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Site Updates & Changes a.k.a. hello friendfeed

June 5th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

Removed Google Reader stream
Removed Twitter stream
–> Replaced both with friendfeed stream. friendfeed displays my shared content from around the web, including my shared items from Google Reader & my updates on Twitter. friendfeed is a keeper, but might build a widget..see below.

Sidenote: The friendfeed embed script doesn’t seem to render properly in IE6. It required a change to the stylesheet (inline changes at this point) to redeclare width & to set the overflow as hidden. Ex: <div id=”some_div” style=”width: 400px; overflow: hidden;”> I’ve checked out 2 different widgets, but neither worked well with my current theme and didn’t display thumbnails.

Tags, Archives, and Contact info removed from sidebar
—> They are incorporated into the tabbed box at the top right.

Removed/Readded/Removed/Undecided on the ShareThis widget.
—> Caused slow page loads & is blocked by websense, need to find an alternative. That’s why you see a blank space under leave a comment & before Related Items. When I think about it though, do people actually use the “share this” button on web sites?

Updated Related Items display
—>Now inline versus bulleted text.

Dropped Lijit Search
—>I was torn on this one. I really like the widget, I like the company, and I like the concept. However, I found that I used it more to display my social homes than for searching. In a perfect world, I would have kept it , but I just couldn’t figure a good way to integrate it. They still get the big recommendation from me.

Added a Social Homes plugin & widget (hacked & edited)
—>More customizable as a simple social homes display than lijit. You can get the original wordpress plug by Elie Zananiri from silentlycrashing.net. I hacked it to add a couple of new social network, i.e. Mento. [I freaking love Mento, only use del.icio.us now to back my links from Mento]

Considering Disqus
—>I don’t have that many folks who post comments, but I like the community idea. Am not sure if I really want to direct people to another site.

That’s about it for now.

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  • Beyond consideration of functionality is the critical sanctity of Publishers private statistics. We at P.U.B. consider the safety of the information any app or widget(s) may be gathering, unbeknownst to the unwitting Publisher who installs them.

    P.U.B. [Publishers Union of Bloggers] has pending inquires to Widget Providers concerning how they generate their income and what percentage of this income goes to the Blog Publisher making the critical decision to allow a Widget on their site for their readers. In addition we are requesting transparency on the critical issue of how the private statistic from Publishers Blogs are being used, hopefully with the Publisher’s permission!

    P.U.B. expects to heard back from Lijit on these financial and private statistics issues from P.U.B’s inquiry we sent to Lijit in mid April 2008. Based on Lijit’s prompt and courteous service to publishers who install the Lijit Widget, we anticipate a transparent answer from them any second now! When we get this speedy and transparent response from Lijit Networks we will let great Blog Publishers like you know their deal. Currently we are also working with Blog Publishers to track performance hit evaluations of Widgets too.

    Will publish these results to keep the community of Blog Publishers informed on this critical component of Widgets on our Blogs.


    Sincerely,

    Barney Moran for P.U.B.
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