Simulating the Sociable Wordpress Plugin under the Blogger Platform

Things have been going well here at FixGadgets. I've been getting this blog off the ground and in the process business has picked up as well. When I decided to setup this technology and gadget related blog I did a little research into the different platforms available (Blogger, Wordpress, TypePad, TextPattern, ...). I decided that I would initially use Blogger and see where it went before getting more involved.

The only problem with Blogger is that out of the box, it doesn't has as many features as compared the other competitors. One of the biggest things you'll notice on blogs is the ability to use social bookmarking services through small icons or lists included at the bottom of every post. While you can modify the Blogger template, for people without programming experience it might be difficult to do this manually.

I did get around to implementing social bookmarking (it only took 5 minutes) into the Blogger template as you can see at the bottom of this post. Kiltak from GeeksAreSexy (GAS) emailed me not too long ago wondering how I implemented this great feature into Blogger. I thought it was great that other people were interested in modding their Blogger setup. I happily handed over the code to Kiltak and within minutes he too had it up and running on his blog.

Now, Kiltak has even posted the code and a tutorial for everyone to use on his blog (here). I think this is great and should expand the capabilities of everyone's blog. My only question is, why hasn't the Blogger development team implemented this as a feature?

Until the developers at Blogger start to update it with new features, you can check back here to get the latest tools and features that I've implemented. I'd like to thank Kiltak for implementing and organizing the Blogger Social Bookmark mod. Happy Blogging!