Add Social Bookmarking Share Button

Social bookmarking media is one of space where you can make your widely networking and share your opinion, article or "whatever" else. Tweeter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious, and Technorati are among the most popular of social bookmarking media right now. In most of blogs or websites using those kind of button, you will find "Tweet this", "Share on Facebook", "Subcribe to Feed", "Bookmark this to del.icio.us", or "Add to Technorati" to share the post to their visitor.

To do this from your site/blog, easily you can add "share button" on to your each post. It will attract your blog visitor and make them easier to share your posts on his/her own media.

I will share to add those button by modify HTML template in Blogger, although actually several third party also provide those kind of widget that can be installed instantly.

All you need to do is:
1) Construct or just copy paste below script on your text editor. You can choose all or only script you want to add to your post.

<a expr:href='"http://twitter.com/home?status=Reading " + data:post.title + data:post.url' target='_blank' title='Tweet it on Twitter'><img src='YourImage-URLaddress'/></a> <a expr:href='"http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' title='Share on Facebook'><img src='YourImage-URLaddress'/></a> <a expr:href='"http://feeds.feedburner.com/gibboy"' title='Subcribe to Feed'><img src='YourImage-URLaddress'/></a> <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' title='Bookmark This to del.icio.us'><img src='YourImage-URLaddress'/></a> <a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' title='add to technorati'><img src='YourImage-URLaddress'/></a>

2) Get the respective icon from internet and upload to your image hosting website (Photobucket, Picasa Web Album, ImageShack, TinyPic, VillagePhotos, etc). Note and copy the image URL address from each icon you want to add to your post. You will put these image URL address to replace "YourImage-URLaddress" at above script.

3) Log in into your Blogger-Dashboard-Layout-Edit HTML


4) Check on "expand widget template" and backup your template. This will avoid you from loosing any widget or template problem if your modification failed.

5) Scroll down and find below code: <div class='post-footer'> .. </div>

or similar code. Within this space, you will place your share button script above immediately after the "post-footer" code. Basically, you can put your  "share button" in anywhere you want. Still in post footer,  you can also put those button within below code, immediately after 'post-footer-line post-footer-line-..' line:

<div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>.. </div> or <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-2'>.. </div> or <div class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'>.. </div>

You can make your own experiment to see what the difference is.

6) Save your template
7) Preview your post page and you will see the share button exist on each of your post footer.

Internet User Reach 1.7 Billion in 2009

Did you know how many internet user in the world?

WorldInternetStats.com report on September 2009 more than 1.7 billion people active as internet user in the world right now. This take 25.6% of Wolrld population. Reported by this website, world population has reach 6,767,805,208 on September 30, 2009.

Highest internet user recorded in Asia, 738,257,230 people (42.6%), Europe 418,029,796, North America 252,908,000 user, Latin America 179,031,479; Africa 67,371,700, Middle East 57,425,046 and Oceania 20,970,490 user. This amount has increased 380.3% since December 2000.

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Original Source : http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

Add Emoicon in Chatbox

By default, chatbox provider (Cbox, Shoutmix, Oggix, etc) already embed emoicon in their chatbox that we can use to represent our emotion during chat. One to another provider will provide us standard-similar emoicon.

Some time we can feel boring with those standard emoicon for any reason, such as less interactive, to small icon, not colorfull, can't repreasent our entirely feeling, etc. For those kind of reason, we can add our own emoicon by inserting emoicon in the smile feature.

We can make ourself by any icon generator or a graphics editing program or just searching in the internet.

Before start to add any new emoicon, prepare your icon(s) and upload into any website hosting.(Photobucket, Picasa Web Album, ImageShack, TinyPic, VillagePhotos, etc). This icon can be *.ico, *.jpg,*.gif or any picture extension file.

Adding emoicon in Cbox

For you who use Cbox as your chatbox, this is the steps:
1, Log in into your Cbox account
2. Go to Option
3. Click Smilies

There will be dislayed list of Cbox default emoicon. You can add new emoicon by either delete the existing one (cross sign in the last column) or by clicking New row at lower side of the list.

4. After you add New row, insert your picture URL you have uploaded into picture hosting website into URL column.
5. Fill Code and Alt.Code with your own code and Save.

New additional emoicon will be in your chatbox now

Banned by Shoutmix

In my previous post, I have shared my experience on using chat box and comparing two of them,i.e.Cbox and Shoutmix. As long as my experience, I prefer to use Shoutmix base on it's response easiness and it's self refresh feature.

A week ago, I underwent "bad" experience with Shoutmix. My blog URL has been banned by Shoutmix. When I tried to post my word, to any shoutbox on my friend blog, there will be error message:

"There are some problems with your current message. One or more website addresses you are using have been banned from the shoutbox for the reason of spamming. If you have entered website addresses, please remove them to post again"

Clear, the reason is spamming. I don't understand why my chat activity classified as spamming. I felt all of my chat is normal, and I have never intentionally spread spams.

From various informations I have got, we will be reputed doing spamming when we post chat with same word(s) to many other blog within short interval, or post rigmarole messages.

What I did in my chat was opening several blog addresses and write my message and then sent it, meanwhile I was waiting for the other blog addresses opened. Then I did the same from next blog within normal interval, 1 or 2 minutes. One more thing I have never sent rigmarole message.

I have contact Shoutmix customer service and ask to unblock my URL ban, twice. But until now, there is still no response.

To avoid contact discontinuity with all of you, I decided to change my chatbox to Cbox. I am really sorry for my visit downturn to all of you with Shoumix chatbox.

You can share your experiences......