tracks plus a vintage 1979 foldout concert poster. Look at how young Sting is!

This thing has all them songs you love.

These 2-disc sets don't come out until June 5th, but Universal has already sent us 100 copies. Why? Because they want us to send them to Posties! How cool is that?!?!

Here's the deal. In the next few hours we are going to be releasing an Opp that has 200 slots available. 100 of those two hundred Posties will be receiving a Postie Pack that contains The Police 2-disc set as well as some other cool Postie Gear. The Customer Love team will be picking the best posts to receive the Postie Pack so put your heart into it.

These songs are timeless, I know you guys have got to have some good stories! Photos and videos are always encouraged. More cool Opps for the Police coming in the near future!

This Opp is available to U.S. residents only.

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A few posts down we posted about the features of Tuesday's rollout. One of the things we mention was doing away with the RLOD. The RLOD as *WE* understood it was when a postie would click on "TAKE" for an opportunity they would be presented with the screen to fill in the information about their post and telling them they had a reservation on the opp.

They would then fill out their information and do their post and when they clicked SUBMIT it would then inform them in big bold red letters that the opportunity was filled, thus wasting that postie's time.

What was happening is, when an opportunity got down to it's LAST reservation and two posties clicked on it at the same time they BOTH got reservations. Then it was basically a race to whomever got the post in first. The person who clicked submit first would get the opp and the other postie would get the "RLOD".

What we did was fix the reservation system. Before, reservations was just a number and when postie's clicked take that number would just decrement. If it was 0, no more posts could be made. Now the reservations are actual "objects" that are created when the post is created. Think of them as drawers in a dresser. When an opp is created the dresser is built and a number of "empty drawers" are put into place. As posties click "take" they basically claim a drawer as their own and they have 6 hours to fill it. (*Yes you read right, reservation time has been increased from 1 hour to 6 hours*). Once a drawer is claimed, no one else can claim that drawer. So what happens when two posties click "Take" when there's only 1 drawer left? Whoever clicked first claims the drawer and the other postie gets the RLOD, which is as it should be.

Hopefully this helps to clear up any confusion.

Thanks!

Trevor

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This HDTV Tuesday is going to be the big one. One lucky blogger will grab an Opp with a Sony 50" Grand WEGA LCD HDTV attached to it. This week it took over one hour for someone to find the Opp for the Super Blu Player...and we are planning on hiding this one just as well. What time will it be released? What will the Opp look like? Only Karen knows....

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The purpose of my post is really two-fold: #1 I am personally trying to get a little creative, and make my video confessionals more interesting. Not only for myself but also for those viewing them. Mostly I want them to be informative, and hopefully somewhat educational. And of course I'd like them to be entertaining as well -- who knows, maybe next time I'll do my video standing on my head! Essentially I'd like to convert them into vlogs, with the intent of getting more engaged with you...our audience! With that, if you haven't viewed either one of my past two videos, I'm charging folks with sending me questions -- questions about PayPerPost, blogging, online marketing, social media or life! My goal is to select a few questions and answer them during each vlog. Who knows, if you send in a question and I answer it, you might get a goody in return! I think this could be a lot of fun, and a great way for us to interact with one another, and teach each other new things! It could turn into something big...you never know!

Here are the confessionals where I ask viewers for questions:

This week's:

Last week's (sorry it's so long):

#2
I was inspired to start this little program because of my favorite video podcaster, Cali Lewis. She can be found over at GeekBrief.TV. Her daily podcast is short, entertaining, and informative! Folks around the office make fun of me because I've become slightly addicted to her show, and I won't lie I have a tiny crush on her too! Her enthusiasm is just too contagious! Show her a little love by visiting her site. Thanks to Postie Drew for introducing me to Cali's show.

I hope these new videos will be fun for you. If you have any ideas or suggestions about what to do with my vlog feel free to drop me a comment here, or e-mail me directly at Ashley(at)PayPerPost(dotcom).

Thanks to the following who have already submitted questions to me:

- Allthatscool.com
- AZ Dana's Wonderful & Wacky Weblog

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