Feeds were never designed to be consumed by humans. They were meant to be processed by machines. That is why feeds are in XML. However, many Internet users find themselves one way or another looking at the XML of a... Read More
Monday, September 29, 2008
3D Falling Autumn Leaves 2.5.2.0
3D Falling Autumn Leaves 2.5.2.0
Watch as colorful 3D, animated, autumn-colored leaves gently fall against a backdrop of a huge harvest moon. Watch as colorful 3D, animated, autumn-colored leaves gently fall against a backdrop of a huge harvest moon. (read more)
Watch as colorful 3D, animated, autumn-colored leaves gently fall against a backdrop of a huge harvest moon. Watch as colorful 3D, animated, autumn-colored leaves gently fall against a backdrop of a huge harvest moon. (read more)
Panasonic's Living Room Concept Will Keep Your Family Fit [CEATEC]
Panasonic's Living Room Concept Will Keep Your Family Fit [CEATEC]
Apparently a fan of Jetsons-like living spaces, Panasonic is showing off a living room/kitchen area at CEATEC that puts all home gadgets and appliances on an interconnected network. Though we've seen...
Apparently a fan of Jetsons-like living spaces, Panasonic is showing off a living room/kitchen area at CEATEC that puts all home gadgets and appliances on an interconnected network. Though we've seen...
SpringWidgets Blog is Here!!!!!
We're using the tools available to speed up our communication process. We'll be using this as our What's Up?, New and Cool, Future "stuff" blog so you don't have to crawl through the Forums if you don't want to (of course, feel free, if you like . . . either's cool).
The "wizards" (as I like to call them), aka our development team will add info here as well . . . so keep checking back. Read More
The "wizards" (as I like to call them), aka our development team will add info here as well . . . so keep checking back. Read More
Twitter Tweets
Twitter Tweets
08:14 Will be also speaking at #wordcampportland on Woopra - real time stats web analytics. Sept 27 Portland Oregon # 11:16 #wordcampportland keynote going to be AWESOME. Need sleep but working on a great talk. See you this weekend. # 16:31 On my way to #wordcampportland meet up to talk about this weekend’s activities. Going to meet [...]
08:14 Will be also speaking at #wordcampportland on Woopra - real time stats web analytics. Sept 27 Portland Oregon # 11:16 #wordcampportland keynote going to be AWESOME. Need sleep but working on a great talk. See you this weekend. # 16:31 On my way to #wordcampportland meet up to talk about this weekend’s activities. Going to meet [...]
- 08:14 Will be also speaking at #wordcampportland on Woopra - real time stats web analytics. Sept 27 Portland Oregon #
- 11:16 #wordcampportland keynote going to be AWESOME. Need sleep but working on a great talk. See you this weekend. #
- 16:31 On my way to #wordcampportland meet up to talk about this weekend’s activities. Going to meet all the volunteers and team in Portland. YEAH! #
- 16:31 @ahockley Sleep? What’s that? Aren’t there going to be #wordcampportland events on Sunday? Everyday is WordPress day for me! #
- 16:32 @mollermarketing Approvals should be announced soon. Coming in batches. A LOT signed up. Stay tuned. #
- 16:32 @gregbd BuddyPress is being used by a lot of people, though it still is in development. Go on, try it. Let us know how it works for you. #
- 16:33 @MelaniePerry Blogger & Podcaster Mag has been around over a year, tho making a lot of changes. It’s a fun mag with great stuff like me!
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Optical Illusion Of The Day
This Widget pulls the latest illusion from Mighty Optical Illusions website (www.moillusions.com) and shows it on your desktop. If you click on the image, browser takes you to that particular illusion's description and comments.
This Widget pulls the latest illusion from Mighty Optical Illusions website (www.moillusions.com) and shows it on your desktop. If you click on the image, browser takes you to that particular illusion's description and comments.
lastpass 1.31
First Alert Service Monitor 08.09.01
Joboshare DVD to Pocket PC Ripper 2.0.6.0928
Joboshare DVD to Pocket PC Ripper 2.0.6.0928
A tool that can easily rip DVD movies to Pocket PC videos A tool that can easily rip DVD movies to Pocket PC videos (read more)
A tool that can easily rip DVD movies to Pocket PC videos A tool that can easily rip DVD movies to Pocket PC videos (read more)
The best way to get your band's blog on Myspace.
While I was looking through the widget analytics data the other day, I noticed just how many bands are using our RSS reader to deliver news to their fans into social networks like Myspace and Facebook and start pages like iGoogle, Netvibes and Pageflakes.
Grab this Led Zeppelin widget now.
Of course, I'm going to show my age here, but I had to ask who Timbaland, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Rich Boy were, and I had no clue about The Wreckers, Robin Thicke or Faith Hill but when I found out that the official Beastie Boys, Led Zeppelin and Michael Jackson's Thriller profiles were using our widgets I had to spread the word.
Admittedly, Timbaland may get a bit more play these days, but I spent so much time listening to my Zeppelin albums and tapes that I wore them out. And the Beastie boys Licensed to Ill was awesome and played non-stop while cruising in my 66 Mustang in the 80's. (I really am old)
If you have a band, take a look at how some of the other artists I mentioned above implemented the widgets on their Myspace pages and feel free to use our widgets or our platform to promote your own news or events to your fans.
We don't charge for bands to use our RSS reaader, so it's probably the lowest cost investment that you'll make in your popularity. If you are feeling generous, we'll take concert tickets, CD's and backstage passes if you have any to spare ;-)
If you are a band and add a SpringWidgets express RSS reader to your page to promote your website or blog, please add a comment below and let us know where to find it.
Rock on and build your own RSS express widget today. Read More
Grab this Led Zeppelin widget now.
Admittedly, Timbaland may get a bit more play these days, but I spent so much time listening to my Zeppelin albums and tapes that I wore them out. And the Beastie boys Licensed to Ill was awesome and played non-stop while cruising in my 66 Mustang in the 80's. (I really am old)
If you have a band, take a look at how some of the other artists I mentioned above implemented the widgets on their Myspace pages and feel free to use our widgets or our platform to promote your own news or events to your fans.
We don't charge for bands to use our RSS reaader, so it's probably the lowest cost investment that you'll make in your popularity. If you are feeling generous, we'll take concert tickets, CD's and backstage passes if you have any to spare ;-)
If you are a band and add a SpringWidgets express RSS reader to your page to promote your website or blog, please add a comment below and let us know where to find it.
Rock on and build your own RSS express widget today. Read More
Welcome FineTune!
Welcome FineTune!
SpringWidgets welcomes it's first third-party developer uploaded SpringWidget.
