Do you wanna be social? Are you social on the web? Is your website in accordance with the “social” requirements as laid out by the web 2.0 standard. Do you want to say “yeah” but are afraid of saying it as it might be wrong as you still dont know what exactly 2.0 is. OK, let me add something (thats not new off course but clarifies a little about the social aspect of the web). The web 2.0 is about the usability factor of the web. Sites like Flickr and Google calendar are a very good example of usability. Both have social factors about them. Like on Flickr, people can comment on your photos, photos that you want to share. Also you can post photos to your blog right from your Flickr account and there are dozens of good services that can be integrated with Flickr through an API provided by Flickr. It uses AJAX for making it more usable but yeah the Social Factor like submitting your photos to public groups of similar interests make it more approachable by the users of the site.
This Flickr example is just to mention how social networking helps people to collaborate and find the things of their interests. Social networks like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace and lots more are being used by Millions of Surfers on daily basis to enjoy the Social Web.
Another popular web 2.0 application is blogging engines. Yeah you are reading this text on a blog too that is off course my personal one. What if you want to enjoy the social features of the web for your blog. You wanna be heard right? So use social bookmarking. WordPress blogging engine, which runs most of this website is a great tool for blogging, in fact for content publishing so what if you like to use social bookmarking for your blog. There are several plugins available for social bookmarking but yeah as usual I am writing about a simple and usable one.
Use
Sociable
Social bookmarking sites allow web surfers to save, catalog, and share interesting pages they find online. The Sociable plugin appends links for your readers to use those sites to the end of each of your blog’s posts, increasing your potential audience.
If you’d like to keep up with Sociable development, you can read the tagged posts on this blog (feed). Or just read all of this blog, I swear it’s so amazing you’ll be sneezing rainbows.
Download, Upgrading, Installation
Download Sociable 2.0 (released 2007-02-02)
To upgrade, first deactivate Sociable and remove the sociable directory, then follow the install instructions.
Read the rest about Sociable here.
