As you could probably tell by the title of this post, we rolled out a new feature yesterday evening, and we’re calling it LinkScript.
Basically, it’s a little snippet of code that you can paste into your website, blog or social profile. LinkScript allows you to take all your links with you wherever you go - and if you add, delete or edit links at your Friendnik profile, the script will reflect these changes on your site.
If your wondering what the hell I’m on about, take a look at the sidebar of this here blog. The links there are generated by LinkScript, so if we change a link in our profile, it also changes here.
Of course we added some options for you to style the results of LinkScript, and if you know a bit of CSS, you can make it look nearly any way you want. You can also choose to exclude certain links, categories or websites, you decide whether your avatar gets shown — as always, it’s in your hands.
Another thing you may have noticed: LinkScript will show public links to everyone and friends only links to your Friendnik friends, assuming they’re logged in to Friendnik. An easy way to tell whether you’re logged in or not is by looking at the line of text next to avatar inside LinkScript — if you’re logged in, it will greet you by username. Pretty cool, huh?
Needless to say, we think this is a great addition to Friendnik and hope you agree. Get your LinkScript today and you’ll have all your online identities to go…
Yay! We have our first major update ready — it’s being piped into the intertubes by our technical gremlins as I write this. As soon as your pages have refreshed, your cache has been combobulated and your morning coffee has been served, Friendnik 1.1 will be ready for beholding.
So, idiotic jokes and fancy language aside, what’s new?
Public Profiles
When we first launched Friendnik, we only allowed people to set their links as viewable to friends or other members of Friendnik — the assumption being that people wouldn’t want completely public links.
Many users grumbled, we listened. You can now set your links — on an individual link-by-link basis — to private, viewable by friends, by any Friendnik member, or as public. This does mean that your profile is public as soon as you have one or more public links. But then there’s nothing wrong with that, some links just need to be shared with everybody. Here’s my profile, just as an example…
Also, check out the new rotating members gallery on the home page… (You’ll have to be logged out to see it…)
Home Town & Birthday
Here’s another one quite a few people asked for: you can now add your home town and your birthday to your info, if you want. (It’s in Settings)
Other Bits & Pieces
Your profile pages now have the links sorted by categories, so it’s a bit easier to find stuff, and we’ve added quite a few new services and sites to the list.
Obviously, we think the new improved Friendnik is pretty cool, and hope you do too. Check it out, and let us know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks to everybody that has been checking out Friendnik… We’re off to a good start, our database is increasing nicely, and hopefully everybody is finding Friendnik to be a useful supplement to their online lives.
We’re slowly working through feedback and suggestions we’ve received and hope to have some new features ready soon.
In the meantime, don’t forget to invite your friends — Friendnik will work best if you have a lot of contacts… : )
Okay, here we go. After an extended private beta, Friendnik is finally open to the public.
For everyone still wondering what this Friendnik thing actually is, here’s an excerpt from our press release:
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Friendnik.com, a new social meta-service, is launching this week.
Friendnik is a free service that helps you find out where your friends are registered online.
You could think of it as an online address book - a central place to find out which sites and services your friends are registered with. As your friends join new sites and add new links to their profiles, your address book automagically updates…
Check out the site at friendnik.com…
You can read the complete F.A.Q. here.
We hope you like Friendnik as much as we do — it’s horse-time at last… :D
Yeah, so I know I said we’d be live in March. Middle of. Second or third week. And now it’s April. Yep, no denying that.
But I can tell you that we’ve already started private beta testing, invited a couple of close friends to give the system a spin, or as we horse-lovers would say: a quick dash across the meadows, and are eliminating bugs as you read this…
Which means we will be finished soon. Very soon. And boy, are we looking forward to presenting Friendnik to the world… : )
Hello again, horse lovers of the world. I’ve just come out of another productive conference with my fellow friendniks, and I’m happy to tell you we’ve actually set a date.
Friendnik will be going live in March.
I know, that’s not a date, it’s a month. But we’ve actually set a month sounds more than ridiculous. So March it is. Middle of. Second or third week. It’s difficult to get these programming types to be a bit more specific. : )
More soon, see you on Friendnik in March at the latest…
We’re really stoked to announce that mexer will be providing us with some extremely cool illustrations for friendnik.
You can check out his work at his flickr.
We’ve set up a couple of profile pages on the social network roundabout, so please feel free to friend, follow or just stalk us in a friendly fashion. : )
Here’s the links:
→ myspace
→ virb
→ facebook
→ last.fm
→ twitter
Incidentally, and this might be considered a clue, this post is one of the things friendnik will be rendering redundant… (vagueness ftw!)
Posted by Vincent Wilkie
