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Slidecasting with Slideshare

February 22nd, 2010

Creating a Slidecast with Slideshare is a great way to integrate PowerPoint presentations and audio tracks. The end result is a more powerful presentation that can easily be shared multiple different ways.
Emailing this presentation couldn’t be easier. just click on the email icon at the bottom of your Slidecast, enter your name and the email address of the intended recipient and click send. There is also a handy URL provided for pasting into an IM.


http://www.slideshare.net/jboutelle/slidecasting-101

Slidecasting is a new multimedia format for viewing slide decks synchronized with an audio file. It is for conference talks, musical slideshows, audio picture books or whatever else you can imagine.

http://www.slideshare.net/faqs/slidecast

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Best Buy “Best Selling” widget for affiliates

January 13th, 2010

Found this via Twitter

The Best Buy Remix blog just announced a beta of a “Best Buy Best Selling Widget” for affiliates of Best Buy.

I have included both a working version of the widget and a screen capture. The blog post indicates that the current test of the widget would go dark at a later date. I had to scrape the code from the page source in order to display it.
In order to get the actual widget, I would have to be a Best Buy Affiliate and I noticed that they don’t seem to provide the HTML embed code. Just links to various platforms such as Blogger, WordPress, Orkut etc. are provided to incorporate this widget.


The Remix blog post also indicates that a person can check local stores (via zip code) for product availability and also initiate a purchase through the widget. (almost makes me wish I was a Best Buy affiliate.)

The widget will show by category the top 5 best-selling products in the category selected. You can also enter your zipcode to see local store availability and then click a buy link to be taken to BestBuy.com to purchase the item. Additional photos of the item are also shown.

It appears as though Nintendo currently occupies 4 of the 5 “Best Sellers” spots in the “All” category in this widget. Is this a true indication of what is really Best Buy’s top selling items? Amazingly there is no category for computers. I wonder if affiliates aren’t allowed to sell computers?

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Startups.com widget found on TechCrunch front page

January 13th, 2010


Startups.com the relatively new (Nov ‘09) startup Q&A site created by blog KillerStartups has a widget that can currently be found in the sidebar over at TechCrunch.

about Statrups.com
Startups.com aims to be the goto place for anyone with questions pertaining to starting up and operating a business. Questions range from the simple “How to add value to my blog/site?” to the more complicated “How do I get visitors to my website?”.
Questions have a decidedly “tech” related theme, but are not limited in anyway to a “tech only” type of category.
When you post a question, it is placed in a queue and users can vote it up or down. Users of the site earn “reputation” badges that indicate different things like “asking a popular question” or Question voted up 25+ times” etc. So there is an incentive to patrol the site and answer or ask questions.

about the Startups.com widget:
The widget has very few options. You can choose two width sizes, 180 px or 220 px. The 180 px option tends to cut off the meat of the questions. Rendering that size option pretty useless. You do get to include a logo of your choice, but its limited to a 30kb png. The widget has an unchangeable web2.0-esqe Baby Blue color which may or may not clash with your theme. Its also coded with JavaScript.

Back in November, TechCrunch did a writeup about Startups.com

A year ago, KillerStartups bought the killer domain name Startups.com for a few hundred thousand dollars. The company didn’t do anything with it other than redirect to the KillerStartups blog. Today, it realunched as a Q&A site for business questions.

read the entire article at: Startups.com Becomes a Q&A Site For Business Questions

Startups.com widget on TechCrunch:

I see that the Startups.com widget is being displayed on the TechCrunch front page and I have to wonder what kind of $$ that set them back. I’m 100% sure that Widgetslab (the defacto widget blog since 2006) could have been persuaded to make space at the Top of our sidebar for the Startups.com widget.

Check out the Startups.com widget

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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

Direct download of ScribbleLive iPhone App

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