Just a little Cooqy

I recently received a heads up that Cooqy’s widgets weren’t redirecting to eBay listings from MySpace.  After some investigating, I dicovered that MySpace now converts all HTML links in profiles to a “www.mpslinks.com” URL, that serves to filter all outbound links from MySpace profiles.  Apparently this was changed by MySpace earlier this year, but because old profiles were not impacted I had not noticed.  Only new profiles or changes to existing profiles would cause the HTML links to be replaced by MySpace.

Cooqy’s Widget Wizard has been updated with a fix to make the widgets compatible with MySpace again.  Any users of Cooqy’s widgets on MySpace who notice that their widgets don’t link to their eBay items should re-run the Widget Wizard at http://www.cooqy.com/widgetWizard.htm.

In other news, Cooqy’s server settings have been tweaked today 9/18/2007 in an attempt to improve performance.  So far, the results seem positive.  Cooqy’s traffic recently doubled, necessitating the change.

So, even though I am still busy developing my new venture called Qrowd and consulting on multiple OpenLaszlo development projects for clients, Cooqy is still receiving my attention as required to keep the service running smoothly.