Only days after our silent launch of widget uploading, Tony MacDonnell and the rest of the team from Teknision have uploaded a Finetune widget, the first on our platform not built internally.
I have to say that I'm really impressed! The combination of a comprehensive music library, the ability to set a 45 song playlist and being viral is a killer idea. I was able to find all the songs that I wanted to add to create a playlist that truly reflected my musical tastes.
The interface for the widget is fantastic and fun. When you have a song selected, the album art is displayed in a style that looks like a row of CDs sitting in a shelf. It reminds me of the very cool "coverflow" effect that Apple recently put into iTunes.
Of course, with the age of songs that I like, a stack of records metaphor might have been more appropriate ;-)
Here is my live SpringWidget, go ahead and play around:
I've added this widget on my personal blog and my MySpace profile to give it a whirl and I'm very happy with the results. While the size of the widget is not configurable, it's designed at a size that fits nicely into the music section on Myspace and almost any blog sidebar.
What does Tony have to say about developing on the SpringWidgets platform? - I pulled the following quote from his blog:
"We've used WidgetBox, Yahoo Widgets, Google Gadgets, OSX Dashboard, and so far the Springbox was the most fun, and rendered the coolest final product at the end of the day."
Of course, the real cool thing for FineTune is that they were able to make it down to the desktop months before Adobe Apollo is to become available and they made it there with SpringWidgets. This begs the question: "were there already footprints on the moon when Neil Armstrong landed?"
We are very glad to have FineTune, Tony and his Teknision team on board with SpringWidgets, and we love the product they have built. Go ahead and give it a try and see if you like it as much as we do!
-Don
SpringWidgets welcomes it's first third-party developer uploaded SpringWidget.Only days after our silent launch of widget uploading, Tony MacDonnell and the rest of the team from Teknision have uploaded a Finetune widget, the first on our platform not built internally.
I have to say that I'm really impressed! The combination of a comprehensive music library, the ability to set a 45 song playlist and being viral is a killer idea. I was able to find all the songs that I wanted to add to create a playlist that truly reflected my musical tastes.
The interface for the widget is fantastic and fun. When you have a song selected, the album art is displayed in a style that looks like a row of CDs sitting in a shelf. It reminds me of the very cool "coverflow" effect that Apple recently put into iTunes.
Of course, with the age of songs that I like, a stack of records metaphor might have been more appropriate ;-)
Here is my live SpringWidget, go ahead and play around:
I've added this widget on my personal blog and my MySpace profile to give it a whirl and I'm very happy with the results. While the size of the widget is not configurable, it's designed at a size that fits nicely into the music section on Myspace and almost any blog sidebar.
What does Tony have to say about developing on the SpringWidgets platform? - I pulled the following quote from his blog:
"We've used WidgetBox, Yahoo Widgets, Google Gadgets, OSX Dashboard, and so far the Springbox was the most fun, and rendered the coolest final product at the end of the day."
Of course, the real cool thing for FineTune is that they were able to make it down to the desktop months before Adobe Apollo is to become available and they made it there with SpringWidgets. This begs the question: "were there already footprints on the moon when Neil Armstrong landed?"We are very glad to have FineTune, Tony and his Teknision team on board with SpringWidgets, and we love the product they have built. Go ahead and give it a try and see if you like it as much as we do!
-Don
The Media Manager Queue
The Media Manager Queue
Media Manager is the easiest way to write about Amazon items in MT. Media Manager provides a simple queue to serve as a central location for you to manage all of media assets for your blog. From here you can...
Media Manager is the easiest way to write about Amazon items in MT. Media Manager provides a simple queue to serve as a central location for you to manage all of media assets for your blog. From here you can...
FeedBurner feed count drop
FeedBurner feed count drop
You may have noticed on Saturday (3rd November) that you FeedBurner feed counter was reporting a much lower level of subscribers to your blog. Here at Newsniche the counter dropped by nearly a hundred subscribers.
FeedBurner blame Google for the glitch as the Google feedfetcher bot had gone out on Friday night and was up late Saturday. This was probably due to drinking too much GoogleJuice the night before, those bots can't hold their drink. As a result none of the Google Reader subscribers were reported in the stats for Saturday.
Google Feedfetcher drops ball
At the time like me you may have worried even panicked when you saw a massive drop in subscriber numbers. If you have more than one blog then you would have figured out the drop was across the board and due to some glitch.
These sorts of glitches although usually temporary can cause a webmaster a lot of unnecessary stress. These things happen, my advice is don't hit the panic button, do a little investigating then report it if needed. More often than not these things are temporary. I have learned by experience if you do too much tinkering thinking it's something you have done you end up making things worse. All you need to do now is explain to your advertisers why your stats dropped.
This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.
Cool show, Cool Widget!
Cool show, Cool Widget!
If you haven't taken a look at the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", now is the time. This show is awesome in the way that "The Office" is awesome. It's a brilliant comedy about four friends who own a bar who almost universally approach every problem with the wrong solution. If I had only one word to describe the show, it would have to be "Great!"
The widget is perfectly sized for a blog post, or placement on a Myspace profile and has tons of show related content and links.
Click the options to share this now, it's a live widget!BIG Interactive and FX Networks created a SpringWidget to help promote the show.
Like the show, the widget is great as well. There are video clips to watch, Sunny tour dates, show information and links to the polls, website and Sunny Blog and even a sneak peak video.
I had never watched this show before seeing the widget, but the widget provided me with enough video and information about the show to let me know that I had to go out and buy the first season DVD set. I didn't realize until after I was at home watching one of the episodes that a "widget" had convinced me to buy the show. I had not even visit the website before I made the purchase.
The best part of the Sunny widget is that the developers at BIG Interactive really took advantage of our platform, building in some features that are only available when the widget is downloaded. So while the online widget is cool, only users who grab it as a download get the full experience.
Download the desktop widget and you get a second widget hidden in the right click menu made to look like the star characters. This second widget is not available online.
You can click and drag the widget by the characters "head" and some pretty neat physics take place, they wiggle and bounce off the side of your monitor. when the character stops, some pretty hilarious video clips start to play.
If you are reading this on a Thursday for the next few months, including This Thursday (tonight) the show should be airing on your local FX network. Take my word for it, it's worth watching.
-Don
p.s. You can find out more about BIG Interactive here and more about FX Networks here
If you haven't taken a look at the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", now is the time. This show is awesome in the way that "The Office" is awesome. It's a brilliant comedy about four friends who own a bar who almost universally approach every problem with the wrong solution. If I had only one word to describe the show, it would have to be "Great!"
The widget is perfectly sized for a blog post, or placement on a Myspace profile and has tons of show related content and links.
Click the options to share this now, it's a live widget!
Like the show, the widget is great as well. There are video clips to watch, Sunny tour dates, show information and links to the polls, website and Sunny Blog and even a sneak peak video.
I had never watched this show before seeing the widget, but the widget provided me with enough video and information about the show to let me know that I had to go out and buy the first season DVD set. I didn't realize until after I was at home watching one of the episodes that a "widget" had convinced me to buy the show. I had not even visit the website before I made the purchase.
The best part of the Sunny widget is that the developers at BIG Interactive really took advantage of our platform, building in some features that are only available when the widget is downloaded. So while the online widget is cool, only users who grab it as a download get the full experience.Download the desktop widget and you get a second widget hidden in the right click menu made to look like the star characters. This second widget is not available online.
You can click and drag the widget by the characters "head" and some pretty neat physics take place, they wiggle and bounce off the side of your monitor. when the character stops, some pretty hilarious video clips start to play.
If you are reading this on a Thursday for the next few months, including This Thursday (tonight) the show should be airing on your local FX network. Take my word for it, it's worth watching.
-Don
p.s. You can find out more about BIG Interactive here and more about FX Networks here
Bell Sympatico Internet Usage Meter 1.0
Internet usage meter, for customers of the Bell Sympatico.
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 | About Bell Sympatico Internet Usage Meter A handy internet usage widget for Mac OS X, for customers of the Bell Sympatico. Makes staying on top of your shrinking bandwidth easy! Widget displays your internet usage statistics, including downloads, uploads and total usage. |
Adding an Item to Your Queue
Adding an Item to Your Queue
From anywhere within Media Manager you can add another item to your queue. Click on the "Add Item" link in the left hand menu, or the "Add Item to your Queue" found on the main Media Manager screen. From...
From anywhere within Media Manager you can add another item to your queue. Click on the "Add Item" link in the left hand menu, or the "Add Item to your Queue" found on the main Media Manager screen. From...
Moody or Not 1.2.3
Moody or Not 1.2.3
See how the worlds mood is today.
See how the worlds mood is today.
 | About Moody or Not Ever wondered how everybody feels today? “Moody or not” is a mood counter based on a simple voting poll asking if you’re in a good or bad mood today. Votes are counted on a daily basis showing you how everybody feels today. Share your mood with the world … :o |
EasyDesk Helpdesk 1.5.4
Install Feed Manager
Install Feed Manager
There are two options when installing Feed Manager: Download and install the Feed Manager archive manually Install via the Plugin Manager plugin for Movable Type...
There are two options when installing Feed Manager: Download and install the Feed Manager archive manually Install via the Plugin Manager plugin for Movable Type...
VidCrop PRO 1.1.0.19
VidCrop PRO 1.1.0.19
Video Cropper for most popular video formats. Video Cropper for most popular video formats. (read more)
Video Cropper for most popular video formats. Video Cropper for most popular video formats. (read more)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
RSS Hugger
Collin LaHay has come up with an idea called RSSHugger, it's a site that allows webmasters to promote their RSS feeds by adding them to the site. You can add your own page but it will cost you 20US dollars (10 is you blog about RSSHugger).
RSS Hugger seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.
The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.
This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.
Adding an Item to Your Queue
From anywhere within Media Manager you can add another item to your queue. Click on the "Add Item" link in the left hand menu, or the "Add Item to your Queue" found on the main Media Manager screen. From... Read More
WiredDeals
Keep track of tons of daily deals from FatWallet.com and SlickDeals.net!!! This simple Widget lists top deals as rated by the deal aggregator WiredDeals.com Current version lets you configure: • Number of deals to display • Forum (All, Hot Deals, Finance, Free Stuff, etc) • Deal age limit (deals posted in last 1 hour, 2 hours, 4 hours, etc) • Deals update frequency • Widget appearance (colors) • Widget width Numbers before the deal title are current deal rating and 2-hour rating increase. Read More
Drowned iPhone 3G Reincarnated as Beautiful Fishing Lure [Gadget Reincarnation]
Drowned iPhone 3G Reincarnated as Beautiful Fishing Lure [Gadget Reincarnation]
It's the circle of life, really: man drops iPhone in river while fishing, iPhone dies, iPhone is torn apart, iPhone becomes fishing lure, iPhone catches dinner. Life goes on. "Seeing it was the...
It's the circle of life, really: man drops iPhone in river while fishing, iPhone dies, iPhone is torn apart, iPhone becomes fishing lure, iPhone catches dinner. Life goes on. "Seeing it was the...
The Menorah for Hanukkah is also available . . .
The Menorah for Hanukkah is also available . . .
Here's the Menorah for Hanukkah!!!!
A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
Here's the Menorah for Hanukkah!!!!
A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
Daniusoft Digital Media to Mobile Phone Converter 2.0.26
Taboo 0.5.6
Taboo 0.5.6
Firefox extension that will let you see in your browser thumb previews of your selected tabs Firefox extension that will let you see in your browser thumb previews of your selected tabs (read more)
Firefox extension that will let you see in your browser thumb previews of your selected tabs Firefox extension that will let you see in your browser thumb previews of your selected tabs (read more)
Want Windows 7 Super Early? Get Your Conference Pants On [Windows]
Who isn't ready for Windows 7? That wiser, stabler, more streamlined OS with Vista's good looks but an even prettier Start button and an alleged 15-second boot time? Heck, even Bill Gates is excited... Read More
Map to Vertex Color 1.0
MP3 WAV to CD Burner 1.2.34
MP3 WAV to CD Burner 1.2.34
Using this application you will be able to create high-quality audio CDs which is playable on your CD stereo. Using this application you will be able to create high-quality audio CDs which is playable on your CD stereo. (read more)
Using this application you will be able to create high-quality audio CDs which is playable on your CD stereo. Using this application you will be able to create high-quality audio CDs which is playable on your CD stereo. (read more)
Motorola USBW100 WiMax Adapter Allows Easy Wireless Upgrade [WiMax]
If you're tempted to buy into WiMax technology but don't want to purchase a whole new computer to partake, this Motorola USB adapter offers WiMax to any laptop with a USB port. Coming in multiple... Read More
TSheets Time Tracker 1.01
Time tracking from your Mac Dashboard. We all know that “Time is Money” - Finally, an easy way to track it.
