Google has been trying to get their +1 button added to as many places across the web as possible. It seems as though the +1 button will help content creators in search results. Here are some quick options on how to add the +1 button to your site.
1.The Google +1 plugin: This plugin lets your visitors quickly and easily add their Google+1 vote to your posts or site.
Features;
Allows readers to vote using the cool Google +1 button
Includes a Google +1 widget
Provides ability to choose which posts and pages are included
Includes 4 different button sizes
Show/hide Google +1 counts
Customize position of the button
Shortcodes and styling for further customization
2.Google +1 Button: This is another simple plugin which will add the +1 button to your articles which enables readers to recommend posts.
If you want to manually add the +1 button, you can visit the Google +1 page to customize it.
Here is a great preview of Swayable. Swayable is taking side by side ratings to a new level. Currently, Swayable is available as an iPhone application with an Android application on the way.
Twitter has finally introduced their own Follow button. The Follow button is very simple, it lets users create their of button so that anyone can one click and follow them on Twitter. This feature is going to be a great addition to all those Twitter directories out there.
Previously, Twitter has been directing people to their Twitter pages with the hope that they would follow after visiting. However, these conversion rates have been very poor and this button is much more effective.
SeeSaw hits the deadpool! SeeSaw will be closing down on Monday the 2oth of June and its sad to see that the TV VOD aggregation service hasn’t taken off.
Arqiva the owner of SeeSaw explains: “Following a strategic review of its business activities… Arqiva is no longer able to support the service.”
SeeSaw aggregates TV VODs from BBC, Channel 4 and other UK Broadcasters. However, now that each channel has their own SeeSaw equivalent it seems as though users are heading to the individual sites instead of the aggregator.
It seems as though SeeSaw’s technology was greatly below that of the equivalent service in the USA, Hulu. Hulu has been growing very nicely in the USA and its a shame that SeeSaw could copy their success in the UK.
Some time, there are situations at home that really test our strength and patience. They confront us when we were not even thinking about them – like telephone bills popping up, shortly after we have paid the pending installment of the home mortgage. Or like the tire that goes flat, just when the car is being pulled outside for a picnic. Or when the internet connection flies to Timbuktu, when the download of one of our favorite TV shows is at ninety-five percent! We cringe, we shout, we cynically look for solutions but the glitch stays, just like an unwanted guest!
Of all the situations stated, the one at the end rarely manages to receive our calm response. We borrow money to pay off the electricity bill; we opt to take the bus, or hire a cab for the trip; but we cannot bring the neighbor’s internet connection to our house. Constant phone calls to the internet service provider lands up with several notes of promises and dates and, ultimately, no resolution. We are not able to download TV shows – end of story!
So, what exactly should we hold responsible, for making us so extraordinary deviant and crazy? It is the simple and easy accessibility to our favorite pastime! There are so many TV shows – separate favorites for kids, women and men – that it becomes humanly impossible to watch three different shows at the same time, on one single TV screen. It is not possible and it is not required!
When would the download factor come into play? If TV shows are all we want, TV shows are all we get! The internet provides virus-free links, fast and high-speed downloads, systematic and user-friendly approach to the desired shows and, ultimately, a solution to the unnerving it-is-my-turn-to-watch-TV fight at home. Furthermore, it is undeniably true that no matter what show, what season, what episode you are searching for, you are bound to get it, within seconds!
True also is the belief that you can watch your favorite TV show at one time, and put your favorite TV shows download at work, at the same time! I once tried catching two shows simultaneously, and all I could catch were the advertisements that would come harping every few minutes! That seems to remind me of another thing that we tend to avoid, as we set ourselves to catch shows after downloading them onto our PC!
We avoid advertisements – they are irritating, down to every sense of the word! It cuts short the pace of an amazing mystery, insufferably puts the supernatural drama to an abrupt halt and what it does to an intense romantic scene is something I will avoid mentioning here!
It seems that we will continue to do fine, as long as the internet connection stays on!
Yesterday in New York, Google launched the new Google Wallet. Google Wallet is an application that will turn your mobile phone into your wallet.
