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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by networked on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @05:35PM (#5371275)
>there are dummy social buttons loaded by default, you have to "enable" them

Neat. This looks like a very reasonable way to go if you decide to have social buttons.

Is there a ready-made solution for this?

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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by jakub_g on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @05:08PM (#5403650)
Heise implemented and opensourced just this week sth very similar to what I've posted: http://www.h-online.com/features/Two-clicks-for-more-privacy...
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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by tomkinstinch on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:16PM (#5371492)
> Is there a ready-made solution for this?

https://github.com/filamentgroup/SocialCount

I'd be interested in learning about good alternatives.

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Re:Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to... by pserwylo on Wednesday March 13, 2013 @06:46PM (#5371623)
Another is https://github.com/mischat/shareNice. They look like they do pretty much the same thing: Serve the icons themselves, and just make them a link to the respective services.

For example:

- https://www.facebook.com/sharer/sharer.php?u=[Url to share]

SocialCount looks like it also cares about how many times a link has been shared, and uses a server-side script to figure that out. That seems like a nice approach if you really want that info, because it doesn't let the social service track the end user.

shareNice seems to have a wider range of services that it supports.

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