You know them…the little green buttons found near the bottom of many thousands of blog posts across the Internet.
Well, Share This has gone social. Create a ShareThis account and now you can tune into what is being shared in real-time across the net.
Check out the ShareThis Stream page to see what they are talking about.
…did you notice that they mentioned a widget in the video?
The widget is still in “invite only” beta. You’ll have to sign up at http://sharethis.com/publishers/stream
I’m sure you have heard of SoundCloud by now. Its the perfect music sharing service without the “Eye Patch”.
This video explains SoundCloud perfectly. (I love her voice!)
SoundCloud: The Tour from SoundCloud on Vimeo.
SoundCloud has some pretty cool widgets available.
Just like the name. It is a bare bones, playable music link. There are also options available to “short code” add this to WordPress.
This widget is more suited to the blog sidebar. The widget offers links to info, sharing and ability to purchase tracks. There are volume controls and simple song stats as well.
This here is the showcase of the SoundCloud widgets. All the features of the “Expressionist” widget above, plus the ability to comment at any point on the track, right in the widget. I put an image in place, but I am also putting the live widget below so you can try it out and see.
You want to go and see SoundCloud widgets!
What is BackType:
BackType is a real-time, conversational search engine. We index and connect millions of conversations from blogs, social networks and other social media so you can find out what people are saying about the topics that interest you. BackType was founded in June, 2008.
tweetcount widget:
The above widget uses the BackType API to help track the tweets about your posts and allows readers to “ReTweet” your post on Twitter.
This is really a simple and easy way to integrate Twitter functionality directly into your blog’s content.
For WordPress users there is the TweetCount plugin. There appears to be no difference between the JavaScript widget and the WordPress plugin.
Add related content via the BackType Comments Search Widget.
This widget displays search results – show off what people are saying about you, your company, your products, etc with this widget. Simply paste this HTML snippet where you would like the widget to appear and replace “SEARCH_TERM” with the term you would like to display results for:
In this case, I added the search term “widgets”.
also available:
My Comments–Display your comments and profile information.
My Blogroll–Show a list of sites you comment on most.
(both require a FREE account with BackType)
Tinychat says:
With Tinychat, you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site, and many other portals. You can even invite people through email and twitter. Try it, we’re sure you’ll like it!
Check out Tinychat here
There are many Social Digital Document services around that let you upload document files and then give them you out to embed. but having more options is always a good thing. Docuter is a excellent option to the already known digital document services. the important thing about Docuter is that it is focused on being a application first and a social service second .thanks to that, it supports the insane amount of 200 document formats. more than any other service out there and that is what makes this service stand out and the reason i am writing about it and you need to give it a try.
I didn’t saw any use of a high spread sharing module. something that could certainly make the service even better. since it focuses more on the application than in the social features. there is not a well rounded and well developed social network behind the service but that should evolve as the services grows.
The document viewer with the service is flash based, it got a good full screen support and you can of course embed it everywhere. the viewer is simple but one good thing is that i found it to be lighter than others i have seen and that is a very good thing. the secret looks to be a mixture of ajax with flash since the viewer points to AjaxDocumentViewer.com as the base for its tech. i look forwards to seeing it evolve and catch up with the likes of iPaper and issuu.
The service is free and the only thing they are asking you its that you need an account since they don’t allow for public upload, but beyond that you could not ask for something simpler.
Digital Documents services surged in 2008 and i think that they could very well reach a mainstream status in 2009 as its use is exploding dramatically as people want to do more than just be able to share them in file form. they want to have the living in the web and this is the way to go.
After trying it out i can recommend Docuter to anyone that has to handle lots of documents around as part of their job or as part of their personal use. it may not be known but it sure its good.
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