Are you sad without your Shizzow IM notifications?

Many of you noticed last week that you stopped getting IM notifications from Shizzow. I have been crying over my green tea about all of the missed shouts and the missed opportunities to meet up with cool people that come with them. However, all is not lost.

Here’s what we think happened: we suspect that we have been blacklisted by the Google XMPP servers. If you are using GTalk or any IM service running through Google Applications at your company, you are probably not getting IM notifications. The rest of you are still happily receiving your notifications. We are working hard to resolve it by sending emails into an apparent black hole that is Google HQ. I suspect that it has something to do with the Large Hadron Collider, so if someone in the bay area could verify whether or not Google HQ has been sucked into a black hole, we would appreciate it.

OK, enough whining and speculating. You can still get your IM notifications by signing up for a non-Google XMPP / Jabber based IM account. Jabber.org seems to be working just fine for me right now.

We’ll let you know when we have wrestled our way off of the Google XMPP server blacklist. Wish us luck.