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del.icio.us hacks

There are lots of good del.icio.us hacks here. My favorites are bookmarklets. Below are two that I have tweaked a bit for speed and flexibility.

Post with current selection as description:
post to del.icio.us

Post with 'read_later' and 'toread' tags:
read later

del.icio.us A-to-Z by Platforms : All 150+ hacks categorized : eConsultant

Have your Flash and SEO it too

"Search engine optimization is one of the most popular subjects when nerds sit around and talk about Flash. “Does Google index your swf files?” seems to be the most popular question, usually garnering plenty of ‘yes‘ and ‘no’ and ‘maybe’ answers. The real answer to this question, once and for all, is this:"

deconcept > A modern approach to Flash SEO

This is a great article on Flash and Search Engine Optimization. It really opened my eyes to the feasibility of using flash for a content rich site.

del.icio.us and jeteye

I am constantly finding new web sites that relate to a topic I am interested in or researching. I used to just create bookmarks for everything and try to categorize with folders. This proved to be a real pain, and I ended up losing too many good sites in my bookmark list because I just could remember the site name.

I have found two solutions: del.icio.us and jeteye

del.icio.us is great for adding tags and a little note to a site very quick. This process barely interrupts your browsing experience. Here's the process I prefer:

Add quick access buttons to your browser of choice.
When you find a site you want to remember click on the "post to del.icio.us" button.

This will send you temporarily to you del.icio.us account. Add your own tags or select tags that others used for this site. You can also at a note if you want to remind yourself of why you tagged this site.

Click Save and del.icio.us will save this tagged site to your account and immediately return you to the original site.

jeteye does a bit more but is much more intrusive. In jeteye you can create a jetpak for any topic and then add a description, related URLs, images, notes, and other jetpaks. This is really great for more extensive web research, but isn't as quick. jeteye does provide a Firefox extension that adds a large sidebar to the browser. The nice thing is that you can just drag items into the sidebar and they are automatically added to you current jetpak.

For now I still prefer the del.icio.us solution, but I'm continuing to experiment with both.

Rovion - Bring your web site to life!

Have you ever wished you could just talk to you customers and let them know why your product or company is so special. Well, now you can. Right on the web. Yeah, it's video....but way cooler.

How do you Get your 'Lomo' Effect?

Flickr: faux lomo

There is a Gorup on Flickr dedicated to the Lomo Effect. BUT, there are rules.

Rule #1 - You can't use a Lomo Camera. It has to be all digital manipulation.

It is great to see that the nitorix scripts are listed as a favorite.

Google Zeitgeist '05

The Google Zeitgeist is a great summary of 2005.

Flock Launches

Firefox-based Social Browser Flock Launches: "daria42 writes 'The much-hyped Flock, a new browser based on Mozilla Firefox and integrating features like RSS feeds, blogging tools, the del.icio.us social bookmarking and Flickr photo sharing services has just launched a public developer preview to the world. Flock is being driven by a team of developers being led by Bart Decrem, a well-known open source developer who co-founded the ill-fated Eazel project back in 1999 and has been involved with both the Mozilla and GNOME foundations. On his blog this week he says Flock won't be forking the Firefox codebase.'"

I bit and tried Flock out. Very interesting. The 1.0 version which looks like it is based on the Firefox 1.5b is very stable as a browser. The other new features (blogging, flickr integration, rss, etc.) are pretty far along but a bit buggy. Flock has serious potential and the 1.0 version just might pull me over from Firefox (oh wait it is Firefox...perfect!). I really like the integrated blogging and del.icio.us support.