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POPSiSpeech iSpeech is a true Webservice that converts any text into speech instantly. Not only does iSpeech convert text to speech, but it also allows the user to download an MP3, podcast, and even embed a customizable widget into any website or blog that supports objects. But why stop there? Why not give users the ability to convert any Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat (PDF), HTML, or RSS feed into spoken audio.
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POPSChipin The ChipIn widget is a simple Flash application that allows you to keep people up-to-date on ChipIn events you organize to collect money
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POPSSome updates to Clipmarks We've got a lot of great projects in the pipeline that we'll be rolling out over the next few weeks and months. We introduced some of these changes this week. If you click the source URL in this clip you'll see the blog post that outlines some of them. In addition to some new features, our work will primarily focus on accomplishing 3 things: (i) make the user interface of the site more intuitive and user friendly; (ii) strengthen the social aspects of the site (iii) make the site much faster and more reliable
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POPSEverything Widget at Widgetbox If you ever wondered about widgets, this is the place to check out. You can even make your very own widget, make a lot of widgets and make money.
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POPSSnag Films -The Documentary Widget Many of the most prominent documentary filmmakers are participating not only by having their films distributed via SnagFilms, but by engaging with their audience through blogs and offering special “bonus” material, as well as suggesting nonprofit organizations that viewers motivated by these films can link to and support via charitable contributions, volunteering or spreading the word.
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POPS50 bookmarking sites 1 widget getBookmarked.com will help you to Bookmark a site into several Social Bookmarking Services. Instead of using different links to each Social Bookmarking website, you have to keep only a single link to all of them! When you use this Free service in your Website or Blog, visitors will be able to bookmark it in 50 Popular Bookmarking Services. Actually there are two free widgets, one for your use from within your browser (its a bookmarklet) and the other is widget for your online site/blog. Follow the steps to get them both;
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POPSCelebrity Meter Although there are a few different standards for highlighting links like these, most social networking sites, blog software and hosting services support one or more. They're relying on site builders to highlight such links by using special markup. Google uses this information to build a graph of all sites and their links to one another. Rather than request the API from each site individually (Twitter followers, MySpace friends, etc.), Google provides a single RESTful API to send a simple query in one shot. While there are limits to this data (Facebook info is currently not available in this widget), the information we're getting is real and the friend information we're getting isn't a simple number but a list of live URLs that Google has vetted for us.
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POPSThe fight for the desktop heats up It all will be one environment eventualy. Most users five years from now wont know whether they are using a browser or an applet...because they are essentailly the same thing. ease of use and purpose driven software will be the winners.
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POPSBe a Book Wizard! Embed this widget in your website or blog and anyone can use it to find children's literature by author, keyword or title. Scholastic has used Google gadgets to create an excellent teacher resource, a children's literature search engine. You can find your favorite book or search for titles to help you develop an instructional unit. While most titles are published by Scholastic, they do include other book titles from other publishers. When readers at your blog, wiki, or website use the Teacher Book Wizard Widget, they will be taken away from your site to the Scholastic site. I would like to see this widget open in another tab or window. While this is an inconvenience, it is not a major hindrance.
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POPSThe Social Radio This is such a cool idea -- just wait until similar technologies come out in car radios, and you can hear what the guy in the next lane is listening to.