We’ve just uploaded the first public release of our Firefox Add-on. This gives you a pop-up review writing window for Firefox so you can review anything when and where you like without having to go to our site. To make things as easy as possible, we pre-fill the URL and item name fields with those from the page you are currently browsing. If you select some text on that page first, then we’ll pre-fill the summary with that text too.

Tom Raftery recently interviewed Conor the CEO for the first ever episode of his video podcasts. If you want to find out about every aspect of LouderVoice from inception to why we use comma separated tags, then have a look. Thanks Tom!

Rather than having to go to LouderVoice to write a review and entering a bunch of information from scratch by hand, we now have a simple button for your browser (both Internet Explorer and Firefox) which makes the process even easier.

If you are browsing any web page that has information about an item you’d like to review, just click the button. We’ll give you a review writing screen with the item name and URL pre-populated. Write your review, click the publish button and that review is now on your blog!

We now have hReview plug-ins available for WordPress.org v2.0.x/v2.1.x and WordPress MU v1.2.1

These plug-ins allow you to write correctly formatted reviews directly on your blog that our site and several others can collect and interpret properly. You no longer have to visit the LouderVoice site to write your reviews!

Once you write a review using the plug-in (simply by clicking “Insert Review” when writing any blog post) we will collect it and make it searchable on LouderVoice.

At 4am this morning, we unlocked LouderVoice. An enormous amount of work has gone into this over recent weeks and we’re all pleased as punch with the result. A big thank you to Lee and Blair and everyone else who got it out the door.

Head on over and check it out. Sign up for an account and publish some reviews to your blog. There are still some teething problems in there but let us know what you think.

Yes, we’re very mean but it’s looking fan-diddley-tastic.

Tick tock.

We’re attending TheNextWeb Conference in Amsterdam on June 1st. It looks like it will be an awesome day and we are aiming to show off LouderVoice to a big audience. The organisers have put together an awards site and we’d really appreciate a vote for LouderVoice in the Beta & Stealth Category. Whilst you are there, a vote for Pixenate in the Disruptors Category would make a lot of sense!

For which we apologise. But we are getting ready for a nice soft launch in the near future and have had our heads down trying to create a great site. The new features are looking awesome and our add-ons make it even better.

Just give us a little bit more time. I think you’ve going to like it!

Thanks for stopping by. LouderVoice will hopefully be launching in April, so stay tuned by subscribing to the RSS feed of this blog.

What’s LouderVoice all about?

We’ll provide the tools that let you publish reviews to your blog in a specific way. Other users can then find those reviews via our site, read them on your blog and then rate them and do useful things with them. Great reviewers will be able to build their reputations and those looking for great reviews finally have a place where quality bubbles to the top.

The current version of the WordPress Rich Text Editor causes us “some pain” due to its mangling of things like divs which we use in our microformats markup. We’re interested to know what percentage of WordPress users (both wordpress.com and hosted wordpress.org) actually use it. Here’s a little PollDaddy poll to that end: