Sunday, November 25, 2007

Amaztype

Amaztype. http://amaztype.tha.jp/


This program is tied into Amazon/books/titles.
When you type in a name or word, the program goes out to find book titles with that name or word in it. You will have many hours of play ahead of you when you start this site.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Feedburner.com

Feedburner.com www.feedburner.com

Do you need a way to publicize your blog or just make it easy for friends to get updates? Then you must set up a rss feed for ease.

What an easy way to get your information out to others interested in the same things.

Feedburner provides an unstyled view of your feed, complete with any visible modifications introduced by FeedBurner services. (It doesn't include any Browser-Friendly styling because that only works with certain browsers; click your feed address above to try it out.)

Snapshots

Snapshots http://www.snap.com/snapshots.php

Snapshots elables your viewers to see what the links contains. In a popup window you will see a mini preview of the url.
Add a Snap Shots Badge
By adding a Snap Shots Badge to your site, you let anyone visiting know that there is nothing ordinary about your site.

Blogs - How to basics

Blogs/Wikis and other unknowns
1. Sign up for Gmail (Blogger/Voki/feedburner based on gmail)
and Yahoo (Flickr) accounts
www.Flickr.com
Choose a name for your blog
You can have several blogs with one gmail account
2. Create blog on www.blogger.com (based upon a gmail account)
http:www.Blogger.com
3. Go into customize and choose a template.
4. Add graphic in Blog header (include information about blog)
Size: 144 pixels x 720 pixels
5. Add new page elements to your blog (such as links to other websites)
see example on virtual montage blog
This is the place where you can link to other sites you are interested in or what others to know about.
6. Access gmail account in a different tab and go to get a VOKI
www.voki.com
Copy/past code into the box supplied.
(first choose edit for the author box in upper right)
Check out your new addition to the blog.
7. Next create a new post (You must be signed into your gmail account)
Go to new post (top right corner of screen) or
Go to settings under customize
It is also possible to edit posts once they are published.
8. Add Snapshots to make links have a preview (http://www.snap.com/about/shots.php )
9. Establish an RSS feed for your site. www.feedburner.com (free) link to your site(s)