http://blog.blogarate.com Rating the world Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:10:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2008/07/16/share-ratings-via-facebook/ 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 ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2008/06/19/no-need-to-remember-another-account-info-we-support-openid/ 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. ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2008/06/19/amplifying-your-conversations/ 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 ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/09/27/blogarate-now-has-twitter-integration/ Hi All,Killerstartups.com has reviewed us hereThere is a voting system in place there so the more votes we get the better ;) http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/15/go-vote-for-usplease/ First we had rate my post...now... 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: ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/12/rate-my-blog/ We've just released an beta version of Blogarate Alerts. You can now set an alert on a post so that when someone rates a post you saved an alert for we send you an email. You can save an alert for every new vote or when a post receives more than a ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/08/automated-email-alerts/ We had a suggestion from Meg to add the location and About Me fields to the user account. We've done that so go login and update your details.Thanks Meg for your suggestion :)Remember if you have any suggestions use the Suggestion Box http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/07/new-user-fields/ The Non-Avatar version of our widget is read for download.Login and then go here to get it.Here's what it look likeIf you have any issues with the install let us know...we are here to help.Enjoy :)Clarke http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/06/non-avatar-widget-released/ Hi All,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 ... http://blog.blogarate.com/2007/03/05/new-widgets/