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Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#11

Post by jonnymkramer » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

So you load the webpage in an iFrame? Many websites wont let themselves be loaded into an iFrame to defend against clickjacking. For example you can't share youtube videos with this.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#12

Post by michaelhoffman » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 6:11 PM UTC

As a user, I find these sorts of attempts to control my experience for increased "engagement" incredibly obnoxious. At least the Ow.ly bar lets me easily turn it off permanently.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#13

Post by ozkatz » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 6:12 PM UTC

jonnymkramer wrote: post #11

So you load the webpage in an iFrame? Many websites wont let themselves be loaded into an iFrame to defend against clickjacking. For example you can't share youtube videos with this.

We check if a website allows embedding before creating the short link. In case embedding is forbidden we redirect to the web page itself, so we can still track analytics for that link (you'll also get a message about that in the dashboard).

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#14

Post by tommoor » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 6:48 PM UTC

Great idea guys, and well executed.

I can totally see how this would increase the amount of followers you would get. Agreed with with @michaelhoffman though - it would be nice to have the option to permanently remove (there will always be those that hate seeing these things).

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#15

Post by ozkatz » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 6:52 PM UTC

tommoor wrote: post #14

Great idea guys, and well executed. I can totally see how this would increase the amount of followers you would get. Agreed with with @michaelhoffman though - it would be nice to have the option to permanently remove (there will always be those that hate seeing these things).

Hi Tom, Thanks! We will probably add such an option soon enough. btw, I'll contact you soon regarding Buffer integration :)

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#16

Post by iamweisser » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 7:10 PM UTC

First off, great idea and nice execution.

One small problem: When I share the bit.ly link (this one for instance: http://bit.ly/YCabMj) on FB it seems that the branded bar may be messing up the preview and causing it not to load.

Looking forward to seeing the progression of this idea.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#17

Post by ozkatz » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 7:12 PM UTC

iamweisser wrote: post #16

First off, great idea and nice execution. One small problem: When I share the bit.ly link (this one for instance: http://bit.ly/YCabMj ) on FB it seems that the branded bar may be messing up the preview and causing it not to load. Looking forward to seeing the progression of this idea.

Thanks for the feedback! I'm looking into it.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#18

Post by wlue » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 7:26 PM UTC

Looks like Visibli (http://visibli.com), if you haven't seen it before.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#19

Post by csense » Sun, Dec 23, 2012, 11:23 PM UTC

I misread the title, thought it said "A branded bear." That would have been more fun.

Re: Show HN: Social Bar - A branded bar that follows links you share on social media

#20

Post by roeybr » Mon, Dec 24, 2012, 8:39 AM UTC

great execution. I wish there was a way to add more twiiter\fb profiles so I can share with personal or business profiles from the same account.