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Badges, I need some stinking badges

by Ryan Carter Jan 5th 2007

Get badged, by going to badged.net, where you can simply build a custom badge widget for your site or blog. The list of available badges you can include in your custom widget is pretty good:

Digg This Story
Sphere It
Add to Technorati Favorites
View Blog Reactions (via Technorati)
Add to del.icio.us
Add to Furl
Add to Netscape
Add to Yahoo! Myweb
Add to Google Bookmarks
Add to Newsvine
Add to Blinklist
Add to Reddit
Add to Blogmarks
Add to Magnolia
Add to Windows Live
Add to Tailrank
Add to Favorites (Internet Explorer)
Email This

You type in your site URL and name, check the boxes, and get the code at the bottom of the page. It could not be any easier to do and you can insert the whole thing at the bottom of your posts, your site, whatever. Sweet, slick, and fan-tas-tic. Here is what the actual badge I created looks like:

[Via The Global Geek Podcast]

Tags: badge, blinklist, blog, blogmarks, bookmarks, del.icio.us, development, digg, furl, google, magnolia, netscape, newsvine, reddit, site, social networking, SocialNetworking, sphere, tailrank, technorati, web, windows live, WindowsLive, yahoo myweb, YahooMyweb

Filed under: Internet, Blogging, Web services, Yahoo!

The del.icio.us tagometer badge

by Chris Gilmer Dec 21st 2006

Del.icio.us really hasn't seen a lot of news lately, but this little widget makes it worth the wait for new releases I guess. The del.icio.us tagometer badge is a way for website publishers and bloggers to easily add a "bookmark to del.icio.us" link, as well as displaying how many other del.icio.us users have actually bookmarked that particular page. Not only that, but the widget will also display the top tags that were applied to the link. This new integration could make sites a little more appealing since they will get an instant stat count on the viability of the pages or posts they are reading. The del.icio.us tagometer comes in two different formats, both built with CSS, JSON, and DOM scripting.

Tags: badge, bookmark, delicious, widget, yahoo

Filed under: Productivity, Web services

A Joe's Goal badge for your web site

by Jordan Running Oct 11th 2006

I think I've mentioned about a dozen times how much I like Joe's Goals, and I can't help waving my arms every time its creator, Ian Smith, drops in another great new feature. Today that feature is a brand new badge that embeds a chart of your recent goal activity in any web page, like your blog or MySpace page. To create a badge, just sign into Joe's Goals, click on Preferences in the upper right, and then scroll down to the Preferences page. There you can select which layout, horizontal or vertical, you want for your badge, and configure its width and height to your liking. The badge was actually created by Joel Seligstein, a student and enthusiastic Joe's Goals fan. Now you can show off how well you're keeping to your goals, which you may regret if you start to lag behind.

Tags: badge, goals, ian smith, IanSmith, joe's goals, Joe'sGoals, joel seligstein, JoelSeligstein, joesgoals

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Web services

YouTube video badge for your blog

by Jordan Running Oct 11th 2006

Intrepid hacker Harper Reed, who works for Threadless company skinnyCorp by day (and whom I had the pleasure of going to college with), has released a cool YouTube badge maker. It's a simple web-based tool that will generate a badge for your web site, blog, or MySpace page that shows thumbnails for your six most recent YouTube videos. Since the badge it generates is just a PNG image rather than, say, a Flash or Ajax widget, you can use it just about anywhere. All you do is enter your YouTube username and paste the generated HTML snippet into your web site and you're ready to go. Reed has some other useful tools and toys at flashandburn.net, including a similarly handy Flickr badge generator.

Tags: badge, flickr, generator, harper reed, HarperReed, myspace, video, youtube

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Del.icio.us releases a Network Badge

by David Chartier Aug 4th 2006

del.icio.us has released another very social feature to their services in the form of a Network Badge. The badge is ripe for embedding in a website or blog and can offer your visitors everything from a link to your bookmarks, how many people are in your network, how many fans you have and even a link others can use to add you to their own network.

The badge creation tool, as you might expect, is dead-easy to use and generates the typical small snippet of javascript you can put where you please. This is a welcome social addition to one of the most popular social bookmarking services out there.

Tags: badge, del.icio.us, delicious, javascript, network, social

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