Wibiya Web Toolbar

Yesterday I found a very interesting plugin: it inserts a web toolbar to increase web site usability and offers tools to “enhance” community on Flickr, Facebook and Twitter.

You can see it working on Phylosoft, is the bar that appears at the bottom.

The bar is available in 20 languages and their features are: search site and Google search, translated into 10 languages, direct access to the most recent entries, access to a random post, Flickr photos (from an album defined by the user), subscription to the RSS Feed, share in 11 social media, Fan Page on Facebook, Twitter account access, and notifications (it appears when the page loads in the lower right corner).

Right now, I left it without adding another 2 functionalities: building community on Facebook (through Facebook Connect) and Games.

How to configure / install it? I was surprised how easy it was, everything is done from the web Wibiya. Invitation is required to access and can be ordered on the same site, since the request the invitation took a couple of hours to arrive.

After signing with the invitation, I only need to choose color, functionality and provide users of social networks and some data of the website in which you want to install the toolbar. That done, Wibiya asks you how do you want to download the code, whether in the form of plugin for WordPress, Blogger, TypePad or the script that builds it for another CMS.

Following the steps according to the CMS of your website, you have it working.

In addition, the web Wibiya give you different tools to interact with users through the bar and statistics of usage. You can send notifications to all your readers, or create community on Facebook and see the usage statistics of each feature.

Moreover, and if you play a little bit with your bar, you will see that the whole operation is very fast, soft and the options and features appears in a continuous movement. The bar runs with a script from Wibiya servers so it should not cause overload in ours (which could be cause for removal).

Well, who want to  install it? And by the way, join me in Phylosoft Flickr, Facebook and Twitter profiles.