Some say social bookmarking websites are useless, and I agree to that, at least to a certain extent. As long as you don’t rely only on them to drive valuable traffic to your site, that’s fine. While I know quite a few notorious websites that don’t offer any chance to their readers to share articles via Reddit or Digg with a single click (sure, nobody stops you to submit links manually), I think that adding a little widget to make such things easier can’t hurt, and this is where OpenLike steps in!
According to the official page of the project, OpenLike is nothing more but “an open protocol to allow sharing the things people like in a simple and standard method between web applications,” with all code freely available here. As you can see in the screenshot above, there’s nothing fancy about, only an easy way to get things done for both sides.
Since it’s obvious what should be done by a reader of your website to use this, here’s the code you have to add to have OpenLike up and running:
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://openlike.org/v1/openlike.js”></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”>OPENLIKE.Widget()</script>
As easy as it gets, right? 🙂
