This is pretty nice news. I’m looking forward to trying it out.

Good job Graham and Phirate.

Well, obviously I just threw over my SU bar for the EntreBar!

Entrecard has added more useful feature in it….

Surely going to use the tool to the max….

This is why i love Entrecard…… So much excellent feature..

I think this will be a genuine turbo-charge to the day to day business of using EntreCard.

Compliments to Phirate and the team.

Ouch can’t edit our own comments

If you have the “Haven’t dropped today” on the How to Browse, so that we can click on the next 10 sites, it will be perfect! Maybe on next release? Meanwhile, we’ll enjoy this version!

Wow.. this is very interesting. Week by week, Entrecard got something to amaze us with. This is great news. Thanks Graham!

All downloaded, installed, and thought to be ready to go, but I can’t login.

I was all ready to give it a test run too

Yes, 3.0.1

This is soooo cool. I love it to pieces. I does everything I would have asked for it to do. Great job!!!!
This will make dropping so much easier – and mixx up the blogs so I can see blogs I haven’t seen before. Thanks

This is great. Gave it a test run. It has stopped the logging out constantly issue I was having with my one account on firefox. The only problem I am seeing is when I select to pull blogs from my inbox, it pulls out random ones instead. Not sure why. Using Firefox 3.01.

For the people having login issues, maybe try resetting your password? Might work. We can always wait for Phirate but he’s sleeping right now

Like Terry, I’m unable to get the toolbar to log in. It automatically populated my email address and password. I click the login and it does nothing. I retyped the password, still nothing.

OK, a question. I used the single green arrow to drop on 10 sites in my Inbox. Then both arrows grayed out. So, I reselected by choices in the dropdowns, took me back to the beginning of my Inbox. Is there a way to select sites I haven’t dropped on?

installed and tried. pretty cool, i like it.

It’s a beautiful thing. Thank you, thank you!

**Love** it!! I don’t even like tool bars.. but this one is a keeper for me.

I see what it’s doing. It stops on today’s date. How can I get it to jump the date line?

A suggestion: An option not to go to blogs already dropped on?

This is NEAT! I will try it now

I had the same problem with it not logging on. I unchecked the “remember me on this browser” and it signed right in.

Try that. Hope it works for you

A pretty nice fix would be if it won’t display blogs that we’ve already visited when we browse over to inbox using the toolbar

I was right on my guess in the forum

So do I get a cookie?

this is so cool! im using it right now. good job with the toolbar! =)

I just flat out receive a “login failed” error.

I’ll have to revisit this later. As much as I’m itching to try the toolbar out, I need to get other things done.

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I already hate toolbars. They just slowdown my browser loads. Looking at the features it offers I don’t need those features. I’ll be looking forward for more changes and features that attract me. But currently I am happy without the toolbar.

Very nice!!! Downloading now. Can’t wait to use this great tool!

Graham, the tool is awesome, I use it for my droppings today, so far it is the best thing I’ve seen

Thanks!

And things just keep getting better and better. I’m looking forward to more innovations from Entrecard!

looks great! I can’t wait to try it out

Sounds great in theory, but I’m not positive I’ll be making use of it. I love the idea, but doesn’t anyone else notice that all the toolbars at the top of your browser window push your actual page lower and lower, making it effectively smaller (in height)? Just keeps getting harder to keep “important” things above the fold!

@Timothy

We had to start with Firefox. We certainly want to expand the toolbars to all browsers, but something like 80% of Entrecarders use Firefox, so given our limited resources, we had to go with Firefox to start with.

I thought of writing about it on my blog. My question is if I post the entrebar picture on my blog?? Anyway really cool toolbar

@Ruthie you probably will see a decrease in click-throughs, but it won’t matter in the long run. Those who won’t click on the ad now were most likely the ones who only clicked on the EC to gain a credit in the first place. Visitors don’t always mean something. The quality visitors you get from non-ECers and ECers who read will still be there.

