Today.com bids farewell to Entrecard

I should have seen it coming,
I should have read the signs
Anyway, I guess it’s over…

*continue singing Fool Again by Westlife*

Oh well.. So Today.com has demanded their bloggers to remove Entrecard widget. First, because of the new policy of Entrecard regarding the third party advertisement, which somewhat crashes with the policy of Today.com. Second, because Today.com finally realizes that the traffic from Entrecard is pretty useless (high bounce rate etc).

I am fine with removing Entrecard from my Asian Dramas blog. Not wanting to be arrogant, but Entrecard doesn’t really contribute in giving me traffic (quality and quantity). Okay, probably it did, for the first 3 days or so. After that, it’s just a repetition, not much new traffic that can convert in some amount of UV (unique visit). Besides, the time that I spent in dropping card is not balance with what I get in return. Not a new problem for Entrecard-ers.

I have to admit that, yes thanks to Entrecard I am able to find lots of wonderful/friendly bloggers with interesting blogs (in terms of theme design and content). But.. I only able to stick/follow a few blogs (probably 20 or so) and really read their posts and/or drop comment. Heck, sometimes it takes ages for some blogs to load (wtf, homepage shows more than 10 long posts with tonnes of widgets) hence I just drop and run. Not a new problem too.

Bottom line, we can’t avoid drop and run scene in Entrecard. It’s like.. a friendship scene. I know tonnes of people and refer them as my friend. But there is just a few that I really keep in touch (read: chat/share about ourselves, life, etc), the rest is just a hi-bye friends.

Anyway, this is just another Entrecard-related-post. I shall get back to finish my work now. Tomorrow is public holiday. Yeehhhaaa!!!

The after-effect of dropping too many Entrecard

Now, I have the schedule of returning the drop in my Entrecard inbox everyday. I have 4 blogs in there and I will drop about 40-50 for one blog. That would be total 200 (average) per day. If the connection is pretty good which means I don’t need to keep on refresh Firefox for Entrecard widget to appear, I will probably drop more or double from that amount.

Sometimes, while returning the drop, I will click on the feature blog (with interesting picture and name like compact flash) and drop which become a chain. Don’t understand? Bleh, I don’t know how to explain. But, whatever. The point is, I think I am so used to drop entrecard that whenever I come across someone’s blog, I will scroll the whole page (up and down and right and left) just to search for the Entrecard widget. Who knows they hide it at the bottom there and wanting the visitors to read the post first. -__-” Then only I realized, not everyone has Entrecard widget. Duh.

Get Entrecard theme!

Few days ago when I was chatting with the boyfriend, suddenly he said that he wanted to create an entrecard theme for wordpress. Oh well, we’ve seen wordpress admin theme, facebook theme, digg theme, so why not entrecard?

And, here it is, Entrecard theme from SimplyWP. It is tested on IE7, Firefox 3, and Safari.