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"Tweet Tweet here, Blog Blog there, here a Plurk, there a Pownce, everybody Facebook!"
The whole social-networking world has gone MAD!!
Once upon a time, there was a simple telephone. If my brother wanted to know what I had been up to lately, he'd pick up the phone. Then we had email. If my brothers and mum all wanted to know how christmas was with my daughter, a quick click or two, a couple of entries in the CC field, and that was that.
Now we have Social Networking where anyone who has every heard or seen your name can go and follow every inane rambling you post. Just think, your brothers, parents, cousins, nephews, nieces, uncles-twice-removed-cousins-daughers-boyfriend, ex-partners, old posties & milko's, the tax man, ANYONE and EVERYONE can read that 'I had weetbix for brekkie'.
Just about every page you read has the ability to be added to any one of the eleventeen-hundrathousand bookmarking sites out there via a little panel of buttons. But I wanted to approach it from a different angle. It's all very well registering with all these sites, but how do you then let everyone know what you are connected to? Pick up the phone?? :^)
I figured, if anyone found my site, and knew me enough to really want to know what colour undies I put on this morning, if any, they could select one of the Social Networking icons presented in mod_stalker, and follow/subscribe/whatever to my really-quite-dull-and-unimportant-drivel.
Anyway...
This is my first ever attempt at a Joomla plug-in. It's working on my site, and I hope it'll work for you. I had no intention of making any money from this. It's useful to me, and as a result, I thought I'd offer it to other fellow Joomla users. Currently, it supports: Facebook, Flickr, FriendFeed, Jaiku, MySpace, Picasa, Plurk, Pownce, Tumblr, Twitter & YouTube. If you want any others added, or have any suggestions, then feel free to let me know.
WARNING: Social Networking is seriously damaging to your time management, and possibly to your real-time relationships!! Take some of the pressure off with Ping.fm, don't Social-Network without it!
Where to get it?
You can download the latest mod_stalker (v 0.0.6) from here.
History
Version 0.0.6 (22/09/08): Added Friendster, Linked In, PhotoBucket and Xbox Live.
Version 0.0.5 (22/07/08): Added to code to (hopefully) cache the module.
Version 0.0.4 (22/07/08): Added del.icio.us, Kwippy & Last.fm. Fixed link to Facebook. Changed the image folder structure.
Version 0.0.3 (15/07/08): Added Picasa, Youtube, Facebook and Flickr
Version 0.0.2 (15/07/08): Added MySpace.
Version 0.0.1 (14/07/08): Initial Release. Supported FriendFeed, Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce, Jaiku and Plurk
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