Izea had a town hall meeting on Wednesday and the biggest news was they are taking page rank out of the equation. Below are just a few of the questions that were asked of Ted Murphy from the posties and I thought it was pretty cool that he tries to keep everyone informed about the future of Social Spark and PayPerPost. The questions are in random order I didn’t want to post the whole transcript because it had a lot of trivial stuff.

Personally I think Google page rank should totally disappear from the web or they should just hide it from the populace. The only thing it has been used for is a measurement of how much you can charge for advertisements. I believe that most advertisers prefer trafficked blogs that will send them visitors and potential customers over the seo aspect at least that would be my priority over page rank.

skeet: Anything new and amazing for us today, Ted?
Ted Murphy: Nothing to show off today… but we are definitely working hard to deliver socialspark for you soon. banging out problems every day.

Michael White: What’s the future of PayPerPost like with SocialSpark on the horizon?
Ted Murphy: That remains to be seen. We will be making some updates to the ppp system over time, it all depends on how fast socialspark takes off.

brettbum: Has any progress been made with Google or Matt Cutts or did everyone agree to not quite agree?
Ted Murphy: There is still some potential there, but there are definitely some issues we don’t agree on. I want to do right by Google but they need to have a uniform application of policies.

falsedragon: Nice to see you joke about PR when most of us no longer have any and most advertisers still want it. If you truly belive ‘what’s PR’, then when can we expect you to actually do something about it?
Ted Murphy: I can promise you that PR will dissapear in the future. Timing depends on how fast we wrap socialspark, but we will be removing PR from PPP in favor of other data.

Bob: So pr will be gone from PPP and social spark even though its in the video?

Ted Murphy: Yes. gone. bye bye. so sad.

Ted Murphy: I think I hit on this already. pr is gone in SS and will go away in PPP.

Bob: When will social spark beta testing begin?
Ted Murphy: I have a meeting about that Friday morning. I hope to know more then.

dragonfly183: Is there a concrete launch date for social spark yet
Ted Murphy: Not yet. we are focused on doing it the right way, the blogosphere isn’t too forgiving for us.

Tim @ Bloggerista: What is the advertisers’ feedback to nofollow in socialspark?
Ted Murphy: Some good, some bad. the seo’s don’t like it much, but the regular advertiser have no problem with it. My guess is that 98%+ of all online ads have no-follow, most advertisers aren’t looking for seo, they are looking for clicks and sales.

Michael White: Are more advertisers coming on board with the use of Izearank?
Ted Murphy: There are more advertisers coming on board, though we don’t have any data yet as far as the impact of IZEARanks. We have yet to put out an official press release. That should go out next week.

dragonfly183: Do you think we will continue to have problems with Google even after were all using no follow?
Ted Murphy: I can’t see why… but then again I can’t see why Google does a lot of things.

Colleen: What’s been your biggest disappointment with PayPerPost / Izea so far?
Ted Murphy: hmmm. That is an interesting question. I’m not really one to dwell on the past. Life is full of challenges and I feel pretty good about the way we have dealt with ours. sometimes things don’t go as planned but through it all we have kept our heads held high.