Need a favor from all those using my hacks

Dear readers,

Thanks to design guru Aditya's help, we now have promotion buttons for bvibes. So many of you have picked up my hacks for free in the past and improved your blogs. Here's a small favor that you could do for me in return. As part of my efforts to promote my new venture bvibes.com, I found out that advertising in major blogs like problogger.net costs a lot (in the order of $1000 per month). So, I am asking you to add this small button to your sidebar and help me spread the word.



In Template/Page elements tab, click on "Add a page element" and add a HTML/Javascript element with this piece of code:

<style type="text/css">
.bvibes_img {
 margin-left: auto;
 margin-right: auto;
 float:center;
 display:block;
}
</style>
<a href="http://bvibes.com">
<img class="bvibes_img" src="http://bvibes.com/bvibes_button_ad.png">
</a>

Then you can move the button to wherever you want in your sidebar (preferably in a prominent position).

For those who have joined bvibes.com, don't you want to see more people reading your submissions? Here's a bigger button that you could add to your blog.



Just modify the img src line as follows to use this image:

<img class="bvibes_img" src="http://bvibes.com/bvibes_ad.png">

Thank you!

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Here are some updates about the website:
- Google analytics reports 5000+ hits to the website in the last 2 weeks!
- I have added a statistics module to the sidebar showing the number of users, links etc. I have also made the URLs search engine friendly.
- I have disabled anonymous voting as registration takes only few minutes. This week, everyone gets 10 credits.
- Self-hosted blogs are now supported well.

More details in the bVibes blog.

Now available: Facebook app for bvibes

I believe many of you are on facebook (if not, you're missing out on the social networking revolution). And the fact that we have a facebook widget for bvibes so soon is a testimonial of how Aditya has geared up to develop for facebook. I just sent him an email this morning asking him if he could develop a facebook application for showing the posts that one has voted for (like they have for digg). He said yes and to my surprise, he had it ready within half a day! So, if you're on facebook, now you can show the posts that you voted for in your profile (including your own posts). This will show up in the news feed of your friends bringing attention to your blog posts (and bvibes could get more users which is again beneficial for everyone). Here's how the application will look like.


And if you are not yet on facebook, I would really suggest you to try it out. It's very easy to find your real world friends there and there are many networks/groups that you can join. Here's the bVibes application link and here's the link to my profile. See you there in Facebook.