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Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?

Posted by NINE • 3/21/08 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: announcement, blog, blogcatalog, Dashboard, launch, news, share

Looks like daniel finally added our newest sharing feature. Next to many of your friends entries in your dashboard is a star.

Click it and you can then share that link quickly with the people following you. You can also leave a short message if you like.

You can see it in action on my feed here:
www.blogcatalog.com/dashboard/user/nine/

Its a great way to share websites and blog posts with your friends

User Comments

3/21/08

crkian

Yeah just been using them

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3/21/08

NINE

yea I had just left a comment a little while ago and you were in there just a few seconds after. pretty fun.

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3/21/08

crkian

Nice idea, is it just a share to your dashboard sort of thing

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1. 3/21/08
  
  NINE
  
  At the moment yes... but look forward to possibly being able to use this as a bookmarking feature in the future with our own toolbar (maybe) so that you can share any site anywhere with just one click.
3/21/08

crpitt

When you share something with your followers where does it appear? Just in the dashboard?

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1. 3/21/08
  
  crpitt
  
  Oh quick answer
2. 3/21/08
  
  NINE
  
  At the moment yes, why you have another place it would be good?
3. 3/21/08
  
  crpitt
  
  No was just wondering about the folks that are still not keen on the dashboard, maybe this will encourage them to use it
3/21/08

crkian

So you could add a tagging feature to it and then a board with top shares for a certain tag

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1. 3/21/08
  
  NINE
  
  Exactamundo. Although I am not entirely sure how detailed we may go with tagging and stuff. My worry is that it might be too overwhelming if we make it too complicated...
  
  At the moment its just a sharing tool.
  
  I kept seeing stuff in my dahsboard from other people that I wanted to share with daniel or tony but didn't want to take the time to digg it or whatnot. Apparently the other guys were having the same thought so this just helps us be lazy and share fun stuff.
2. 3/21/08
  
  crkian
  
  Is there an api for it
3. 3/21/08
  
  NINE
  
  No, but there could be if we thought someone would actually use it. You know how to play with API's?
4. 3/21/08
  
  crkian
  
  Ive dabbled a bit and it could well be used. Just been waiting for one I could use.
3/21/08

riverstyxxx

Wow, what a totally amazing excellent discovery.

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3/21/08

offendedblogger

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better.

Daniel is very good at this!

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3/21/08

gosmelltheflowers

Cool feature, AGAIN!

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3/21/08

pointlessbanter

aw neat

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1. 3/21/08
  
  thegoodknife
  
  neat indeed!
3/21/08

Anok

Erm...I can't find any stars for me ....

Waaaaa! *snif*

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1. 3/21/08
  
  NINE
  
  They wont be on your personal feed but if you check out your dashboard or someone else's feed you should see them. Clicking it shares that link with your followers.
3/21/08

kaybday

Thanks; really nice feature (say that a lot lately). And congrats on TechCrunch! Nice ink. Um. Pixels. best, Kay

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3/21/08

monkeytale

Good stuff. You guys are always improving and coming up with things.

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3/21/08

Norski

Cool.

Now I'll have to try using it.

Thanks for all the BlogCatalog experience.

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