Blog Catalog Discussion: Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?

Norski on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

Norski — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:00:09 -0500

Cool.

Now I'll have to try using it.

Thanks for all the BlogCatalog experience.

monkeytale on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

monkeytale — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:35:06 -0500

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

kaybday on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

kaybday — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:28:20 -0500

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

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:39:32 -0500

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.

Anok on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

Anok — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:36:53 -0500

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

Waaaaa! *snif*

thegoodknife on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

thegoodknife — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:34:27 -0500

neat indeed!

crkian on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crkian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:33:37 -0500

Ive dabbled a bit and it could well be used. Just been waiting for one I could use.

pointlessbanter on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

pointlessbanter — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:29:35 -0500

aw neat

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:27:26 -0500

No, but there could be if we thought someone would actually use it. You know how to play with API's?

gosmelltheflowers on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

gosmelltheflowers — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:25:00 -0500

Cool feature, AGAIN!

crkian on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crkian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:17:43 -0500

Is there an api for it

offendedblogger on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

offendedblogger — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:16:39 -0500

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

Daniel is very good at this!

crpitt on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crpitt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:09:21 -0500

No was just wondering about the folks that are still not keen on the dashboard, maybe this will encourage them to use it :)

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:08:51 -0500

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.

riverstyxxx on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

riverstyxxx — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:05:36 -0500

Wow, what a totally amazing excellent discovery.

crkian on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crkian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:05:27 -0500

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

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:04:17 -0500

At the moment yes, why you have another place it would be good?

crpitt on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crpitt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:03:40 -0500

Oh quick answer :)

crpitt on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crpitt — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:03:26 -0500

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

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:03:25 -0500

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.

crkian on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crkian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:55:55 -0500

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

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:55:20 -0500

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

crkian on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

crkian — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:54:46 -0500

Yeah just been using them :)

NINE on 'Has anyone noticed the NEW stars on the dashboard?'

NINE — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:00:09 -0500

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:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/dashboard/user/nine/

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