Monthly Archive for April, 2009

  • I have some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first? The good news? Ok! The good news is our friend Robert Scoble has a new kid on the way. The bad news is that his little bun is due the week of IZEAFest. When Robert agreed to keynote our event his wife wasn't pregnant, but all things change ... more...
  • How excited are you about the upcoming Star Trek movie? I know a bunch of us here at IZEA surely are (hey...we're a technology company and we're geeks)! May 8th can't come soon enough - "Beam us up, Scotty!" We have an awesome announcement for you guys. Drum roll please.... One of our SocialSpark Advertisers, Fandango, has ... more...
  • Enjoy this week's "Cheeky Tweets." If you see any while cruising through the Twitterverse and think they should be featured here, feel free to send them directly to me at ashley[at]izea[dot]com. You can also DM @IZEAinc or @IZEALove. Bonus: I found these Tweets back-to-back via my HootSuite dashboard, and thought they were really funny.  (Maybe these two should connect ... more...
  • A couple of days ago we were crawling through the slow queries logs (as we sometimes do when we're bored) and found another query we could clean up to make SocialSpark faster. I bet you didn't even notice our ninja deploy. Now the slowest page in the app is loading in 1/8th the time it was earlier this month. ... more...
  • PayPerPost rollout will have you seeing...well, not red! Great news! The latest PayPerPost rollout will most likely give you more marketplace Opportunities to choose from. We recently discovered a bug in the PayPerPost system that was making available Opps appear red to some users, when they actually should've appeared white. Nope, you weren't paranoid - there really were red Opps ... more...