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ShareThis social bookmarking plugin now available for Blogger

ShareThisIf you're starting your own blog, there's no question that WordPress is one of the most customizable, powerful blogging platforms around. But Google's blogger is attractive because it doesn't require a hosting solution, and it's ridiculously easy to use.

On the other hand, there are hundreds of plugins for WordPress that just don't work with Blogger. That's starting to change, and it's not necessarily because Google is rolling out support for new features. No, it's because developers are moving away from hosted scripts and offering up javascript based applications.

ShareThis is a popular WordPress plugin that puts a little "share this" icon near every post on your blog. Click it and you get the option to email the post to your friends or submit it to several popular social bookmarking sites..

Up until recently, you could only install ShareThis on WordPress blogs. But now the company has released ShareThis 2.0, which is a javascript version that works with Blogger as well. Well, almost works. Right now there's an error that prevents ShareThis from showing up on more than one post per page. But the team is working to fix that problem.

ShareThis 2.0 loads slower than ShareThis 1.0, but because of the redesign, you can track how people are using your ShareThis icons. If you'd rather install the old version of the plugin, it's still available.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet, Text, Utilities, Blogging, Freeware, Social Software

Badges, I need some stinking badges

Badged.netGet 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]

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