This will obviously cause quite a stir in the blogging world. Reading through the Izea townhall meeting transcript a few statements stuck in my mind as encouraging for everyone involved. First, Izea is a fast moving target not easily thrown off course by Google’s attempt at censoring bloggers through PR (pagerank) deletion (Google Smacking). Second, I got the impression Izea does listen to feedback from both the Posties and the advertisers. Speaking of advertisers there are now over fourteen thousand using the Izea platform. WOW.
Now for the good news. But before I go there I wanted to make a point of expressing my opinion that the honorable FTC Chairwoman Deborah Platt Majoras, seen here helping Jones Day celebrate their 20th year anniversary, doesn’t understand the power of Google and the possible danger posed by their acquisition of Double Click. OK, with that out of the way everyone should know that Izea will be dumping Google’s Page Rank - yeah boy - and that Social Spark is on track. Maybe not tomorrow, but it did like we’ll see it this calendar year.
*this is an evolving article - updates through the day with announcements from Izea
