Despite his busy schedule, Max of SiteHoppin.com was nice enough to obliged me with a mini interview. The founder and programmer of SiteHoppin.com released the much anticipated SiteHoppin(SH) Firefox Toolbar 2 days ago, much to the delight of many SiteHoppin members. With the introduction of the new SH Firefox Toolbar, the issue of unique viewers as explained in my article entitled "SiteHoppin.com - Beer Traffic Revealed" can now be put to rest. Phewww...

So without further a due, I present you the interview with Max:

1. What makes the SiteHoppin(SH) Firefox Toolbar different from the StumbleUpon Toolbar?

SH Toolbar is built more for “personal bookmarking” whereas SU Toolbar is really for “community bookmarking”. SH Toolbar is different because it allows users to save their own bookmarks while sharing them with the community of Site Hoppers. We should have “User Tag” hopping coming soon which will let you “hop” your favorite tags so you save 10 minutes on surfing everyday. Actually, you can do this right now with our Custom Tag Search Function, we need to make it easier though.

2. The current toolbar is in private beta testing phase, when is the official release of the SH Firefox Toolbar scheduled?

Official release should be in about 3 to 6 months. We are not sure exactly when but people who get in early will benefit as they will eventually become power users of SiteHoppin, sorta like those Top 100 Digg users. The only suggestion we can give you is to make sure to get the SH Toolbar downloaded before the private beta list closes.

3. Will there be a SH Internet Explorer Toolbar?

We might make one for Internet Explorer way later down the road. But for right now, we are trying to promote Firefox only.

4. Will there be more additional functions for the SH Firefox toolbar?

Oh for sheezy, that’s why it’s still in “private beta”. We actually released it a little too early so you might see some bugs and also missing components we forgot to add. But that’s the whole point of private beta testing. So we can get some feedback and change around the SH Toolbar before the official release.

5. Any other plans you have in the making for SiteHoppin.com?

We are gonna AJAX up some of the comments sections, let you edit your bookmarks, and some more enhancements for the site. It’s all in “live” update so you might suddenly see some improvements while using SiteHoppin.com. We are probably one of the only folks who do “live” site updates, but don’t blame us if the site gets funky for a minute or two, that’s just part of the fun.

That's about it from us at Bloggerfocus Dot Com. Special thanks to Max for sharing his views on the SH Firefox Toolbar and the upcoming developments on SiteHoppin.com. Dont' forget to check out the SiteHoppin Blog as well for more updates.

Recommended Read:
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2. John Chow Dot Com Reviews SiteHoppin.com
3. SiteHoppin.com, Entrecard Wannabe?

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The SiteHoppin(SH) Firefox Toolbar has just been released by Max from SiteHoppin.com. This is a beta testing version of the SH Firefox toolbar and will be issued only to 1000 SiteHoppin members for trial and testing.

SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar Review
General Layout

I've got to say that the SH Firefox Toolbar is easier to navigate and use as compared to the StumbleUpon (SU) Toolbar. I'm not saying this because I know Max or that I'm helping him to promote this toolbar. Just take a look at the SH Firefox tool screenshot below and compare it with the SU Toolbar, need I say more?

SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar

StumbleUpon Toolbar

Functions available on the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar

1) Hop Button

A click on the SiteHoppin button let's you hop to the next site.

2) Rate It




Rate sites that you hop upon by clicking on the Beer Bottles. If you find a site that you like, rate it from a scale of 1 to 5 Beer Bottles with 5 Beer Bottles rating being the highest you can give to a site.

3) Puke It




Hop upon a site that makes you feel like puking? Click the "Puke It" button and rest assured that the site would never again appear on your future hops.

4) Talk




Clicking on the Talk button brings you to the Discussion Page of the site you hop upon. You can also leave a comment while you're there. Check out the screenshot of 3trimesterspregnancy.com Discussion Page: 5) Tag

The "Tag" button let's you bookmark a sites that you hop upon. Click on the "Tag" button and a bookmark window would appear as shown in the screenshot below:
Enter a comment about the site you intend to tag followed by the tags or labels for that site and finally click the Submit button. The site would then be submitted to SiteHoppin's database and bookmarked as your favorite.

6) TagHoppin




This is a drop down button that let's you select a particular category or tag to hop upon. If you like drop to Entrecards, select the Entrecard tag and start drop-hopping (drop Entrecards as you site hop)

7) Shuffle/Iterate Mode




Toggle between Shuffle Mode or Iterate Mode.

8) Menu




A drop down menu button containing all links related to SiteHoppin.com as shown in the screenshot below.
9) User Menu




A drop down menu with user related links as shown in the screenshot below:
Why should you get a SiteHoppin Firefox toolbar?
1. User friendly toolbar. You don't need to be a genius in order to navigate and use the SH Firefox toolbar.

