Most (all?) of these sites have bookmarklet functionality. Pretty harsh to ban that.
I bet these buttons aren't used by 99% or more of the people that visit the pages. I don¹t think the average visitor cares. You only have to look at the del.ico.us homepage to see that the most bookmarked stuff is all about web dev URLs. J On 23/8/07 17:21, "Brian Butterworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many corporates and public places (cybercafe's) ban toolbars so it can be > handy to have them on the page? > > On 23/08/07, Jason Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never really understood these. >> >> Surely anyone with any interest in these services has a toolbar button or >> other browser function to carry out this task? How else would you add URLs >> that don't have these buttons? >> >> Waste of space. >> >> J >> >> >> On 20/8/07 22:50, "Gordon Joly" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >>> > >>> > This is a story about the BBC News Online website. >>> > >>> > I read this story: >>> > >>> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6954728.stm >>> > >>> > I saw that I had been invited to Digg it (and Facebook it etc).... >>> > >>> > Bookmark with: >>> > >>> > * Delicious >>> > * Digg >>> > * reddit >>> > * Facebook >>> > * StumbleUpon >>> > >>> > So, I did. Well, as least as far as http://del.icio.us/gordo >>> > >>> > And I thought the tags were very precise: >>> > >>> > # >>> > recommended tags >>> > BBC news >>> > # » sort: alphabetically | by frequency >>> > your tags >>> > # >>> > your network >>> > # >>> > popular tags >>> > Camel australia camels animals sex >>> > >>> > YMMV, >>> > >>> > Gordo >>> > >> >> >> - >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk <http://backstage.bbc.co.uk> discussion >> group. To unsubscribe, please visit >> http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial >> list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > >
