This friday we’ll be at the freelance fridays. A social meeting for freelancers in the internet and new media industry. Besides drinking beer and having a good time we’ll also give a short presentation. A few weeks ago we started the new features poll. We realy appreciate your feedback. If you haven’t voted yet please do so now. In line with the poll results we’ll also lanch the public/private option during the presentation.
You are all invited to come to Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam this friday at 17.30.

When you share a Flecked page with someone via email they receive a message with a special URL in it. That message didn’t look very friendly. Today we spend some time in making it more descriptive and intuitive for people receiving it.

We are also working on more spectaculair things but sometimes it just feels good to change a few important things, right away.

Hope you notice this improvement and enjoy it.

Fleck is about democracy so please let us know which features you would like to see first in Fleck. You can also add features yourself. I will move this poll to the sidebar later so it will stay there for a while as we continue to add features.

We are back from Paris and today we want to test a few new browsers with Fleck.

Flock
If you have Flock you can download the Fleck-Flock extension. Let us know how it works and what you see and what isn’t working for you.

Opera
Opera should be working fine at the end of the day. Robert noticed a problem with saving the notes which he is working on now but besides that it seems to work. We won’t offer an Extension for Opera yet but at least you will be able to use Fleck from Fleck.com or use the Bookmarklet.

Safari
I also received a few (several!) requests for Fleck on Safari. Safari gives us a lot of trouble with Javascript. I don’t know if we will be able to fix everything this week but it should work as soon as possible. I use a MacBook Pro myself and use both Firefox and Safari so please don’t think that Safari isn’t importan for us. I don’t even think that the fact that Safari has a smaller footprint in the browser market makes it less important. It isn’t important whether a lot of people use but which people use it. Are those people Bloggers, journalist and early adopters who would love to use Fleck? Then we need to offer Fleck on Safari.

Other browsers or platforms
If there are any browsers that we are forgetting please let us know in the comments here. We want to make Fleck as compatible as possible and if it isn’t working well in your browser we want to hear about it.

An anonymous Fleck user told us that she uses Fleck for another reason than just annotating and sharing websites. Because Fleck uses a different URL for the page so we can add the Flecks the URL isn’t recognised by company Internet Filters. This means that if you can’t read certain websites you can just go to Fleck.com first, enter the url you want to visit and go there without being blocked.

That is, until your company blocks Fleck. So enjoy it while it lasts…

We couldn’t come to Les Blogs/Le Web 3 empty handed so today we present a new and important new feature. If you use Fleck now you will be able to blog straight from the Fleck interface to your blog.

In theory at least! You do need a WordPress blog and you need to know your username and password. We will add support for Blogger, Typepad and other platforms too as soon as possible.

This is how it works: Fleck any page on the web and then click the “Blog” button. There you will have to supply the address of your blog and your password and username. You will then be able to write a blog post and your Flecked page URL will be inserted automatically in your blog.

Fleck remembers your data for you and you can enter the address of several blogs. You can select the blog you want to post too from a drop down menu.

Give it a try and let us know how it works for you!