[...] If you’ve been looking for a method to advertise and browse through your Entrecard account faster, or even if the Entrecard website’s current features pleases you already, you’ll stretch your lips more with the new EntreBar. [...]

Well, the fact that it continually opens sites (two or three or more times) that I’ve already dropped on is definitely a problem. Also, without a way to indicate which sites to NEVER open (the ones with popups, the ones with music, the ones with talking ads, the ones that have so many flashy things I feel like I’m going to have a seizure), it’s not a terribly useful tool for me. Bummer.

But I’ll check back when you get to version 1.0.

At this point it is very difficult to say when it might be available for IE.

this is COOL. I love it. Make i drop so easy and fast. Thanks EC

What a great toolbar. I have it installed and posted about it in my weekly review series. I love it! It’ll make dropping that much easier. Thanks!

Wow guys, this thing is going to be a smash!! You guys really pulled one out of the hat on this. I just can’t tell you how pleased I am with this new tool.

Ok, I tried it out a little bit. I love, love, love, love it! Of course, I’m sure there will be bugs to work out as with anything really but I know you guys will be brilliant at fixing that too. Phi, I now see why Graham was singing your praises. Pure genius!

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Ok, just addressing a few issues:

Login problems

If you’re having problems with the email and password that it produces when you install the toolbar, these may not be correct. They’re retrieved from your stored passwords for Entrecard.com but might be for the wrong email address. Please try clearing the login and password, and re-typing your real email and password for EC>

If it is just spinning when trying to log in, please post on Bugs with your browser version, and any other toolbars or extensions you may have installed, and we’ll get right on it.

Random inbox content

Not sure what’s going on there. Please post in the Bugs forum with details.

Next/Next-10 repeating results

I thought I had this problem fixed, if there isn’t already a topic on it, please post to Bugs. We’ll push an update iwth a fix as soon as I can figure out what’s going on. Please note which category dropdown and order you’re using.

Requests to filter dropped-on pages, Requests for more than one day of inbox data

These are coming. I ended up with a choice between releasing with a well-tested toolbar or one with a bunch of new features we hadn’t tested. I opted for the simpler, well tested version to minimize problems on release. More capabilities should arrive soon.

Other ideas/bugs

Please post to the relevant forum and we’ll see what we can do

The toolbar auto-updates using the normal firefox methods, so you’ll receive upgrades as we go.

If you don’t like the skin or want to load more than 10 pages at a time, I have a tutorial on how to do it here:

http://impnerd.com/technology/open-more-than-10-with-ec-toolbar

[...] Entrecard members did, that the new toolbar has been released. Is this Sitehoppin? I went to the Entrecard post and read about the new toolbar. It sounded cool. I have a lot of toolbars installed in Firefox and [...]

@impNERD: yeah toolbar modding is fine. Please note that we don’t permit people making mod’d toolbars available for download in whole or in part, due to the risk of introducing code for stealing logins. But tutorials are fine

I believe the toolbar should be compatible with flock, but I have nor eal idea.

@phirate don’t worry man, I won’t put it available for download. Just thought I’d help out some power users.

Please note that if the arrows “grey out”, this means you reached the end of your inbox for today.

If you change your search settings, it will reset to the start of that zone.

I too would like to see it compatible with other browsers. My preferred browser is Camino of which I just downloaded the upgrade. All my passwords in Camino because that is the browser I use the most. Safari came loaded on my machine. My husband likes both Safari and IE (which I detest). I also have Mozilla on this computer so sitting at 4 browsers I’m not too fond of having to download another browser and find all my passwords again for a new browser. I do think that Safari and Camino are the most popular for Mac users. That being said I am downloading Firefox3 right now and the toolbar to try out but for regular surfing I doubt Firefox3 is going to be it for me. We’ll see. Good job on the toolbar though. It sounds like those who are already using Firefox are quite excited.

I don’t know which scares me more, that you visit joetech’s site to take screen shots, or that your browser has a Norton toolbar. What’s next, a Ralph Kramden mousepad?

