Badges not Badgers
Posted on February 10, 2008
Filed Under Building work | | Written by Gary Reid
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If you’ve ever visited a trade show you know how annoying it is to constantly have exhibitors thrusting brochures into your hand as you walk past and finding all new ways to scan the barcode on your badge. I thought one was trying to steal the fruit pastels from my pocket…
So, why do some websites make it so difficult to find their badges. It’s more like a badger hunt, digging through their website trying to find a link to it.
Twitter for example only provide one that shows your posts, no badge to link to your profile or follow you. Let’s be honest considering their terrible uptime who wants one of their badges slowing down your website?
LinkedIn, Xing, Del.icio.us all the same, links hidden away.
Come on guys, just make it easy, put a link where I can see it, with anchor text that makes it absolutely clear what it is.
If I put a badge on my site for my profile on your service it’s free publicity for you and free link love, it’s not rocket science.
And, if you do provide a badge (del.icio.us tagometer listen up) don’t go banning me from your bloody service just because I use it.
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Any news on the release of G-prop or U-gen?
I mean, can you be precise about when you plan to release this softwares?
I really need one of them.
Regards, Susan
yeah, I’d like to know also, especially U-Gen. The kitchen guys have been a bit quiet, they’re prolly cookin’ up some mad sh!t in da house
Seriously though, as stated in a private email, I’d like to take a peek at the beta.
Hi guys, is G-prop going to happen or has the project been abandoned?
I check this website every day for news on G-prop and U-gen, but I have not seen any changes on this website since the 10th of Feburary. Can you please let us know what the story is? The launch date during the first quarter has come and gone. Has someone bought them out or what?