http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=<<URL>>&title=<<TITLE>>&srcURL=<<SRC>>&srcTitle=<<SRCTITLE>>

Where
URL = Url of the page you want to share
TITLE = Title of the page that you are sharing
SRC = Source of the page that you are sharing. for instance you may share http://www.kapustabrothers.com/ to buzz but found the link and shared it from aol.com so the SRC would be aol.com.
SRCTITLE = The title of the source.

It’s that simple. A box will pop up you can add some tags and some comments and click post. This will post directly to your buzz feed for all your buzzy friends to see.

Next are the icons. What should you use for an icon? Well you can search the net for them but I found some pretty cool simple ones from http://www.chethstudios.net/

All you have to do is wrap the icon with the link and your all set. I suggest setting a rel and a target too if applicable.

Update: Here is another icon that I found floating around on the interwebs.

Enjoy!

Lately, I have seen more and more twitter users protecting their tweets so that only approved followers can read them. This morning I came across a tweet that I wanted to respond to via my RSS feed and when I went to twitter.com it said that the person had protected their tweets. But how so if I saw it in my feed. This is the problem.

I wanted to respond to this tweet.

When I went over to twitter to get the tweet to reply to this is what I got. [Link]

However, if you go to search.twitter.com and search on this persons tweets this is what you get. [Link]

I would say that this is a major security and privacy hole for Twitter users. This is a false sense of security that I think people who protect their tweets need to know about.

Twitter also has described the protect my updates setting incorrectly.

Protected updates are CLEARLY SHOW in the public timeline via search.twitter.com

Our amazing yet simple McCain/Palin '08 widget made TechCrunch yesterday.  Thanks to Justin [Clearspring Employee] for pointing that out.  This is pretty amazing since we have had 13,763 [as of this writing] installs while the widget has only been on the net for 62 days.   TechCrunch points out the view Vs. install ratio for Obama’s tax cut calculator and our simple McCain/Palin YouTube campaign video aggregator.  Our views are far less [only 56,507 as of this writing] but our installs are far more.

It’s kind of amazing that this widget which took only 20 minutes to build, install and distribute has been installed so many times.  I think it only testifies that Clearspring [I don't work there either] has such a superb platform for this.  Every time I create a widget with the Clearspring framework it is so super simple and easy to go from having nothing to having the world.  And the world it is.  Congrats to Clearspring for reaching the status of #1 worldwide for its widget network [comScore Ranking].

So with that said, why not install our widget and help spread the word.  There is only 4 more days left for our widget to make an impact.  If that’s not your slice of bread then jump over to clearspring.com and try the widget creation yourself.

As for today we will have to see how twitter reacts to WWDC .  Stay tuned.

Click here to view the embedded video.

With the social networking boom there are many possibilities that open up through this API. Anyone have any ideas on what can be done with this or if anyone is currently using this API?

It would be very cool to put it in Kyle Sholz JsVis Project.  Demo, Tutorial.

So the question really is does anyone really know what the next big thing is until its already popular? How do we know it’s not going to be a fad, and are social networks here to stay?

Yesterday there was a conference on “The Future of Web Apps” You can listen to some of there speeches here from a previous conference. I haven’t listened to these yet but will today and some of my two cents later on. However, I think that the success of the app is the target of the user community. That’s why MySpace are so powerful in some ways and scary in others. Another reason could be its media attention. When was the last time your heard del.icio.us in the news? Then make the statement of when was the last time you heard MySpace in the news? You can’t just acquire a web app and hope it succeeds. You need to push for the hottest and utmost advancements in web technology and market then hell out of it.

More to come on this subject as I listen to these podcasts on the Future of web Apps!