tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45127782083172297862012-01-25T06:22:32.403-08:00Marius Hanganunoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4512778208317229786.post-21172090587869783372007-05-08T02:08:00.000-07:002007-05-08T02:18:27.477-07:00

The overhauled Scribd (as GigaOM puts it) is something close to YouTube for documents. It's really easy to embed a document in your pages using Scribd.Take a look at how the following document looks like embedded in a page: Similar to YouTube, Scribd uses flash as base technology for rendering documents. Here's how the embedded code looks like:<object width="500" height="200"><param name="

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Sitemeter is a fair web analytics tool. Not as cool as Google Analytics, but it does provide things like public statistics where users can see the number of visitors for your website. They actually started as a web counter, migrating towards a web analytics tool afterwards.If you wish to track number of visitors for your website and make it public, as well as use other services of SiteMeter (keep

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MyBlogLog provides some nice services for bloggers, like the list of recent readers you often see in some sites. I'm not particularly a big fan of MyBlogLog especially due to the design of their website, but for those who wish to join this community, here's how you can do it:First of all, you need to have an account on MyBlogLog. After creating an account, go to My Home page inside your account

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The guys at ProgrammableWeb mention the Amazon wishlist widget. If you wish to personalize your page and add your book preferences, this one may help you.Although the original page gives you the option of embedding the widget only in Google pages, you can extract the script and embed it in sites other than Google.Here's how the embedded widget looks like:And here's the source code:<script src="

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Google Docs and Spreadsheets provides a lot of sharing options for your spreadsheets. In this page, they explain how you can embed your spreadsheet inside your website.Here's how a sample spreadsheet looks like:And here's the generated code:<iframe width='500' height='' frameborder='0'src='http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pPwo7--7PfjIRdqjkoYfiIQ&output=html&widget=true'></iframe>They also

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Techcrunch blogs about GodTube, a video sharing website for christians. As any serious video sharing website, you can embed videos from GodTube:

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Picasa is a great tool allowing you amongst others, integration of slideshow previews. Unfortunately, they don't provide also a single piece of HTML code that you could easily copy and embed it in your site.What you can do after creating your album, is to embed the link to the page that displays the slideshow in an iframe, as presented below:Here's how the embedded slideshow looks like:To get the

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Google provides some nice widgets in Blogger. They have to, since typepad and other blogging platforms are far more rich in widgets than Blogger :-). However, widgets provided inside Blogger are not available to other platforms, like WordPress or any other custom pages.That's why I did a little hacking and extract the essentials needed to embed widgets like Newsreel in pages/sites built on top of

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You don't like the blogger toolbar and don't know how to get rid of it? Here's a small script I wrote that helps you do that:<script>$_$=function() {var $a = document.getElementById("navbar");if($a){$a.style.width = "0px";$a.style.height = "0px";$a.style.display = "none";}window.setTimeout("$_$()", 100);};$_$();</script>Just embed this small javascript inside your blogger template. A good place

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Snap Preview Anywhere is being used by at least half of the bloggers around the world. To embed it into your blog, go to http://www.snap.com/about/spa.php and follow their wizard. The final result of the wizard will be a script you'll have to include inside your blog template, or inside the HTML for your page.Here's how the code looks like:<script defer="defer" id="snap_preview_anywhere" type="

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If you wish to embed a public calendar in your blog, 30boxes is a good solution. They support integration with blogger, webshots, flickr, wordpress, twitter and any other RSS feeds. I wouldn't put all my 100 RSS newsfeeds inside, since the calendar is not built as a newsfeed reader.However, if you want to share a calendar with everyone, it's really simple. Just click on the "Share" button and

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AdSense Decorator is a cute product allowing customization of Google ads on your website. It's probably a bit too heavy for what it does since nowadays we see much more complex web tools, but it does its job. Here's a screenshot with one of their default templates:

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Zoho sheet is another great product from Zoho that can generate spreadsheets embeddable in your blog or your website. Just create your spreadsheet and click on the "Publish" menu, where you will find the option "Embed in Website/Blog". From there, after agreeing on making the spreadsheet public, you can copy the HTML and paste it in your website.Here is how the embedded Zoho spreadsheet looks

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Zoho launched some time ago the Zoho Show service, allowing creation of web based Powerpoint like presentations. Embedding such a presentation in your page is really simple. Once you logged in your account at Zoho, create your presentation and then go to "Actions" menu and choose embed slideshow. From there, pick up the HTML code and simply paste it in your site.Here is the code for one sample

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Webshots allows you to embed photos in your website. Just click on the image and you'll find underneath the image, the rightmost link called "Publish photos". From there, you can pick the text underneath the entry called "post in your blog or website"Here's how the code looks like:<a href="http://travel.webshots.com/photo/1473029048062137079hwjNxv"><img src="http://thumb19.webshots.net/t/62/162/2

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DailyMotion - another great video sharing site. Embedding videos from DailyMotion is just as simple as YouTube. Underneath the video you'll find the "Embeddable Player" entry from which you can copy and then paste on your site the HTML code for that video.<div><object width="425" height="335"><param name="movie" value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/7i1Ui4np0BFDmag0l"></param><param name="

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Looking to embed videos from Metacafe? Here's how: on the page of the video on Metacafe, look underneath the video for the "Blog/Embed player".Here's how the code looks like:<embed src="http://www.metacafe.com/fplayer/496348/amazing_dance.swf" width="400" height="345" wmode="transparent" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed><br><

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Everyone knows how to embed YouTube videos in their website. We're taking a quick look today at how it's done.Basically, for each video you found on YouTube for which you want to embed it in your blog or your website, look for the "Embed" entry in the right part of the video. There you'll find a string similar to <object width="425" height="350"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v

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Embedding flash games in your site is just as simple as embedding youtube videos. Take the absolute location of the swf file and write the following code, making sure that the src attribute for the embed tag is replaced with the URL to the swf file.Here's the code:<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/

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www.box.net allows embedding of custom created widget in your pages. Here's how the embedded widget looks like:The code for embedding box.net is here:<embed src='http://www.box.net/static/flash/widget_player.swf' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' FlashVars='subString=folderId=konguisj9s,color=000000,title=My shared files' scale='noscale' wmode='transparent' width='289' height='258'></embed>The

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Google Reader is my favorite news reader. You can embed the news in your page either by importing the shared items in your page. Here's how it looks:and here is the code for it:<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/reader/ui/publisher.js"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/reader/public/javascript/user/06940223543497213265/state/com.google/

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Friends.imagini.net have created a cool people profiler.Here's how you can embed it in your blog: just paste the following code in your page:<embed allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" enableJavaScript="false" src="http://dna.imagini.net/friends/swf/widget.swf" quality="best" bgcolor="#000000" width="340" height="240" name="widget" align="middle" type="application/

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