Seeking attention
How do you keep users engaged? At the very start I thought it’ll be wonderful if I can just put my email address on the site and visitors would send me their feedback. Then in addition to their feedback, I could also get their email and send them an occassional update etc.
Boy was I naive…
Then I thought, let’s try to be a bit more explicit. I said something to the effect ‘if you want to know when the site is updated please please please give me your email’. This was still lame. Cause I’m pretty sure even I wouldn’t give up my email to just any website!
Today, quite by accident I was reading a Google Blog and came across Friend Connect. Check out their introductory video. I think this is exactly what I need. It allows folk to sign up for the site using their existing IDs on Google, Yahoo, AOL or OpenID! Everyone online probably has at least one of these!
And then, I can also hookup other tools like review boards etc. that is available to folk signed up using Friend Connect.
In case you’re wondering, it’s free and could be deployed in about 10 minutes. So this is live on my site right now! Let’s see if anyone actually signs up. Keeping my fingers crossed!