=== Plugin Name === Contributors: roohit Donate link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=7137089 Tags: highlight, button, viral, widget, social-bookmark, social-network, web-design, design, blog, blogger, addthis, sharethis, addtoany, highlighter, tool, tools, site-builder, bookmarking, social, social bookmarking, bookmark, bookmarks, sharing, share, saving, save, Post, posts, page, pages, images, image, admin, statistics, stats, links, plugin, widgets, im, e-mail, email, seo, buttons, delicious, google, digg, reddit, facebook, myspace, twitter, stumbleupon, technorati, wpmu, mixx, sociable, addtoany, add, any, sidebar, comments, rss Stable tag: 1.2.1.21 Simple/powerful plugin that enables readers to make highlights on your webpage & EASILY SHARE them anywhere (Facebook, Twitter...100+ such sites!) == Description == Upon clicking the highlighter button: visitor's mouse cursor changes to a pen and s/he can highlight any part of your web-page - in color. Mouse over any highlight and post it to **any** Social Network or Social Bookmark site. EASY SHARE: helps visitors promote your site. * Share highlights with anyone - No special software needed - No signup needed - FREE - Makes sharing very effective since readers can immediately focus on the highlights while keeping the context and content intact. * Share using: **E-Mail**, **Blogs**, **IM**, **Social Networks**, **Social Bookmarks**, **Forums**, Comments. or any medium! * Puts a Micro-wrapper around the functionality of AddThis, ShareThis, AddToAny etc. so that readers can easily draw attention to what they want to share on your page without having to go through the tedium of copying parts of a page, and pasting them into email with a link. * Automatically does it - all - for the user by **simply using a highlighter pen** that is familiar to everyone regardless of age, sex, race, religion, or geography! * Post to Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, delicious, digg, hi5, Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Bebo, BlackPlanet... over a 100+ such websites. MICRO-BOOKMARK: * Automatically & instantly shortens URL (generates a MicroBookmark) * **MicroBookmark goes directly to the highlighted portion** on your page and can have a custom name such as http://rooh.it/warSux VIRAL LINKS TO YOUR SITE: A **very viral way to get into all social networks**. * Automatically & instantly posts a link to your site - on our Home Page, - our **Collection** of user generated Highlights, - that reader's blog and/or Social Networks, and - in a **peer-to-peer** mechanism on ALL Social Networks, and Blogging Platforms using the related "My Highlights" [sidebar widget](http://roohit.com/site/s_lite.php 'Learn about it') * The link to your site is posted with the implicit endorsement of - being selected by "a known person" (friend), and - as being "interesting" (relevant!) * Ensuring maximum visibility and credibility of your website. FEATURES: * **Restores & Remembers Highlights**: Everything a reader highlights is automatically restored & remembered (without asking anyone to signup) * **MicroBookmarks**: automatically makes a short url that goes directly to the highlights on your page * **Email Highlighted Page**: with embedded highlights or just a MicroBookmark url, to anyone! * **Web Based**: Anyone can see shared highlights (no special software needed, no download, no installation) * **Auto Publish to own Blog, Web-Site...**: enables readers to automatically post - anything they highlight on your page - to their blog, and to all Social Networks using a trusted peer-to-peer mechanism. * **Post to Any other website** : Easy Share links to your site, in 1-click, on all community, Social Networks, Social Bookmarks,& Social media sites * **Contact list**: is seamlessly imported, maintained, autoCompleted and autoPopulated. * **My Collection**: See all highlights together . categorize/tag them, rate them, share with others, annotate & much more. * **Combine**: select any subset of highlights and see them as one page with highlights & context intact. * **FREE & No SignUp**: Don't have to 'join' another service, and it's all free! * **Intelligent AJAX**: does all this, without visitors ever leaving your page COOL VALUABLE TOOL NATURAL PUBLISHING TOOL: * Commonly used in the offline world * **Insofar missing in the online world!** BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE: * Gets you insights on what your visitors are interested in: tells you inot just which pages but - which parts of each page are of interest to your audience. == Installation == This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working. 1. Upload the `instant-web-highlighter` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory 1. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress == Frequently Asked Questions == = What is a MicroBookmark? = Just like a bookmark takes you to a web-page, a MicroBookmark **takes you directly to a part of the page**, and it is already highlighted! (Power users can think of it as reader defined anchor tags) = Why MicroShare? = Because it saves time, and quickly & easily draws attention to **the most important part of your web page** while still maintaining the context and credibitlity intact. = What do you mean MicroSave? = When someone highlights a part of a page, it is **automatically saved** for the user. = Why use this? = It's all done **automatically**, users don't have to copy-and-paste parts of the page to their email, and/or a link to the page in order to call attention to just a portion of the page. = What platforms are supported other than WordPress? = You can **add a highlighter to any webpage**: on your **blog**, on your **website**, in your **forums** postings, in your **classifieds** listings, on your **Profile** Page, in **comments** you make anywhere on the Internt... [Learn more.](http://roohit.com/site/buttons.php) == Screenshots == 1. This is what the default highlighter button looks like. 1. This is what a Highlighted page looks like (visitors can pick the color of the highlighter pen to be any color.) 1. An example of a WordPress blog with a Highlight button on. == Changelog == = 1.2 = * Added the option to add the Highlighter Button as a sidebar widget as well. = 1.1 = * Given that "Settings" page was added, deemed it worthy of a minor revision, so bumped to revision 1.1 = 1.0.3 = * Added "Settings" so users can pick the style of the button they want. = 1.0.2 = * Changed the default button look and added 8 more button looks = 1.0.1 = * Highlighter is very stable. * Initial version of the WordPress plugin. = 0.5 = * Never publicly released. == "My Highlights" Ticker == (MicroBlog: the other related widget) Highlight anything publicly on any website, and watch it **instantly & automatically get posted to your site** alongwith a link back to the original highlighted article. Optionally, any **comments you make will be automatically included** in your MicroBlog. You can also [add the "My Highlights" widget](http://roohit.com/site/s_lite.php "Add it to your WordPress") to your WordPress site for FREE.