Performancing for Firefox, Awesome

By Om Malik | Tuesday, December 20, 2005 | 11:29 PM PT | 8 comments | 0 tweets retweet »

Some ideas, they just need passion, not money to get going. I am typing this post in Performancing for Firefox, a cross platform blog text editor extension, that allows bloggers to type their blog posts within the browser.

It opens a special window inside the browser, allows you to quickly configure your blogging software, and within a few minutes gets you going. It is an elegant and efficient way of blogging, specially for those who don’t use Mac-version of Ecto (in my mind the best reason to switch to Mac.)

In fact, if I have to use a PC, then this will be my choice of blogging application. Performancing for Firefox is just the kind of simple, lightweight application I had imagined was possible when researching my story, Microsoft’s Worst Nightmare. In many ways, it is the same utility which is the center piece of blog-oriented browser made by Flock, a much hearlded start-up.

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The position of the ‘Performancing’ sub-menu in the context menu leaves a lot to be desired. Bad choice there.

Jeff — 8:14 AM on December 21, 2005

I discovered this yesterday also. Very simple and useful extension. I agree with Jeff about the sub-menu placement.

Wally — 10:43 AM on December 21, 2005

om,
you hit the nail right on the head with the comment about how performancing for firefox defuses flock’s hot feature. my biggest criticism of flock when it finally appeared was that “cool” features could easily be replicated by firefox or IE. i find it hard to understand why the VCs who pumped money into flock didn’t realize this issue.

mark evans — 10:52 AM on December 21, 2005

I guess that’s why Paul Kedrosky, who also loves the performancing applet, says (in his own inimitable fashion) that Flock is F***ed :-)

Mathew Ingram — 12:17 PM on December 21, 2005

Om,

I couldn’t agree more. As a PC user, this is something I’ve been waiting for and, having give it a test run last night and today, am loving my initial experience.

Jason — 9:03 AM on December 22, 2005

Need spellchecking? The latest development build of SpellBound integrates seamlessly with this blogging tool.

Asa Dotzler — 10:03 PM on December 22, 2005

Performancing is a nice add-in. Check out RocketPost for a full blog editor:

http://www.anconia.com/rocketpost

(I designed it.)

Manish — 4:02 AM on December 23, 2005

i try to find something at google.com and take it on your site…thanks

brydger — 3:25 PM on June 19, 2006

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[...] Came across this blog editor extension for Firefox over at gigaom . It was easy to setup the blogs, and get started editing, and this post was made from. [...]

Portfolio » Performancing for Firefox — 12:06 PM on December 21, 2005

[...] I have to admit though, the potshots at Flock are becoming a little … tiresome. [...]

Revving a classic cliché at FactoryCity — 8:11 PM on December 21, 2005

[...] The reason for this particular round of naysaying is the launch of the impressive Performancing Firefox plugin that allows extremely easy blogging, from Firefox, for WordPress, MovableType or Blogger. Performancing is getting extremely good reviews from top bloggers like Paul Kedrosky, Om Malik and Steve Rubel. [...]

TechCrunch » Flock Says “Enough… — 11:10 PM on December 21, 2005

Performancing for Flock

Thanks to David Dunn and his Flockd (and bigger thanks to Performancing LLC for a sane implimentation) I am writing this post from Performancing in a Flock developers’ continuous build from today. These…

A Fool's Wisdom — 12:20 AM on December 22, 2005

[...] You need to provide the login details for each of your blogs but can post to most platforms including Typepad, Blogger and WordPress. The extension will even download your blog categories. Om Malik thinks it’s ‘awesome’ and Neville Hobson thinks it’s very impressive while noting its absence of a ping service, the ability to add trackbacks to a post and an error in publishing the categories he’d selected. No doubt these can be added and resolved in due course. [...]

Morgan’s Experimental WordPress Blog… — 9:02 AM on December 22, 2005

[...] I have to admit though, the potshots at Flock are becoming a little … tiresome. [...]

Kill3r0id’s bl0g » Blog Archive… — 10:52 AM on December 22, 2005

Half Baked Ideas

Flock is not one of those companies I mark as waste of money. I think that there is a promise, yet to be discovered, in moving the browser into more active role in running applications. Unlike many (like Om , Paul Kedrosky and Steve Rub…

It looks obvious — 7:23 PM on December 22, 2005

[...] SpellBound works well with Performancing for Firefox, so says Asa. [...]

Om Malik on Broadband : » Spellbound… — 10:13 PM on December 22, 2005

[...] I found this on GigaOm: Passion not funding drives some ideas [...]

chandrashekar.beingalpha.com » Blog… — 10:53 PM on December 22, 2005

[...] Firefox community is busy churning out writing extensions for the 15%-browser. Performancing made news recently, and now check out Xinha Here, a WYSIWG HTML editor. Pretty cool stuff, and works nicely on a PC. Mac trial in progress. (via 43F and LH) [...]

Om Malik on Broadband : » Xinha Here… — 12:24 AM on January 2, 2006

[...] Most of these criticisms seem to be based on the fact that Flock tries to provide an alternative "Web browser" application rather than providing extensions to existing browsers (e.g., a Firefox extension). Lately, the launch of a great Firefox extension Performancing (see Steve Rubel and O.M. Malik quick profile), which offers one of the core Flock’s functionalities by allowing users to blog "in the context" of their browsing experience, has revived the discussion. In a response to these last complaints, Chris from Flock, supported by Bart (Flock’s CEO), issued a good post giving a little more context behind Flock’s vision and direction. [...]

Bits and Buzz » To Flock or not to… — 1:31 PM on January 3, 2006

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