Site Stuff: August 2006

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

FavoriteThingz launches social commerce widget

Sprout Commerce, the company behind MyPickList, has launched a new product , called FavoriteThingz. A widget for social networking sites like MySpace or blog sites like Blogger, FavoriteThingz lets users identify their favorite bands, movies and other branded products and display those brands in a nice looking slideshow. Their readers can click through to purchase the items associated with the brand name and make the Blogmaster some coin in the process.

"D" says...Where's my coin?

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bLaugh - AJAX Makes Everything Better

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have been working very hard to deliver Comic 2.0 to the bLaugh community. This includes adding special new features which will undoubtedly enhance your experience. New technology like BLEACH and SWIFFER have enabled us to monetize this new vertical market. Other comics will look dull comapred to ours, which has already entered Lambda stages

"D" says...another comic to add to your blog. This one seems to be more colorful than andertoons. If thats what you are into...go for it. Enjoy!

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Free daily cartoons for your website or blog - ANDERTOONS

"Want to add a little Wow to your website? A little Bam to your blog?

Free daily cartoon add-on is a great way to liven up any page and keep readers coming back for more.

Simply cut and paste the code into your website or blog HTML, and your visitors will get a fresh and funny cartoon every day.

"D" says...Everybody needs a good laugh once in awhile. Help them out by putting a cartoon on your blog. Cartoons are updated daily so your blog/toon never gets stale.

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How to add a Google Map to any web page or blog in 30 seconds.

Adding map to your page is so simple now: few clicks, copy and paste.
Wikimapia

"D" says...Adding any kind of map to your site is important to the usefulness of the site. For example: Giving directions to a favorite wifi hotspot, letting family members know where the pizza/birthday party is at, directions to your garage sale etc... So I see this as a valuable tool and I suggest trying it out to see if it is as valuable as I think it is.

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Monday, August 28, 2006

Meebo for your website! - ajax im version 2

ajax im is a complete instant messaging system for your website; akin to Meebo without needing to pay for tons of expensive servers. This system uses Javascript/PHP/MySQL to allow users to communicate between users of the ajax im script on your site. No refreshing of the page is ever needed, as everything is updated in real-time via the JavaScript.

"D" says...
I like the idea of being able to talk to visitors to my site in real time. I think it needs to be integrated into a desktop IM client. If I am doing something else besides staring at my blog and someone wants to ask a question who are they gonna talk to? Does this offer the ability to communicate with/to another app such as Gtalk or Blogger IM?

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Color Combination ideas for web developers.

This site was built to help web developers quickly select and test color combinations. The heart of the site is the Combo Tester, which allows web developers to see how different color combinations work together on the screen.

"D" says...
Give this a try. It beats hitting the preview button every time you want to see how a color combination looks on your Blog. And it's FREE

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Picasa BETA 3, Build 32.71 Released

What's New - We fixed a couple of bugs with uploading to Picasa Web Albums- Picasa was crashing in some cases, and there was also a problem with detecting if a user was online.
Problems importing into an existing folder, and an import crash bug have been fixed.
We also fixed some problems with the Picasa Screensaver

"D" says...
If you use Blogger I would say that Picasa is a very important tool to use for any kind of picture posting to your Blog. FREE hosting for youe pics! Not to mention it organizes your pictures and even lets you do some image enhancement.
I'm surprised there isn't more Blogger intergration though. Like Flickr badges and that sort of quality Web 2.0 integration we've come to love from Google.

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Has Zoho Got Google & Microsoft Beat?

While Google is in beta, and Microsoft crawls along with their Windows Live deployment, Zoho already has a free full-featured, fully-operational online collaborative office & communications suite. And unlike Live & Google, you can even add your own custom apps to it. Why isn't the industry taking notice? Maybe Google & Microsoft should.
"D" says...
Jump in and give it a try. Most of what Zoho has to offer is free to use and the best thing is...you don't have to download and install the damn program!

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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Put a live Digg button on your website

Here's a javascript trick you can use to put a live working Digg button on your website that actually lets people digg without leaving your page.
Another add-on for your blog.
I'll put a link on the side as well.
"D"

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Digg Forces Shutdown of DiggGames.com Domain

DiggGames.com, a site that hosts a panorama of web games featured on Digg, was recently forced to abandon its domain name due to legal complaints. Furthermore, "digggames.com" has been banned from being entered as a story URL. While Digg's actions are understandable, its nature as a democratic online outlet makes such restrainment questionable.

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Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0

Orginalsignal.com aggregates the 15 most popular web 2.0 weblogs like TechCrunch, Read/WriteWeb, Solution Watch, 37signals, eHub, GigaOM etc.
Go here to see the latest and greatest headlines from some of the webs hottest sites that cover Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0 Basically Web 2.0 is you doing more on the Internet instead of doing more on your computer. The applications you would download and install are now being hosted on the web so you can use them there instead.
"D"

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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Color Combination ideas for web developers.

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Firefox & Greasemonkey: Pimp Your Web

This lens is all about the Mozilla Firefox Browser and its buddy the Greasemonkey Extension.It also covers an extensive list of other popular extensions and their uses.Helps solve the "extension bloat" found on Moz Add-Ons. Very easy to use and newbie friendly as well.

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Sunday, August 20, 2006

Adding Digg card to your site

Today I have added "Digg Card" to the site. This was really easy. It took about 2 minutes to accomplish and as you can see it seems to work flawlessly. Here is what they have to say at the DiggCard site.

"Digg card is a way of inserting your Digg.com Profile on to your website.

It's really simple to do all you need to do is add the following code to your webpage.

Simply replace the EnterYourusernamehere text with your digg username"

Go there to copy the code and modify it with a text editor like Wordpad or... and then paste it in your template.

This could be a cool add on to a site but I think it needs some tweaking first.

Have fun!

"D"

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Currently working

I'm currently working on a site that lists important resources for "newbie Linux" users. You can view the site HERE. Basically there is a small bit of information then a few links. This is a work in progress and may never be completely finished. If you have any suggestions please post them here in the comments section.
Thanks
"D"

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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Why DIGG.com

DIGG.com is a very useful site if you are looking for Internet related articles, freeware, websites that pertain to your interests etc...etc...
DIGG.com also allows you to share what you find important as well as drive traffic to your site...if you have one.
Having DIGG on your site is as simple as copy and paste. Copy the code they give you and paste it into your site so it displays where you want it to. This will display the 5, 10, 15 etc. top most DUGG articles in the category of your choice.
I have installed it and it took me about 2 minutes. You will find it on the left side column, about 5 spots down.
DIGG and enjoy!

To get the code... Click here

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Sunday, August 13, 2006

Neomyz adds "Functionality and Fun"

Neomyz.com has some attractive add-ons to your blog/site. You need to sign up of course.

An RSS display box/reader that will display your favorite RSS feed, "Right on your site". It comes in an attractive package. Unfortunately, with the free version you only have one design choice. I am currently displaying this "Reader" in the right hand sidebar of the site. As of 8/13/06 the RSS feed displayed is that of Craigslist MN, Computers section. I believe that any site that has an RSS feed is compatible with this reader.
You can have your own dynamic poll in less than three minutes! You don't even have to run a web page to use your poll - you can use the "Get Poll Link" feature and send the generated link to the respondents by email. I have not used this feature. I use a different web polling service called VIZU . I found this on a another Blog called "The Not so News"
Games. Games you can have right on your Blog/site. 1 Game is available FREE the rest are availble via paid subscription. I do not use this feature so I am not sure how well it works. Give it a try and post a comment here so we know how well they work.