Read More
 | About TSheets Time Tracker A time keeping system for tracking time against project/job codes. The widget allows you to easily clock-in and out, manage project codes, and see totals for the day. Your data is stored centrally at TSheets.com. The full web application features full reports, easy drag-and-drop timesheet management, PTO tracking, and a rich user interface. TSheets also offers a business version with everything needed to track and manage time for all your employees. |
Map to Vertex Color 1.0
Propagate Soft Selection 1.0
Propagate Soft Selection 1.0
This 3D Studio Max modifier sets an entire objects soft selection value to the maximum. This 3D Studio Max modifier sets an entire objects soft selection value to the maximum. (read more)
This 3D Studio Max modifier sets an entire objects soft selection value to the maximum. This 3D Studio Max modifier sets an entire objects soft selection value to the maximum. (read more)
The Inside Story of How the RIAA Killed Muxtape [Music]
The Inside Story of How the RIAA Killed Muxtape [Music]
Muxtape, the simple, awesome and insanely popular online mix tape creator went offline last month with a brief explanation: "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem...
Muxtape, the simple, awesome and insanely popular online mix tape creator went offline last month with a brief explanation: "Muxtape will be unavailable for a brief period while we sort out a problem...
ABest Video to Zune 3GP Flash Converter 4.16
ABest Video to Zune 3GP Flash Converter 4.16
This software utility can convert video files from one format to another. This software utility can convert video files from one format to another. (read more)
This software utility can convert video files from one format to another. This software utility can convert video files from one format to another. (read more)
Finally, Night Vision Goggles Get Priced Low Enough for Cheapskate Perverts [Ninja Stuff]
Finally, Night Vision Goggles Get Priced Low Enough for Cheapskate Perverts [Ninja Stuff]
Night vision goggles are one of those things that you've always wanted, but known that the novelty wasn't worth the hundreds (or thousands) of dollars such fancy equipment obviously would cost. Well,...
Night vision goggles are one of those things that you've always wanted, but known that the novelty wasn't worth the hundreds (or thousands) of dollars such fancy equipment obviously would cost. Well,...
Bytemobile RSS Reader 1.0
Bytemobile RSS Reader 1.0
Conveniently stay up to date with the latest news and blog posts on Bytemobile.
Conveniently stay up to date with the latest news and blog posts on Bytemobile.
 | About Bytemobile RSS Reader Conveniently stay up to date with the latest news and blog posts on Bytemobile, the global leader in mobile internet solutions for network operators. For more information visit www.bytemobile.com |
Lighthouse Cams 2.5
Lighthouse Cams 2.5
View lighthouse webcams from the East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Choose from 5 seconds to 30 minutes.
View lighthouse webcams from the East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Choose from 5 seconds to 30 minutes.
 | About Lighthouse Cams View lighthouse webcams from the East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Choose from 5 seconds to 30 minutes. Also check hotels near those lighthouses from back of widget. Links to the Travel Widgets Lighthouse store also on back. Report webcams that are down. Brought you you by TravelWidgets.com, the most tech savvy travel site on the internet featuring dozens of widgets and iphone web apps to help book travel and track the latest travel deals. Book hotels, air, car rentals, cruises and show tickets and activities. Save on air and hotel packages. Have you visited Travel Widgets yet? |
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Checking your own RSS feeds
Are you checking your own RSS feeds, are you subscribed to your own feeds. If not then how do you know your feed is working properly. This is something I have come across, I have noticed on both my own and other bloggers feeds that sometimes your feed breaks.
The simplest thing you can do is subscribe to your feed in your feed reader. Create a separate folder to accommodate just your own feeds so you know exactly where they are. Now every time you make a post your new post will appear in your feed reader.
When you do your usual daily RSS trawl you will be reminded to check your feed. If there is anything amiss you will know about it sooner rather than later. I have emailed many a webmaster to tell them that their feed is broken. I mean who reads their own feeds, right.
This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.
Lighthouse Cams 2.5
View lighthouse webcams from the East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Choose from 5 seconds to 30 minutes.
Read More
| About Lighthouse Cams View lighthouse webcams from the East Coast, Great Lakes and West Coast. Select an area or cycle through all webcams. Choose from 5 seconds to 30 minutes. Also check hotels near those lighthouses from back of widget. Links to the Travel Widgets Lighthouse store also on back. Report webcams that are down. Brought you you by TravelWidgets.com, the most tech savvy travel site on the internet featuring dozens of widgets and iphone web apps to help book travel and track the latest travel deals. Book hotels, air, car rentals, cruises and show tickets and activities. Save on air and hotel packages. Have you visited Travel Widgets yet? |
SpringWidgets Blog is Here!!!!!
We're using the tools available to speed up our communication process. We'll be using this as our What's Up?, New and Cool, Future "stuff" blog so you don't have to crawl through the Forums if you don't want to (of course, feel free, if you like . . . either's cool).
The "wizards" (as I like to call them), aka our development team will add info here as well . . . so keep checking back. Read More
The "wizards" (as I like to call them), aka our development team will add info here as well . . . so keep checking back. Read More
RSS Hugger
RSS Hugger
Collin LaHay has come up with an idea called RSSHugger, it's a site that allows webmasters to promote their RSS feeds by adding them to the site. You can add your own page but it will cost you 20US dollars (10 is you blog about RSSHugger).
RSS Hugger seems to be a cross between an RSS directory and a wiki. Collin wants the directory to grow to 50,000 blogs which he claims is 0.00045 percent of the blogosphere.
The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger. Whether or not enough buzz is created to generate any new subscribers to members feeds remains to be seen.
This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.
We've Got Widgets!
As anyone following the site can see, we've put a few new widgets in the gallery since last week.
We've added widgets from the NBC Show Heroes, Harper Collins Booksellers, American Idol, Rotten Tomatoes, Ask Men, Fox Sports, Career One, 20th Century Fox, FX, Speed Channel, News.com.au, and about a couple hundred of your own customized ExpressWidgets!
Heroes
How cool is it that SpringWidgets is driving the viral widget on the official Heroes MySpace page! I don't know if you are a fan, but here at SpringWidgets, we are all fans of Heroes and this is one of the only shows that we refuse to miss!
Look through our gallery and you might also discover a Heroes feed in an ExpressWidget or two!
Harper Collins
Take a look at the upcoming books section of Harper Collins Booksellers. Every upcoming book they offer will sport a widget that you can take with you to count down to the release of your favorite upcoming book.
ExpressWidgets in the house!
Even though it's only been a week since we had our soft launch of the ExpressWidgets beta, we're being bombarded with new widgets. My guess is that even with the tens of thousands of SpringWidgets RSS Readers that were created before we introduced the new process, we'll see this gallery grow rapidly.
For those of you who were brave enough to jump on board right away and found a thing or two that you would like changed about the express widgets process, we've been listening! We've upgraded the profiles so that they now show the widgets that you have "expressed" and we've also built in an "edit" and a "delete" feature for your widget in case you have a change of heart after you've published.
Simply log in using the button on the upper right of this page to view and edit the widgets that you have in our system - you can change the default size, header image, gallery tile and color of the widget using your edit page.
