Guide to the Google Buzz Button
So like everyone else in the tech world, I am enthralled with Google Buzz right now. I wanted to find out how to implement a button to easily share the content on my site (MileSplit) on Google Buzz.
I found some help on some of the tech blogs who were also eager to do it; however, what they offered seemed to be incomplete and sometimes wrong. So here is what I am trying to make a complete guide for the options available to you.
First of all, since Google Buzz is integrated with Google Reader, the basic thing that you are doing is actually sharing your link on Google Reader... which if they have hooked up their Buzz account to (semi-automatic) then it goes to the Buzz stream.
Here is a suggested image I threw together: 
It is50x16 which is a pretty good size.
The basic link to share is start the buzz process is: http://www.google.com/reader/link . From there you need to add the parameters of your article in the query string. Most of you reading this probably know what that means but it will look something like this:
http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://www.jasoncbyrne.com&title=Jason+Byrne's+Blog
Note that (of course) the parameter values should be URL encoded.
Parameters:
- title The title of the page being shared
- url The URL of the page being shared
- srcUrl The URL of your main site or otherwise the source
- srcTitle The title of your main site or otherwise the source
- snippet Short description of the post, can accept HTML such as image tags
I am trying to figure out how to add tags to the article, but so far have been unsuccessful.
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