We’re pleased to announce the release of a new product from our pals at Mochi Media called MochiMention. They utilized the infrastructure of their popular flash tracking tool, MochiBot, and recombined it into something useful for the rest of us. It’s free to get started, and extremely cheap for those who need it on an ongoing basis. We’re also pretty happy with the yummy color pallete. 
Rate your stuff
The idea is simple, let people add ratings and comments to anything they want, wherever they want. MochiMention uses flash to allow you to add a small ratings widget on any kind of web page. You can place it under photos of your latest vacation, home movies of your new puppy, or even on the footer of a new website you want feedback on. It doesn’t require any database or coding, and is simple to setup and get started.
AutoMentions
The best feature is the ability to automagically track database driven items, such as blog posts or items on an e-commerce site. For instance with blog posts, if you add the MochiMention code to your post template, MochiMention will automatically create a new mention each time it sees a new post. You only have to add a unique id using your blog tags and MochiMention does the rest. This takes the hassle out of having to create a new mention each time you add a new post.
Give it a go
Give it a try and let us know what you think. There’s a plenty more features up on the whiteboard here in the office, and a number directions the product can go. As always with the folks at Mochi Media, your feedback is very welcome. Oh, and we’re voting for the bunny.
Update
Hint: To add a MochiMention to your wordpress posts, use your Wordpress tags like this:
…&slug=<?php echo(urlencode($post->post_name)); ?>&title=<?php echo(urlencode($post->post_title)); ?>
Published on August 1, 2006
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5 Responses to “MochiMention: Rate Your Stuff”
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kosse on August 3rd, 2006
Nice design, nice service, quick reply, gave it a try and… works like a charm (even submitted a little bug that was fixed within the next hours).
Small apps that make it, give me more
Wish all the web was like that, just look at it, taste it… & enjoy!
Bravo
Marcos
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Ryan Nichols on August 4th, 2006
Hey thanks!
Yeah it works great in our Wordpress blog. We need to add more instructions for other kinds of blog software or services like MySpace though.
Yes, Jameson is very good at replying to feedback and requests. Always impresses me.
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David Currin on August 9th, 2006
Thanks for the tip,
Looks like an interesting service. Giving it a try on my site to see how it works out. And congratulations on the 9rules membership by the way!
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Ryan Nichols on August 9th, 2006
Hey David,
Thanks! Genius website by the way.
To everyone else…Check out davids site at mymilliondollarpiggybank.com
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David Currin on August 15th, 2006
Hey Ryan, thanks for the mention, I really appreciate it. The site is still very young at the moment and so I need all the help I can get.:-) I think that the idea is great but I need lots* of people to get involved for it to take off.