American Idol chose to have our technology drive a few bobbling heads made especially for their contestants. Now you too can put a Sanjaya Bobbler on your blog. Check out their site for more information
If you have a few minutes, take a stroll through our gallery and take a look at the variety of creative and colorful solutions that have been added. Chances are that you'll find quite a few that you can add to your page or blog.
This has been a busy couple of weeks here, and we have pushed out quite a few new widgets and features. We're hard at work on some other stuff too that quite honestly blows the doors off any other widget platform out there, bar none. But more on that later . . . Read More
We've added widgets from the NBC Show Heroes, Harper Collins Booksellers, American Idol, Rotten Tomatoes, Ask Men, Fox Sports, Career One, 20th Century Fox, FX, Speed Channel, News.com.au, and about a couple hundred of your own customized ExpressWidgets!
Heroes
How cool is it that SpringWidgets is driving the viral widget on the official Heroes MySpace page! I don't know if you are a fan, but here at SpringWidgets, we are all fans of Heroes and this is one of the only shows that we refuse to miss!
Look through our gallery and you might also discover a Heroes feed in an ExpressWidget or two!
Harper Collins
Take a look at the upcoming books section of Harper Collins Booksellers. Every upcoming book they offer will sport a widget that you can take with you to count down to the release of your favorite upcoming book.
ExpressWidgets in the house!
Even though it's only been a week since we had our soft launch of the ExpressWidgets beta, we're being bombarded with new widgets. My guess is that even with the tens of thousands of SpringWidgets RSS Readers that were created before we introduced the new process, we'll see this gallery grow rapidly.
For those of you who were brave enough to jump on board right away and found a thing or two that you would like changed about the express widgets process, we've been listening! We've upgraded the profiles so that they now show the widgets that you have "expressed" and we've also built in an "edit" and a "delete" feature for your widget in case you have a change of heart after you've published.
Simply log in using the button on the upper right of this page to view and edit the widgets that you have in our system - you can change the default size, header image, gallery tile and color of the widget using your edit page.
American Idol chose to have our technology drive a few bobbling heads made especially for their contestants. Now you too can put a Sanjaya Bobbler on your blog. Check out their site for more information
If you have a few minutes, take a stroll through our gallery and take a look at the variety of creative and colorful solutions that have been added. Chances are that you'll find quite a few that you can add to your page or blog.
This has been a busy couple of weeks here, and we have pushed out quite a few new widgets and features. We're hard at work on some other stuff too that quite honestly blows the doors off any other widget platform out there, bar none. But more on that later . . . Read More
First G1 Ad Shows Blatant Hostility Towards the English Language [Advertising]
First G1 Ad Shows Blatant Hostility Towards the English Language [Advertising]
The first G1 ad has hit, and it's so sassy! It like, totally doesn't care about using proper English! It's just so much, uh, funnerer than other mobile ads. You know, because that's how the kids are...
The first G1 ad has hit, and it's so sassy! It like, totally doesn't care about using proper English! It's just so much, uh, funnerer than other mobile ads. You know, because that's how the kids are...
Dell Continues Stylish Trend with Studio Slim Desktops [PCs]
While not quite as stylish as the Studio Hybrid, Dell's new Studio Slim line is a promising update to their standard PCs for those of us ever-interested in an inexpensive media PC. Starting at $549,... Read More
Install Plugin Manager
Install Plugin Manager
Download the Plugin Manager installation script. Save the file locally as pm-install.cgi. Upload the pm-install.cgi file you just saved via FTP or some other file transfer application into Movable Type?s root/home directory. This is the same directory in which...
Download the Plugin Manager installation script. Save the file locally as pm-install.cgi. Upload the pm-install.cgi file you just saved via FTP or some other file transfer application into Movable Type?s root/home directory. This is the same directory in which...
Feed Compare Feedburner subscriber graphs
Feed Compare Feedburner subscriber graphs
A large number of blogs and other sites now use Feedburner as it has a number of great Pro freatures and Feedburner also allows you to transfer feed ownership between users. Whilst you can see your stats in Feedburner the graphs are not that great and you can compare them.
There is a site called Feed Compare that allows you to view the RSS subscriber data for up to 4 feeds on a single graph. This means you could compare your competitors RSS subscriber count with your own feed.
To allow you to get a better idea of subscriber numbers you can also view a graph showing data for the last month, quarter, half year, year or 2 years assuming the feed has been in existence for that long.
The reason this is such a great tool is that you can now find out exactly how a sites RSS feed has grown over time. All you need is the sites Feedburner URL which you can get by right clicking on the sites RSS feed icon and copying the URL than pasting it into Feed Compare.
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See You in Las Vegas at Blog World Expo
I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event. I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress. I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there [...]
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I’m going to be joining everyone in the blogosphere at Blog World Expo in Las Vegas this weekend, September 20-21, 2008. Not going to be there? You are missing out on what could be a record breaking event.
I will be there with Woopra, Layered Tech, and WordPress.
I’ve peeked at the Conference Schedule and there is so much going on, I don’t even know where to begin.
In addition to the Blog World Expo Exhibitors in the Exhibition Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the incredible collection of speakers and workshops, and the crème de la crème of the blogosphers attending, there are also events within the main event, including:
- Executive & Entrepreneur Conference
- Citizen Journalism Workshop
- Blogworld Conference
- Real Estate Blogworld
- b5media Blogger Summit
- GODBLOGCON
These specialty meetings and workshops cover niche areas and specific issues that confront bloggers within those specific areas. So much of it crosses borders, though, I’m having a tough time deciding which to attend.
I do know where I will be Sunday, September 21, from 3:00PM - 4:00PM. I will be on a panel with my buddies, John Pozadzides and Liz Strauss, covering The Stats of High Performance Content and Marketing.
I will also be occasionally found in the Exhibition Hall in booth 220 with Layered Tech, Woopra, and WordPress. If you want to talk about servers, web hosting, and the grid, I’ll let you talk to the other guys there, but if you want to talk WordPress or Woopra, I’m ready!
I hope to see you there!
NEXT: Next weekend, September 27, 2008, is WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008, where I will also be making noise. The event is sold out and there is a waiting list. It’s going to be great!
Other upcoming events where I will be speaking and attending include:
- Mactoberfest 2008 - Hawaii - October 18, 2008
- Windward Community College Tech Talk - Hawaii - October 24, 2008
- Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008
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We've Got Widgets!
As anyone following the site can see, we've put a few new widgets in the gallery since last week.
We've added widgets from the NBC Show Heroes, Harper Collins Booksellers, American Idol, Rotten Tomatoes, Ask Men, Fox Sports, Career One, 20th Century Fox, FX, Speed Channel, News.com.au, and about a couple hundred of your own customized ExpressWidgets!
