By the way, I noticed this the other day and neglected to blog it (I repent! I repent!), but My Web 2.0 has implemented easy to generate badges, a la Flickr badges, where you can easily syndicate your recent links onto your blog or website (for an example, peep the sidebar here). This is a really handy tool — a nice way to add value to your blog without a lot of work and without needing to know much about coding other than how to edit your template. Seriously, I want a badge for everything. Developers — can we get on that? :) It seems win-win to me — it drives traffic back to the original site (on top of being free advertising), adds value to both blogger and reader… what could go wrong? I'm sure there's something, and I'm sure someone will tell me… ;)
My Web 2.0 badges
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(Page 1)2. thanks to your nudge here i'm going to officially check out blinklist. i swear i have a browser (several, really) with toolbars full to bursting with social bookmarking posting bookmarklets. but this is the price we pay these days. ;)
also i agree with you on the yahoo integration bit -- they have integrated my web 2.0 with the news and blog search, which is cool, but i can't for the life of me figure out why no roads lead to yahoo 360. it's pulling my contacts from there, but... there's no LINK!! there's no link to yahoo 360, anywhere. hello?
on the other hand, i think yahoo is engaging in a lot of experimentation with some of these services that a company of its size isn't usually nimble or adventurous enough to attempt. i think they're trying to have it both ways -- keep the mass market users eyeballing that garish my yahoo portal and keep the web-savvy nerds shunted into the new and hot social and web 2.0 services. the big picture suffers from an integration problem, but i can see a little bit why they might want to maintain some separation btw markets there. what i don't understand is the lack of integration *among* the cool kid web two point oh social services. like, no wonder i'm not gonna use yahoo 360 if i have to type in the frickin' url everytime.
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad
3. Furl.net allows the a similar thing: you tell it which category you want to syndicate in HTML and how many items you want to appear and it gives you a javascript code snippet. But you can do this with anything via http://feeddigest.com It's quite easy and wonderfully useful.
I wrote about a system like this that I set up for http://committeetoprotectbloggers.civiblog.org at this URL: http://marshallk.com/?p=39
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
4. http://www.feeddigest.com totally rocks. Peter Cooper's got a great service going there. I'm a subscriber and use it for a number of things.
The reason I stopped using Furl was because it only ever gave me my links via having to go back through Furl first. So when I emailed a set of links to myself or someone else -- all the links were to Furl, where you had to go first before you could get to the links you really wanted. I *HATE* that kinda crap. Maybe you can tell me -- does the badge do the same thing? Are all the links to Furl?
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad
5. In Shameless self-promotion...
We just updated the badge last night and added the option of displaying a list of tags in the standard Tag Cloud format.
http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/myresults/badge
Nathan Arnold
MyWeb2 Engineer
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Nathan Arnold
6. Re the Furl badge: no, the links are redirects to the items themselves, with a small # sign after each item that takes you to it's place in the Furl archive. Unfortunately nearly the whole code snippet is javascript so you can't opt to remove the #. It's still pretty darned easy to set up, use, and it appears to load the fastest in my experience.
Furl does have some annoying traits to it, but they are working on making some changes. The best thing about it in my mind is that it saves a cached copy of each page you archive. That's wonderful.
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Marshall Kirkpatrick
7. Nathan -- oooooh, I lurve tag clouds :) Excellent addition, thanks for the news.
Marshall -- That's good to hear about the Furl badge. I agree that page caching is wonderful -- My Web 2.0 does this, too. So does Spurl, which I switched to from Furl for collecting temporary private links. Thanks to Eszter, I'm now trying Blinklist, too...
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by barb dybwad









1. BlinkList also offers this option. They give you the code to put on your blog. You can import del.icio.us bookmarks into BlinkList. This is where they compare BlinkList to del.icio.us: http://about.blinklist.com/2005/09/21/blinklist-vs-delicious/.
By the way, I don't like the way My Web on Yahoo! opens a new tab when saving a page. Also, I don't think that whole part of Yahoo! is integrated well with the rest of Yahoo!, unfortunately.
Posted at 8:05PM on Dec 18th 2005 by eszter