Stickr

I promised I would write a post on stickr, so here goes. I have a couple of things to say first. I don’t claim to know too much about stickr. I actually never heard about it until a few weeks ago while I was surfing the web. I’m still a "no0b" on the site with pretty much zero followers and I’m only following one person. Let me just tell you what I know and you can check it out yourself and get a feel for it. I love the creative minds behind stickr.com and their designs. If you haven’t already noticed, it’s a play on the word "sticker" because in essence, you’re placing "stickers" all over the growing Internet. From here on out, I’ll be referring to these "stickers" as the abbreviated and more proper STICKR. Here is a little summary: Stickr provides the means and the platform by which users can place little post-it’s throughout the Internet with a 140 character blurb (very much like Twitter). It’s like Twitter on crack! Your stickrs can be shared on a public timeline or kept private (again very similar to Twitter).

The good fun in using stickrs is the ability to share what you find online with other users. Users can also comment on other user’s stickrs and even rate them. It’s a truly social experience of link sharing with an element of Twitter attached. I love what they’ve done aesthetically with their site logo and their widgets. The only problem I have with their site is their translations. They need a little bit of help with the English translations since they’re generally lacking. It makes navigation and understanding a little bit of a hassle. Other than that, everything works well and it’s really fun to use and share. If the word about stickr got out, it might become an instant hit.

It’s a free service and it’s great for leaving notes and commenting on the web. This platform looks like it might open a wide realm of possibilities, since they’ve already got Twitter, Google, and Facebook interconnectivity all figured out. I wonder what the next step of the stickr development team will be. One obstacle that may get in the way seems to be spamming and overuse of these stickrs. On most of the sites that I’ve been to, there are either no stickrs, just one or two stickrs, or a whole mess of stickrs (an example is Google.com). What is in place to prevent spamming and the overflow of stickrs? Having so many overlapping stickrs displayed on top of each other is hard to read, but luckily they’ve made a widget that can display all the stickrs of a page on a sidebar. Unfortunately, if the page doesn’t have the widget installed, there’s not much to be done.
Using stickr is easy and intuitive. While there are still improvements to be made as with most products, they’ve really delved into something new. Ready to get started? Just follow these steps and you’ll be on your way:

Go to stickr.com and sign up for their services.
Set up your profile and customize your settings.
Install the plugin for your browser to view stickrs.
Start putting your stickrs on the web and sharing with the community.

If you take a look at the right hand side you’ll se my stickr widget for this site. If you don’t see it, you might have to refresh the page until you see the I <3 Stickr widget floating on the right hand side. Have a look at it just for kicks. I’ve made a stickr for my blog. Get on your way to looking at the web in a whole new way.