I just added Facebook as an "also on" service, so you can connect your Facebook profile to your Wordie profile. I registered for Facebook a while ago and ignored it until it exploded recently, but I quickly got addicted once I realized that practically everyone I've met in the last five years is on there. I was late to this party, but it's amazing to see that it actually sort of lives up to the hype. Unlike, say, MySpace, which I loathe, or LinkedIn, the suburban corporate office park of social networks. Or even Twitter, which is rad, but even more pointless than Wordie. Which is part of the appeal of both, I suppose.

It brings up a question, though. I plan on building a Wordie Facebook app in the coming weeks. I could just port over the existing blog widgets, and may, as a sort of warmup. But an app that takes better advantage of the platform might be more fun. I have some ideas percolating, but would love to hear suggestions. I'm thinking of something that would tie into both the friend connections on Facebook, and the word connections on Wordie, and that was simple and fun to boot, is the direction we should look in. If anyone has any brilliant ideas, please post them in the comments.

Labels: facebook, features, social networks

As promised, added a new widget tonight: Random Wordie Words. This joins the existing widget, which shows the most recent words you added to Wordie. The new one is pretty self-explanatory: it displays random words from Wordie on your blog or web site. You can configure how many.

Labels: features, widgets

Just added two new feeds: one displaying five random words, and one showing the last 20 comments made on Wordie. The feeds are available in the new "feeds & widgets" section (linked at the bottom of each page), to which I'll soon be adding a "random words" widget, as well.

I'm planning on devoting more time to Wordie in the next few weeks, so please let me know if you'd like any changes to the feeds and widgets, or if there are any other features you'd like to see.

Labels: features, feeds