Read it Later – Digest

Mar 10

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I don’t know about you, but when I am online, specifically when I am on Twitter I see numerous links every day to articles or blog posts or just sites and services that I want to check out, and usually I don’t have time to look at them. So I have become an avid user of the Read it Later service.  But it is just about to get better!

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Can Bookmarks be Sexy?

Sep 05

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I don’t know about you, but I have seen quite a lot of sites recently using little pop-up icons to represent the different ’social-sharing’ services, allowing people to let others quickly know how much they enjoyed the post they have just read (hopefully).

I have been using the great ShareThis service which I thought was nice looking, iconic and subtle. You do not see anything until you click on the nice green ShareThis icon.  However, this does mean you have to click on the icon, assuming that you know what it might do I suppose.

I did wonder how these other bloggers had got these little icons on their posts that popped up when you hover the mouse over them.  So, on one site, I viewed the source for the page and found a reference to SexyBookmarks.  Checking out the site I found it was another free (or donationware) WordPress plugin, giving you quite a few options for which services to include icons for. Nice!

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