Cool for a start, still need some improvements for the issues that mentioned above, but in general very impressive! This is that “Secret Stuff” Graham talking about couple days ago? Well done Phi!

Does this not work on macs? I have firefox on my mac but the buttons cannot sign in – the buttons do not work/are not pushable…

Great. So innovative that it surely will help bloggers easily get in touch with other blogs and entrecard site as well. Thank for the good news.

An absolutely spiffnificent tool! The running count of credits and drops is great, and it’s really easy to blast through a whole buncha blogs in a jiffy. Thanx, guys!

Oh: And I don’t see an option in the dropdown for browsing SezWho sites (hint).

cool toolbar…

Trying it. Looking for a way to squeeze all the toolbars into one. Too many of them with this too.

Sick. My only request is some way to move it around (like other toolbars do) so I can put it on the bottom to avoid clogging up the top of firefox.

awesome just downloaded and installed it. will give it a test run in a bit

Gotta say, this is definitely just what I’ve been looking for. Thank you entrecard.

Graham…Can this be uninstalled if it doesn’t work very well or if it is used from a work computer behind a firewall?

@turnip…i bet graham and phirate don’t know who Ralph Kramden is….you’re showing your age, buddy!

@Mar: I’m using ubuntu myself, it works fine for me. Some other users have reported similar issues, could you note which other extensions (if any) you may have installed, and what version of Firefox you have?

@Matt/Kik: Yes, you absolutely can uninstall it, it’s a standard firefox extension, simply go to Tools -> Add ons, then hit Uninstall on the Entrecard Add on. Please note it may be necessary to clear your cookies afterwards to restore normal login functionality on Entrecard.

looks to good,

This will help me to get more involved with entrecard.

I am getting edicted to it already.

but please avoid/ remove this 10 sites at a time button.

let the viewer get the taste of site fully and then move on.

This toolbar eliminates the need for my bookmarks – thank you! I’m having some issues with it logging me out but I was having that before and needed to go in and clear my cookies a couple times a day…..guess I’ll need to continue doing this.
Great work though.

Amazing…… So I can visit more site with this toolbar. my batch only contain few site and with this tool bar I can visiting another site. yay.. *Download the toolbar*
(I’m happy because I already using firefox 3)

I have been using the EntreBar for the past hour and I must say that I totally LOVE it!

Really really makes a huge difference. I being able to advertise with one mouse click. Ditto for favouriting.

And now finally there is an easy way to surf my inbox and reciprocal drop on all those who have dropped on me.

I also just generally love being able to click the next button and jump to the next site in any number of different categies. You really have put a lot of thought into this and produced a killer EntreCard app!

I’ll blog about this and hope that I’ll be able to get more people enthusiastic about joining our community.

Well done and thanks very much.

wow indeed a great news.i just downloaded mine and hopefully start using it soon. you rock!

Only wish there was a toolbar for opera. I don’t drop with firefox because for some reason it screws up my cookies so I have to log back in to every site I use.

From what I see peeps write it must be a nice toolbar, but my SU toolbar has too much of a universal purpose for me, nice try at bumping it tho!

I use Flock browser, which is powered by Mozilla. Most Firefox extensions run in Flock happily, as does the Stumble tool bar. I can’t log in with the Entrecard tool bar. It just hangs at ‘Logging in to Entrecard’. I have cleared the sign in details and inserted them again, but still no joy. Could you tell me if it is possible to run it in Flock please.

Hi. I’ve just installed the tool bar into Firefox 3 and it does exactly the same. Just hangs at login. Could this problem possibly be because I use Mac?

I would really like to use the tool bar if it’s possible.

Wohoo finally it’s here!! Great job guys!

Installed it and am enjoying it so far.
I usually resist installing toolbars for applications, but with Entrecard I certainly made the exception.
Best features – easy to switch between my own blogs & that the toolbar shows you if you have an ad in the queue.
Keep up the great work!

