by Diana Urban on April 19, 2010
When Google Buzz launched a few months ago, Google did not immediately follow up with a Tweetmeme-style Buzz share button. So developers created workaround code and plugins to create a Google Buzz button and share counter. The first of these appeared on the social media blog Mashable. The share counter on these buttons was inaccurate, because it counted the amount of clicks on a shared item via the Bit.ly API rather than how many times the page had been Buzzed, or shared.
Google has finally released an official Google Buzz share button, which displays a counter of how many times a page has been shared on Buzz. Here’s how to install it.
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by Diana Urban on April 5, 2010
Google had been randomly releasing test pages for its upcoming three-column search results page. There isn’t too much buzz about it yet because many of you probably haven’t seen it. But my boyfriend has just randomly been bestowed the honor of testing out this new page by the Google Gods. Or some random algorithm. Yeah, I’m pretty jealous.
Here is a screenshot of this new Google search results page:
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by Diana Urban on February 17, 2010
Google Buzz is the latest hot topic in social media. Whether it will ultimately be a hit or a flop, many blogs are already incorporating the button into each post, just like Tweetmeme’s retweet button and Facebook’s sharecount button.
There are several plugins and methods you can use to add the Google Buzz button to your WordPress blog, at least until Google comes out with an official button. Here are the best methods I’ve found for adding Google Buzz as a share count button, a sidebar widget, and a social share chicklet:
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