October 2009 Archives

I've just done my first post over at GrrrBlogr.

http://grrrblogr.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/who-family/

Yey Grrrrrr!

Wow, in just 10 minutes I added a TweetMeme button to the entries and the home page of this Movable Type blog.

Why am I stressing the "Movable Type" part of that sentence? Because if you happen to blog using Wordpress then there's retweet plugins coming out of your wazzoo. For those of us using MT there doesn't seem to be a single one. So you have to add the code to your template yourself - which can be scary to some.

It's really dead easy. Especially in a template like this one, where the compact button fits neatly along side the entry title.

The easiest to do is the individual entry archive:

1. Navigate to the "Blog Template" page and select the "Entry" link.
2. Find the code "<$mt:EntryTitle$>". This will probably be in a line that starts and ends <h1 blah blah blah> ... <h1>
3. Immediately before the "<h1" insert the following code:

   <p style="float:right; margin: 0 0 0 5px; padding:0;">
   <script type="text/javascript">
   tweetmeme_style = 'compact';
   tweetmeme_source = 'your username';
   </script>
   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://tweetmeme.com/i/scripts/button.js"></script>
   </p>

If this has been any help RT it (using the button) and leave a comment. If you want details on how to add it to the front page let me know.

I know this is working at least in part. Cus I can see the wave below. What I don't know is if anyone else can see it. Can anyone and everyone view it or only those that have and are logged into Wave or is it restricted to those that are participants in the wave?

Update: It would appear that you need to be logged into your Google Wave account to see the wave here. :( That, obviously, means you need to have a Google Wave account. Sorry.

I'm still unsure at the moment whether you need to be invited into the individual wave itself to see it.

The way I understand it is that this embed method is a bit of a hack using JavaScript provided by embeddy@appspot.com. However, it's a demonstration of what Google intends to implement in full for Google Wave.

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