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