Heroes
How cool is it that SpringWidgets is driving the viral widget on the official Heroes MySpace page! I don't know if you are a fan, but here at SpringWidgets, we are all fans of Heroes and this is one of the only shows that we refuse to miss!
Look through our gallery and you might also discover a Heroes feed in an ExpressWidget or two!
Harper Collins
Take a look at the upcoming books section of Harper Collins Booksellers. Every upcoming book they offer will sport a widget that you can take with you to count down to the release of your favorite upcoming book.
ExpressWidgets in the house!
Even though it's only been a week since we had our soft launch of the ExpressWidgets beta, we're being bombarded with new widgets. My guess is that even with the tens of thousands of SpringWidgets RSS Readers that were created before we introduced the new process, we'll see this gallery grow rapidly.
For those of you who were brave enough to jump on board right away and found a thing or two that you would like changed about the express widgets process, we've been listening! We've upgraded the profiles so that they now show the widgets that you have "expressed" and we've also built in an "edit" and a "delete" feature for your widget in case you have a change of heart after you've published.
Simply log in using the button on the upper right of this page to view and edit the widgets that you have in our system - you can change the default size, header image, gallery tile and color of the widget using your edit page.
American Idol chose to have our technology drive a few bobbling heads made especially for their contestants. Now you too can put a Sanjaya Bobbler on your blog. Check out their site for more information
If you have a few minutes, take a stroll through our gallery and take a look at the variety of creative and colorful solutions that have been added. Chances are that you'll find quite a few that you can add to your page or blog.
This has been a busy couple of weeks here, and we have pushed out quite a few new widgets and features. We're hard at work on some other stuff too that quite honestly blows the doors off any other widget platform out there, bar none. But more on that later . . . Read More
We've added widgets from the NBC Show Heroes, Harper Collins Booksellers, American Idol, Rotten Tomatoes, Ask Men, Fox Sports, Career One, 20th Century Fox, FX, Speed Channel, News.com.au, and about a couple hundred of your own customized ExpressWidgets!
Heroes
How cool is it that SpringWidgets is driving the viral widget on the official Heroes MySpace page! I don't know if you are a fan, but here at SpringWidgets, we are all fans of Heroes and this is one of the only shows that we refuse to miss!
Look through our gallery and you might also discover a Heroes feed in an ExpressWidget or two!
Harper Collins
Take a look at the upcoming books section of Harper Collins Booksellers. Every upcoming book they offer will sport a widget that you can take with you to count down to the release of your favorite upcoming book.
ExpressWidgets in the house!
Even though it's only been a week since we had our soft launch of the ExpressWidgets beta, we're being bombarded with new widgets. My guess is that even with the tens of thousands of SpringWidgets RSS Readers that were created before we introduced the new process, we'll see this gallery grow rapidly.
For those of you who were brave enough to jump on board right away and found a thing or two that you would like changed about the express widgets process, we've been listening! We've upgraded the profiles so that they now show the widgets that you have "expressed" and we've also built in an "edit" and a "delete" feature for your widget in case you have a change of heart after you've published.
Simply log in using the button on the upper right of this page to view and edit the widgets that you have in our system - you can change the default size, header image, gallery tile and color of the widget using your edit page.
American Idol chose to have our technology drive a few bobbling heads made especially for their contestants. Now you too can put a Sanjaya Bobbler on your blog. Check out their site for more information
If you have a few minutes, take a stroll through our gallery and take a look at the variety of creative and colorful solutions that have been added. Chances are that you'll find quite a few that you can add to your page or blog.
This has been a busy couple of weeks here, and we have pushed out quite a few new widgets and features. We're hard at work on some other stuff too that quite honestly blows the doors off any other widget platform out there, bar none. But more on that later . . . Read More
Queen of England Buying the World's Largest Wind Turbine [The Queen Of Green]
We don't know how much it cost her, but word is that the Queen of England has put down some mega-bucks to buy the world's largest wind turbine. The 10-megawatt monster machine built by Clipper... Read More
Cashboard Time Tracker 1.7
The Cashboard Timer accurately keeps track of your time. Never get under-paid for the hours you’ve worked again.
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 | About Cashboard Time Tracker Easily track your time and submit it to an online estimate and invoicing solution. Bring up the widget, press start and go do your work. The timer keeps running in the background. When you’re finished, come back to send the time directly into your Cashboard account. |
SpringWidgets loves iGoogle
There is a lot of press today on Google Homepages... oops... I mean "iGoogle"
Since we at SpringWidgets are really big fans of Google and everything they do. I thought this would be a great time to officially say how much we love the iGoogle page by letting everyone know that we have recently added in support for automatic posting of all SpringWidgets into your personalized iGoogle page!
Just choose the widget you are interested in, configure it however you like it to look and function and then select the Google icon in the share it box.
The whole process takes only a few seconds and is one of the easiest ways to put one of our widgets on a page that we have available. Way to go Google!
With all the recent focus on widgets, it's not surprising that everyone is building a widget destination of some sort. We at SpringWidgets will continue to build support for each new destination as APIs become available and look forward to helping enable 2007 truly being the year of the widget.
Here is my iGoogle page. Complete with today's MLB games and a countdown to the next episode of NBC's Heroes!
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Since we at SpringWidgets are really big fans of Google and everything they do. I thought this would be a great time to officially say how much we love the iGoogle page by letting everyone know that we have recently added in support for automatic posting of all SpringWidgets into your personalized iGoogle page!
Just choose the widget you are interested in, configure it however you like it to look and function and then select the Google icon in the share it box. The whole process takes only a few seconds and is one of the easiest ways to put one of our widgets on a page that we have available. Way to go Google!
With all the recent focus on widgets, it's not surprising that everyone is building a widget destination of some sort. We at SpringWidgets will continue to build support for each new destination as APIs become available and look forward to helping enable 2007 truly being the year of the widget.
Here is my iGoogle page. Complete with today's MLB games and a countdown to the next episode of NBC's Heroes!
Read MoreThe Menorah for Hanukkah is also available . . .
Here's the Menorah for Hanukkah!!!!
A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
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A new candle is added and lit for each day of Hanukkah. You can choose from a variety of candles and Menorah colors. I've made this one silver with blue candle, but just click the "Get this widget" to configure in your own way and embed on your page . . .
Thank you Drew and Lani and Michael for creating these great looking holiday treats!
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RSS advertising with Bidvertiser
There are already several options for RSS advertising but Bidvertiser has decided to enter the market and offer publishers the opportunity to sell advertising in their RSS feeds. Of course this also means advertisers will also be able to buy ads in RSS feeds.
