well, we uploaded a new "release" yesterday, in case you didn't notice. Most notably we introduced iliketotallyloveit.com sidebars/widgets and buttons. This, by itself, might not be worth blogging about, but I want to draw the readers attention to the fact that we are not using JavaScript to get our sidebar included, but the plain old iframe tag (which we might replace by an object tag in the future to be compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict). For the rationale behind this move see "TechCrunch Down. I’m Pissed." and "JavaScript Badges and Widgets Considered Harmful". Basically, the idea is: If we screw up, our badge/sidebar goes down, not your site.
Actually, we didn't implement Jeremy Zawodny's suggestion yet: "For every badge/widget/gadget out there, I'd like to see a discoverable API that allows me to get the same data via a simple REST based API that emits RSS (with extensions where it makes sense). The link to get that data should be rendered on the badge. Think of it as a 'View Source' for badges." If there is real demand for this, let us know.
Also, bug reports are very welcome, we had to change quite a bit of internals for this one, so things might be broken.
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I have a product that's *already* posted, so when I use the button from the tools page on my web site, when someone clicks through, they get an error message that "This url has already been posted:". Is there a way to code the button so that people can vote directly for my item from my web site?
Right now we do not have a button to vote directly from your website, but we will provide one. Thanks for the feedback!
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