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Your Timetoast is ready! Build timelines with this web app

TimetoastTimetoast is an attractive new timeline app built on Abode's Flash and Flex. Do you like your timelines interactive and embeddable? Sure beats the last timeline we made (crayons and construction paper may have been involved)! This could be a good tool for bloggers who want to enhance a post with a detailed history of the topic, or for anyone in school who doesn't want to approach the aforementioned crayon method.

Since Timetoast is pretty new, we hope there'll eventually be more options for colors, fonts and the size of embedded timetables. We like the ability to add images to events, but we'd also like to be able to drill down to hours and minutes, instead of days: a timeline of a day might come in handy! For now, it looks like they're off to a promising start.

Filed under: Business, Internet, Utilities, Productivity, Web services, Search, web 2.0

Embed maps with Ask City

Embed maps with Ask CityOne of the growing new trends in the online space has been embedding objects. From news feeds, twitter notifications, product recommendations and IM chats.

Google has a great embeddable maps addition for the ever popular Google Maps. However, other major online mapping providers have been late to the game, Yahoo! and Microsoft included. Ask has stepped up to the game, and now offers embeddable maps. Simply search for your destination and click on the embed link. Ask City gives users the choice of embedding maps in three different sizes, small, medium and large.

Although their innovations sometimes seem to get overshadowed with larger Google and Yahoo announcements, it's always nice to see when a smaller online company like Ask steps up the game before larger veterans.

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

Picasa Web Albums introduces embeddable Flash slideshows



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.

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