Wow, this is great news! Just what avid entrecard users like us need. I’ll definitely install it.

This is good. Just what the doctor ordered. Downloading it now and will get back after thoroughly checking it out. Thanks a ton for sharing it.

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I have the Entrebar! Woohoo!

http://www.xeemomma.net/blog-promotion/entrecard-entrebar/

I’m not using FF3 I am using FF2 and I can’t login. Not ready to upgrade to FF3 yet.

Works great, using it a lot already easy to use, appreciate the effort to produce this.

Thanks

I love the entrebar! I’m writing a post about it now.

I’ve just downloaded it…so far so good.

Nice one!

I’ve just blogged about this over at Online Presence –> http://onlinepresence.blogsailor.com/

[...] Entrecard team has outdid themselves and have created a Entrecard Toolbar which was launched recently. I think its a great marketing tool to get the Entrecard more popular [...]

Wow! This is cool! It will be easier for me to browse and drop others blog..

Thanks for the creative innovation from you guys!

I hate toolbars……. so I probably won’t be trying it out but it’s a great idea; looking good so far.

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It looks and works good in Firefox. I’m also using Internet Explorer though. Will there be an IE-toolbar available any time soon?

I installed it and was excited to give it a try. However, it didn’t work with my firefox 3.0.1. Please help. any advice?

This is extremely cool!

Xavier Lur, the World’s Youngest Professional Blogger

http://www.KidTechGuru.blogspot.com

This is a great move, now we can “stumble” onto entrecard websites in the categories we like and buy ads right from the toolbar!

I am not able to use with firefox 3.0… any suggestions.. why?

This works great! Nicely done

And for those hesitant to upgrade to FF3, it’s SOOO much more stable than FF2, uses less memory, and is just generally awesome. Sadly, 10.4 or higher OS X is requiered on the Mac side, so older os users there are limited… but in general, FF3 is greatness.

Actually, Linkback, we’re not trying to bump the stumble bar. We feel the most benefit can come to our members who stumble sites they like as they drop, so I would actually recommend both. Neither is a replacement for the other.

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Love it! Thanks!

wow gr8 toolbar … i will install now in my browser

Thank you for the entrebar.
It will be more easy now to use entrecards.

Very neat indeed.

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The number of drops I make daily has increased dramatically since you launched the EntreBar because the toolbar makes it so easy to navigate from site to site.

It’s like the StumbleUpon toolbar.

I <3 EC.

As a “SOLE” firefox user since its beta, I’m stoked! Thanks!

This looks like it will benefit a lot of bloggers using Entrecard. I just can’t wait until the bugs are worked out of it because none of the buttons work, I can’t even login with the tool bar.

Another suggestion:

I’d like to be able to browse the EC community of blogs by location.

For instance, I’m a South African blogger, and I’d like to be able to browse all South African blogs and drop on them, because they are most likeliest (I think) to take an interest in becoming regular readers of my blog which talks about stuff which is mostly relevant to my fellow South Africans.

I like the favorites toolbar function that enable me to view my favorite one by one.

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that great… but i used internet explorer, can i download this toolbar?tx

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This tool bar will help a lot. i can be on any site and suddenly if i think of going to any of entrecard page just select from the tool bar great…

Due to thi the drops will be increased. thanks a lot

Now I can use entrecard at ease even though I do other things while working in my computer.

Thanks

Wow! This is another great addition to the entrecard pack. Great work Gramham. I have many addon that are not yet compatible with FF# so I just wen right on and install it to my FF2 to try what that gets me.

@majik: Firefox 3 generally appears to have problems retaining its cookies.

If you haven’t tried deleting the cookies file yet, do it. Immediately after doing that, my logins to all sites were retained.

But now 2 weeks afterwards, I find that I am being logged out of random sites.

