I just came across a site called Add This! It's a sort of social network/web 2.0 bookmarking and sharing service. It lets you add a single, tiny button to your site so your readers can share it with others (or bookmark it). The best part is that it is capable of using the most common bookmark and social networking sites: Google Bookmarks, Delecious, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, MyAol, FeedMeLinks, Yahoo MyWeb, Live, StumbleUpon, Yahoo Bookmarks, and many others.
Sharing RSS feeds is as simple as using a hyperlink, which can be placed on an image or text badge. Sharing sites, however, requires a link and some JavaScript code. That is, of course, unless you look at the source code and figure out a way to encode your own URLs. Since SharePoint 3 sites are very restricted and the best one can do is place text hyperlinks, and Google Sites automatically removes JavaScript code, I had to figure out the URL encoding used by Add This.
First of all, you'll need to go to addthis.com and sign up. Take note of your user ID, because you will need it to create your bookmark/share buttons.
Bookmarks/sharing links for RSS feeds:
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Simply login to your account and create a bookmark or share button for an RSS feed.
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Copy and paste the code to your website or blog.
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Alternatively, if you wish to use your own image or create a text hyperlink (e.g., in SharePoint), simply add this hyperlink to your text/image: http://www.addthis.com/feed.php?pub=gabrielinux&h1=http://gabriel.mongefranco.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss&t1=
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Make sure you change gabrielinux to your addthis.com user ID, and http://gabriel.mongefranco.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss&t1= to your blog's RSS feed URL.
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For Blogger feeds, read this article.
- If you would like to open the subscription page in a new window, make sure your anchor tag includes target=_blank
- Example: Subscribe to this blog.
Bookmarks/sharing links for web pages:
- Add this hyperlink to your text/image: http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=10&pub=gabrielinux&url=http://gabriel.mongefranco.com&title=Gabriel Mongefranco's Home Page
- Make sure you change gabrielinux to your addthis.com user ID. Also change http://gabriel.mongefranco.com to your site's URL, and Gabriel Mongefranco's Home Page to your site's name.
- If you would like to open the subscription page in a new window, make sure your anchor tag includes target=_blank
- Example: Bookmark this blog | Share this blog | Bookmark my home page | Share my home page
Now, you can enjoy the addthis.com service without having to use JavaScript! That means your SharePoint and Google Site users can now bookmark and share your site across dozens of social networking and bookmarking sites!