A few days ago Tony Bishop who runs bishfish.co.nz in New Zealand sent me an email. If we had a marketing department I doubt they could have written a better ad for our Popular Pages and Recommended Reading widgets. Here’s Tony’s email:

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I put Feedjit Visitors Also Liked widget on all 7oo plus pages on my website www.bishfish.co.nz around 3 or 4 months ago and the results have been astounding:

• Time on site per visitor has nearly tripled
• Number of return visitors has more than doubled
• Pages visited per visitor has nearly quadrupled
• Advertising revenue has more than doubled

To say I am a happy Kiwi would be gross understatement – thanks for a great product!

Tony Bishop
New Zealand
Website: http://www.bishfish.co.nz/
Blog: http://www.bishfish.co.nz/bishonfish.html

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Glad to hear it’s working out for you Tony. If you have had a great experience with one of our widgets and have some data to share, we’d love to hear about it! Email us at support@feedjit.com.

Mark Maunder

Feedjit Founder & CEO

Just a quick heads up for our Feedjit users who use Blogger.com:

Blogger.com (Blogspot) went down this morning twice from approximately 5:45 PST to 7am PST and again from 9:15am to 10am PST. This outage did not affect Feedjit in any way except that we noticed a dip in the number of widgets we were serving for blogspot bloggers during those times – which is what caused us to investigate in the first place.

As yet there’s no mention of it on the official Blogger Blog, but I’m sure the team will have something up later today.

Have a great week.

Mark Maunder – Feedjit CEO

This evenings maintenance was completed as scheduled. Please let us know if you have any problems or suggestions by emailing support@feedjit.com.

Regards,

The Feedjit Team.

Feedjit will be unavailable intermittently from 6pm Pacific time for a 6 hour window on Saturday May 24. For our international users, the 6 hour window starts at:

1am on Sunday May 25th GMT/UTC

10am on Sunday May 25th Tokyo time

We are performing a major upgrade to our systems. We will try to minimize the amount of time during this window that Feedjit is unavailable. As usual this will not impact the performance of your website. The only potential impact is that your Feedjit widgets may not appear on your website during this window and the Feedjit.com website may be unavailable during this time.

We will do our best to avoid interrupting the service during this maintenance window.

We are performing this scheduled maintenance to upgrade our systems and software. This will ensure that Feedjit widgets continue to provide you with the excellent performance and fast load times you’ve come to expect from us.

Please email us at support@feedjit.com if you have any questions or require any further information.

The Feedjit Team. <support@feedjit.com>

Vanessa Alexander, the author of 52signals has recently become a Feedjit user and has written a great blog entry about Feedjit.

Melissa who runs Creatively Mine recently discovered Feedjit and is loving it.

Caroline recently became a Fan of Feedjit.

Phos Tan is discovering new things about his traffic with Feedjit.

FunkyMomma is also a Feedjit user and asked a few of her quietly anonymous readers to speak up and they did.

These are just a tiny fraction of the blogs during the last few days who have mentioned Feedjit. We do a regular search using Google’s blog search engine to find blogs who have mentioned Feedjit in the last 24 hours. So if you have something to say about us you can either email us directly at support at feedjit dot com or just share it with your users on your blog and we’ll probably find you.

Have a great Tuesday, may crowds of new visitors arrive on your blogs this week, and I promise I’ll try to blog here a little more than once a month (!!!)

Mark Maunder – Feedjit Founder.

After some very long hours this weekend I’m pleased to announce that Feedjit has moved into a brand new Lynnwood based hosting facility just north of Seattle where our offices are based.

We had a few scheduled interruptions to our service this weekend – one scheduled on Friday night and another last night. After we came back up in the new data center we had a few minor hiccups to work through. Thanks very much to all the users who reported any problems they had. The info you gave us was extremely helpful.

Now that this migration is behind us we will be focusing 100% on adding new features to Feedjit! Watch this blog for updates.

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.

Feedjit will be undergoing routine maintainance on Friday March 7th from 8pm Pacific Time to the following morning (Saturday) 8am Pacific Time.

For our European customers this is 0400 GMT to 1600 GMT on Saturday March 8th 2008.

For our Japanese and Asian customers this window is Saturday March 8th from 13:00 to Sunday March 9th at 0100 Tokyo Time.

This maintenance will not slow down the performance of your website. Our web servers will be up and responding to any requests. The only effect is that Feedjit’s home page will not be available and your Feedjit widgets will not appear on your website during this window.

We’ve reserved a 12 hour window during which Feedjt may be unavailable but we’re hoping to only use a fraction of that time.

If you have any questions regarding this or any other issue, please contact us at support@feedjit.com.

Mark Maunder – Feedjit Founder & CEO

We’re hiring!! Feedjit is based in Seattle in Pioneer Square – home of the worlds best coffee shops. We’re interested in chatting to Rock-Star ModPerl (2.0) developers and Ubuntu/Debian ops folks with cluster management experience.The encrypted string below is derived from an email address. If you can crack it, send an email to the address with your resume and we’d love to chat over coffee!

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Clue: The salt is ‘aa’ and the username matches ^[a-z0-9]{4}$