Wibiya Toolbar Added to Elliot’s Blog

I don’t think it adds enough value for how distracting it is. It loaded quick and works fine in FF though.

Works fine for me, but seems redundant to features already on your site. I guess if you removed your search box and recent posts, it might make more sense…but I don’t recommend doing that.

Curious to see if it helps you with traffic, though.

yeah, I’m not a big fan either, it’s got too much stuff or something, could be useful I’m sure for some people, but imho not worth it.

A javascript error under IE8 and no bar visible.

I will vote with the group, I also don’t see much real value for it.

@Elliot,

Hey what’s that ugly purple bar doing there?

The bar loaded fine for me (FF) but I agree with the others. Not a huge fan of it, but that could be because of the “purple” as I am a Packers fan

It’s also stopped your fade in/out on hover affiliate banners at the top of this section from working.. likely a javascript incompatibility.

It’s not bad, I like it. Just not sure if it’s right for a domain blog. Definitely not sure about the barney purple, lol.

I think the social media savvy investors will like it.

I wonder how Mark Fulton has done with it at DotSauce.com. He’s been using it for at least a month or two.

One thing I noticed is your links at the top for SnapNames, Parked, Mozy and Liquid Web no longer fade. Is that because of the new toolbar?

The purple is distracting. If it were clear and unobtrusive it may work.

Wibiya is great I have been using it for about 3 months. You all would be very impressed with the backend. I foresee that Wibiya is going to be a very common appearance across many blogs.

Here is a screenshot of about 3 months worth of useage statistics for my Wibiya toolbar…

http://www.dotsauce.com/?attachment_id=1870

So as you can see it’s getting used. I was surprised to see the translations, subscriptions and sharing going on.

Thanks Mark. I just got my invite for the toolbar from them today. I think I’ll install it next week when I get back from IzeaFest.

Sorry, think I’m only one who can see that link. Here is a direct link:

http://www.dotsauce.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/wibya-stats-sep-2009.png

Hi Everybody,

Just wanted to let you know that we you see now from the Wibiya service is just the tip of the iceberg as we are only presenting about 10% of the service to the public.

You will be surprised of whats to come in the very near future.

Your feedback is much appreciated and we welcome any suggestions and ideas for creating function that fit your needs in the best way (http://www.getsatisfaction.com/wibiya).

If there is anything we can do to help you with don’t hesitate to contact us at info@wibiya.com or the link I provided above.

Eliott – let me know if you need anything.

Best regards,

Dror (Co-founder)

Ugh. Annoying, obtrusive, ugly, redundant to me, Elliot (I even clicked back to see if someone had gotten malware–or some “ware” or virus on my ‘puter.

Plus; whether true or not; it feels like a 3rd party is spying/collecting data from your visitors (like me).

Are they? Are you sure? How can you be sure?

If you keep it anyway, I hope you’ll supply/require Dror to allow disabling/removing.

That which does not add, subtracts.