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Embed Flash games on your site with Heyzap

by Jay Hathaway May 25th 2009

It's easy to add videos, music and images from around the Internet to your website, but what about games? Heyzap is a way to place any of over 12,000 casual Flash games on your website. It's as simple as copying and pasting a widget code .

Heyzap bills itself as a way to engage with your audience and get them to spend more time on your site. This has an effect on advertising revenue for big players, but I'm not sure it's the most appealing thing about Heyzap when you're just a little guy. I think this could turn into something like the YouTube of games -- instead of sending friends a link to the games you like, just post them right on your blog.

Tags: embed, flash, games, heyzap, sharing

Filed under: Internet, Web services, web 2.0, Web

Embed documents or images on any web site with Embedit.in

by Brad Linder Dec 26th 2008

Embedit.in provides a drop dead simple way to embed documents or images on a web site. Just upload a Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or PDF document or an image file and click the embed it button.

You'll need to login to the site before getting your embed code, but you can login using your Google, Yahoo!, AOL, or OpenID information.

The service creates a Flash widget that visitors to your web page can use to view the image or read the document. You can resize the images or click the button in the bottom right corner to view them in full screen. I've embedded a blank tax document after the jump in case you want to see what the widget looks like in action.

Embedit.in is far from the only service that lets you upload documents and embed them on web sites. But it's certainly one of the simples to use.

[via TechnoSpot and MakeUseOf]

Tags: documents, embed, embedit.in, images

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Yahoo!, Social Software, web 2.0

Flickr finally launches embeddable slideshow widget

by Brad Linder Aug 21st 2008

Image sharing site Flickr has allowed users to view attractive slideshows of search results or image sets for a while now. But for some reason, up until now you had to rely on a third party service if you wanted to embed that slideshow on your own web page. Or you could create an iFrame and figure out how to create the code yourself. But who wants to go through the trouble?

This week, Flickr finally added the ability to share a slideshow with other users. Just click the Share link when viewing any slideshow on Flickr. You get two options: a URL that links to the slideshow you're viewing or HTML code that will let you embed a smaller version on your web page.

The slideshow embedded at the top of this post shows search results for the word "compiz."

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: embed, flickr, slideshow

Filed under: Audio, Internet, Video, Web services, web 2.0

SeeqPod: Find and play music found on the web

by Brad Linder Apr 29th 2008

SeeqPod is a search engine for finding music on the web. But it's much more than that. Enter an artist or song title in SeeqPod and it will look for MP3s, video files, or web sites related to you term and present them in a nice clean list -- with links to play the files on the site. You can use SeeqPod without registering for an account, but if you want to save playlists you'll want to sign up for a free account.

SeeqPod has been around since last year, but we're having one of those days where we keep thinking of cool things we've never shared with you before. This morning it was the K-Meleon web browser, and now we bring you SeeqPod.

There are a few other nifty things you can do with SeeqPod, like embed audio clips on your web page or find lyrics or tour dates from an artist. Or you can even embed an audio search and playback widget on your web site.

Bear in mind, many of the songs that SeeqPod finds on the web are not exactly being legally distributed. But since SeeqPod isn't actually hosting the files itself, the company is sort of gray market and may be able to stand up against any future legal challenges. Or it may not.

Tags: embed, music, seeqpod, streaming

Filed under: Internet, Photo, Video, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Flickr launches video uploads

by Brad Linder Apr 8th 2008

Online photo sharing site Flickr is branching out into video. Starting today, paying Flickr Pro members can upload and share video clips. We're not entirely convinced that Flickr's parent company Yahoo! plans to turn the site into a YouTube killer. Videos are limited to just 90 seconds and 150MB. While that should cover the videos you shoot on your digital camera, which are often limited to 90 seconds or less anyway, it's hard to imagine music videos, video blogs, or other YouTube-style content taking Flickr by storm with this limitation in place.

But the move makes some sense if you think about that 90 second limit on your digital camera. In the press release, Yahoo! claims 40 percent of survey respondents use their cameras to capture short videos, but 55 percent of them only share those videos with friends on their camera. Today's move lets Flickr users upload and share everything on their digital camera, including photos and videos.

Videos will show up in users' photostreams, and can be managed just like images, with tags, privacy settings, and other controls. At launch, video will be available in 8 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Spanish, and traditional Chinese.

It's not clear if or when Flickr will role out the ability to upload videos to free account holders. But anyone can currently view videos uploaded by Pro members.

[via TechCrunch]

Tags: embed, flickr, flickr-video, sharing, video

Filed under: Internet, Video, web 2.0

Embed a Tangler forum topic on any web page

by Brad Linder Feb 19th 2008

Tangler is a web service that lets anyone create a pretty nifty discussion forum. It takes just a few seconds to sign up and create a forum which you can then invite your friends to participate in. But the word forum doesn't really do justice to Tangler.