2. You earn 1 Beer Credits for each page you hop to. Remember that you can exchange 10 Beer credits for 1 unique visitor to your page. (Psst...let you in on a secret. Use the SH Firefox Toolbar to drop your daily 300 Entrecards. Once you have completed your daily Entrecard drops, you earn 300 Beer Credits automatically which you can exchange for 30 Unique visitors to your blog. What more can you ask?)

3. Rating a site you hop upon gives an additional 10 Beer Credits to your SiteHoppin account (an equivalent of 1 Unique visitor to your blog for each rating you give). The more you rate, the more visitors you get for your blog. Simple as that.

Be the first 1000 SiteHoppin Members to try out the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar
There are currently 20 selected Bloggers who can issue invites to use the SiteHoppin Firefox Toolbar (one of them is myself). To get your own SH Firefox Toolbar, here's what you should do:

1. Get registered as a SiteHoppin member for FREE
2. Drop a comment here at Bloggerfocus Dot Com stating your SiteHoppin user name and e-mail in order for me to send you the SH Firefox toolbar invite.

Additional giveaway:
1. In addition to receiving your SH Firefox tool bar invite, you will also be credited with 100 Beer Credits courtesy of Bloggerfocus Dot Com.
2. If you subscribe to Bloggerfocus Dot Com feed via e-mail, an additional 500 Beer Credits would be given to you for FREE. Just leave a comment here stating that you have subscribed to my RSS via email.
3. Buy Beer Stocks now using Bloggerfocus affiliate link and you'll received a 25% discount for your Beer Stocks purchase.

So what are you waiting for? Come get your own SH Firefox Toolbar now before all 1000 invites run out! Trust me, there is nothing to lose and all to gain at SiteHoppin.com.

Till the next time, cheers and happy blogging!

Recommended Read:
1. SiteHoppin.com, Entrecard Wannabe?
2. SiteHoppin.com - Beer Traffic Revealed

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SiteHoppin.com is set to release a new feature called SH Firefox Toolbar. Max from SiteHoppin has yet to exposed any details about the toolbar or even give us a sneak peak on how the toolbar looks like. Let's just all wait for what SiteHoppin has come up with for its free members and Beer Stock holders.

If the soon to be released SiteHoppin's toolbar becomes a BIG HIT, Beer Stock holders would most likely benefit the most from the introduction of the toolbar. Max is currently preparing his servers to handle between a million to 20 million hits per day. That should give you a general idea on the expected shared traffic Beer Stock holders will get once the toolbar is released.

Why the need for this toolbar? Well, the current Browser-within-Browser at SiteHoppin is in fact an iframe displaying a blog/site within its browser. Therefore your blog/site is currently being seen by unique viewers instead of unique visitors as explained in my article entitled SiteHoppin - Beer Traffic Revealed. Once the SH Firefox Toolbar is launched, all talks about iframes or unique viewers will be quashed. There will be genuine traffic or should I say unique visitors, sitehopping to blogs and sites.

Now that I'm done with the technical explaination of it, here are the top 8 function I "hope" to see available on the SH Firefox Toolbar:

1. A hop counter to keep track of the number of hops I've made.
2. A drop down menu to select categories that I wish to site hop.
3. Tag and rate functions.
4. Beer Credit counter to keep track of the credits I've earned and spent.
5. A built in function that checks a web page for Entrecard Banner and drop a card automatically or me. (wonder if this is possible)
6. An "Empty Beer Bottle" function to mark down sites that I don't wish to hop to in the future.
7. A toolbar that you can site hop without the need to be registered. Of course registered member would be able to earn Beer Credits, while unknown guest can also enjoy using the toolbar except with limited functions on it.
8. A counter to keep track of unique visitors to my blog/site everytime someone hops upon it.
9. I would like to see the toolbar to be click oriented like SU than auto refresh inorder to save my bandwidth. (contributed by Luckymurari from Eurekatips.com)
10. Some technique to control the pictures of sites, so that you can get only the text of the sites. (contributed by Jims Varkey from Ads For Blog)
11. A "Favorite Tags" list that we can create that we'd have easy access to as well. (contributed by Mike from CollegeStudentsArePoor!)
    

If you have other suggestion on what other functions should be available for the SH Firefox Toolbar, drop a comment here along with your SiteHoppin user name and the link to your blog/site. Each comment that I deem acceptable will be added to the list. A link to your blog/site will be placed beside your suggestion plus an additional 2000 Beer Credits sent to your SiteHoppin account. That's worth 2000 free hops without you doing anything.

By the way, if you like to see the video announcement from Max himself or to find out how he looks like, head on to SiteHoppin's blog.

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