Graham (Entrecard Owner)

Mar 8th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Lee Doyle you’ve started a movement!

This is the first stage on in revamping U Drop I Follow. Here we have the long awaited Wordpress widget for Entrecard and U Drop I Follow.

When you have downloaded this you will be able to create your Entrecard Widget. You and also give you all of U Drop I Follow badges to pick from.
(Remember I am paying people to design new badges!)

This is a great widget made by my good friend Stuart Ryan from Secluded Habitat. He has been hard at work on building the BETA version of this widget. This widget is for Wordpress (Self hosted) websites ONLY! I will be getting myself a Blogger widget made  as my goal is to get this service as easy to use as I can.

Right now registration is closed as I am working on a new signing up form for joining. You can still go ahead and use this but please join the BlogCatalog group for when it is reopened!

Soon I will have a system in place to really benifit the real EC droppers! It will organise everyone depending on your drop rank so the best droppers get to the top of the list!

So get ready for U Drop I Follow Version 3!

Please VOTE for the widget on the Wordpress page!

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I’ve been testing the Spawn of FireFox called “Flock“. Flock is basically Firefox dressed up for Social Media sites. if your the type of person who loves sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and others then this may be your dream browser! It is these types of sites that this browser is made for… This is not to say it is its only use though.

Flock has some nice features for bloggers. It has a cool feature-full writer for all the top blogging platforms. I never liked it much though, it just was not what i am used to. It would be great for people who use Blogger… But for wordpress users it will not offer everything you need. If you like me you have some plugins and some of these plugins might change a few things on the fly, of course this writer has none of things.

It does have some nice sharing features for sites like Digg and StumbleUpon. It also has a nice way of integrating the browser with Social sites, you can simply drag any content like a whole web-page or photo into a sidebar which has all your friends. It will then send the content to them and hopefuly they will check it out. Features like this is what really sets it apart from Firefox. It has a cool top menu which is great for quickly checking mail, RSS feeds, and your friends.

One feature that looks really cool is how you can search for media. This tool searches sites like Google and youtube for Videos and images. It then displays them in a nice top menu with imasges and other info.

The only thing I really use is Twitter and RSS feeds. The RSS reader is great, it is one of the only real features I used. I found the email checker a bit frustrating to use though

Flock also gives you your own home page. This homepage is hosted on your computer. It grabs your feeds and other content and displays it as a sort of MSN/AOL/iGoogle type page and gives you everything you need in one easy to use page.

Conclusion

Flock is simple not a browser that is built for me. It is made for the Facebook generation who love to share things and spend a lot of time chatting. For me I would only really use Twitter which I can find a better plug-in for FireFox ( TwitterFox).

Like twitter most of the features can be found in Plug-ins for FireFox. The only real selling point is the way Flock displays these plug-ins. It also has a nice Homepage which was nice to use… But it is not really anything you cant get for free from Google or Yahoo!.

For me I think I’ll stick with FireFox and Chrome. Maybe when I get all hip and start using all the social media sites that come and die I will switch… But don’t expect this for sometime