Feature #67
Aggregation services
| Status: | New | Start: | ||
| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assigned to: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Articles | |||
| Target version: | wish list | |||
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Description
One way that content gets shared in the modern internet world is through submission to aggregation services (e.g. http://digg.com, http://stumbleupon.com, etc.)
These are corporate services. Does anyone know whether there are any .org equivalents?
The trouble is that although these services are corporate, and linking to them could be seen as an endorsement, they are actually a very useful way of getting our content syndicated. The site will get a lot more traffic if we use them.
This is a political decision that needs to be made.
History
Updated by yossarian over 3 years ago
- Assigned to deleted (
yossarian) - Priority changed from High to Normal
Updated by yossarian over 2 years ago
- Target version changed from wish list to 0.8.0 - Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp
Updated by yossarian about 1 year ago
- Target version changed from 0.8.0 - Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp to wish list
Looking at how these things work, this appears to be yet another area where our insistence on maintaining our users' right to privacy is going to trump easy development. Most of the "share this" buttons on the web, for instance, appear to come from iframe content embedded from http;//sharethis.com. We'd probably need to implement our own button code and keep it constantly updated for whatever services we include.
I'm going to take this out of the Schnappi release for the moment but send an email to the London list to see what people are thinking.
Updated by yossarian about 1 year ago
http://davidwalsh.name/digg-share-widget has a MooTools share widget (non-iFrame),
http://www.queness.com/post/309/create-a-digg-style-post-sharing-tool-with-jquery has a jquery one - there's probably a Prototype version out there somewhere too.