Comments on: Lijit – How To Channel Surf Your Own Content

By: Web Ascender

Web Ascender — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:26:41 +0000

Haven't seen this service before, I'll have to test it out on my personal blog first ryandoom.com Ryan Doom - DotNetNuke Consultant

By: Tara Anderson

Tara Anderson — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:52:46 +0000

We appreciate the thorough review of our service, Bill. You do a great job covering all the different aspects of our value and we love it when our users get it.

If you (or any of your readers) have feedback about Lijit, please send it our way. I’m tara at lijit dot com.

Thanks again!

By: Bill Stevens

Bill Stevens — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:16:31 +0000

@ariel356 – Thanks. Yes I kind of figured this guy was up to no good.

By: ariel356

ariel356 — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:25:57 +0000

LOL — please don’t fall for the crazy rants of this guy, Barney Moran. He’s been dogging lijit for a while now. A google search on the guy reveals that his union doesn’t even have its own website, instead it’s a one-page blog, and has never hassled anybody except lijit. Can anybody say creepy disgruntled former employee?

Lijit’s been awesome! Their customer service is first rate.

By: Bill Stevens

Bill Stevens — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:51:00 +0000

Interesting. I’ll have to re-read the terms of use but if something like this were true, most likely Lijit will cease to exist for some folks. The WordPress default search mechanism with the right plugins is sufficient for a blog search engine as well as Google Custom Search.

A lot of Internet content is free reign in many forms – borrowing sentences, scraping, quotes, etc., just to name a few, we just don’t like to think it is.

Of course that doesn’t mean it’s right and if you’re a big company with big guns you can certainly shoot others down, but they’ll be rest assured – less and less people will think – less and less of that company. The Interwebz has a way of doing that.

Personally, I currently subscribe to Leo’s mindset.

By: Barney Moran

Barney Moran — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:45:09 +0000

Hi Bill,

Publishers Union of Bloggers currently advise Publishers hold off installing any Lijit Software on their blogs pending both Lijit’s filling the doughnut hole with its promised upcoming transparency from Lijit concerning revenue and Lijit’s current ‘terms of use’ which gives Lijit free reign concerning use of your content once our Publishers install Lijit Software into their blog.

Any thoughts on these critical issues for Pub’s, pass it on, all appreciate it.

Barney
Founder, P.U.B.