Rich Waters

In case you haven’t seen. Check out BleedYellow.com. Lotus911 recently released this as a free public implementation of Lotus Connections. Blogs, Dogear, Profiles, and Activities are all supported and more will come.

To take a break from things for a bit I decided to see what it would take to hack up one of the Wordpress plugins I use called Sociable. This plugin gives you a listing of more social web sites than you’ve ever heard of to simply checkmark those you want to include and place links at the bottom of each post (seen below). Wanting to support the new public Dogear offering, I wanted to add a button so that posts could be easily added to Bleed Yellow.

Since they all have nifty little icons, I first needed to find a picture of ‘the claw’ that I could use. Luckily someone had already created a favicon version. I downloaded it and simply converted it over to a PNG file to remain consistent with the other Sociable icons. ->

Next I needed to edit the sociable.php file to add my new site to their listing. Right near the top of the file they have an array containing all of the site definitions called “$sociable_known_sites”, within that array I added:

‘BleedYellow’ => Array(
‘favicon’ => ‘bleedyellow.png’,
‘url’ => ‘http://www.bleedyellow.com/dogear/post?url=PERMALINK&title=TITLE’,
),

Following the known sites array is an array listing all of the files Sociable uses. Within this ‘$sociable_files’ array I added a simple:

‘images/bleedyellow.png’,

(Which corresponds to the location that I put the image file)

After the quick hacks, my new site showed up in the options page and a simple check added it to my site. After hacking this up I thought I would try my hand at BlogSphere, but after searching for short while I wasn’t able to decipher where this would go. Perhaps someone more familiar will add it in.

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