4/13 Boing Boing Gadgets

Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. Boing Boing Gadgets Would you like an "OpenBar?" April 12, 2009 at 4:12 pm DiggBar is a useful toolbar that Digg puts on top of sites linked to from its index, to make it easy to Digg them. Unfortunately, it also manipulates the web to Digg's advantage, because it's also a frame that wraps the real site, hiding the URL and encouraging visitors to stay at Digg. People have figured out how to block it, and John Gruber's keeping track of anti-DiggBar plug-ins for each major blogging and content management system. This is excellent work, but wouldn't it be cool to use this as an opportunity for site owners to turn these framing games to their own advantage? OpenBar is just an idea, but I think it would be easy to implement. This is what it does: • Detects incoming referrers from major social bookmarking sites like Digg, especially attempts to frame your site. • Blocks the bar or frame, just like current anti-DiggBar scripts. • Replaces it with its own inline toolbar, which replicates the functionality of the DiggBar in a friendlier form. For example, it would be inserted into the real web-page as a HTML < div > instead of wrapping it in a frame; allow the site owner choose what social networking buttons to use; and provide automatically-generated links to encourage visitors to visit more stuff at your site. A good idea, or should the world just block the damn thing and have done with it?   This email was sent to yinvisibledetector@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.