Sure, you can create topics and respond to comments left by other users in each topic in the forum. But unlike old fashioned forums or bulletin boards, Tangler updates its forums automatically. No page refreshing required. So a Tangler forum is really more like a cross between a traditional forum and an instant messenger, complete with buttons for embedding images, links, and online videos in your comments.

Now Tangler has added the ability for users to embed a forum topic on any web page. You can't embed the entire forum, just a single thread. But this can come in handy if you want to add an enhanced comments section to a particular blog post. Say you want to let people comment on your latest podcast, or live-blogging an event. Wouldn't it be nice if people could leave comments and respond to other users' comments in real-time?

Effectively, an embedded Tangler topic works much like a Meebo chat room which you can also embed on any web page. The difference is that an embedded Tangler topic is part of a larger forum which you can direct visitors to in order to participate in conversations on other topics.

You can check out a demo Tangler topic after the jump.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: chat, embed, forum, IM, meebo, tangler

Filed under: Design, Blogging, web 2.0

Another way to embed Flickr Slideshows in your blog

by Brad Linder Dec 4th 2007

Looking for a good way to show a whole bunch of photos on your blog or website without creating a single page a million miles long with picture after picture? Last year we showed you how to embed a Flickr Slideshow on your web page manually. Then earlier this year someone managed to create a tool to automate the process.

But while the default Flickr slideshow looks great in some situations, we've found that the slideshow just doesn't display properly on some blogs. Fortunately, there's another way to embed a Flickr slideshow. You won't have all the same cool transition features you get on Flickr's site, but them's the breaks.

Pictobrowser lets you create your own slideshow using images that share a tag, fall into a set, or are part of a group. The only catch is that you need a Flickr account and you can only create a slideshow using your own images. Check out a sample slideshow after the jump.

[via Digital Inspiration]

Tags: embed, Flickr, Pictobrowser, slideshows

Filed under: Design, Fun, Internet, Web services

GIFTube, welcome back to the 90's internet style

by Chris Gilmer Oct 31st 2007

Remember that craze back in the early days of the internet? The early 90's. You remember, the time when the animated gif was a cult phenomenon? Well, like pogs, they are back.

Move over YouTube, GIFTube is your one stop shop for everything animated gif. Users upload and share their creations or findings to make their MySpace pages, websites and blogs as flashy as they can through the provided web 2.0 embed code. Have a snazzy GIF or something saved from the internets early days? Submit it for entry into the directory. But please, do us all a favor and just browse the site, do not use these on your website. Thanks!

It seems that the new age of animated GIF's drops the flashy text and symbols in favor of some questionable adult GIF's on this site. So browse the GIF library at your own discretion.

Tags: blog, design, embed, gif, internet, website

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google

Coming soon: embed a Google Map on your web page

by Brad Linder Aug 14th 2007

Google plans to launch a new feature allowing you to embed Google Maps on any website just as easily as you can embed a YouTube video. Along with a permalink for the URL of a map, you'll have the option of copying and pasting an embeddable line of code.

But wait, we hear you say isn't there already a way to embed maps on web sites? Isn't that why I see them everywhere I go? Well, yes. But it takes a bit of technical know how and a Google maps API key.

The new move will help bring Google Maps to the masses. Because, you know, they're so exclusive right now.

The embedded maps will be just like the real thing, with aerial, hybrid, and street views. But we predict most people will just use them to point out party directions and highlight the locations of the nearest places to pick up cheap booze on your way to said party.

[via Mashable]

Tags: embed, google maps, GoogleMaps

Filed under: Internet, Video, Blogging, Web services, Google

YouTube launches new look for embedded videos

by Brad Linder Jun 7th 2007

YouTube has been slowly rolling out a new interface for its flash videos, making it easier for viewers to get sucked into hours and hours of watching pointless online videos of cats dancing.

The new interface shows related videos when you scroll over the bottom of the screen with your cursor. While selected videos on YouTube have had the new design for a while, it's just starting to pop up on videos embedded in blogs.

So now visitors to your website can watch a bunch of videos that you'd never intended to show them without leaving your page. That's, umm.. cool, right?

YouTube's also made it a bit easier to embed videos on your site by adding buttons with the URL and embed code at the end of the video.

