Optimizing perceived load time for social sharing widgets on a page?

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Published on 2011-01-20T22:54:38Z Indexed on 2011/02/20 15:33 UTC
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I have placed the facebook "like" and some other social bookmarking websites link on my blog, such as Google Buzz, Digg, Twitter, etc.

I just noticed that it takes a while to load my blog page as it need to load the data from the social networking sites (such as number of likes etc).

How can I place the links efficiently so that first my blog content loads, and meanwhile it loads data from these websites -- in other words, these sharing widgets should not hang my blog page while waiting for data from external sites?

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