Friendbar Recommended!
The amazing team at Mozilla have added Friendbar to the list of Recommended add-ons! We’re absolutely thrilled about this – as its both a validation of our product, and because the increased exposure will allow more people to discover Friendbar. A big “THANK YOU!” to the awesome Mozilla Addon Editors, who review each and every addon that gets uploaded to the Mozilla Addon site.
In other news, Friendbar is showing up on more and more “Top X” lists for Twitter and Facebook browser add-ons. We’re clearly thrilled about this, and hope to see lots more, as each one brings more users. Heres the latest that we ran across.
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Friendbar on Canadian TV!
Just discovered on Twitter Search that Friendbar was featured on Canadian TV channel TVA! Check it out here. Its about 2/3 of the way through the video. Looking closely we can see our brand new French UI and buttons. Very cool!!
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Friendbar v3.0 Released!
We’re thrilled to announce that the latest version of Friendbar, v3, has just been released. You can get it here.
New features in v3:
• Your personal Friendbar homepage, that shows a real time stream of your Facebook and Twitter updates and photos. Click on a photo and browse the photos at their full resolution. Set it as your browser start page and always be up to date! Click on the Friendbar logo on the toolbar and go straight there, even if you dont set it to be your browser homepage.
• Birthday Central: a button on the Friendbar toolbar displays the number of friends that have birthdays in the next 2 weeks. Click on the button and you will be able to see who has a birthday, and then send them an ecard, announce it on Twitter, or send them a Facebook message.
• Support for French, German, Italian, and Spanish! If you are using Firefox in any of these languages Friendbar will automatically change its UI to that language. Please let us know if there are issues with the translations – we are beta testing those as well!
• A new scrolling style: “Show Newest Updates”, which only shows you the last update without scrolling.
• A delete button, that allows you to delete a specific text update if you do not want to see it again.
• Ability to hide the search box if you don’t want it
• Loads of back-end improvements for better network handling and optimizations.
Let us know how you like our new features! As always – we love your feedback, it helps us decide what to work on next and how to make our product better!
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Friendbar Version 2.0
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve just launched version 2 of Friendbar. We studied all of the feedback that we received, and we hope that we’ve answered many of your requests, as well as added a bunch of new features.
Here is the new functionality available in Friendbar v2:
* Select a different ticker scrolling style: Fade, Slide, and no effect
* Send and receive Twitter direct messages and replies
* View full size photos by hovering over the photo strip
* A “Quickpost” button allowing you to easily post links to pages on the web
* A “Lucky Site” button that opens popular sites of the day, to provide you with interesting content to Twitter about!
* A “Pause” button when you dont want others seeing your updates
* An enlarge/minimize button that allows easy switching between regular and large modes
* Ability to select between the regular grey and a dark blue background color
* An invite button allowing you to invite your friends from Facebook
Please send us your feedback and thoughts on Friendbar v2, to support@friendbar.com
Thanks, from the Friendbar Team
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Press
We had a nice mention in an article in the Daily Mail on Stephen Fry. I love Stephen Fry, and have been following his Twitter feed for a while now, so it was thrilling to see the name Friendbar in print next to his!
In addition, I ran across this YouTube video on Friendbar, created by Davide Mazzetti. How cool is that?! Thanks Dave!
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The folks at Lifehacker just posted a great review of Friendbar. Check it out!
Big thanks to Jason Fitzpatrick and the Lifehacker crew!
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New Release
Hi Friendbar fans – we are thrilled to announce that Friendbar for Firefox has been approved by the Firefox / Mozilla Add-on reviewers, and is now freely available in the Firefox Add-on site .
Big shoutout to the Mozilla team for helping us through the process and being so patient with us as we ironed out some last issues.
We are SO EXCITED! We have already seen a huge uptick in downloads.
The most interesting stat so far has been that over 50% of people that download Friendbar remain active users. That’s a very high number and has served as the greatest validator for us that Friendbar solves a real problem and that people are benefiting from it. We have also gotten great feedback from the user community and are working around the clock to create the requested features.
Please keeep up the great stream of feedback. We will have a new release to share with you in the next couple of weeks with some great new features! Stay tuned.
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Just remembered that I hadn’t mentioned our Twitter account anywhere on this blog. Check it out at: http://twitter.com/friendbar
The Friendbar Team
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We’re thrilled to be listed as one of the top Twitter tools for Firefox, on Mashable, one of the top tech blogs on the Net!! See it for yourself:
http://mashable.com/2009/01/29/twitter-tools-for-firefox/
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Guess what! We have just released our first real, non-beta, version of Friendbar!
We’d like to thank all the beta users, and people that have provided us with feedback, bug reports, and feature suggestions. Friendbar is now much more robust, easier to use, efficient, and we think its just awesome! To install it, browse over here.
Here are some of the highlights of the new version:
- We display users profile pictures with their updates
- It can now handle very large Facebook accounts
- Twitter search as well as Google search in the search box
- Ability to control the frequency of retrieving Twitter updates
- Lots of bug fixes
- Much more efficient use of your network and browser resources
And keep those suggestions and comments coming! We really appreciate them, and it helps us make our product even better! The Friendbar Team
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Friendbar Twitter Search- Friendbar – (Friendbar) See your incoming tweets right in the toolbar as well as post updates of your own January 27, 2012
- Friendbar – See your incoming tweets right in the toolbar as well as post updates of your own January 23, 2012
- @friendbar http://t.co/RWvIx8O8 January 21, 2012
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