Advertising with RSS
With the much larger subscriber numbers for RSS feeds it has become more viable for advertising to appear within an RSS feed. An ad in an RSS feed means that the ad will only appear in the feed rather than on the site.
As RSS subscribers tend to be more interested in the content the ads could be more effective if targeted correctly. Bidvertisers feed advertising program is in public beta and offers RSS advertising and allows RSS publishers to sell RSS ads. It will be interesting to see how it progresses compared the Feedvertiser program.
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New Features - New Faces - Happy Holidays
Only a few more days and it’s already 2008. How time flies! We hope you are all enjoying the holiday season. Here is a brief message with the latest news about AddThis. More Analytics. To help you start off the new year, we have upgraded our stats interface to give you more analytics about how your [...]
Only a few more days and it’s already 2008. How time flies! We hope you are all enjoying the holiday season. Here is a brief message with the latest news about AddThis.
More Analytics. To help you start off the new year, we have upgraded our stats interface to give you more analytics about how your content is bookmarked and shared by your visitors. Here are the new features:
- bookmarking/sharing trends over time (day, week, month, year)
- enhanced ‘Top Bookmarks’ report
- audience breakdown by country
- export to various formats (e.g. CSV, Tab, Excel)
- enhanced ‘Top Bookmarks’ report
- audience breakdown by country
- export to various formats (e.g. CSV, Tab, Excel)
To try it, just go to your account ! By the way, we will be adding even more analytics soon. So be sure to add our widget now on all your pages, so that the tracking can already begin. Also, be sure to tell your friends about AddThis.
Our Team. Our team is expanding as well. We are excited to announce that Brian Jones has joined AddThis. Brian is a sys/admin/infrastructure guru; he founded Linuxlaboratory.org, created Python Magazine, helped found php|architect magazine, and is the co-author of Linux Server Hacks 2 for O’Reilly publishing. Brian is already working hard setting up tomorrow’s infrastructure for AddThis, making sure AddThis can continue to deliver its great service reliably as it continues to grow.
We are hiring. We are currently looking for a front-end guru. If you live and breath AJAX, Javascript, and PHP, and are obsessed with creating the best possible tools for users, then we want to hear from you. We offer very good salaries and great benefits, and even the possibility to work from home.
AddThis Trends. As most of you know by now, each month we publish a report of the top most active bookmarking/sharing and feed reader services. Below is the report for the top bookmarking/sharing services for November. You can find more reports here.
Top Bookmarking / Sharing Services - November
Don’t have our widget yet? If you don’t have an AddThis widget on your website or blog, click here and get it now. It will really help your visitors share and remember your pages, and help you gain visibility in the search engines by the same token.
Happy holidays and best wishes for 2008!
Read MoreExpressWidgets from SpringWidgets!
It’s a day to “Express” change . . .
Today we’ve launched our ExpressWidgets service…
http://springwidgets.com/express/getFeed/
Up until now you could use our RSS Reader Widget to brand and add a blog to your site or desktop, but you could not add that finished blog widget to our gallery so that other people could find it and share it.
Today we changed all that!!!
As of right now you can use our ExpressWidgets process to create your own uniquely-branded Widget(s) and have those widgets instantly added to our gallery just like any other widget. Build as many as you want and add them to our growing gallery of blogs and desktop Widgets so other users can embed, pass along and bring them to the desktop.
It’s pretty cool. We “expressed” the RSS Reader first. We think it’s the easiest build process for you to quickly syndicate and distribute your blog or audio and video podcast content. Best of all, you can uniquely brand your ExpressWidget to match your website or blog, making it a truly one-of-a-kind Widget out in the WidgetSphere.
To make sure that the end product is as good as it can be, we've added a new way to customize an Express RSS Reader - you can now skin the "chrome" around the content so that it better matches your blog or site. (This is a feature that has been requested for a while and we are happy to be able to push this feature live today).
And for our many Feedburner users, your burned feeds will continue to give you the industry leading analytics and metrics for which Feedburner is known. If you have your Feedburner feed handy, drop on in to the ExpressWidgets process now and add your blog to our gallery to get some free exposure.
Talking about exposure… We’ve also added in a few familiar buttons on the display pages for your widget. Anyone can now Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and otherwise bookmark your widget directly from the widget view in the gallery – guaranteed to lead to at least a couple of hundred eyeballs on your content ;-)
Go get’em tiger! Read More
Today we’ve launched our ExpressWidgets service…
http://springwidgets.com/express/getFeed/
Up until now you could use our RSS Reader Widget to brand and add a blog to your site or desktop, but you could not add that finished blog widget to our gallery so that other people could find it and share it.
Today we changed all that!!!
As of right now you can use our ExpressWidgets process to create your own uniquely-branded Widget(s) and have those widgets instantly added to our gallery just like any other widget. Build as many as you want and add them to our growing gallery of blogs and desktop Widgets so other users can embed, pass along and bring them to the desktop.
It’s pretty cool. We “expressed” the RSS Reader first. We think it’s the easiest build process for you to quickly syndicate and distribute your blog or audio and video podcast content. Best of all, you can uniquely brand your ExpressWidget to match your website or blog, making it a truly one-of-a-kind Widget out in the WidgetSphere.
To make sure that the end product is as good as it can be, we've added a new way to customize an Express RSS Reader - you can now skin the "chrome" around the content so that it better matches your blog or site. (This is a feature that has been requested for a while and we are happy to be able to push this feature live today).
And for our many Feedburner users, your burned feeds will continue to give you the industry leading analytics and metrics for which Feedburner is known. If you have your Feedburner feed handy, drop on in to the ExpressWidgets process now and add your blog to our gallery to get some free exposure.
Talking about exposure… We’ve also added in a few familiar buttons on the display pages for your widget. Anyone can now Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and otherwise bookmark your widget directly from the widget view in the gallery – guaranteed to lead to at least a couple of hundred eyeballs on your content ;-)
Go get’em tiger! Read More
SimplyHired "job search" widget launched Monday
SimplyHired released a widget on SpringWidgets this Monday (2/5/07) - a SimplyHired "job search" widget!!!!! More will be announced "officially", but wanted everyone that might drop by the blog to know they should go grab the widget and put it on their page or pop it into the desktop launchpad.
http://springwidgets.com/simplyhired
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http://springwidgets.com/simplyhired
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RSS advertising with Bidvertiser
RSS advertising with Bidvertiser
There are already several options for RSS advertising but Bidvertiser has decided to enter the market and offer publishers the opportunity to sell advertising in their RSS feeds. Of course this also means advertisers will also be able to buy ads in RSS feeds.
Advertising with RSS
With the much larger subscriber numbers for RSS feeds it has become more viable for advertising to appear within an RSS feed. An ad in an RSS feed means that the ad will only appear in the feed rather than on the site.
