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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How much does Twitter mean to you?

Aug 07

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I am sure that hundreds, if not thousands, of other bloggers have gone in to the merit of Twitter, and how it can be used in every day life, work, etc. So what I wanted to say, fairly quickly, is how much it means to me.

What has caused a lot of the twitterers, tweeps, tweeple or whatever we should respectfully call a collection of Twitter users, shudder and evaluate the importance of the service to them, is the Denial of Service (DoS) attack on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, and which they continue to fight at this moment (some API features are still broken apparently).

My first thought “Twitter is down, I must tell people. Oh no, I can’t tweet, Twitter is down! Now what do I do?”. I felt a bit helpless so I Googled it, obviously, then blogged about it yesterday, even though this is a brand new blog, and I am the only one reading it…

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