We are experiencing some network troubles here and they are causing numerous sites, including SocialSpark, to be somewhat unresponsive. I have a team of people looking into the issue and as soon as I have more information on the problem and its resolution, I’ll update this to let you all know what it is. Update ...

Ted warned some time ago that we would soon be starting to filter the traffic IzeaRanks measures. We have just pushed some changes to the IzeaRanks tracking engine live that we are certain will bear fruit in pushing bloggers with good quality traffic to the top of the charts. Since the first launch of IzeaRanks ...

This week is not going so well. Our server failure yesterday has been followed with a database failure today. Our redundancy in the servers is keeping the site up, but performance is suffering horribly and we need to restart one of the master database servers to get everything in sync. This means SocialSpark has to ...

Just a heads up, there appears to be a problem either with our CDN or Amazon S3 as images are taking a ridiculously long time to load within SocialSpark at the moment. We have engineers looking into the issue and hope to have a resolution shortly. Update: This has been resolved. The issue was traced ...

Some people have been quite concerned that a display bug was showing the number of visitors and uniques to a blog even if the blog’s stats were set to private in SocialSpark.  Just wanted to drop a note that this SocialSpark display issue was addressed on Friday afternoon and that should no longer be a ...

Well, after all the plotting, planning, designing, coding, organizing, promoting, deploying, tweaking, changing, updating, enhancing, polishing, rehearsing, and furniture moving, IZEAFEST is finally here. If you’re already booked to come along, then don’t forget the cocktail party tonight at the Bohemian Hotel on Orange in Orlando. Originally we had planned for this to be outside ...

As you know, we recently started a quality assessment on the blogs in our network. We’re focussing on PayPerPost right now since that’s where the majority of the blogs are registered. We have a mass of blogs to work through so if you have a blog registered in the system that you no longer use ...

Sorry for the short notice of the final details, but I’m happy to confirm that the Townhall meeting tonight is set to go ahead. Point your browsers at breeze.mindcomet.net/izea at or before 7pm Eastern to join in the fun. We look forward to seeing you there

I just wanted to post a heads up. Izearanks.com went into test on Friday with a handful of external users. Those users have been dilligently banging away on the site and have found a couple of bugs that we’ll have fixed in short order. At this point it looks very likely we’ll be opening the ...

Sometimes this software stuff is just plain hard. We had planned to release IzeaRanks.com this week but have instead err’d on the side of caution. IzeaRanks.com will let each of you drill down into just what your RealRanks actually mean. Whether you’re a PayPerPost user, a SocialSpark user, or just a blogger looking for a ...