This is really hard to do, but it’s time to move on.  I’m shutting The XBroker down inside of 30 days.

This site will redirect to my Google+ account, where I will publish any future articles as well as general life and thought streaming.

The move isn’t a statement against blogging, the merits of having your own site or any such nonsense.  It’s just a move that is right for me.  I know I don’t control what goes on over there and Google could take what I produce and lock me out, shut down and/or… whatever.  I’m not the type to worry about what I cannot control.

Google+ provides what I’m looking for: The ability to be found, a relevant audience and engagement in an elegantly simple user interface… and a couple other theories that I want to test myself, including what they do with some of their expected API’s.  We shall see.

I owe a lot to this personal publishing platform I started way back in August of 2006.

It has quite literally introduced me to every business opportunity I’ve had the honor of participating on since its launch and that I continue to participate in.

Most importantly it has introduced me to some amazing people, many of which I now consider close friends.

Over the past few months I’ve contemplated a complete site overhaul, total reinvention as well as simply starting to write again.  However, for one of a multitude of reasons, I haven’t done anything meaningful here since my last post back in December of 2010.  There is still a lot of valuable content in these archives, articles I’ve spent countless hours writing with passion and conviction.  Many of them will have a place to live once a suitable repository is identified.

In the end, The XBroker is depreciating rapidly and she deserves to be set out to pasture rather than sit idly by and collect dust… so it is- The End.

Peace out…

JeffX