We’ve had a few enquiries from attentive viewers of the Spokesmonster cartoons. “Hey,” they say, “in one of the cartoons you promised we’d be able to add the StepRep widget to our Facebook profiles. When’s that happenin’, ya slackers?”

Well, the development team is working on a way to push stories from StepRep into your Facebook account. We’ll let you know the minute that happens. But in the meantime, there’s a cheat you might like to try.

If you go to the Facebook application directory and do a search for “RSS”, you’ll find a whole whack of apps with names like RSS-Connect, Simply RSS, and Blog RSS Feed Reader (to name only the first three that come up). These apps allow you to add an RSS feed to your Facebook profile.

Now, back in StepRep, go to the Widget Settings screen and right-click and copy the location of the little link that says RSS Feed. Carry that address over to Facebook and paste it into whichever one of the RSS apps you’ve chosen to install, and voila, there’s your StepRep widget, right smack on your Facebook profile. Your friends can see the stories you’ve chosen to promote, and you can stop blaming that clown who made the cartoon for getting a little ahead of himself.

By the way, we’re not endorsing any of these RSS apps, so if this trick doesn’t work for you, don’t come running to us.

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In other news, we now own the domain steprep.com. Previously some wretched cyber-squatter had taken residence there, but we finally convinced him to drag his smelly sleeping bag off our doorstep.

So now if you suffer memory failure, or if you lose all your bookmarks, you won’t have to scratch your head over where to find us. Just type “steprep.com” into your address bar and by the mighty magic of the 301 redirect you’ll be whisked to our home at steprep.myfrontsteps.com.

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Update 3:03 pm – a few minutes after I finished this post, I received word that the development team had just released an update. I talk about the new “My Content” button and “Promote this” checkbox over on the StepRep Blog.

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