Clearly there is a deeper problem with Firefox 3 and the way it handles cookies. They changed things between version 2 and 3, and no doubt managed to introduce some bugs.

after I uncheck “Remember me on this browser” I finally can login, but the “Next Site” button and “Next 10 sites” button does nothing when I click them.. any idea how to make them work? thanks

I love the new toolbar. Had to blog about it!

http://www.fitzbiz.org/entrecard/the-entrecard-toolbar-rocks/08/05/2008/

Love the new toolbar. I find it so much easier to stroll through more blogs casually. Some great blogs in this community.

It would be nice if I could stroll through my inbox using the toolbar with the addition of a filter that would filter out all the blogs I have already dropped on that day.

great work

a great thing to have for easy access! thank you so much. but…i can’t move the entire toolbar. help you can me on this one…

@majik: that is the problem I wish to avoid. I want to login to a site and not be logged out until I explicitly log myself out.

@Brad: I second your suggestion – great idea!

Another suggestion for the EntreBar:

I’d like to be able to tell the EntreBar to skip certain sites (i.e. put them on an exclude list). If I come across a site that takes a very long time to load, or has the EC widget right at the bottom of the page or automatically plays music or 101 other annoyances, I don’t want the EntreBar to show me that site again.

Just a general remark: If a blogger chooses to display his EC widget way down the page, I will never advertise with them. The EC widget must be right at the top or I am not interested.

Great idea this entrebar. I just downloaded ff3 to have this entrebar. I do hope it will function good for me as it has a lot of great features as i read… long live EC!

Hmmm, I’m still scratching my head why I couldn’t login from my entrebar, the progress bar just doesn’t seem to stop anywhere.

Yan

One thing I’ve been noticing for some time now is the diminishing returns I’m getting on advertising with other EC bloggers.

It’s not unusual these days to get ZERO clicks off an EC advert, even if I spent as much as 128 or 256 EC on it.

And I have never ever gotten even over 100 clicks off an EC advert. I’ve never broken even. I’ve never gotten more clicks than the price I paid.

This has not put me off belonging to EC, but I know for a fact that it has caused others to drop out.

So what this means for me is that I choose not to spend over 256 EC on any given advert.

I also am not happy with the fact that an EC advert that costs 256EC only gives a quarter of that (i.e. 64EC to the publisher). What happens to the other 3/4? Does that get lost or is that EC’s “commission” because if that’s the commission it is a HUGE levy to exact off us.

I believe that this needs addressing as soon as possible.

I believe also that the solution to the poor return on EC adverts is to give EC members an incentive to click them, i.e. give them 1 EC to click the advert, as well as the drop. The publisher should get 1 additional EC as well if the advert they display is clicked.

Has anyone ever wondered how powerful this can be when used with the Alexa toolbar?
Hehe. figured out something.
My little secret!

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@richard
due to such complications I have stopped adverts. Bad thing that inspite of high popularity rating my blog stays in last position.

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While I like the idea and find toolbars useful..I am hesitant to dload yet another toolbar to take up space in my browser window. Is it possible to make it a flock/firefox plugin?

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lol @ Patty

Easy Plugins…

I’ve been tried this. Great Plugins….

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How do I remove Entrecard Toolbar? It is slowing down my card dropping, I spend triple the amount the time Used to drop cards! and it keeps showing cards I’ve already dropped cards on when I clicked the arrows.

I need to remove it fast!

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the tool bar is a great Idea if the thing would ever download!I have been waiting for 10 minuites for it to download. not to mention the ecard system is slower than molasses in january.

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entrecard.com – cool sitename man)))

What about those of us who currently have the other EC toolbar? Will we lose our bookmarked favorites? Or does it copy those over into this new release?

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Needs an update for 3.5

Update please for the latest Firefox 3.5

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Hi,

Why is it every time I click “Open in new Window” it always ask me to log in again? I’m using Firefox 3.0 version. Looking forward to hear from you soon. Thank you!

Hi, is there a timeline for making Entrebar available for FF 3.6? It got disabled for me, presumably because there is no version for it yet. Thanks.