Part of my job at unit9 involves estimating the time and cost for additional features on a site, or just judging how feasible something is. One of the things many clients ask for on their sites are Social Network Sharing Buttons such as “Digg this!” or “Add to Delicious”. This is usually a simple matter. Sometimes however a client comes along and asks for a sharing button for a site I’m unfamiliar with – which means it’s time to Google Hunt for the solution to make sure we can provide the feature.
Well I’ll have to Google Hunt no longer now that I’ve found Sharingbuttons.org, which lists (at the time of writing this) 30 different Social Network sites each with a description of the site and breakdown of the proper format and parameters to create a sharing button.
For example, here is the entry for Digg.com :
This becomes incredibly handy when you’re asked to support lesser known sites like for me Mister Wong, Dzone, Fark, etc.
Tagged: Delicious, Digg, Social Network, useful
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Hi Tony, it’s great to see that my project is useful!
I think one important part of SharingButtons.org is that it is a wiki and you can contribute entries yourself (check out the form at the top of Home Page).
More over, it’s semantic wiki (wiki that stores structured data, not just pages) so developers can download all the useful data easily (see sxport section on home page http://www.sharingbuttons.org/Buttons#Export).
Sergey
It’s very useful Sergey. Social Network developers will definitely find this to be a great resource and add to it.
It’s quite likely developers could build widgets around your data either statically by programing the link data themselves from the knowledge you share or potentially building an automated widget that could pull all available sites and variables from your site to include all available formats which would update themselves over time based on additions form the community.
I look forward to seeing how SharingButtons.org evolves.