DISQUS

@George:
"I’ve seen Firefox bundled with many products, but I don’t see anyone complaining about that."

Actually if you see Firefox bundled with a single product (other than an OS) you need to complain very loudly to both the bundler and to Mozilla. Firefox is a standalone product and is never provided in any other way, except when you're installing a Linux distribution. But then I wouldn't trust Firefox from anyone but Mozilla because you never know what they change in it. Even some Linux distros change Firefox enough that I question whether it should even be called Firefox anymore.

Topic? An updater should only be used for updating, not marketing. Otherwise you just piss off the end user and end up making them not want o use any of your products.

Just an FYI, the ZIP version of the file doesn't have the folder structure. Also, when I activated it and went to the Macros manager page I got "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/httpd/vhosts/ydwblog.com/httpdocs/wp-content/plugins/wp-macros/wp-macros-functions.php on line 72".

Congrats, Aaron! That's awesome news!

You're having email issues. I sent you a message at home and got "Recipient's mailbox is full, message returned to sender. (#5.2.2)"



It's always the little things, isn't it.

That's just it, Aaron. I don't want to get Flock just for the API key. In fact I just blogged that I don't think Flock is worth it. I can wait to run Askimat.

Ah, part of the push to download Flock. From everything I see from Flock there's only one reason for me to get it, and that's the WP.com blog. Since I already run Firefox (and the latest nightly branch build at that) I don't see any real logic in downloading something that duplicates so much code. And they have a page on their site that won't open in any other browser, not even with an error message? That's worse than Microsquish and IE. Yeah, I hate Flock even more now.

Yeah, I requested an invite yesterday to check it out for a friend and I'm wondering how long it will be before I get my invite. As it stands now I'm pretty unimpressed with this plugin.

As I posted over on Matt's blog, I activated the plugin, but I can’t see where to get the key, which makes it pretty useless. WP doesn't host my blog and there’s nowhere on WP.com to sign up to get a key. I give it an “A” for concept, but a “D-” for execution. Or am I misunderstanding something?

You're having email issues. I sent you a message at home and got "Recipient's mailbox is full, message returned to sender. (#5.2.2)"



It's always the little things, isn't it.

Whoops, I noticed. ;) I guess the problems I'm seeing are only temporary. I tried to email you about it but my message bounced. Drop me a note if there's info I need.

Excellent article, Aaron! I'll have to share it with friends thinking about starting a blog.