Update 2008-01-26: I don't know when it came back up, but it's back up and better than ever.

I went to BloggingZoom to do my daily run through the posts and found… NOTHING.

Knowing that Courtney Tuttle of "Court's Internet Marketing School" is a cofounder, I checked his blog and found "BloggingZoom Hacked". I think Vic's "Blogger Unleashed" blog may be housed on the same server as BloggingZoom because his site won't come up either.

BloggingZoom is growing rapidly. It poses a threat to other social websites that rely on the traffic that's leaving them and heading over to BloggingZoom. It's obvious to me, and should be obvious to you, that this hack attack is an attempt to put it out of commission. Wrong answer. Both Vic and Court have the finances and the connections to make BZ bigger and better than the other, similar, social websites. In fact, a not-so-closely guarded secret is that they were preparing for a new design and interface launch on February 1st.

I think, and this is my thought only, that the competitors weren't worried about BloggingZoom as long as BZ continued to use the Pligg software (based on a very old copy of Digg). An improved design and interface changed all that.