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Yesterday was hectic — We hung out with Entrecard community (ate same some virtual Pita & chips while we were there), and saw some conversations coming from SocialSpark & CreativeWeblogging bloggers.

We saw good amount of traffic coming in — new users, new issues, new ideas and some fresh perspectives. For the code rollout which happened yesterday, we added some ‘happy’ features and inadverently added some unhappy bugs. We ignored Joel Spolsky’s Step #5. (Though, I wanna put the blame on the loss of quietness; you know, tweets, phone calls Skype, FriendFeed, Google Reader, Starbucks, and interruptions for lunch :))

To the list, here are the issues we found (most of them fixed):

• Layout issues when using custom UI (or custom CSS). While in the Entrecard chat room I advised folks to stay away from custom UI, rescinding that, this is FIXED now
• Blogspot script snafu. Due to a bug, we were just sending a key and not the scriptlet. This was happening to only a segment. This is FIXED now. We’ve resend the emails with the scriptlets to the affected users
• Profile Image upload. This was a technical issue where our local Linux system clocks were out of sync with Amazon S3 server clock. S3 allows a delta of 15 minutes. We found that our NTP server got misconfigured and was reading the wrong time zones. This is FIXED now
• WordPress 2.6. We were taking it easy on this release as it was supposed to come out early next month. To our surprise the release came out a month ahead of schedule. We are releasing a beta version of SezWho plugin for WP 2.6 (Download here)
• Blogspot latency. Our blogspot plugin has been slow in syncing up the comments and posts. We’re still working on this. Please bear with us if your published comment/post does not show up with the SezWho functionality right away. IN PROGRESS

Here are the features we’re going to work on:

• Support for multiple blogs in the same database
• Filtering out comments from the same site. Right now, you have to manually suppress them one at a time
• Merging of accounts
• Easier configuration of custom UI components like rating throbbers, stars, and boxes
• Rating layout issues. There are some themes where the layout gets all skewed up

If not for the issues, we did wanna sing some Beatles, today, but we are reserving that for Friday evening. A big thank you to everybody for their comments, conversation, and participation!

We are making 3 big announcements today

1. EntreCard: Entrecard is a blogger-to-blogger widget advertising network, has formed a partnership with SezWho that allows members to earn advertising dollars for their best comments. Below is the take of one of our common users, Lee, that summarizes things nicely:

Also see Graham’s post here.

2. Creative Weblogging: Creative Weblogging is one of the fastest growing international professional blog media networks, that is partnering with SezWho to bring reputation-driven user profiles to members. SezWho drives community engagement and traffic for bloggers by displaying their universal profiles with their contributions across SezWho-enabled social media sites. Users get the benefits of universal profiles, ratings, and comments, without giving up control of their data.

3. SocialSpark: SocialSpark is the world’s largest social media marketing network that will offer SezWho to help bloggers build and monetize their reputations based on their contributions and areas of expertise.

Welcome to the community everybody…and don’t be a stranger.