This is a courtesy warning that we will be taking Engagd offline for a few days while we upgrade the platform to a new improved version.

While the updates are mostly geared towards improving the platform and the APIs, there are a few subtle UI improvements to make using the platform a little usable.

A limited list of the changes include:

• Better error handling and correction.
• Blank documents not longer return a exception message, and instead return a blank form of the requested document.
• Better profiling results.
• Faster, more immediate profiling.
• ItemRank is far more stable and reliable with its ranked feeds.
• Many other enhancements.

These upgrades are expected to take quite some time to deploy, so we ask that you be patient during the migration and we apologize for any inconvenience.

I’d like to welcome all the new subscribers to this feed. There are a lot of you!

I’d just like to point out, however, that there was an error in the metadata for the DataPortability page that many of you subscribed to the APML RSS feed instead of the DataPortability RSS feed. If you are getting this post it means you are subscribed to either the APML or the Engagd feed and NOT the DataPortability feed.

While there are often cross-posts between the feeds, the APML feed focuses mainly on updates that affect the APML specification only. The DataPortability feed is much broader and includes information about other standards as they apply to user rights and data interchange.

If you would like to get DataPortability updates, please make sure you also subscribe to this feed: http://feeds.feedburner.com/dataportability

I apologize for the error and inconvenience. Feel free to flame me in comments!

Chris

Just a quick note to let you know that we have rolled in a number of Engagd bugfixes over the last few weeks.

Please keep up the great feedback and let us know if you come across anything else that doesn’t work quite right for you!

Still a lot more to come!

Thanks to Ash, Paul and the team.