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Golden Globes Awards 2010 live stream widget from gigya

January 11th, 2010

The 2010 Golden Globe Awards happen on Jan 17th at 8et-5pt on NBC.

There are a week of shows leading up to the actual award ceremony and all these shows appear in this widget.

This widget is a great way to draw in readers to view the show and possibly have a chat widget on site to interact with your readers while they view the awards.

You can embed this widget in two different sizes. 400 X 530 and 900 X 600 (get embed code here)

It appears as though you can add this widget to your Facebook pages as well. Or here as well.

press release:

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA), NBC and dick clark productions (dcp) have developed “Golden Globes Week”; an online experience featuring exclusive preview content in support of the upcoming “67th Annual Golden Globe Awards” airing live in all time zones on NBC, January 17, 2010 at 8pm ET / 5pm PT. The “Golden Globes Week” series will stream on NBC.com, Facebook.com/Celebs, Ustream and other partner sites through the official widget. The full week of previews will kickoff “Golden Globes Week” beginning Monday, January 11th. The widget can be downloaded at http://www.nbc.com/goldenglobesallaccess and http://dickclark.com/globes.

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Flashlightworthybooks book list widget

January 11th, 2010

flashlightworthybooks.com is a site dedicated to taming the book information overload delivered by Amazon. They want you to have quick access to the best books available.

Amazon sells every book in print, but the choice can be overwhelming. Flashlight Worthy is here to help:
…Flashlight Worthy is nothing but thoughtful, hand-picked recommendations…
Organized into hundreds of useful, interesting, fun lists…
And all we do is books.

One of the tools they have created to help with sharing the best books is the “book list” widget. Each link in the widget takes you to a page on the Flashlightworthy web site where you get to see all of the books in that particular list. Each book has a description and is linked to the corresponding Amazon.com page, should you decide to purchase. The widget can be added to any webpage via simple copy and paste.

To get your Book List widget: http://www.flashlightworthybooks.com/forbloggers.php

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Tags: books

Virtual Language Website Translation Tool

January 10th, 2010

As more and more people across the globe get Internet access, the value of website translation increases exponentially. If you don’t offer quality translation of your website, you are closing the door to millions of potential visitors/customers.

Virtual Language Website Translation Tool from Virtual-Language.org is a simple widget that you can add to your website, that when clicked, will present the user with a list of over 50 languages that you can have the website translated into. Each language option has a country flag associated with it for easy identification.

Virtual-Language.org uses Google Translate for its translation widget.

There are 24 translate button styles available to choose from.

The Virtual Language Website Translation Tool is a free resource that will open your website or blog to a whole world of visitors. Choose between our basic Translation button or the Translator button with visitor stats, which will provide you with valuable data to help you analyze traffic and improve your website’s performance with multilingual visitors. Both versions are free, and easy to install.

Virtual-Language.org also offers a Translator button with visitor stats. (this service requires FREE account creation)

http://www.virtual-language.org/

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ScribbleLive iPhone app available in App Store

January 8th, 2010

ScribbleLive, the really cool “Live Publishing Platform” thats being used to blog live, minute by minute details of events such as CES 2010 as well as NBA & NHL games, has announced the availability of the ScribbleLive iPhone App.

ScribbleLive says:

ScribbleLive Mobile allows the next generation of journalists and livebloggers to publish real-time news and content. Live publishing is a snap anywhere you are: just log in, create an event and invite audiences to participate. All your content will appear on your website instantly.

Key features:

* Works with Free and Enterprise clients
* Post text, links, images, audio, and video instantly
* Publishes the content in real-time to your website
* Great for breaking news and event coverage
* Moderate comments as they come in
* Share your event and posts via email or Twitter
* Watch events from around the world

A bit about the ScribbleLive embed:
Click over to CrunchGear CES 2010 to see an example of ScribbleLive embed. There you’ll be able to see the interactive options available at the bottom of the embed window.
You are able to choose between 3 sound notifications (and mute). Also available are font size settings and the ability to toggle comments on or off.
The really cool feature that stands out is the ability to automatically translate the content within the embed itself. 20 languages are available.

Opinion:
If you are looking for an easy to implement solution for Live Remote Blog Posting that includes social integration via Twitter, live interaction and comment moderation…and a FREE option. Look no further than ScribbleLive.com