A cool client-side social hack

Via readwriteweb, a cool client-side hack that helps you intelligently choose which social bookmarking services to show on your site:

“Not everyone uses Digg. You have to decide on which bookmarking site, if any, to dedicate your precious screen real-estate. It’s a hard choice. If you choose poorly your reader won’t vote,” writes Raskin. “On the other hand, if you take the bird-shot approach, it overloads your reader with branded badge after branded badge. It turns your page into the village bicycle. Not pretty.”

As a solution, Raskin devised SocialHistory.js, a handy bit of JavaScript code that detects which social media sites your users frequent. Armed with that information, you can display only the relevant badges to each user.