Thursday, June 18, 2009

Popular & Engaging posts for your blog

Update ( 7/9/2009 ) : We have moved the popular posts to a separate page. For the blog in our example below, the popular posts page is at http://www.wowzio.com/blogs/popularposts?ids=12271 . You will now see a link called 'Popular Posts for this blog' on the 'seewidgets' page, that links to this new 'Popular Posts' page.

Most bloggers are interested in knowing which posts of theirs are most popular and engaging amongst their readers. If you have installed ( at least ) one of Wowzio's widget or button on your blog, you can find the answer by simply going to your 'seewidgets' page on Wowzio. ( this is the link next to the 'grab' link at the bottom of your Wowzio widget )

As an example, for the blog You Get What You Give, the 'seewidgets' page on Wowzio is at http://www.wowzio.com/widgets/seewidgets?ids=12271. As you scroll down, you will see 3 lists of popular posts for this blog, the first one is over the past 24 hours, the second one is over the past 7 days, and the last one is over the past 4 weeks. We have also exposed these 3 lists via rss feeds.

We compute popularity and engagement of blog posts in our 'Pulse' platform. For more info on 'Pulse', click on what is Pulse.

Friday, June 5, 2009

Striving for a kids and family-friendly environment ...

We found out via feedback from our user community that there was adult/mature content that was starting to make its way in to some of our Pulses. We have started the process of removing adult/mature content from Wowzio Pulse. A big thank you to all of you who gave us a heads up, we appreciate it, as it helps keep Wowzio a kids and family-friendly service. Please don't hesitate to write to us when you come across objectionable content via our feedback form.

If you are a blogger who publishes adult/mature content, please refer to our Terms of Service.