Too Many Badges

Josh Catone at Read Write Web wrote an awesome post about what he calls “badge soup” – a term I absolutely love – which is a condition where you’ve got so many social media badges on your site your users can’t find the one they want.

Aza Raskin has developed a bit of JavaScript code called SocialHistory.js that solves the problem in a crafty and efficient way. SocialHistory.js works by exploiting the feature in modern web browsers
that automatically uses a different link color for visited links. The
JavaScript loads up a bunch of links from a list of top social media
sites in an iFrame and looks at which have been visited based on the
change in link color. From there, it can assume which you are most
likely to use.

Nifty, efficient and handy as all get out.