Last month developers were busy with jQuery and it is time to go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins they created in January 2012.

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Since jQuery was released in 2006, it has changed the way we think of JavaScript. And because of its simplicity, it has motivated many enthusiastic developers to create thousands of useful plugins and extends its functionality. Now, lets go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins of 2011 as It's almost over.

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Highly customizable search widget for Google+ that is inspired by Twitter widgets. This widget searches across the body and comments of public posts and displays a summarized version of matching posts with any attached images.

This is my second take on Google+ API, last month I created a profile widget for Google+ users. Google+ API was released a month ago, and in couple weeks later they added search support too. If you are starting to develop with Google+, you may check these API tips.

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After doing my latest jQuery plugin for Google+, I would like to share a few tips to help you get started quickly with Google+ API.

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As Google+ API was just released a couple days ago, it is time to have a posts widget for it. So, this widget was created to display your Google+ profile and slides down your recent posts with any attached images.

 Update Nov 8, 2011 :   You can use the widget to display the posts of your Google+ Brand Page too, check Demo 1.

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When you are working in jQuery with generated HTML fragments that are returned from AJAX, It is interesting to note these cases..

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This is my second take on "Twitter Score Bookmarklet" but this time using Klout instead of Topsy to quickly display online influence score of Twitter accounts.

Klout uses many variables to provide overall influence score, true reach, amplification probability, and network score.

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Inspired by Twitter Hovercards, this bookmarklet was made to help me quickly view the data of Twitter accounts plus their Topsy influence score before I decide to follow them.

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When you have a web page containing a video that will not be played until clicked, you can speedup page loading by applying this quick tip which you may have seen on Facebook.

Continue reading my guest post on AEXT.Net

Lazy Loading Video To Speed Up Your Web Page

This is a simple jQuery tutorial to display Twitter trending stories of your website and their Twitter trackbacks by combining 2 of my jQuery plugins - Popular on Twitter Widget & Twitter Trackbacks Widget.

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A new edition of my jQuery plugin -Related Posts widget for Google Blogger- that is loaded with pretty new features like posts thumbnails and transition effects..

Displaying related posts is a smart way for keeping your site visitors around and with thumbnails it is even smarter!

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After creating my latest jQuery plugin bit.ly Button to show off number of bit.ly clicks of your posts in a retweet button, I wrote this guest post on AEXT.net for developers who want to get their hands dirty with jQuery and bit.ly API.

Continue reading : Showing Off bit.ly Clicks of Your Posts With jQuery

bit.ly -The intelligent URL shortener- offers realtime statistics about the clicks on shortened links and this button takes advantage of that information. This jQuery button gives you a uniform click count button -tall or wide- that people can also use it to retweet your post.

When you use a short link to tweet your post, it may get 100 retweets but in terms of bit.ly stats that could mean 1000 clicks coming from the whole twitter ecosystem which makes another interesting measure of how popular is your post!

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Although there are many sites that describe how to get Delicious bookmaking count of some URL. I learned that you can get the save counts of multiple URL's in one request! And since I didn't see that mentioned anywhere -even on Delicious feeds API page- I thought I should do..

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This is a share count button to encourage people to bookmark your content on Delicious. Although Delicious provides their own button and I tried before to style it differently, but still It didn't look quite uniform like other sharing buttons.

So This jQuery-fied one should give you a uniform share button -tall or wide- that looks quite delicious! It works the same as the official Delicious button and looks pretty as in Topsy, StumbleUpon buttons.

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This plugin displays avatars of people who have recently followed your twitter account and tweeted your link. It would be useful when you have a new project launch and you need to encourage people to follow & tweet it by showing their Twitter avatars!

The plugin is a mix of two of my favorite plugins: Twitter Friends & Followers Widget and Twitter Trackbacks Widget. It first queries Topsy API to get tweeters and compares them with followers returned from Twitter API.

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This is a jQuery widget for the brand new social network -Google Buzz- that you can embed anywhere to integrate your buzz stream into your page.

Google Buzz is a new social network based on Google profiles and built right into Gmail. It was launched last Tuesday, and in 2 days over 9 million buzzes and comments were created!

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As of my ongoing preparation for the 1K tweet :) I was interested to see the 1000th tweet from some friends timeline. And when I didn't find an existing method, I thought I could write few jQuery lines to solve this..

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Another Topsy-enabled jQuery plugin to list the most popular posts on your website, from your Twitter timeline or for some keyword within a selected period of time.
Links are displayed with number of tweets and score -which is calculated by the influence of the people talking about them and affects on sorting those links.

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I took the Topsy retweet button and jQuery-fied it, then added the "Who" part to it using the awesome Topsy API. to create this fancy share count button for your stories on twitter. that's it!

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