Your Entrecard Inbox is Now a Feed
January 31st, 2008
I had a surprise in my Entrecard dashboard today. The inbox has a feed of the last 50 people to drop a card at my site. I quickly added it to my bookmark toolbar, chose that folder and saw how long it would take Firefox to open 50 tabs by choosing "Open All in Tabs."
I have yet to write an Entrecard focused article yet, but I have noticed a few ways to speed up the process of dropping cards.
Let me say this first. Some sites I just drop cards on because I don’t have much feedback to give on any of the current posts. But a lot, I leave open, continue dropping cards and then come back and comment. I have easily been covering my quota of commenting on about ten blogs a day.
Now for the quick methods:
- Sitehoppin – An auto browser site. Jumps from one site to the next. Not sure about this one. There is an automatic mode that jumps every five seconds or so. Not really conducive to leaving comments.
- Chain Dropping – I use this most often. Open the last 10 people in your inbox, drop cards, click on their current advertisers, drop cards and repeat until you have no sites left.
- Mass site opening – I just did it with them method above. I might try again with a faster loading browser. My Firefox installation has a lot of addons.
- Use a fast loading browser – I went back to Internet Explorer or Opera a few times just for Entrecard, because, like I said, Firefox can get really slow with a lot of addons.
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Hey Stephan,
I thought you might be interested in checking out this post that lists TONS of entrecard sites that have their widget above the fold. Each link opens in a new window, making it that much faster to chain drop. I just found it yesterday and think it’s pretty cool to bookmark that page.
Lin’s last blog post..Boyzone – I Love You No Matter What
Oops, sorry Stephan, I had the wrong url. Here is the correct one
Lin’s last blog post..Boyzone – I Love You No Matter What
[...] Technorati and Alexa and I can tell you how they jumped. My Alexa rank leapt ahead because of my Entrecard use. My Technorati rank made a leap ahead because of a list of sites are going around the Blogoshere [...]
[...] comment on and drag them to Flock’s WebClipboard as I check Google Reader and go through my Entrecard Inbox. Since I to through this to do list every day before my day job, it was easy to add it as a [...]
You may want to check this site also: http://www.oblife.com/featured/2008-02-18/entrecard-blogs-browser/.
Some one left a comment with the link. I accidentally deleted the comment.
Sorry.
[...] the blogging communities and traffic sites you have signed up for. With Entrecard, I drop from 60 to 100 cards a day. By the end of that, I have found more than enough posts to [...]
I agree Firefox can be a little slow when opening a lot of tabs, but for some reason I never thought to do my card dropping in IE. Maybe because I loathe IE
But I’ll try it in Flock
Shanti’s last blog post..I love my family really I do
One more thing : I made my inbox into a widget for my blog. Just to send some loving to my faithful droppers, it’s also increased the amount of drops I get per day
Shanti’s last blog post..I love my family really I do
Flock actually uses more memory but for some reason my Firefox installation is screwed. And if you have ever had that happen, it sucks. You get stuck between wiping the whole thing and reinstalling or dealing with the issue every day. Instead, I went to Flock because it could import all my settings from Firefox and can use most of the addons. I like the widget idea. I may have to try it.
[...] about 250 more links to go through, so look for updates. A large percentage of these blogs have an Entrecard widget, a second reason to check this list [...]