By Colleen, on May 9th, 2010%
Facebook, as you may know, is attempting to own a greater share of the web by allowing you to put a facebook “like” button and other social widgets on any web page. Think what you like about Facebook, their questionable privacy, and their evil plans, but the fact remains that it is the #4 most visited website today and growing. I’ve just sort of accepted that if someone really wants to they can know pretty much everything I’ve ever done online. Meanwhile, getting Likes in lots of people’s profiles could be some some potent leverage for me.
I’m not going to reiterate the details. I’ll just link to them and/or quote them if necessary. It boils down to this: There are two ways to do a “Like” button, either insert an iframe in your site (with all the attendant ugliness of iframes), or actually enable your page and use the facebook SDK yourself.
Continue reading New Facebook “Like Button” Dorkage
By Colleen, on June 3rd, 2008%
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The body of this post is audio. You should be seeing a little player icon. One of my test computers failed to display it. If you can’t see it, leave me a comment with your OS, browser and version so we can compile some data for the plugin author. Thanks!
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By Colleen, on May 25th, 2008%
Warning: If you are not a WordPress blogger who can install your own plugins you might wish to skip this post.
Bloglines is my feed reader of choice because it’s simple and hierarchical. I’m going to show you a neat little trick I did on a wordpress blog to make a compact, organized, and best of all automatically updating blogroll. If you are a wordpresser you know that you have links, but who the heck wants to put them in one by one? What I’m going to show you is how to leverage Bloglines to do your blogroll for you.
Continue reading Put Bloglines to work for your WordPress blogroll
By Colleen, on May 17th, 2008%
What is it with me and Text-To-Speech? Just fond memories, I guess. At one time I had a TalkR widget in my Blogger blog. It had a list of all the posts and it would speak whichever one you picked. It must have worked at one time or I would have . . . → Read More: TalkR — Audio of your blog
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Dorkage’s response to Entrecard’s partnership deal with SezWho . . . → Read More: Entrecard gives bloggers all the comments they could ask for!