Anyone notice that Blogger added the new Google +1 button to your blog options? If you were already using the share icons in your Blogger blog, it should have automatically appeared the other day, sorta like this:
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So what is +1? Basically it’s just another way to share stuff, except your doing the sharing within the context of Google’s search results. Think of it similarly to clicking “Like” on Facebook. All your friends can see what you “like,” so it’s kinda your stamp of approval. (While at the same time serving as Google’s attempt to interfere with Facebook’s ever-growing social domination of the web).
Well +1 generally works the same way…if you’ve got a Google profile (& if you’re on Blogger you do…or if you have a Gmail account…or one of Google’s other myriad of services) when friends of yours search for stuff on Google, if the results generate something relevant to something you had +1’d, your endorsement should also show up next to the result, telling them, “hey, so and so thinks this is rad.”
Get it? Not quite? Check out this video from Google that explains it a bit better. There’s an official blog post too.
Does this mean you should go out clicking +1s on everyone’s blogs? I dunno. But if you want to start with the one on the post below, feel free. At least until Google develops a -1 button where you can show how you really feel…
I was all ready to +1 ya, but I don't see it there. Is this a conspiracy?
FOILED!
@AnthonyIt's weird (I noticed this last night too), you can seemingly +1 someone if you look at their post without clicking into it. So in otherwords, if I look at this post from the homepage (www.troutrageous.com), I see the +1. But it then disappears if I click into the post, either by clicking on the title or after clicking to comment. Bizarre.
I can't get any of my share buttons to work, so you're one step ahead of me on this….
i was wondering what that was all about,thanks
My wife was telling me about it and I thought she was going crazy. Again she's right and I'm wrong 🙂
Haha! Victory over blogger has been achieved and my scriptfoo has added share buttons. You are no longer ahead one step.
MichaelThanks for sharing, I will check it out.
Gotta ask right here and now… Is any one else having big problems logging in and commenting under thier own id name using blogger.com? I keep getting some error http 4114 or some crap..
@Trout MageeAs they will tell you it always is.
@ClifDamn…
@bigerrfishBlogger is just goofy. I take it's quirks for what they are. Not like I pay for it or anything…