An extension of its Gmail platform, Google Buzz allows users to share photos, links, status updates and videos through Gmail or through mobile technology. As an indicator of Buzz’s potential reach, Gmail is currently the third most popular web-based email service in the world, recording 176.5 million unique visitors in December alone.

In this simple tutorial, we will teach you how to integrate Google Buzz button which opens in same window and has a close button too at top right hand side. This also picks the post excerpt automatically.

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For WordPress Users:

Note: Do take backup of your theme before you try this.

01. Go to Appearance => Editor.
editor

02. Then choose single.php file from right hand side and add below code just after <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>
single.php

<a href='javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot;;if(b&amp;&amp;!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;));void(z.src=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js&quot;);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}'>
<img src="http://imgur.com/3GJMv.png" border="0" alt="Share on Google Buzz"/></a>


03. Save the file and you are done.

Note: The heading tags of title differs with theme, so it can also be <h2><div class="post"></h2>


For Blogger Users:

Note: Do take backup of your template before you try this. Only try this if you are familiar with blogger codes.

01. Go to Layout => Edit HTML, click on Expand Widget Templates and find first <p><data:post.body/></p> and add the below code just after it:

<a href='javascript:var%20b=document.body;var%20GR________bookmarklet_domain=&quot;http://www.google.com&quot;;if(b&amp;&amp;!document.xmlVersion){void(z=document.createElement(&quot;script&quot;));void(z.src=&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/ui/link-bookmarklet.js&quot;);void(b.appendChild(z));}else{}'>
<img src="http://imgur.com/3GJMv.png" border="0" alt="Share on Google Buzz"/></a>

02. Save Template. You are done.

Note: The position where the code is to be added differs with template to template.


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This concludes this simple and useful tutorial. Hope you like it.