Croportal’s voting widget pushed live +

Just a side note about a feature I’ve been working on lately, that’s now officially released live: Croportal dev blog: Integracija linka za glasovanje (hr)

Because the announcement is in Croatian, here’s a quick recap:

The feature enables site owners to integrate voting buttons for their content directly on their sites (something along the lines of reddit, digg etc).
The buttons are included with inserting a simple <script src="..."> one-liner anywhere on a page. Our API takes over from there.

The system figures out if the content already exists on our end and if it does displays real-time stats for it. If the content doesn’t exist yet, the system pushes out a link that makes submitting that content practically a one-or-two-click operation.

If the user browsing your site is also logged on to our site (via “remember me” functionality or just for the current browsing session) he can vote with a one-click action without ever leaving your site. The click fires up an async AJAX call and registers the user’s vote.

We’re currently offering some customization options (for pre-populating certain submission related variables which make content submission even easier for your visitors) and we’ve bundled two skins: a horizontal and a vertical one (so everyone should be able to integrate the buttons easily without them having an impact on their site’s layout).

Further customization and layout options are a piece of cake to implement now, but first let’s see what the users think and what their usage patterns are.

This is just the first of (I hope) many new exciting features which will all use Croportal’s API. My plan is to make practically every (common sense) piece of content available through the public API. When that’s done, sky’s the limit in terms of possible mash-ups, widgets, data visualizations, integrations etc.

Fun times ahead.