Lijit

More good things from Lijit today! We released a few new features and enhancements into production this afternoon, which should be helpful for current (as well as potential new) Lijitters.

Sorry for the rather lengthy post. I’m the Marketing-type in this crew and have an (apparently rather irritating) affinity for using (a lot of) words. But enough about me… This release includes the following good things:

• We updated our home page (logged out) to include helpful information about Lijit, how it works and how to get signed up. We hope this will assist potential users in knowing what to expect from the service – and the sign up process – so they can get started off on the right foot.
• Along those same lines, we’ve also updated the default email invitation text and have inserted information about Lijit into the invitation-driven sign up flow. Again, we’ve done this to help newly invited users better understand what they’re getting into and how to get the most out of Lijit once they’re in.
• We hope by now that you’ve seen the new, blue ‘update the browser plugin’ badge on our website and in the browser sidebar. When we release new features that change our Lijit extension for Firefox and plugin for Internet Explorer, we want to make you aware of that…and we want you to click the badge so you can update your plugin to fully enjoy them.
• We added some great mouse-over pop-up boxes in this release. For example, hover over any report title and it’ll show you how many times that report has been clicked. Hover over any of the links in the ‘is trusted about’ subject cloud on your “My Lijit” page and you’ll see how many people trust you on each subject. Roll your mouse over everything – there’s a lot of good info to be had on the site.
• Were you concerned that many of our users seemed to have rather misshapen heads? Did you think that we were perhaps catering to a misshapen head target market? Fret not, it wasn’t them, it was us. We’ve improved our behind-the-scenes picture handling. From here on out it’s perfectly shaped heads for everyone!
• You now have unlimited email invitations. We realized that everyone you know deserves to be Lijit and didn’t want to get in the way of your making that happen.
• For those of you who have incorporated your blogs into Lijit, if you mention a URL in a given post, we’ll see that and turn it into an “informational” (i.e. neutral) report for that page. It’s just another way Lijit gets your thoughts and opinions out there for your network’s benefit and enjoyment.
• We now support OPML in the “Add RSS Feed” feature. We realize the link name is a little misleading on that. We’ll fix it soon.
• We’ve added a great feature in Firefox that displays reports about the processes running on your computer. Just click Tools > Lijit > View Processes. It’s a great way for you to know which processes running on your computer are good, bad or dangerous.
• Finally, we’re in the process of updating our Help and About text. We hope you enjoy the changes once they’re finished.

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