Home > Blogs > Jeff Turner > Turner's Perspective
bookmark_borderbookmark

The Missing Bubble Guru Video Bubble Video

By
Services for Real Estate Pros with RealSatisfied

Yes, I've taken down the BubbleGuru.com video bubble once again.

And it will stay down here on ActiveRain until I have something REALLY important that I want everyone to know about, regardless of which post they come to on my ActiveRain blog. Until that time comes, it's just plain annoying for it to pop up on every single post, even if you've already been to other posts I've written.

As I said in "Let's Test BubbleGuru.com One More Time," that's not the way it's supposed to work. The BubbleGuru.com embed code is built to be placed right before the closing body tag in your site. This is handled in a wordpress blog be editing the footer.php file and placing the embed code there. When you do it that way, it will only play once for each user "session."

So, for those who missed it, here's what it looked like:


The Missing Bubble Guru Bubble from respres on Vimeo.

Comments (12)
Subscribe to CommentsComment

Submit
Show All Comments
Desiree Daniels
RE/MAX Tri County - Robbinsville, NJ

I love it!!!!    I really would love to sit next to you one day at your computer to see where that brain of yours goes and finds all this "stuff".

Now Al's not thrilled to see a bubble popping up with my face following him around on a screen..   But i just listed a final phase new construction that I think this is great for... ya know to count down the lots left when people log on

 

Mar 06, 2008 07:53 AM
Alan 'AJ' Nisen California Contra Costa Mortgage Officer
A Large Bank in America - Lafayette, CA
Jeff, interesting technology, but only to be used sparingly.  Thanks AJ.
Mar 06, 2008 08:31 AM
Jeff Turner
RealSatisfied - Santa Clarita, CA
Dez... Al really needs to lighten up. :) and as Alan says above, this is going to be good for a very few things, but for those things, it will do the trick. It's all about know what tool to use when. 
Mar 06, 2008 08:37 AM
Chris Tesch
RE/MAX Bryan-College Station - College Station, TX
College Station, Texas Real Estate
Really makes things stand out.  Almost overbearing in anything but moderation. I agree!  You do know what tools to use when, Jeff.
Mar 06, 2008 09:14 AM
Rich Jacobson
Fathom Realty West Sound - Poulsbo, WA
Your Kitsap County WA Real Estate Broker
Annoying???...Heaven forbid!...We just can't get enough of you, Jeffrey! Hey, if somethings gonna pop-up on my screen, it might as well be you! Well, maybe Sarah Cooper or Chris Griffith might be better :)
Mar 06, 2008 09:32 AM
Renée Donohue~Home Photography
Savvy Home Pix - Allegan, MI
Western Michigan Real Estate Photographer

Crazy weird that I came here because I have a question about zillow and RES and see my mug on this :)

You have my attention now, more good stuff from JT!:)

Mar 06, 2008 10:16 AM
Rosario Lewis
DDR Realty - Newburgh, NY
GRI, SRES - DDR Realty - Orange County, NY

Moderation in the use of nifty technology is a good thing.

Mar 06, 2008 01:10 PM
Patricia Kennedy
RLAH Real Estate - Washington, DC
Home in the Capital
Maybe it's not so bad that I'm too tech impaired to get this bubble thingie on my blog!
Mar 06, 2008 02:10 PM
Lisa Hill
Florida Property Experts - Daytona Beach, FL
Daytona Beach Real Estate
What was wrong with it before? It worked fine for me when I checked it the other day... But I was only testing. I haven't actually embedded it yet. I just bookmarked it.
Mar 06, 2008 02:45 PM
Jeff Turner
RealSatisfied - Santa Clarita, CA

:) Lisa, there was nothing wrong with it... except that it was a bit annoying. Since we can't get to certain parts of our AR blogs, we have to put the code in the settings, which gets treated differently. So, people are forced to hear the same message over and over if they go to more than one post on my blog in the same session. Annoying. :)

So, I think this will work great if you are trying to get someone's attention for something important. I will use it again here, but only when I've got something I really want noticed. 

Mar 06, 2008 04:31 PM
Deanna Casalino
Remax Realty Group - Estero, FL
Fort Myers Florida Homes,
Jeff I really love your posts but I don't really care for the bubble. Glad it's gone
Mar 19, 2008 12:24 PM
Scott Cowan
RE/MAX Professionals - Olympia, WA
I think that the tool will be useful on an occasional basis. If I went to any site that it was used over and over again on I would not want to go back. Yet, for an occasional pop up it will be a good attention grabber.
Mar 24, 2008 07:57 AM
Back to Top

What's the reason you're reporting this blog entry?

Are you sure you want to report this blog entry as spam?