The Feedjit Blog

Last night we did some planned maintenance on Feedjit. We made a few changes to the addresses of our servers in something called DNS. We ran into a few hiccups and had to change things several times. That left many DNS servers a little confused about what the address for Feedjit is.

In 99% of cases things are working fine now. But we’ve received a few emails this morning from people who can’t see their Feedjits.

If you can’t see your Feedjits it is most likely a problem with your local Internet service provider’s DNS not having updated correctly. Most of your users can see your Feedjits just fine even if you are currently unable to.

These problems will correct themselves as the slower DNS servers update themselves during the course of today.

My apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

This evening’s maintenance was completed successfully. Thanks for your patience.

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One of our newest Feedjit bloggers is Paperlilies, a London comedian who created the Youtube clip of pretend Brittney giving advice to her little sister. She’s been in Now Magazine and the Daily Mail recently for her antics. Visit her blog here.
Welcome to Feedjit Paperlilies!!

Feedjit is installed on hundreds of new blogs every day. We get a real buzz out of seeing bloggers and webmasters using our product and finding Feedjit useful. When we show up on a blog we recognize or a blog belonging to someone famous we get double the buzz!

Here are a few blogs and websites who use Feedjit today:

“The Church of the Flying Spagetti Monster”

“REMHQ - R.E.M’s Official Website”

“A Welsh View”

“Bloggers Blog - Blogging the Blogosphere”

“All Talk For Women”

“901am New Media News”

“Katya’s Non-Profit Marketing Blog”

This is a tiny sample of more than 16,000 websites who use Feedjit. In the coming weeks I’ll mention a few more of the great blogs and websites who use Feedjit.

Happy Holidays from all of us at Feedjit. We’ve been hiding out in our lab quietly working away so check back in the new year for some exciting new announcements.

~The Feedjit Team

107 days since the launch of Feedjit we’ve finally got a blog of our own! Lots of news to tell…

Our friends at SixApart have written about Feedjit this week on Typepad’s official blog. You’ll also find all 4 of Feedjit’s widgets in the Typepad Widget Gallery. A warm welcome to the many new Typepad bloggers who installed Feedjit today!

We launched two new widgets yesterday. Our Recommended Reading Widget and our Page Popularity widget. These are both designed to help bloggers and webmasters make their sites more ’sticky’ or less ‘bouncy’ - pick your favorite buzz word.

Search engine traffic and traffic from sites like Digg and Reddit generally has a high bounce rate. Visitors arrive, they look, they leave. Our two new widgets help you show off your best content and can help reduce that bounce rate by drawing visitors deeper into your website.

Feedjit continues to grow at an insane rate. We’ve just passed 12,000 bloggers and websites using Feedjit in just over 3 months and we’re serving over 70 Million widgets per month now. Our sign up rate continues to increase, so hold on because this is going to be quite a ride.

Our page popularity widget which we launched yesterday was suggested by several of our users. We rely on your feedback to shape the direction Feedjit is going to take and we’d love to hear more of your suggestions! Either email us at support@feedjit.com or just post a comment here.

Keep an eye on this blog for new product announcements and Feedjit news.

Mark.