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Announcing HTTPS support for awe.sm APIs & tools

By jeremiahlee in awe.sm, General, Marketing & Promotion, Our Products

Starting today, websites and applications can use our awe.sm-powered Facebook and Twitter sharing buttons, Conversions JavaScript library, and awe.sm APIs via HTTPS. They also can create tracking links on the awe.sm domain with HTTPS redirections.

It’s easy to implement. Just replace http:// with https:// on these resources. Optionally, you can specify a scheme-relative request by replacing http:// with //.

One great example of how this can be useful is tracking a purchase on a secure e-commerce website. Include awe.sm’s Conversion JavaScript library on the pages of items that get shared to social networks, then make an awe.sm conversion call upon checkout:

<script src="//widgets.awe.sm/v3/widgets.js?key=XXXXXXXXXX"></script> <script>AWESM.convert("goal_1",1095);</script>

Today’s release is just the latest in an ongoing rollout of resources to help businesses understand the value created by social media sharing and help developers build powerful apps that take advantage of this insight. Stay tuned to this blog and our changelog for more details as the awe.sm-ness unfolds…

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Want to make more cool stuff like this? We’re hiring.

An update on the awe.sm beta

By Jonathan in awe.sm, Our Products

6 comments

First of all, thanks so much to everyone who has expressed interest in joining the awe.sm private beta, especially those of you who have taken the time to complete our survey. We’ve frankly been overwhelmed by the response and sincerely apologize to anyone we haven’t been able to contact yet.

Unfortunately, we’re going to have to continue to limit access to the beta for the foreseeable future. We’re a small team with a new product and our primary focus continues to be on delivering the best possible experience to our existing users. We currently communicate very closely with all of our customers to understand their needs and how we can improve the product to best serve them. Obviously this is quite a labor-intensive process, but we firmly believe it is the quickest route to delivering a great product to everyone else.

We truly appreciate your patience and are seriously bummed not to be able to give more folks access yet. If you’ve already filled out the survey, there’s no need to do so again. And if you want to discuss anything with us, drop a line to support[at]awe.sm (though please allow a couple days for a response). Please note if you’re a developer interested in exploring our APIs, we’re being a bit more liberal about granting access to http://developers.awe.sm so go ahead and apply.