At the end of one of Jeff Clavier’s postings, he mentioned he was using Qumana and that he was “…testing the ad inventory”. This raised my curiosity, since I’ve been considering putting ads (back) onto Commavee.
This post will test that - how well does it work? It appears to be pretty easy - there is an ‘Insert Ad’ button at the top of the editor window, next to an ‘Insert Tags’ button.
Qumana’s website states that they are targeting the experienced blogger, while the built-in tools from your blog itself are for… newbs. Well, I do find myself wanting WYSIWYG and spell checking, and the dead-simple way of inserting ads and tags looks pretty cool.
This makes me wonder (again) how Flock will manage to differentiate when tools such as this, and plugins like Performancing, make blogging a truly integrated experience - for free, and without switching browsers.
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Thanks for giving us a shot. If you want to maximize your ads, I suggest resizing to a smaller width and sticking it in the top right corner with a wrap.
I checked out Qumana also along with a few other Desktop Clients.
You can see my reviews here
Hi John,
We’re not competing with Performancing and other tools, we’re providing a complete experience including Favorites, Web Clipboard and Photos. In particular I think that the web clipboard and the photo browser is a useful for bloggers (it’s a pain to blog photos without it).
So in short we don’t expect users to use Flock only for the blog module, but the complete set of features it offers and for the integration between these different features.
Hey Erwan,
Thanks. I had a similar comment from Chris when I originally mentioned Performancing in an earlier post. I understand the integration, but if the first thing I think about (even after Chris’ explanation) when I see Qumana is how it compares to both Performancing and Flock… well, then I would say you *are* competing with these other tools.
I think this is the case because the blogging capability was the first Flock feature that set you apart from the others - it is what compelled me to download & install the package (and post about it). So the blogging capability *became* Flock. And that’s the criteria against which it will be perceived and measured for quite some time. Initial impressions are incredily long-lasting.
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