When Google launched it’s Google+ beta, it did so without exposing an api to developers. Given that the site is yet to fully launch and core changes to the site are still probable, we’re certainly not saying this was a bad idea. However for the future, Google will know that creating a platform for developers …
Yesterday night Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten posted on Google+ announcing Social Statistics, which keeps track of the top 100 users of Google+. It’s the first thing we have seen that could be described of a Google plus ‘app’. Boris had stated that he was updating the site manually, however you would think it shouldn’t taken …
Google+ has only been available for a week and there’s no Google+ API as of yet, so developers have been making do without, and this is the latest example. A developer called Kosso has created a streaming video hack for Google+. Kosso’s hack is called Plusbar and takes the form of a bookmarklet. Plusbar currently …
One thing Google have omitted from the beta version of Google+ is ‘vanity urls’ – a personalisable short-link for your Google+ profile. Currently user profiles are accessed at plus.google.com/<21 digit integer>. A new service, Google Plus Nick has launched, allowing users to choose a Google plus nickname which they use their gplus.to domain to shorten. …
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In this post I’m going to show you how to scrape google+ with PHP (in lieu of a google+ api) and create a simple contact card / badge / widget thing for your site or blog. (top) unformatted (bottom) google+ card The googleCard scraper class currently outputs the target user’s name, profile image, google+ url …
As promised in yesterdays post, I have turned my google+ profile scraper class into a wordpress plugin. google+ for wordpress the google+ cards widget The plugin adds a widget to your wordpress install that will display your ‘googleCard’ in your blog’s sidebar. Download Github Installation 1. Download googlecards.zip and unzip 2. Upload the unzipped googlecards …
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When I started building sites again (I started again in 2007 having had a few sites around 1999), Google search traffic was the traffic source to be going after. While there were of course other traffic sources for certain verticals (slashdot, digg, reddit e.t.c.), if you weren’t at or near the top in the Google SERPs, you …
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