Sharing your ratings to your Facebook profile

Published by Jay | Filed under Features, News

Facebook has taken the world by storm and a lot of our users spend time on that catching up with their friends.  We wanted to provide them with the ability to inform their facebook friends what they were rating in the blogosphere via Blogarate.

Thus we created the Blogarate application on Facebook.

Here’s a small screenshot of it in action

We think the installation is very easy. After you log in to Facebook, you can add the Blogarate application via  this link.

Just click the “Add Blogarate” button:

then click the “Add a Blogarate Feed”, add your Blogarate Username:

After that, when you rate a blog post by Blogarate, your friends on Facebook will get the notification and share your recommendation. You can also add ratings from other users in Blogarate who you would like to follow.

We look forward to your feedback

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Blogarate supports OpenID so you can simplify your online experience

Published by Jay | Filed under News

When you signup or login to Blogarate,  you might have noticed a little orange icon next to the corresponding text as shown in the graphic above.

Clicking on it leads you to another tab allowing you to signup or login into Blogarate via OpenID.

What is OpenID ?

According to OpenID Wikipedia entry

OpenID is a shared identity service, which allows Internet users to log on to many different web sites using a single digital identity, eliminating the need for a different user name and password for each site. OpenID is a decentralized, free and open standard that lets users control the amount of personal information they provide.

Our rationale for providing integration was to eliminate the hesitation for anybody to signup for the Blogarate service whether they be a blogger wanting to use our widget or just a regular reader who wants to rate blog posts after logging in. Users always fear signing up for new services because its another username/password they have to remember. With OpenID, we eliminate that and hope that signing up to Blogarate is an “impulse buy”.

OpenID is getting enormous traction and as of July 2007, there are over 120 million OpenIDs on the Internet (see below) and approximately 4,500 sites have integrated OpenID consumer support. It’s very easy to get an OpenID.

For users who have their own OpenID account, signing up just takes 2 clicks now. It ain’t getting easier than that.

Existing users who want to unify their login information via their OpenID account can easily add it to their existing profile page and rely on Blogarate being a OpenID relying party.

Technorati Tags: account, integration, openid

Amplifying your conversations

Published by Jay | Filed under News

Greetings everyone

Our apologies for not updating our blog for several months, how have you been? We’ve been busy at Blogarate listening to feedback from our users and modifying the application appropiately

Anyway, we’ve come up for air and as part of the changes we’ve moved our blog from blogger.com to wordpress. Hope you like the new theme. We wanted something which matches our new lime-green look

In the recent months, we’ve added some new features to the Blogarate such as the facebook application and the openid login. We’ve also tweaked our  widget to make it easier to install.

Please stay tuned, subscibe to our blog feed as we shall journey together to discover how Blogarate enables you to ‘amplify your conversation’.

Happy blogging and blog rating!

Blogarate now has Twitter Integration

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Blogarate now has Twitter integration, if you have a Twitter account you will be able to rate a blog and notify all your friends via Twitter at the same time!

Blogarate itself has been optimized to perform faster as well, our most popular Widget is the Wordpress one and the Blogger one (which is the Google blogs) and you can add your own Widget at http://www.blogarate.com, sign up is easy and simple.

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Go Vote for us…please

Published by Jay | Filed under News

Hi All,

Killerstartups.com has reviewed us here
There is a voting system in place there so the more votes we get the better