What people are saying about the new 'Save' and 'Blog' buttons

I've been watching the reaction to the recent announcement of Yahoo!'s new social media tools, the 'Save' and 'Blog' buttons that can be added to your web site.  Here's what I'm seeing so far:

• Links to and tags for the Social Media Tools page:   
  • Y! SiteExplorer
  • Pages saved with the "social media" tag in My Web
    
  • del.icio.us
    
  • Technorati
    


• Mentions:   
  • Marc Canter posted twice (1, 2)
    
  • John Battelle
    
  • WebProNews
    
  • Pandia Search Engine News
    
  • Richard MacManus
    
  • php-scripts.com
  UPDATE:
  • Micahel Parekh
    
  Plus several others in other languages that I don't understand, unfortunately.


• Comments on the YSearchBlog announcement
  
• Member signups and comments in the Yahoo! Social Media Tools Group
  
• Implementations:
  • deedee9:14
  • Alex Moskalyuk
  • php-scripts.com
  • Micah Laaker
  • (me)
  UPDATE:
  • Jeffrey McManus
  • Michael Parekh
  • Nokia770.com
    

There are a few themes I'm seeing in the discussion:

1. People want to see that the buttons serve their site visitors and whatever tool they use rather than just offer Yahoo!'s products
2. The buttons should have more configuration options such as size...they are too fat by default
3. The javascript should allow URLs to be passed directly to it so that a button can appear in multiple places on a single page

I'm not sure how to track down which sites are using the buttons.  I'd like to watch what people are doing with them to get ideas on how to improve them and even invite some kind of test group to help us evaluate ideas.  There's a community forming in the Social Media Tools Group, so if you're using the buttons, please either join the group or contact me directly (mattmc at yahoo dash inc dot com).  I'd love to know how it's working out for you.

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