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Sphere Related Content Available Through Feedburner FeedFlare

April 7, 2007 · Print This Article

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Since launching our Sphere Related Content widget, we’ve had a ton of requests from bloggers who would like to try it out. Last week, we introduced a WordPress.org Plug-in and it seems to be very popular with the WordPress crowd.

In order to make the Sphere Related Content widget available to the maximum number of bloggers, we’ve been working on a very simple solution that makes it available as a FeedBurner FeedFlare. Last night, we finished it and have been testing it out on a few blogs today. Seems to work just fine so we want to open it up to anybody with a MoveableType, Blogger, TypePad blog or anywhere else FeedFlare works.

We’d love to get your feedback on it. It shouldn’t take you more than a minute or two to add to your existing FeedFlares:

1) Log into your FeedBurner account

2) Select your feed, go to the Optimize tab and select FeedFlare on the left

3) In the “Add New Flare” box, enter this URL and click “Add New Flare”:

http://www.sphere.com/partner/feedburner/sphereit_feedflare.xml

4) This will add a flare called “Sphere Related Content” to your Personal Flares. Enable this flare for your site ONLY by selecting the 2nd check-box, it doesn’t work in feed readers, only in a site

5) Save your settings. If you already have FeedFlares in your blog, you’re all set. If this is your first FeedFlare, click on the dropdown to get the code for your platform, the instructions for each platform are very easy to follow.

That’s it, the new flare should start showing up next to your other ones within a few minutes. It takes FeedBurner a few minutes to process the new flare and to request content from Sphere for your links.

6) In Movable Type, if you have modified your templates, you can, as an optional step, add <!–sphereit start–> … <!–sphereit end–> markers around the body text of your posts in your permanlink pages. This will help us with the text extraction from your blog and can improve the quality of the results, but it’s not required.

picture-27.png In Movable Type (advanced templates), the body text tag is <$MTEntryBody$>, so these tags would go around that as follows:

<!–sphereit start–>
<$MTEntryBody$>
<!–sphereit end–>

Please let us know if you have any problems getting this flare running — we’re very excited about this one, it’s a very simple way for bloggers and authors on many different platforms to finally get Sphere’d :)

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Written by Tony Conrad · Filed Under Feedburner, Sphere Contextual Widget 
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39 Responses to “Sphere Related Content Available Through Feedburner FeedFlare”

  1. Sphere Related Content for MoveableType Bloggers « Sphere on April 19th, 2007 12:45 am

    […] quietly enabled MT bloggers to add Sphere Related Content to their site through a Feedburner FeedFlare. We made this available after Amy Webb sent us a note asking what the deal was with her request to […]

  2. HelloWorld on April 28th, 2007 12:59 pm

    Peace people

    We love you

  3. B on May 2nd, 2007 11:22 am

    I am geting an errorwhen trying to wrap sphereit arung my bloger html. ere is the error generated.

    Please correct the error below, and submit your template again.
    Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
    XML error message: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.

    Can you please asssist.

    Regards

  4. Brendan Moore on May 2nd, 2007 4:45 pm

    I have a site on blogger and nothing is happening - I followed the instructions exactly and I’m not getting error messages, but the widget isn’t showing up either. Please advise.

  5. Sphere - Contenido relacionado con tus posts « Alberto Garcia Blog on May 3rd, 2007 9:11 am

    […] También esta disponible en otras plataformas como MoveableType, Blogger…, visita esta página para enterarte de como implementarlo (esta en […]

  6. John on May 4th, 2007 10:04 pm

    A great view of the democratic party.

  7. kam on May 7th, 2007 5:34 pm

    this website is wonderful and very recourses tool for a blogger.

  8. John on May 7th, 2007 7:38 pm

    Heres a great view of the presidential race it hase both political parties plus all your candidates and profiles on one great place.

  9. Linoge on May 12th, 2007 7:01 pm

    For MovableType installations, it may also be useful to put the sphereit tags around the $MTEntryMore$ tag, such as:

    [!–sphereit start–]
    [$MTEntryMore$]
    [!–sphereit end–]

    … only with the appropriate HTML tags as opposed to the brackets. This covers those people who use the whole “Extended Entry” feature MovableType has, for when you only want to show part of your post on the weblog’s main page, or something like that. Just a thought.

