Rhizome Networks

<h3>Overview</h3>
Content Glass is a pending patent State Oriented Sharing platform that provide a combination of ‘Sharing tools’, ‘API’ for developers and data ‘services’. Content Glass platform is evolving and currently running in a beta stage.
This plugin install the CG-Button Social-Tool on your website. Currently that main social-tool experimented as part of beta stage.
CG-Button is in fact an instance of Content Glass application, developed with CG Web client API that present a small button widget on the screen. Clicking the button users are navigated to gallery of content Glass Widgets. These CG widgets can be shared with friends.
CG sharing is managed by layers. Each layer represent a ‘state’ for which widget is associated. A state can be simple code such as page-url but it can also be composed of multiple fields and properties. While CG Web client API provide a way to share widget over public layers, the CG-Button tool provide only widgets that can be shared by closed peers-groups! (The only exception is Experts-Widget that is part of <a href="http://experts.glass" rel="nofollow ugc">Experts Glass</a> framework), and in the scope of one of three states – page-url (default for most cases, domain, TLD).
Sharing on public layers can be archived only when website owner develop its own CG application. Developing your own CG app provide much more flexibility of controlling the state-oriented-sharing scenario but is subject for more advanced discussion.
When visitor of your website share widget with closed peers-groups of friends, all the participants are able to see the widget when encountering the same state. In the case of CG app for website it means for example that if a widget was associated with page, the page URL is the context state for which widget is associated with and friends will be able to see the widget (after login for shared account) if visiting the same page. The principle of state-oriented-sharing is much broader then that and not limited to web apps as described below and in more details on our website.
The user experience that is theretofore achieved by installing the CG-Button WP plugin is that of letting visitors of your website a way for sharing various CG widgets with friends. And of course CG API can be used for creating your own widgets and declare then on your website so that your custom widget library will automatically be imported into the CG-Button widgets gallery.
Content Glass provide application framework that let various applications load in a similar manner by the core Web client API. The current plugin is equipped with two CG apps:
<ul>
<li>General CG-Button : include multiple widgets of various kinds</li>
<li>E-commerce CG-Button: include small selection of widgets + experts-glass framework</li>
</ul>
Future versions of this plugin will let you set your own Content Glass apps too.
Installing Content Glass module on your website provide the following advantages:
<ol>
<li>Exposing CG sharing tools to visitors of your website.</li>
<li>Creating your own widgets or even your own CG app and run on your website.</li>
<li>Having applications framework on your website that can be used for running in-house of third party tools in the form of CG Widgets that extend your website without you need to change anything in the code of your website.</li>
<li>Having the ability of dynamic state-oriented customization of website presence.</li>
</ol>
<a href="http://www.content-glass.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Sample Website</a>
<h3>State Oriented Sharing</h3>
State Oriented Sharing is a sharing paradigm in which content in the form of widgets is shared in relation with defined state of objects and things – that may include both: virtual, physical or even physiological objects and states. For example a widget can be shared with peers-group as related with specific URL. In this case the website is the “object” and the “url” represent a state of the object. The same principle can be applied to the physical world too, for example a widget can be shared as related with product using the barcode as the state. A widget can be shared using location properties as a state. Content Glass platform provide multiple APIs for creating State Oriented Sharing apps. In this case we are using the Web API to let you run your own CG apps on your website or sharing-tools we provide for various environments and cases.
<h3>Options for embedding the CG-Button</h3>
There are three main options for embedding CG-Button on our website: 1. Enabling the main CG-Button via settings page. 2. Using CG-Button widget 3. Embedding special HTML tag into yor posts or pages.
<pre> "<div cg='{"type":"button", "label":"Content Glass", "draggable":true}'></div>" </pre>
<h3>Read more</h3>
The CG platform is developed by Rhizome Networks LTD and you can read more about this platform by visiting <a href="http://www.contentglass.com" rel="nofollow ugc">content-glass website</a>.

CG Button

Content Glass is a social-tool that allow website users to share widgets with peers-group in association with page address, domain or TLD.

