http://play.blogger.com/ is really addictive. It’s a slideshow of pictures that are currently uploading to blogger. I remember the first time I realized that the nightly TV news would never play re-runs; if you missed the show that night, you wouldn’t see it again. This new feature has the similar feel: there’s a river of pictures flowing up to Blogger, and if you aren’t watching, you might miss gems.
Googlified points out that if you use blogspot.com and don’t want to participate, it’s easy to opt out, and also that Flickr has something similar. The Flickr slideshow has a lot to recommend it, including a row of thumbnail previews at the bottom and the ability to choose tags to view. On the fastest setting of each, Play shows photos 3-4x faster than Flickr’s slideshow, but they’re both cool.
The only downside I’ve noticed is that (at least on my XP machine using Firefox) […]
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Here’s a roundup of photos from day two of Search Engine Strategies London 2008:
Anne Kennedy and Bryan Eisenberg
Jim Sterne and Andy Beal
Audience
Massimo does his magic as Amanda looks on
Competitive Intelligence panel
Blog SEO session
Lisa Ditlefsen and Rob Kerry
Chris Leggett and Jon Meyers
Post conference activities
And here’s a day SES London day one wrap up video from Incisive:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz-pvMDv-to
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One of the things that makes me happy is when people email or come up to me at a conference and say “hey I read your blog about so and so went and tried it on my site and it worked great”, it gives me that warm fuzzy pay it forward feeling. It mekes me even happier when someone takes one of my ideas, runs with it, and then gives back sharing with the community. A few weeks ago I made a suggestions on how to improve the Yahoo plugin. Markus took the ball and came up with the Photo Dropper Plugin.
Basically upload, activate and set your options to search for CC licensed photos that are ok to use commercially and you’re good to go …
Need a picture of a wedding dress
photo credit: Tavallai
Need a picture of a beach on hawaii
photo credit: juanma.
a 55 chevy
photo credit: […]
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On day one of SES London I was able to catch up with Google Search Evangelist Adam Lasnik to do a short (10 min) video on several topics important to web masters looking for better results on Google. Adam starts with a descrption of his responsibilities at Google and then answers questions about Google compliant Flash and JavaScript, duplicate content - especially with press releases and suggested uses of internal site nofollow other than for “PageRank sculpting”.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1830519162896248638
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