  10. In the 'Sphere - May 16th « Sphere on May 18th, 2007 2:05 am

    […] growing very fast, we’re adding hundreds of new partners everyday through WordPress.org and Feedbruner FeedFlare. It’s fun to see, in addition to big brand publisher sites (TIME, AOL, CBS, Access Hollywood, […]

  11. tdinoz on June 1st, 2007 10:10 am

    Using blogger and following directions but not working no error msg just not showing ;)

  12. Mark on June 19th, 2007 8:34 pm

    I must be reading this in Chinese or something because none of this makes a lick of sense.

  13. Chester's Clean House on June 26th, 2007 3:42 am

    Thanks for releasing this great tool. I can’t wait to get it on my blog.

  14. markikez on June 27th, 2007 2:25 pm

    I think I got it but just gotta add the logo instead of the words “Sphere This”

    Thanks Guys

  15. markikez on June 27th, 2007 2:55 pm

    Still working on that logo thing. Any tips guys?

  16. David on June 30th, 2007 2:34 pm

    Got the sphere link added, but would like to see logo instead of words–sphere related content”.

    Looking forward to this upgrade.

  17. James L. Greenlee on July 1st, 2007 5:20 am

    I’m also a blogger, and I’m having trouble getting the “Sphere This” link to show. It shows up on my older posts, but nothing for the last three days. Also would like the logo. I’ve seen it on other sites, ones that (I thought) used Blogger. Any advice on getting the link and/or logo to appear on newer posts? Thanks!

  18. ger on July 6th, 2007 7:33 pm

    Feedburrner feed flare isn’t working on Blogger, I finally dumped it, If you want sphere on Bloggers, you need a different develivery method.

    Gerald

  19. Dan Yurman on July 9th, 2007 4:14 pm

    The blogger solution did not work for me. Lord knows I tried. Sorry Sphere. Your service doesn’t seem to have any trouble finding my blog because I saw it cited on the WSJ this morning. I’d love to have your code widget on my site. Please work on a better solution. Thanks.

  20. Walker Hamilton on July 11th, 2007 3:18 am

    Here’s the textpattern version of sphereIt:

    http://walkerhamilton.com/wlk_sphereit

  21. Suray - Suray's Words - SurayBlog on July 19th, 2007 3:31 am

    This widget is really helpful, I hope I can install it in my blog as soon as possible.

  22. Marc Rasmussen on July 29th, 2007 5:49 pm

    I added the code to my blog but nothing is showing up.

  23. sumit on August 3rd, 2007 1:43 am

    can this be made for the joomla cms?

  24. Martin on August 3rd, 2007 3:33 am

    Hi, we’d love to have a Sphere Related Content plugin running on Joomla. The community has already contributed plugins for TextPattern and bbPress (http://www.sphere.com/community_tools). I’d be more than happy to work with you to give you the info you need to write one for Joomla. Please email me at martin at sphere dot com.

  25. market research report on August 16th, 2007 9:48 am

    great tool — can give hard time to blogger search and technocrat1 !

  26. vojko on August 20th, 2007 8:16 pm

    Plugin through Feedburner FeedFlare is working without any problem.

  27. Jos on August 21st, 2007 12:07 am

    The Blogger solution works fine! It took a few minutes and maybe a few ‘F5’s though, before it showed up. Perhaps some people didn’t realize that. I re-installed the code 2 or 3 times and then I gave up. But when I logged in to blogger again, about 10 minutes later, there it was!

  28. joe on August 22nd, 2007 6:46 pm

    It’s not working on my Typepad blog either, although I’ve followed all the steps.

  29. oliver on September 30th, 2007 8:20 am

    i posted the widget to my blogger blog yesterday. the widget is still not there. it looks very interesting, but it does not work on my blog.

    can you please let know what can i do to make it work?

    tnx, o.

  30. Mike Doherty on October 3rd, 2007 7:43 pm

    For the bear, his cub and their den.

  31. David on October 14th, 2007 1:21 pm

    The widget will not show up until the Bot hits your site. You may have to wait as long as 24 hours.

  32. Chester's Home Remedies on November 14th, 2007 2:32 pm

    This works great. Thanks. My readers seem to really like it too.

  33. prototip on November 20th, 2007 3:04 pm

    This is very cool for blogger : )

  34. prototip on December 17th, 2007 1:07 pm

    Cool site, nice post!

  35. Andy on December 19th, 2007 4:47 pm

    Oh, and did not know about it. Thanks for the information …

  36. bob on January 17th, 2008 4:33 pm

    3bYMT8 hi nice site thx http://peace.com

  37. music on January 30th, 2008 9:10 am

    What do you mean ?

  38. Bildschirmschoner on February 28th, 2008 3:46 am

    Thanks for the post! May be i can do it myself.

  39. Search on April 24th, 2008 11:17 pm

    great site

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