We just found a really small bug, with big consequences: as some of you may have noticed, your feeds were not refreshed anymore: Oopss! We did fix that, and all feeds should be refreshed correctly in the next few hours. Sorry for that…
In the next few days, we will try to enhance our monitoring systems to prevent “invisible bugs” like the one we faced to occurs again. In the meantime, you should never hesitate to tell us if you discover some problems on Ziki and that you don’t see them fixed after 24 hours.

We’ve been recently testing a Google AdWords campaign on some Zikis and here is some “heads up” on how it’s going and what we’re trying to accomplish.

We purchased sponsored links on some names to get the corresponding Zikis listed at the top of their Google search results page. What we are trying to do here is find the best way to manage one’s online identity.

People are searching for you on the net. We want to make sure they find the right information first! Your Ziki is your personal web page to tell about yourself and assemble your digital life. So we thought, what’s better than getting your Ziki listed at the top of the search results page to control what people find when “googling” your name?

Of course it’s also a way to promote our service, but instead of spending our marketing budget only promoting Ziki, we’re trying to have our users benefit from it too. Before doing it full scale though, we prefered to test it on a limited number of Zikis, hoping the results would tell us whether or not to expand it to other active users.

The good news is that we’re very happy so far with the outcome of this campaign. Those of you for whom we purchased sponsored links have mainly reacted very positively to the initiative. So it’s reinforced in us the idea that we should expand it to all active Ziki users. We’re currently seeing how we can automate the process and allow you to customize the content of your ads. We’re not quite there yet…But stay tuned. With this post we wanted to keep you in the loop on what we’re doing. So more info to come! In the meantime don’t hesitate to tell us what you think!

Just a quick note to inform you that we’ve made your Ziki URL easier to remember.

Instead of http://ziki.com/people/username, you can now use http://my.ziki.com/username

Easy to communicate to your friends, easy to use as your email signature, your vcard etc. But the other address still works though.

Oh, and remember to complete the “contact details” section on you Ziki, that makes it way easier for people to connect with you