As RSS subscribers tend to be more interested in the content the ads could be more effective if targeted correctly. Bidvertisers feed advertising program is in public beta and offers RSS advertising and allows RSS publishers to sell RSS ads. It will be interesting to see how it progresses compared the Feedvertiser program.
This post is from the Newsniche website and should not be reproduced elsewhere. Why not subscribe to the RSS feed and get this information delivered straight to your News reader.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Kazaa Acceleration Patch 4.6.6
Kazaa Acceleration Patch 4.6.6
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Countdown to DEAD SILENCE - the movie!
Countdown to DEAD SILENCE - the movie!
How creepy is this widget?!!!!
--His eyes move when your cursor is idle,
--his eyes follow your cursor when your cursor is close to his face, and
--CLICK ON HIS HEAD!!!!! IT BOBBLES!!!!!
CREEPY!!!!
See the widget on the Dead Silence movie page inside MySpace at:
www.myspace.com/deadsilencemovie
How creepy is this widget?!!!!
--His eyes move when your cursor is idle,
--his eyes follow your cursor when your cursor is close to his face, and
--CLICK ON HIS HEAD!!!!! IT BOBBLES!!!!!
CREEPY!!!!
See the widget on the Dead Silence movie page inside MySpace at:
www.myspace.com/deadsilencemovie
Kaspersky Virus Removal Tool 7.0.0.242 [20.09.2008]
His Compass Bible Search
This Widget allows you to search the Bible using His Compass Bible Search from His Compass Ministry Read More
His Compass Bible Search
His Compass Bible Search
This Widget allows you to search the Bible using His Compass Bible Search from His Compass Ministry
This Widget allows you to search the Bible using His Compass Bible Search from His Compass Ministry
Attend a WordCamp and Meet Your WordPress Family
Last year at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, I got a chance to meet up with my long time online buddy and WordPress guru, Andy Skelton. Living on the road myself, I was thrilled when Andy announced he was riding his motorcycle to WordCamp - but not from Texas to San Francisco. He road from [...]
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Last year at WordCamp 2007 in San Francisco, I got a chance to meet up with my long time online buddy and WordPress guru, Andy Skelton. Living on the road myself, I was thrilled when Andy announced he was riding his motorcycle to WordCamp - but not from Texas to San Francisco. He road from Texas to the East Coast of the United States and then across it to San Francisco then back to Texas.
I traced much of his travels in the WordPress Wednesday news reports on the Blog Herald as he made his way through all kinds of terrain and weather that very hot summer.
I drove from Oregon to San Francisco in my father’s old Class C motor home to get to WordCamp 2007. So both of us crossed a few miles to get to our first in-person meeting, sleeping when and wherever we could along the way.
When he arrived in San Francisco, we had a joyous meeting and he even escorted me back to where I was staying in San Francisco. Donncha O’Caoimh caught the momentous occasion on Andy’s new bright red Gold Wing motorcycle and uploaded the image to flickr - and I couldn’t find it. Andy finally found it for me and here it is.
Just as Andy and I traveled across the country, one of us the long way, it’s your turn. I challenge you all to attend a WordCamp event and meet an old, or new, friend.
Attend a WordCamp Event and Meet Family
I bring it to your attention because I want to share with you the special magic that is a WordCamp adventure. I will be speaking and attending some WordCamps over the next few months, including WordCamp Portland, Oregon, on September 27, 2008, Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii on Oct 24, 2008, WordCamp Israel (hopefully), and WordCamp Las Vegas 2009, in Las Vegas, Nevada, January 10-11, 2009.
I urge you all to be a part of a WordCamp experience. It doesn’t matter if you just attend or you are part of the team that brings a WordCamp to your area.
WordCamp is a chance to meet other WordPress and blog enthusiasts, but also a chance to learn more about WordPress and how others are using WordPress for their blogs and CMS sites. It’s a chance to meet WordPress developers, experts, and Plugin and Theme authors. It’s a chance to learn how to push WordPress to the limit and find out what’s hot on the WordPress horizon.
Most importantly, it is great fun. It’s a chance to leave the virtual world behind and get real, honest hugs and face-to-face meetings with creative and innovative folks who understand the power behind a blog is not just WordPress but the blogger and their hard work.
I’ve been to many WordCamps over the past year and a half. I attend and speak at a lot of conferences on blogging, social media, web technology, and education every year, and I look forward most to WordCamp events. No one is selling me anything, there is no pressure, no force, no stress. It’s like a reunion without the old politics and back biting history. It’s relaxing, education, but most of all friendly. The WordPress Community is the best.
I’ve started contributing to the The WordCamp Report on WordCamp news and events, and we’re looking for WordCamp attendees to live blog or report on the WordCamp events they are attending. If you are interested, email me or use the WordCamp Report Contact Page.
You can learn more about WordCamps near you at WordCamp Central, The WordCamp Report, and my weekly WordPress Wednesday News on the Blog Herald.
Here are a listing of upcoming WordCamps and blog events:
- WordCamp Philippines - September 6, 2008
- The Boston WordPress September Meetup - September 18, 2008
- Blog World Expo, Vegas - September 20-21, 2008
- WordCamp China - Beijing and Shanghai - September 20-21, 2008
- WordCamp Tokyo 2008 - Tokyo, Japan - September 23, 2008
- WordCamp Utah - Provo, Utah - September 27, 2008
- WordCamp Birmingham - Alabama - September 27, 2008
- WordCamp Portland, Oregon - September 27, 2008
- WordCamp Vancouver 2008 - Canada - September 27th, 2008
- The Dallas/Ft. Worth Area WordPress September Meetup - September 27, 2008
- WordCamp RDU - Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina - Oct 4, 2008
- WordCamp New York - New York - October 5, 2008
- WordCamp Toronto - October 4-5, 2008
- WordCamp Bangkok 2008 - Bangkok, Thailand - October 19, 2008
- Podcamp and WordCamp Hawaii - Oct 24, 2008
- MinneWordCamp - Minneapolis - November 15, 2008
- WordCamp Australia - Sydney - November 29-30, 2008
- WordCamp Las Vegas 2009 - Las Vegas, Nevada - January 10-11, 2009
Upcoming WordCamps not scheduled or confirmed:
- Wordcamp Ed(ucation) Twitter for Educators using WordPress
- WordCamp Israel
- WordCamp Washington D.C. 2008
- WordCamp Denver 2008
Attend, volunteer, sponsor, speak, or allow someone to sleep over who is attending - be a part of a WordCamp near you or fly to one anywhere in the world. You will be welcome. As a WordPress fan, you are part of something bigger than WordPress. You are part of the WordPress Community family.
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