On Google Wallet you will be able to store your credit cards, loyalty cards, gift cards and more. At launch Google Wallet will support Citi Mastercard and Google Prepaid Card.
According to PayPal’s lawsuit, read in full here, former PayPal executive (now working at Google) Osama Bedier stole PayPal’s trade secrets and shared it with Google and other companies. Another present Googler and former PayPal exec, Stephanie Tilenius, violated her contract when she recruited Bedier, PayPal said.
Robert Scoble recently sat down with the team from Transvideo to go through their company and product. Transvideo is a production company that make all the cool introduction video’s for many technology startups in the Valley. Their work is amazing! You can check out their official site here.
It seems as though Slacker is really trying to compete in the music streaming sector. Slacker has just opened up an on-demand service that fits in nicely with their radio service. However, they will be facing tough competition in this sector with Spotify, MOG, Rdio, Rhapsody and others in the market.
Slacker becomes the first music service to deliver three complementary tiers: free ad supported interactive streams, subscription based ad-free radio with extra features, and on-demand music with Slacker Premium Radio.
Google has recently rolled out an intriguing recipe search engine which promises simply to provide dishes based on available ingredients on hand, as well as the number of calories that readers wish to expend, plus the amount of available preparation time. In the left side bar, the recipe feature can be found and will afford searchers the obvious option to zero in on more specific results like locating a recipe for chicken and dumplings, stipulating one which does not include flour, plus contains less than 400 total calories.
Surprisingly, it would seem that somewhere in the area of one percent of the searches on Google may just be for recipes and Google’s new and innovative vertical plans to bring about an experience that causes it to be simpler for cooks everywhere to locate tasty recipes on the internet. Remaining true to Google’s search roots, they’re not disclosing any actual recipes in their search results, but they do link to great recipes on relative websites such as the Food Network and Epicurious.
Clearly, however, the genuine originality would be much less obvious in the fact that the whole search has been constructed upon controlled data, which Google’s webmasters have built into their webpages with considerable utilization of markup code that appears to be imperceptible to human beings, however it is exceptionally valuable to technology. The inherent aspiration of the supposed semantic web was constructed on the premise that most all web pages would be packed with an abundance of essential tags such that search engines are enabled to parse any particular webpage in order to gain knowledge of anyone’s e-mail address, or to discern precisely what a particular business’s hours of operation are, simply by quickly reading the core code, which is completely hidden within the browser. Google’s product management search director, Mr. Jack Menzel, stated recently that this can be a difficult issue with the existing web.
The fantasy of a controlled web has been almost impossible to put into practice as basically it necessitates synchronization on construction specifications and then also requires that webpage architects take enough time to denote their pages in convoluted XML. A much more working class effort, in the form of Microformats, has enjoyed a great deal more triumph by focusing in on just a few types of data and innovatively using HTML to make simpler the basic publishing of the meta-data. Now a typical search engine is constructed in its entirety around webpages that are utilizing microformats, as well as other controlled data, for the first time. The majority of what has been stopping publishers from utilizing this type of data is similar to the chicken and egg issue. They don’t want to incur all of the bother of adding primary controlled metadata to a webpage when it may not be of any use to anyone. Hence, if there were none, why on earth would anyone expend their money and time attempting to locate it on the web?
In Jack Menzel’s estimatation, there are only a few hundred recipe sites that currently wrap the recipes that they publish in meta-data, however they do, in fact, consist of major players such as Epicurious and the Food Network. In addition, he is hoping that Google’s recipe search engine might cause developers to design simple means for bloggers to do so as well. However, Menzel is stressing that this has got to be an easy process and that Google definitely does not wish to force hard-working webmasters to do any work unless it will increase traffic.
So, Google is venturing into the kitchen now with Google Recipe Search to bring a tastier world to all of us.
Guest post by: Heater Marie Brown writes for the baristatraining.org blog and contributes hypoglycemic recipe ideas. It’s her non profits blog she uses to offers free tips to help people become a barista and find the best barista courses online. She worked with Starbucks as corporate trainer.
