I was going to use David’s Wordpress plugin for the EC widget to pop up to the middle top of my screen, but I’ve decided against it since my widget is fairly easy to find and not very far down, but it seems pretty cool and makes it very convenient for droppers.

I do think it’s a great plugin and a great idea. I have noticed quite a few blogs that are using it. I was able to close it on David’s blog, but when I tried to close it on a couple other blogs it stayed where it was so it might have just been my browser on those couple of occassions.

If you want to find out more about this Entrecard popup plugin and see it in action then please visit David’s blog where you can download and try it for yourself. I believe it only pops up for other people that use Entrecard and will stay where it is when regular visitors are there.

I just tried the link above and I wasn’t signed into Entrecard so it didn’t pop up. It stayed right where David had it on the sidebar. That really is a great idea and I’m sure droppers will be so happy they don’t have to track down that widget that they may even stay longer, who knows?

Todd Davis, the CEO of Lifelock was on CNNMoney a while back and he was discussing the ongoing lawsuit between Lifelock and Experian. Of course everyone knows that Experian is suing Lifelock because of all the fraud alerts that are being issued on their customers behalf and Experian claims that they are acting in a fraudulent manor, but when you sign up and pay $10. a month, you are in fact giving them permission to act on your behalf.

The lawsuit claims that it’s illegal under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and says that only the individual concerned can request the fraud alert Or (make sure you read the next part) an individual acting on behalf of the consumer. That is exactly what Lifelock is doing acting on the clients behalf, but Experian claims they are misrepresenting themselves as the actual consumer.

Experian doesn’t want to shell out money every time a fraud alert is posted to your account and yes we can file these reports for free ourselves, but who really remembers and takes the time? Most of the services that Lifelock supplies, we can do for ourselves for free, but who really takes the time to put a stop to junk mail and send for your free credit report once a year? I know I’m allowed a free credit report, but I have never sent for it.

I personally appreciate the fact that Lifelock is not backing down because I think Credit Bureaus suck and they are allowed to sale our information for profit. I don’t want my information available to companies unless I’m the one that okays it. I personally think Experian is ticked off because with the services of a company like Lifelock they help put a limit on personal information that is being sold and that’s cutting into Experians profit.

I will be very curious to see the outcome, Davis refers to David and Goliath and hopefully the outcome will be the same. Many people hate credit bureaus and have had to jump through hoops to get their records cleaned up and that’s a shame, but with someone out there able and ready to help like lifelock and make life a little more convenient for 110 dollars a year then it’s no wonder over 700,000 people have a little peace of mind.