More Pulpconnection Changes

Things at Pulpconnection continue to change. I’ve been tinkering around with some stuff to see how it works.

I’ve changed my “subscriptions” around and consolidated my main ones in the Connect section in the sidebar.

I installed Google FriendConnect along with a few of its gadgets. I’m currently using the Members gadget, Recommendations, and the Social bar. I’ll probably keep the Members and Recommendations gadgets. Not sure about the obtrusive Social bar which you now see at the very top. I also want to see if users can login to comment using their Google account via FriendConnect.

If you read a post you like, there’s a Recommend It! button at the end of the full post. These recommendations feed the Recommended stories gadget in the sidebar. I haven’t completely figured out the Recommend It button though since it shows on the very first post on the home page but not the other posts. But if go to a specific post, you’ll see the Recommend It button for each post.

With Google FriendConnect, I might drop the MyBlogLog Recent Visitors. They used to be THE game in town, but I hardly see any new MyBlogLog users roll through here anymore.

I tweaked the Top Posts widget to show the five most viewed posts from the past 30 days instead of the all time top posts.

And I forgot that Suggestions tab floating on the side of the screen.  That’s powered by Skribit (and seen on Paul Stamatiou’s site).  If you have any suggestions or recommendations for Pulpconnection, you can use this to provide your ideas.