My name is Evan Sims, and I'm a game designer and web jockey from the cornfields of Illinois. Excelsior!

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Bookmarklet: Share with Google Buzz

All my blogging juice has been sapped by Google Buzz this week. I’m having way too much fun with it. It mashes everything I like about Google Reader up with FriendFeed. I’m especially digging the real time updates on shares and comment threads.

Anyway, here’s what I wanted to share: Since Buzz integrates heavily with Google Reader, you can use it’s “share” bookmarklet to forward links on to Buzz. Here’s a Bookmarklet I hacked together that works really well for this…

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