Fuzzypop version 0.14 released! »

Threw together a few key updates to fuzzypop today that I thought I would share with you real quick:

1. Added tabs to the bookmarking form so that instead of one long form, there's five simple tabs ('URL', 'Tags', 'Note', 'Share', and 'Alert me'). The only required field when bookmarking is 'URL' and so that's the default one you see loaded when you click the extension icon (or use the form on the homepage of fuzzypop.com).

2. The 'Note' feature is new as well and does what you would think (let's you store a note along with your bookmark). The Note field also doubles as the message that get's shared if you use the new 'share' feature.

3. Speaking of the 'share' feature, it's new as well and let's you post the URL you are bookmarking to your Twitter and/or Facebook stream along with whatever note you added.

TIP: If you put in a note like "@falicon check out this cool site" and share with your 'Twitter' stream, your tweet will be logged as a mention in your Twitter stream...if you put in a note like "d falicon check out this cool site" and share with your 'Twitter' stream, your tweet will be logged as a direct message in your Twitter stream.

4. Cleaned up some of the basic graphics and buttons and moved around a few things on the 'your account' page...but I've got a lot more to do in this area before I feel like it's even close to 'good' and useable.

That's about it for today (it took a lot longer to implement than what it sounds like in this post!)...up next I'll be spending some more time trying to figure out/clean up the actual web site interface and document the API (btw, the extension and website are both just interfaces to an API that I haven't released to the general public yet -- once I do, anyone could write their own interface on top of all this functionality!).

I'll also be integrating some bit.ly information into the extension soon so you can see some quick details if other people have shortened a link to the URL you are on as well as how many people have clicked on those shared links.

I'm also thinking about adding in some extra behind-the-scenes features that monitor Twitter and Facebook for links you've tagged to see who in general is mentioning those links (even if they aren't specifically tagging them with fuzzypop)...there's a bit of a scaling issue to tackle before I could release this to the general public, but I think it's a cool idea that people would really like and so I'll probably spend at least a little time trying to figure it out.