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- thumbster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I'm the CEO of ZiXXo and responded in the comments section of Chris' Blog. When you let people publish their own coupons, you get some crazy stuff that doesn't follow the rules. We respond as quickly as we can. Of course, we are being hit hard right now, hence the slow server...sorry about that too.
- miketrin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It looks like rss spam to me. I signed up and all I saw were weight loss offers. Junk.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So do our local advertisers have to give a link to their feed to Zixxo in order to place their coupons online? Or will Zixxo automatically find coupons in your local area, regardless of whether the business even knows about Zixxo.
- DBCubix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4No RSS feed if you don't register... no digg. I like the idea, but I don't feel like that I have to sign up and risk more spam just for an RSS feed.
- christophersisk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Working in the advertising industry, I can completely understand thumbster's comment. When you allow national advertisers to post ads, you will get all kinds of scams and nasty tricks. You just have to try and filter those out as best you can.
- kitsched, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Read about Chris Pirillo's experience with the service:
http://chris.pirillo.com/blog/_archives/2006/4/12/1882883.html
Not the most positive I'd say. - iWorks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2nothing like sitting at home on a sunday afternoon cutting into your lcd to get these coupons
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We've already fixed that now
- bedouin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone else not able to get the feed to load in Safari? I can't get it to work in Firefox either.
- mgorbsky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Try http://www.mailinator.com when you need to register for something one time and never need to hear from them again
- darb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting. Upon attemping to verify my Business - they provide a non-clickable VeriSign ID logo, as well as a non-secure page in which I am supposed to input my credit card number, to be verified for "1 cent".
- whnphl, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Works great for the Los Angeles area. I found an Office Depot one for 15 bucks off anything over 75$...I was going to buy a desk chair today, you just saved me 15 bucks, searchn. Great find!
- Gardenhead, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Stealing Discover Card's priceless campaign is none too cool. It seems like they ran out of money after all that stock photography and couldn't hire a decent ad director.
- sigUVa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's down
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1masater card?
- studiorats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, not too shabby. I sure beats the heck out of cramming my mail box at home with those dang loose leaf coupons, then having to sort through the mess. BTW I do love Papa John's pizza, too. I dugg it.
- xbill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe their tech guys should look at their
own database and see if they can print up some
dell coupon codes that always seem to
be floating around...
By the response time of their site - they sure need
to buy some better hardware!! - NiLeS, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1or http://www.dodgeit.com . RSS feeds of the mail box, and you don't have to sign up before hand.
Also, http://www.bugmenot.com has login info. (but not for this site yet) - ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm no zixxo fan, I've never even seen the site.
But that, thats hardly a review. He has one bad experience and trys to formulate a review based on it? - quanta88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know! I as a Canadian would advertise in a heartbeat. The Internet has no borders!
- slack31337, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Once again no Canadian offers ....
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1ZiXXo provides a 1-stop shop for creating, uploading and managing coupons. Then we syndicate them out to other websites, cellphones, web apps, etc. With the API (coming in 10-days) you can build coupons into maps, yellow pages, search engines, etc. So we don't focus on scrapping, we focus on providing the best solution for advertisers. While our user UI is very good (rate coupons, rate companies, tag, review, etc.) we expect other people to do even better at this (e.g. yellow pages, Yelp, Judy's Book, insiderpages, etc.) using our API. Oh and sorry about the server going down...we thought we were prepared to handle the load....working on it though Mea Culpa.
- PacoDG, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1No results in Orlando, FL.
- chonster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1what is a zixxo?
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Guys, we are looking at ways of allowing users to flag stuff as Adult, Spam, MLM, etc. to quickly remove them from the flow of positive offers. I would ask for your patience, but that doesn't cut it in Internet time, we need to solve this and we will.
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Load balancing issue, resolved now...until we . or something and it spikes hard again. It's so hard being popular. But we do apologize.
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you set your RSS/eMail to "National" then you get the tragedy of the commons (lots of spam & junk) but if you set it for local (or even qualify it with a local radius) that goes away. Thanks for the feedback, we'll make local the default, since we have heard the spam issue a lot (in the 24 hours we've been live).
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, it's an honest omission on our part. Our network guy did an ooops late last night and applied the cert without testing/planner and we did an OH CRAP, so we rolled back. We're trustworthy and all, but the cert will be completed/tested hopefully this weekend. It is specific to the production server so we can't even test it in our development server. But we are trustworthy...as far as you know ;)
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0You betcha, when you start a web2.0 company, you put all of your money into servers just in case you get Dugg!...doh, need more servers! Regarding the knock-off of Mastercard, as nerds we thought the whole joke was...well...priceless :)
- ZiXXonator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm not sure why we require registration for RSS feeds. I remember there was a reason, but hey if it was good I would remember it. Oh yeah, its because we combine that function with email alerts and we don't want to spam people (bogus email addresses). Maybe we can separate them and allow the RSS without registration. Thanks for the feedback. I'm not pandering for Diggs mind you...begging better describes it ;)
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2looks pretty interesting, and a deal is always a good thing. It's a good idea that they have ratings for the company and the coupons themselves, so people using this service don't get ripped off
- ericnmu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1looks like its down?
- reddit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1digg effect... already!
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