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We have just created a Facebook "share this" button for individual
content articles under Joomla 1.0.15. This functionality has been very
hard to find for Joomla 1.0 but at last it is here. It was created from
some old social bookmarking code that we had lying around. It was
quickly hacked and a "share this" mambot was created for Joomla 1.0. It
should also work perfectly well on Joomla 1.0 based CMS like Joostina 1.2.

It has been tested on both Joomla and Joostina and you can see it here
in action: http://www.savoysingers.co.uk

So, what does it do? This facebook.pngmambot will place a small facebook
button next to your articles. If your visitor is logged into Facebook
then it will link the article to his facebook account.

When a user clicks the Facebook 'Share' button on a website, a 'Post to
Profile' window appears to confirm the action. It attaches the item that
is to be shared and it provides a text box allowing the user to explain
why they've shared it. That open text box is the primary difference
between 'Share' and 'Like,'.

When a user 'Shares' an item, it appears on their Facebook Wall and is
broadcasted to all of their friends via the Facebook News Feed. This
distribution is what makes the 'Share' button so powerful. Let's say a
user shares a link to a new restaurant that just opened nearby. If they
type a positive response in the open text field (for example: "This
restaurant has the greatest hamburger in town!"), their friends may be
inclined to visit the restaurant and try the food for themselves. If
they type a negative response ("This was the worst meal of my life -
greasy food and bad service"), the mass distribution of the comment may
significantly hurt that restaurant's business.

You can configure the mambot to display the button only on certain page
types, exclude categories altogether and reposition the button where you
want it to appear. It is very useful for publicising your good old
Joomla 1.0. site. We will create a 'like this' variant a little later.
Please note this is beta and 'free' so if you want any corrections or
changes you may need to donate. Hope you enjoy it, you will find it on
our downloads page.

It can be found here for immediate download:

http://lightquick.co.uk/jdownloads/facebook-like-this-button-for-joomla-1.0.html

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