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Show HN: An animated Google +1 jQuery plugin

Hey everyone, I had the idea to make an animated Google +1 that mimics the style of button seen on any Google search page. I've stuck the source on Github and would love to hear any feedback.The benefits of the plugin are:- The button is animated (the same animation can be seen on any Google search page and currently not available)- Privacy! A user has to opt in (via hover) to enable the...

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Re:Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr" on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @08:14PM (#2562400)
I've added my email and twitter to the main readme, would be great to hear from you.
Re:Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr" on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @06:37PM (#2562117)
Ah no posts in the demo have tags or categories but its coded up.

Once its all setup I'd like to think being distributed and having full control over your data would be a strong selling point. No more "tumblr is over capacity" messages.

Re:Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr" on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @05:14PM (#2561851)
The scroll degrades gracefully to standard pagination if a user doesn't have JS enabled
Re:Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr" on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @11:00AM (#2560356)
Dang too late!

It's fast, by default everything is cached which I think helps with SEO. Also it generates meta + opengraph tags for each post, hyphens instead of underscores in URLs etc. Not sure what else to add, any suggestions?

Re:Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr" on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @10:53AM (#2560327)
Thanks

Show HN: lightweight Blog / Tumblelog engine "embr"

Hey everyone, For the past few weeks I've been working on a new lightweight blog engine powered by Codeigniter called "embr". I've stuck the source on Github and would love to hear any feedback or new features to add.Features:- Basic image and text posts- Tag & Category support- Disqus commenting- Infinite-scrolling on index pages- Tumblr style "reblog" is nearly complete (which will allow...

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