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

Technorati Tags: blog, Blogarate, facebook, promotion

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

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 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.

Technorati Tags: integration, Twitter

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

Rate my blog! with avatars and there is no special .dll or installation just cut and paste the code into your blog template then you are good to go

The widget can be customized via CSS so you could do something like this…

#Blogarate_RateMyBlog
{
margin: 5px auto;
padding: 2px;
background: #ddd;
color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #000;
}


The header text in this case “Rate My Blog!” sits outside the widget giving you control over the text.
Unlike the post rating widget your readers will need a www.blogarate.com account to vote. Which makes sense right!
Because without an account their avatar will not be displayed and link back to their account.

How do you get it? Login go to the accounts page and click the widgets tab.
There you will find all the blogarate widgets in one location.

Enjoy

Technorati Tags: Avatars, Blogarate, widgets

You can save an alert for every new vote or when a post receives more than a certain number of vote…say more then 5 or 20 for example.

Check em out and tell us how you feel about them.
There is also an area to manage your alerts in the account sections.

Thanks Meg for your suggestion

Remember if you have any suggestions use the Suggestion Box

Here’s what it look like

If you have any issues with the install let us know…we are here to help.

Enjoy

Clarke

We have just release a new custom widget that you can set the header text, background color, fore color, widget width and filter the results.

Meaning if you want a widget that displays the top ten posts on a particular subject you can supply tags for the widget to search on.

Login into blogarate and go to the accounts page from there you will find links to the “Create you own widget” page.

Don’t fotget you have any suggestions or want something added you can use the suggestion Box to let us know.