[via Google Blogoscoped]

Tags: embed, youtube

Filed under: Design, Internet, Blogging, Google, Social Software

Picasa Web Albums introduces embeddable Flash slideshows

by David Chartier May 17th 2007

Look out Flickr, Picasa Web Albums just dropped a fancy new feature that makes it all too easy - and sexy - to share photo albums. Google's web-based photo sharing service has introduced an Embed Slideshow feature that offers a snippet of code one can easily use to display an album on their website or blog. It's pretty flexible too: five size options are available, ranging from Small 144px wide all the way up to Extra-extra Large at a whopping 800px wide. Captions can also be toggled on and off, and it's all wrapped up in a pretty Flash slideshow movie with controls that only pop up when you mouse over it.

This is a great feature that should definitely turn some heads towards Picasa (including Mac users, now that they offer a free iPhoto plugin), though their 1GB (and growing!) free storage limit is still a little too constricting. Sure, the service offers commercial upgrades with more yearly space, but those prices are a bit on the 'spensive side considering how far and fast storage costs are dropping as of late.

Tags: embed, embeddable, flash, images, photos, picasa, picasa web albums, PicasaWebAlbums, pictures, slideshow, web albums, WebAlbums

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging, Productivity, Web services, Social Software

Zoho show adds some Web 2.0 goodies

by Chris Gilmer Apr 23rd 2007

Nothing is better than easy access and the ability to find things quickly online. Zoho stepped up this weekend and upgraded your access to information through Show, one of their popular web based applications.

The Zoho team added tag clouds, tag search, and the listing of public presentations among others. Zoho Show was once only viewable through an embeddable presentation, not it can be viewed on its own page with places to comment on each slide. Show still has the embeddable code available and adds stats to check out how many times the presentation was viewed.

Tags: blog, embed, google, office, online, presentation, show, tools, zoho

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging, Web services, Social Software

ThinkFree launches a file Viewer for WordPress, and a Flickr for Docs

by Chris Gilmer Apr 6th 2007

ThinkFree has launched a few different ways for people to startup their own little applications and mashups.

We covered the company last year when it returned from the dead and began offering a web based application suite. ThinkFree now has a plugin available that was released yesterday that gives Wordpress bloggers the ability to drop in MS Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations that can be viewable even if the end viewer does not have the associated Office or Acrobat applications installed. This opens up the ability for bloggers to drop in a powerpoint presentation into their blog posts, or embed excel spreadsheets of information.

The company has also announced their Viewer API which gives people the opportunity to create mashups and applications using the Viewer utility. ThinkFree wants to get the ball rolling with web service companies who they hope will create mashups and applications using the utility. With the API, designers can integrate Viewer files, doc's, xls, or ppt files directly into an online application, giving end users, regardless of Operating systems or plugins, the ability to view files.

ThinkFree is also working on a document exchange product called ThinkFree Docs that has been described as a Flickr for Office files. Through this new location ThinkFree will enable content creators to read, share, get feedback, and source office documents. There is a demo up online now, but the actual site will be up with a redesign in the near future.

Tags: blog, bloggers, business, docs, embed, excel, flickr, office, plugins, powerpoint, spreadsheets, thinkfree, word, wordpress

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Video, Web services, Social Software

YouCams embeddable video

by Chris Gilmer Mar 28th 2007

Just when you thought there were enough tools and talk about social networks, more tools for those crazy social networkers have been unleashed. YouCams embeds video, voice and text chatting with a flash file format. The full featured video format allows users to embed and watch YouTube videos with friends, share links with other users, create and move through a series of public and private rooms, broadcast webcams, and create password protected rooms. There is also a series of profile widgets that can be added without installing anything.

The YouCams application can easily be embedded into social networks, blogs and websites using either HTML or JavaScript codes.

There are two plans that are offered, a basic and paid service. The basic plan is more than enough; it offers voice, text and video chat. While the upgraded account turns YouCams into a conferencing tool that can be used to chat with three other users at once.

YouCams also has a list of instructional videos available on YouTube.

[via webware]

Tags: audio, chat, chatting, embed, text, video, webcam, widget, youcams, youtube

Filed under: Utilities, Video, Web services

Embedded Media HTML Generator

by Jordan Running Oct 17th 2006

So it's going to be awhile before the big media companies get a clue and start making it easier for me to promote their stuff on my web site, but in the meantime there are tools out there that can make it less painful. Our pal Russell Heimlich from DV Guru points us to Embedded Media HTML Generator, an easy-to-use web service that will generate the HTML needed to embed QuickTime, Real, Windows Media, and Flash files in your web site. You can specify the path to a file, your desired width and height, and other options like autoplay and looping. Of course, a lot of web sites expressly forbid you from embedding their video on other web sites, and some have technical hurdles in place that prevent it, but in places where that's not the case, Embedded Media HTML Generator is your friend.

Tags: embed, embedded media html generator, EmbeddedMediaHtmlGenerator, html, media, video

Graveyard Shift - zombie-busting Time Waster

With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet. They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...

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