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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