Scott Weaver

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socialmediafeather

<a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/" title="Lightweight WordPress social sharing and following" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Social Media Feather</a> is a lightweight free social media WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and painlessly add social sharing and following features to all your posts, pages and custom post types.
The plugin supports adding of social buttons for sharing or following (that is, social buttons that link to your social network profiles pages). The social media buttons can easily and automatically be added to all your posts, pages or any other custom post types.
One of the few social sharing and bookmarking plugin with full support for the Retina and high resolution displays as used in the iPad, iPhones and other devices!
What sets WordPress Social Media Feather aside from the plethora of other social sharing and following WordPress plugins is its focus on simplicity, performance and social sharing impact. Social share buttons and links to your social pages are fast to setup with automatic display or social widgets.
Given the widespread focus on WordPress social media integration, your site will still provide social bookmarks and share buttons to improve visibility of your posts and content and improve your overall global reach on social platforms.
The WordPress social media sharing offered by the plugin includes all major social sharing buttons providers like Facebook, Twitter, reddit, Pinterest, tumblr, Linkedin and even e-mail.
It will show social buttons that your users can click to share to facebook or tweet your posts and pages on your site or submit it to reddit or publish it on tumblr and all other social sharing networks.
The WordPress social media following offered by the plugin includes all major social network providers and tools like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, tumblr, instagram, flickr, foursquare, vimeo or RSS.
Our social media plugin also offers widgets for sharing and following buttons that you can place in any widgetized area in your site and the widgets also expose some settings and parameters to tweak the appearance of the social buttons. The plugin also provides shortcodes that can be used for the same purpose, creating both share and follow buttons and allowing selection of visibility of different social media networks or reordering how the various social networks appear (see example shortcodes at the bottom).
You can disable automatic rendering of social icons for specific posts by using Custom Fields. Simply set a custom field of <code>synved_social_exclude_share</code> to “yes” (without quotes) to disable rendering of sharing buttons on the post/page or <code>synved_social_exclude_follow</code> to “yes” (without quotes) to remove following buttons from the post or alternatively <code>synved_social_exclude</code> to disable both. The Custom Fields editor needs to be enabled on your post/page edit screen by clicking at the top right where it says “Screen Options”.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Integrated WordPress social sharing for all your posts</li>
<li>Full support for Retina and high resolution displays</li>
<li>WordPress social sharing and following widgets</li>
<li>Supports all major providers of social features</li>
<li>Sharing with Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Tumblr, Linkedin and E-mail</li>
<li>Following on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Flickr, Foursquare, Vimeo or RSS Feed</li>
<li>Each social provider can be enabled or disabled</li>
<li>Ability to select what services each provider will be exposed for</li>
<li>Full customization for titles and URLs for each provider</li>
<li>Fast unobtrusive social bookmarks for your site</li>
<li>Comes with a default modern icon set</li>
<li>For further customization more <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/extra-social-icons/" title="Add 8 extra social icon skins to the Social Media Feather plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">social icons skins</a> are available. Free from the version 1.8.2!</li>
<li>Available skins can be customized with cool effects like <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/grey-fade-effect/" title="Customize any of the available social icon skins with 2 cool effects!" rel="nofollow ugc">fading and greying out</a> social icons</li>
<li>If you like them, you can get <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/light-prompt/" title="Nice lightweight social sharing counters using the Light Prompt addon" rel="nofollow ugc">social sharing counters</a> that load dynamically, only when necessary, thus not weighing in on visitors who don’t use them</li>
</ul>
<h4>Example Shortcodes</h4>
This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site: 
 [feather_share]
This shortcode will create a list of social media sharing buttons to share content on your site, only showing Twitter and Facebook, in that specific order: 
 [feather_share show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]
You can change the order of displayed buttons by changing the order of keywords: 
 [feather_share show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]
This shortcode will create a list of social sharing buttons to share content on your site using the “Wheel” icons skin: 
 [feather_share skin=”wheel”]
This shortcode will create a list of social media sharing buttons to share content on your site using the default icon skin with a size of 64 pixels: 
 [feather_share size=”64″]
You can add a custom CSS class to your share buttons using the “class” attribute: 
 [feather_share class=”myclass”]
You can combine all the parameters above to customize the look, for instance using the “Wheel” icon skin at a size of 64 pixels and only showing Twitter and Facebook, in that specific order: 
 [feather_share skin=”wheel” size=”64″ show=”twitter, facebook” hide=”reddit, pinterest, linkedin, tumblr, mail”]
The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you: 
 [feather_follow]
The next shortcode will create a list of social following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin: 
 [feather_follow skin=”balloon”]
You can add a custom CSS class to your social profiles buttons using the “class” attribute: 
 [feather_follow class=”myclass”]
The next shortcode will create a list of social media following buttons that allow visitors to follow you, using the “Balloon” icons skin with a size of 64 pixels: 
 [feather_follow skin=”balloon” size=”64″]
You can specify a manual URL to be used for the sharing buttons: 
 [feather_share url=”http://www.example.org”]
<h4>Template Tags</h4>
If you don’t want to use shortcodes but instead prefer to use PHP directly, there are 2 PHP functions/template tags you can use.
For sharing buttons you can use: 
 if (function_exists(‘synved_social_share_markup’)) echo synved_social_share_markup();
For following buttons you can use: 
 if (function_exists(‘synved_social_follow_markup’)) echo synved_social_follow_markup();
<h4>Related Links:</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/" title="WordPress Social Media Feather � lightweight WordPress social sharing and following" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress Social Media Plugin Official Page</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/extra-social-icons/" title="Add 8 extra social icon skins to the Social Media Feather plugin!" rel="nofollow ugc">Extra Social Icons Skins</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/grey-fade-effect/" title="Customize any of the available social icon skins with 2 cool effects!" rel="nofollow ugc">Grey Fade addon that can grey out and fade out any social icons set</a></li>
<li><a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/products/light-prompt/" title="Add counters for social shares using Light Prompt" rel="nofollow ugc">Light Prompt that adds counts for social shares</a></li>
</ul>
By downloading and installing this plugin you are agreeing to the <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Privacy Policy</a> and <a href="http://socialmediafeather.com/privacy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Terms of Service</a>.

Social Media Feather

Lightweight, modern looking and effective social media sharing and profile buttons and icons. All your social media needs in 1 easy package!

CG Button vs Social Media Feather