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    Posted on May 5th, 2009 Hari Gangadharan No comments

    We recently created a SPOT Live Widget that can be embedded in your blog or your web page. Here is my SPOT Live widget and it tells me where I am:



    If you are a SPOT User, you can easily get the SPOT Widget running on your site.

    1. First create a share page by logging into your SPOT Account and then clicking the “Share” tab.
    2. Now note the glId of the share link created (share links are of the format http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/gogl.jsp?glId=xxxxx – here xxxxx is your glId or guest link Id).
    3. Sign up for a Google Maps API key. You need to provide the URL of your site.
    4. Return to this page and click on the “Share this” button on the bottom of this widget and copy the code from that and paste it to your blog or webpage. Make sure you are pasting the code in HTML mode (not visual mode).
    5. Replace the feeds: [ "0o0VYWuQkoUvs9dj04qhOxFOgavQXdAEP" ] in the copied code with feeds: [ "xxxxx" ] where xxxx is the glId obtained from step 2.
    6. Replace your-gmap-key in the copied code with the key obtained in Step 3.

    Sure, it sounds complicated since I explained it too much :) . For people with some knowlege of HTML it is quick and easy.

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