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October 27, 2005

From My Web to Your Website - A Button Share!

Over at SearchEngineWatch, Danny Sullivan has been asking why we haven't offered a "Save to My Web" button. Well here it is!

Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website. Users click to save your content and add it directly to their stored pages on My Web 2.0. From there, the page is easy to retrieve, and easy to share with others. You can try it out using the button below.




For bloggers and publishers, it's a great way to distribute content to a larger community of connected users and make your pages instantly searchable on Yahoo! Just copy and paste this code into your blog templates anywhere and everywhere you want the button to appear on your pages.

That's all you have to do—but you're welcome to do more. This javascript includes some simple customizable options so you can custom style button color and size for your site. Check out A Guide to Social Media Tools at publisher.yahoo.com for more information.

Want to do more cool stuff with your My Web links and tags? Extend My Web to your own web site and impress your friends with a My Web badge. You can display a feed of the stuff you're saving publicly in My Web, or show off your My Web tag cloud. Or, you can show what everyone's been saving and tagging.

Anyhow, let us know what other tools you'd like to see.

Matt McAlister
RSS and Social Media
Yahoo! Network Products

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Comments

Heh, cool.

I still like the one I did for my blog better, but then, there's no way replicate what I did via simple javascript.

Thanks!

Posted by: jr | October 27, 2005 02:26 PM

Neat, but the button is not very obvious. Someone who has not seen it before wont really know what a "Save to MyWeb" button is. Add a red "Y!" (Yclamation) to it so that it is obvious that it is a Yahoo MyWeb button. Or maybe make it look like the "My Web" button in the yahoo toolbar (yellow folder with a green plus) or use the blue, red, gray "My Web 2.0" icon on the button.

Posted by: An | October 27, 2005 09:41 PM

At last. Fantastic!

Posted by: Andrew | October 28, 2005 12:22 AM

This is great. But I'm wondering whether it's possible to add a MyWeb button to a browser favorite bar without installing the toolbar. At work I can't install anything on my computer. At home I also use Opera, and I don't think the Yahoo toolbar is available for that browser.

Posted by: JX | October 28, 2005 12:46 AM

It's rather disappointing that there's no fall-back in your example code for users without JavaScript enabled. Is it not possible to release a button that doesn't rely upon this.

Could it not just be a simple link that goes to the myweb server that uses the HTTP_REFERER to determine which page it came from? Much like the W3's HTML checker (http://validator.w3.org/check/referer).

Obviously this would break on user agents that are configured not to pass a referer, but anyone that sets their browser to do this will probably understand why it fails.

Posted by: Mark Norman Francis | October 28, 2005 07:55 AM

Please make adding this button to Yahoo 360 an option. I'd like to have this button, or a link, or some customizable variation within each Yahoo 360 blog post. I'm sure others might like to do so as well :)

Per your instructions, I will also post this in the "let you know" space as well.

BTW, for those wondering how to do add this button in various blog systems, I've whipped up a post for how to do that here (which I will continue to update with information from various blog systems): http://www.php-scripts.com/20051028/54/

Posted by: TDavid | October 28, 2005 07:58 AM

JX,
You can already do that. It's sort of hidden in the FAQ:
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/faq#toolbarsupport

It works great.

Posted by: jr | October 28, 2005 07:59 AM

I'm sorry... I don't like this button ! Where is Yahoo! spirit ??! :o|

NB: We can't input URL of our 360° weblog with our comment :o(

Posted by: Olivier D. alias ze kat | October 31, 2005 04:04 AM

I am sorry to use this format for my question but I have been trying to find a way to ask YAHOO what is wrong with their system.

I have had yahoo email ever since I had internet, but for he last six months or so I have a hard time accessing either mail or my yahoo. It can take hours to finally get into the system. Sometimes just getting yahoo.com is impossible. What is the deal???? I hate to leave yahoo but this is getting too frustrating.

If there is a way to contact yahoo customer service I sure could never find it.
JANE

Posted by: Jane | November 9, 2005 04:46 PM

how can i add yahoo chat on my site? I have seen many site they have yahoo and msn chat facility on their sites.

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Posted by: Ranking Directory | April 12, 2006 08:12 AM

Thank You - I have been looking for ages for an attractive and compact button. It was really easy to install, you can see it here http://adsense.brilliant4biz.com

just one question - it seems to send visitors to index.htm, instead of index.html - not sure why.

Posted by: Flora | November 14, 2006 04:32 AM