Update to the Widget Wizard

We've been getting good feedback from our early beta users of the profile widget and have incorporated a few suggestions. The biggest change has added support to the widget to choose whether to show which keywords match with the profiles found or to show interests from the profiles found. This is useful when you use a tag to create an ad-hoc grouping of people - like "2000bloggers" - and if that is the only keyword used for search, displaying that on every profile isn't all that interesting. But showing the user's interests is, uh, well, interesting.

Another change was to support "curved borders", but this only changes the display in the Firefox web browser. It doesn't mess up Internet Explorer, but the widget will just have the standard square corners. We'll have to wait until CSS3 is implemented before a simple approach like this works across all web browsers.

These changes are available via the widget wizard and you'll need to re-publish the widget to your blog to see the effect.

Comments

[watashe]

hello,
first of all thanx for nice widget.But I've a problem with sign up.When i tried sign up, I had an error.So i tried second time, it said this email using please give another:D So how can i take me login details?
Thanks

[Jordan Mitchell]

Hi watashe, thanks for the post on our blog, and sorry for the troubles. Our regisrtation is still not very well designed; that is big on our priority list for launch.

It looks like you have an account -- best thing to do is download either the IE or Firefox toolbars and sign in using your username and the password you specified. Once you sign in, find the Manage Profile option within the toolbar. That will open up a window in which you can add an image, web links, and keywords to describe yourself. Feel free to email support AT othersonline DOT com if you have any problems (or post here again).

[Elaine]

Is a picture of a cat the default avatar/icon? I have a lot of cats on my widget on my personal blog :) Actually, it's the same cat. It shows up for 4 or 5 different people.

[mdierken]

Hi Elaine,
Yes, one of the default images is a cat. While we try to increase the visibility of profiles that have custom images - we consider them higher quality - if the set of search keywords don't turn up many profiles to choose from these default images will show. You can try to select additional profiles by adding additional keywords - like 'travel' or 'coffee' - but there will always be the possibility of a profile showing that uses one of the default images.