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Ben Watson replied on June 12, 2008 17:46 to the question "How do I add an Overlay on my blog?" in Overlay.TV:

It is very easy to add an Overlay to your blog. First of all I should apologize for how long it took to get back to you - i just got set up on getsatisfaction and am working to catch up on how it all works.
First you create an Overlay based on any video
Save the Overlay while logged into your Overlay.TV account
Then use the SHARE button right in the player to grab the embed code
Copy the embed code
Go to your blog and open or create new post
While in HTML view paste the embed code where you would like the Overlay to appear
Thats it! Any more questions, please let me know!

A comment on the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

agreed – Alan H., on May 16, 2008 16:17

John Duff marked one of Cameron Walters' replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Cameron Walters replied to the question "Multiple topic widgets on one page".

John Duff marked one of Scott Fleckenstein's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Scott Fleckenstein replied to the question "Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api".

John Duff replied on May 14, 2008 19:08 to the question "Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api" in Get Satisfaction:

awesome, thanks scott. was browsing the code on github earlier, looks like a very slick api wrapper you've developed btw

Scott Fleckenstein replied on May 14, 2008 18:20 to the question "Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api" in Get Satisfaction:

We don't address topics on the getsatisfaction.com side using the raw id's. We use the SEO friendly slug.

This is a case where the JSON results are lagging a bit behind the Atom results. I'll add the slug into the json tonight and I'll add a helper method onto the gem to generate the correct url.

Thanks again,
Scott

John Duff replied on May 14, 2008 18:07 to the question "Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api" in Get Satisfaction:

ah, very cool, i figured the lazy loading meant the first time you tried accessing a value it would load, not that you explicitly needed to call load. Another somewhat related issue, I want to be able to link back to the getsatisfaction topic, the url that is in the topic object links to the xml feed, going to http://getsatisfaction.com/company/to... gives me an error saying the topic doesn't exist.

Scott Fleckenstein replied on May 14, 2008 17:43 to the question "Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api" in Get Satisfaction:

John,

You are probably haven't loaded the full data for the topic, let me explain w/ code:

sfn = Satisfaction.new

topic = sfn.topics.page(1).first

topic.content   # => nil

topic.load

topic.content  # => "foobar"

I'll push the content of topics into the top level feed so that this no longer occurs. until then, calling load on the topics you care about should work. I'll probably make the fix tonight

Cameron Walters replied on May 14, 2008 17:27 to the question "Multiple topic widgets on one page" in Get Satisfaction:

That sounds pretty logical. Thanks for the suggestion!

John Duff asked a question in Get Satisfaction on May 14, 2008 17:26:

Topic.content returns an empy string with ruby-api

I'm using the api to grab some of the latest topics for our company on getsatisfaction with the ruby gem you guys developed. I seem to get the topics fine, iterating through each and doing topic.subject outputs the subject, but topic.content returns an empty string

John Duff asked a question in Get Satisfaction on May 14, 2008 17:23:

Multiple topic widgets on one page

I was going to add two topic widgets on the same page but noticed your js populates it based on the id of the div in the widget code you supply. this doesn't seem very robust, wouldn't it make more sense to pass the id as a parameter on the topics.widget call, which is then passed to the callback method so that it can load a specific div?

john marked one of Leslie Chicoine's replies in Get Satisfaction as useful. Leslie Chicoine replied to the question "widget codes are switched".

Leslie Chicoine replied on May 12, 2008 21:01 to the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

Now that you mention it, it does sound like the second option doesn't come with CSS (you'd have to be a css genius to add your own).

Let's change these titles. How about "Simple code (Just drop this into your site, it will adopt your site's styles and blend right in.)" and "Advanced code (Comes with customizable CSS styles.)"

john replied on May 12, 2008 17:22 to the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

I was just confused by your wording, figured the one that says 'you're a css genius' meant you needed to know css to use that one, not that it came with some css for it. Terminology just seems backwards to me and I was pointing it out to you guys.

A comment on the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

or @ least that's the idea. devil is occasionally in the details. – Lane Becker, on May 12, 2008 17:00

Leslie Chicoine replied on May 12, 2008 16:56 to the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

Hi John!
What browser are you using? Do you mean that the text fields are laid out next to each other on the page?

As Cameron points out, the simple version "drop it on my blog" doesn't come with any css because it conveniently will adopt the styles of any page that it's put on.

Eric Suesz started following the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction.

Cameron Walters replied on May 09, 2008 20:29 to the question "widget codes are switched" in Get Satisfaction:

I think the idea with the widgets goes something like this:

Drop it in my blog = a simple widget with no additional CSS so that it picks up the styles from your already-present stylesheet.

CSS Genius = here's a bunch of CSS to make it look like you see in the preview, modify as you see fit.

john asked a question in Get Satisfaction on May 09, 2008 20:08:

widget codes are switched

It seems like the codes for topic widgets are inverted; css genius one is beside drop it on my blog (the drop it in one comes with some css i'm assuming?)

john asked a question in Overlay.TV on May 09, 2008 14:07:

How do I add an Overlay on my blog?

I want to add an Overlay on my blog but can't figure out how to do it, any help at all would be appreciated.