Comments on: Spotback Rating Widget: WordPress Plugin http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/ Computers and the Web - With a personal touch Sat, 09 May 2009 09:02:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Jane http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-36346 Jane Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:24:20 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-36346 I like your blog, this post is really good, but please vary your topics, it will broad your readership. I like your blog, this post is really good, but please vary your topics, it will broad your readership.

]]> By: WebStractions http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-472 WebStractions Sun, 27 May 2007 12:48:30 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-472 Thanx Micha. I will drop you a line then. Thanx Micha. I will drop you a line then.

]]> By: Micha http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Micha Sun, 27 May 2007 11:59:33 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-470 @WebStractions - the reason I rated some of the posts is that I came across them while reading our front page at http://spotback.com. This page is a very powerful and useful discovery tool and I often find great content there. In other words, it wasn't just giving a boost to your rating, I simply thought your content was worth rating :) As for your suggestion about knowing what blogs your raters post for - that's a good point. We actually already have this data in our system and only need to find the proper way to expose it. I will be happy to discuss this with you to get your thoughts on how you vision this in practice. You can contact me directly at micha (at) spotback (dot) com Great suggestion guys - keep'em coming! micha. @WebStractions – the reason I rated some of the posts is that I came across them while reading our front page at http://spotback.com. This page is a very powerful and useful discovery tool and I often find great content there. In other words, it wasn’t just giving a boost to your rating, I simply thought your content was worth rating :)

As for your suggestion about knowing what blogs your raters post for – that’s a good point. We actually already have this data in our system and only need to find the proper way to expose it. I will be happy to discuss this with you to get your thoughts on how you vision this in practice. You can contact me directly at micha (at) spotback (dot) com

Great suggestion guys – keep’em coming!

micha.

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-458 Shankar Ganesh Sun, 27 May 2007 04:54:19 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-458 <em>It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone.</em> Good suggestion. Hope Micha is listening :) You have created a good widget, btw, WebStractions. It'll be going well with Blogspot blogs. I may integrate the widget here, probably soon. Thanks to your suggestions :) It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone.
Good suggestion. Hope Micha is listening :)

You have created a good widget, btw, WebStractions. It’ll be going well with Blogspot blogs.

I may integrate the widget here, probably soon.

Thanks to your suggestions :)

]]> By: WebStractions http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-448 WebStractions Sat, 26 May 2007 13:32:54 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-448 @Micha -- I noticed that you were rating a few posts over at my blog. I think that is pretty cool that you are helping new users out by getting those numbers up past "one". I know that I rated a couple on my own :) Thanx for the boost! It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone. May even get viral. Any chance of implementing that? @Shankar -- I just now noticed that you are not using this service. Do you have plans to use it? If you do. I created a <a href="http://spotback.com/gallery/widget/72/BlogSpot_Rater" rel="nofollow">rating widget</a> just for Blogger users. It has the big orange B's instead of stars. @Micha — I noticed that you were rating a few posts over at my blog. I think that is pretty cool that you are helping new users out by getting those numbers up past “one”. I know that I rated a couple on my own :)

Thanx for the boost!

It would be nice to know what blogs the raters post for, if any, so that we could return the favor. I think this would help in getting several more ratings on the board for everyone. May even get viral. Any chance of implementing that?

@Shankar — I just now noticed that you are not using this service. Do you have plans to use it?

If you do. I created a rating widget just for Blogger users. It has the big orange B’s instead of stars.

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-446 Shankar Ganesh Sat, 26 May 2007 07:09:46 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-446 Thanks, Micha. Good luck to you and your entire team! Hoping to see the widget evolve. Let it rock! :) Thanks, Micha.
Good luck to you and your entire team!
Hoping to see the widget evolve. Let it rock! :)

]]> By: Micha http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-445 Micha Sat, 26 May 2007 07:06:34 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-445 It is really awesome to see that our tools make a difference and bring true value to website owners and users. Keep posting great content guys! micha ceo spotback.com It is really awesome to see that our tools make a difference and bring true value to website owners and users. Keep posting great content guys!

micha
ceo
spotback.com

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-443 Shankar Ganesh Sat, 26 May 2007 04:03:14 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-443 Completely agreed with you, WebStractions, just the best rating widget! Completely agreed with you, WebStractions, just the best rating widget!

]]> By: WebStractions http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-438 WebStractions Fri, 25 May 2007 14:21:19 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-438 I just started using this widget a few days ago on a BlogSpot blog, and I am totally impressed with it. Did a little googling for other types of rating widgets and none of them come close to what this little beauty can. The coolest feature is that you can design your own rating widget. Add elements to it like tagging your post, related posts similar to the one you are rating, who has rated the post so far, etc. Plus the widget is CSS editable -- add background images, borders, text colors, etc. All of this is handled on their site and you don't have to alter any of your template or CSS coding, the effects appear immediately on your blog. They have a gallery of user submitted widgets that you can use. Some are very simple. Others are works of art. It is easy to copy them to your account and "blend" the colors for your blog too. I just started using this widget a few days ago on a BlogSpot blog, and I am totally impressed with it. Did a little googling for other types of rating widgets and none of them come close to what this little beauty can.

The coolest feature is that you can design your own rating widget. Add elements to it like tagging your post, related posts similar to the one you are rating, who has rated the post so far, etc.

Plus the widget is CSS editable — add background images, borders, text colors, etc. All of this is handled on their site and you don’t have to alter any of your template or CSS coding, the effects appear immediately on your blog.

They have a gallery of user submitted widgets that you can use. Some are very simple. Others are works of art. It is easy to copy them to your account and “blend” the colors for your blog too.

]]> By: Shankar Ganesh http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Shankar Ganesh Sun, 20 May 2007 03:18:34 +0000 http://blog.shankarganesh.com/2007/05/16/spotback-rating-widget-wordpress-plugin/#comment-352 Micha, You're welcome :) Micha,
You’re welcome :)

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