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How to: Create an Orkut share button for your website

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Orkut is surely catching up with Facebook and Twitter fast. I was just trying to find some share buttons online and guess what I found? An Orkut share button…. Yeah, just like the Facebook share button, there is an Orkut share button too…

Here is a step by step guide on how to add an Orkut share button to your website:

  1. Go to http://www.google.com/webelements/orkutshare/
  2. Customize your Orkut share button
  3. Grab the auto generated code and add it to your website\blog’s template… :)

Now when you click on the share button it would automatically opens the share screen for you to share the site. The title and the URL is automatically generated according to your settings on step #2.

Here is how the Orkut share screen looks like:

orkut share button
This is when you click on the share button.

orkut share on stream
And this is how it shows on the new Orkut stream!

Another interesting thing to notice is that the Orkut promote uses Oauth URL callback from http://promote.orkut.com/oauth_callback[Unique-id]..

What are your thoughts about this new feature in Orkut? Are you going to use it as much as Facebook or Twitter share buttons? Post your comments below and let me know.

How to: Add a simple Facebook share button to your Blog posts in 5 simple steps

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There’s a plugin for everything nowadays in wordpress but some plug-in just doesn’t work like we want them to work.. One of them is the Facebook share-me plugin. Although it gives you a counter just like the digg button, sometimes its really hard to customize and share it in the place where we want it on the page. So, I figured out a way to add the Facebook share-me without a plugin and you can add it in 5 simple steps in your blogger or WordPress blog posts.

Things you need:

1. A Facebook share button, if you don’t have one use the image link below. [facebook share ]

http://thesharath.com/img/share-me-fb-button.jpg

Here is how you can add Facebook share-me in just 5 simple steps:

For Blogger blogs:

1. Write your blog post

write a blogger post

2. Publish it

publish post

3. Now copy the published blog URL and Edit the published page again. [Eg. http://sharath-g.blogspot.com/2009/10/testing-facebook-share-plugin.html]

copy link blog post

4. Grab this code and put in your URL

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=ENTERYOURPOSTURLHERE"><img src="http://thesharath.com/img/share-me-fb-button.jpg" alt="share to facebook button"></a>

5: Add the code to your post and republish the blog :)

Now try adding using the Facebook share button.

done adding facebook shareme

For WordPress blogs:

If you are adding Facebook share me to your Theme file, just add:

<a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=<?php echo 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . ' ' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>"><img src="http://thesharath.com/img/share-me-fb-button.jpg" alt="share to facebook button"></a>

This below script is a PHP script which automatically inputs the URL of the page.

“<?php echo 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] . ' ' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; ?>“

Now isn’t that easy? :) Do you also have any such easy tips and tricks? Share it with us by posting comments below or you can contact us to send a tip!