NORAD tracks Santa 2009. Follow Santa’s progress across the globe this Christmas.
Santa’s progress through India
Now he is passing The Great Wall of China
Go to http://www.noradsanta.org/en/video.html to see all the Santa tracking footage.
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Yesterday, ReadWriteWeb broke news that MyBlogLog is slated for the Yahoo! chopping block in January 2010. Aggravating to say the least!
MyBlogLog and WidgetsLab.
I believe WidgetsLab is one of the only widget based blogs to still be displaying the MyBlogLog visitors widget. The visitor widget has spent time in the footer (highly customized) and in the sidebar where it currently resides. It has been on WidgetsLab since late 2006 and has outlasted many, many other widgets.
Marshall Kirkpatrick says:
Five years to the month after it was founded, cross-blog social networking widget MyBlogLog will be closed down by Yahoo! in January, we’re hearing from sources close to the project. MyBlogLog is a service that shows blog writers and readers the faces and profile information of other MyBlogLog users that visit their sites….
…Yahoo! has let the service atrophy for years and will now put it to rest. To think that this service offered publishers and developers access to personal, demographic, taste and activity data of a website’s readers – and yet that offering has in the end gone no where – that’s downright crazy.
View entire story at ReadWriteWeb.com
Wait…there’s more!
This comes from the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog
Yesterday, rumors surfaced around Yahoo!’s imminent shutdown of its MyBlogLog service. Frankly, it’s no secret within Yahoo! that we’re actively discussing the future of MyBlogLog. However, it’s also true that we have not made any final decisions at this point. Is a shutdown on the table? Sure, that’s an option. But there are other options as well. We know this creates some uncertainty for current MyBlogLog users. While we aren’t quite ready to share more details, we promise to keep you posted.
Chris Yeh, Head of YDN
Scott Rafer, one of the MyBlogLog co-founders commented on the ReadWriteWeb story:
I would like to draw your attention to this portion of Scott’s comment:
The various MBL alumni are figuring out how to bring out helpful new publisher services. News on the first project that should see the light of day will appear @hearttheweb in January.
What is Heart The Web?
hearttheweb.com
http://twitter.com/hearttheweb
Cyclur.com offers a fully customizable widget for displaying any RSS feed. You can create a title for your widget and customize all the colors of the widget using a slick color chooser or inputting the color hex code of your choice. This makes it easy to blend the widget into your site so it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb.
Why use it?
Having an RSS widget on your site is an easy way to add engaging content to your page. Most likely this content will come from sources that enhance what you write about on your site. This offers your readers more information at no real cost to you.
Suggestions for the cyclur widget:
What Cyclur says:
If you need to find an effective way to implement information feeds onto your website then Cyclur is the way to get effective results. Cyclur is a free widget that allows users to customize and display RSS feeds on their site within minutes. It can display information from any RSS feed, allowing users to utilize multiple news feeds with a simple widget. It is also heavily customizable and easy to use. It is as simple as collecting the URL’s of desired RSS feeds, adjusting font colors, and copy and pasting provided code. Delivering fresh and consolidate content is a click away, get your Cyclur widget at www.cyclur.com.
Muzicons.com allows you to create a simple, single play mp3 widget that is aimed at sharing your emotion.
We wrote about Muzicons earlier and not much has changed since then. However, this is a pretty cool way to quickly add a track to your page and I wanted to revisit it again.
Set up:
Simply go to Muzicons.com, pick your emoticon (75 to choose from). Search for (or upload) your favorite mp3 track, pick a widget design, add a small title and pick a color.
At this point you can try out the preview, copy the code and paste it into your web site.
The hardest part is deciding which mp3 track to play.
There is even a bb-code for placing this widget into a forum!
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