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April 23, 2007

Roundup : Trailfire Groups, Snap Shots, mowser, deliciousTags2OPML, iceflake, findmeon, 8hands

Filed under: tools, roundup

Trailfire Groups - Trailfire is a way to annotate the web and create a hyperlink trail…they have now added a group feature (your trail is limited to a private or public group), wiki trails (communal editing trails), and a contacts network [via Mashable]

Snap Shots - Snap Preview Anywhere has been extended to more specific displays; a wikipedia or Amazon link will display that content excerpt instead of just a preview image of the website; a media URL will display a photo slideshow, play a video or audio clip, see the gallery.
I wonder if someone can develop a SnapShot Grazr mashup, so when you hover over an RSS or OPML URL you can graze away…I think Clever Clogs is tinkering on this one.

mowser - bookmark this website on your phone and surf the mobile friendly web [via WW]

deliciousTags2OPML - enter your del.icio.us username and ask to show tags that have a certain number of bookmarks and above. It generates an OPML code, I had to copy it in notepad and save it as test.txt.xml. Then I uploaded it to Grazr to host the file…then simply graze the feed content of your del.icio.us tags.

iceflake and findmeon - these are both meta-identity services, see Tabber, LinkMyBox, Profilefly, Loopster, Spock, iStalkr, OtherEgo, Zoolit, ShowYourself, Streakr, SocialURL, SocialGrapes, pidy, Pipl, Wink, Mugshot, Profilactic, UpScoop, SocialNetwork.In, ProfileLinker, Ziki, Lijit, and the rest.

8hands - another meta-identity service, but you download this one, and you can IM with other 8hands users. [via mashable]

The many ways to post to your blog

Filed under: blogs, tools

There’s no excuse to not publish blog posts, you can do it from anywhere using various web tools!

BOOKMARKLET
Wordpress (Press It)

ONLINE OFFICE
Google Docs

MSWORD
Blogger

TOOLBAR
Blogger (Blog This)

RSS READER
Google Reader (Blog This)
…no longer available, but I’m sure lots of RSS Readers have this feature.

BLOG POST or RSS ITEM
If a blog feed has Feedburner flare you can post to your blog from someone else’s blog post or from an item in your RSS Reader, eg. Blog This (Blogger)

BLOGGING CLIENT
Desktop - Qumana
Web based - WriteToMyBlog

EMAIL
Blogmailr
…most blogging platforms have this feature anyway.

BROWSER EXTENSTION (right-click)
JustBlogIt

BROWSER SIDEBAR
Wordpress.com sidebar
…I have a bookmarklet that opens a sidebar in Internet Explorer (can’t find a reference to it on the web)

STARTPAGE
Quick Blog (Blogger)

IM
Imified

NOTE: Sabifoo doesn’t qualify as you would have to splice this feed into your blog feed.

SMS
LetMeParty

VOICE/PHONE
SpinmyBlog, by Spinvox, is a service where you can phone and leave a voicemail which will convert to text and publish to your blog.
If you promote your Spinvox number on your blog, people can ring up and leave voice comments that get converted to text.

[ADDED 02/05/07: Jott - link a Jott to a blog post…also using Egorcast]

[ADDED 02/06/07: Speakageline - post audio or video bytes from your phone, these would be podcast blog entries if your feed is podcast enabled.]

[ADDED 24/09/07: Utters - SMS or phone a blog post…now with AutoPost]

[ADDED 05/11/07: Springdoo]

API/PLUG-IN
Include content from elsewhere automatically to your blog
eg. your del.icio.us links, or Twitter posts.
[ADDED 12/07/07: xFruits RSS to blog]

MODIFY TIMESTAMP
Publish a post that has a future date, the post will magically publish in the future

What about publishing a blog post using a telegraph…see the hack to generate feeds!

Related:
The various ways visitors can communicate with blog owners
Get blog updates on your mobile phone (IM, email, SMS, audio, web)

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