Written on 20th February 2009
6 COMMENTS Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.
BBC News have announced that the site is soon to allow embedding of BBC content onto other sites!
Initially, only technology focused stories and video from the “World” section of the BBC News site will be made available for embedding elsewhere.
Retrieving the embed code is as easy as pie and those of you familiar with the procedure on video sharing sites won’t have a problem. Simply click “share” on the player, select the “embed” option, copy the code and paste it wherever accepts HTML.
One concern however is that the terms and conditions state that you can only use the embedding code on your personal site which leaves presumably leaves commercial blogs/sites (yes, such as this one) out of the picture.
Written on 15th February 2009
9 COMMENTS Srikanth AD, Web Designer, Search Engine Optimizer and Google Devotee
The UMapper plugin is a universal mapping platform that makes it easy for you to create custom maps and add them on your WordPress blog posts.
You can choose a title and a description for you map, customize the markers and objects on it to suit the right sort of color, font sizes and labels.
Microsoft Virtual Earth, Google Maps, Yahoo and OpenStreet are all supported by this plugin.
Key Features :
Provides collaboration tools, map wiki, and social networking features (comments, ratings, etc.)
Switching between map providers when creating a map, and later on while editing.
Map Editor has HTML capabilities and allows Wikipedia and Geo Names search.
Integrated map editor – manipulating geographical contents to suit your site requirement.
Allows map distribution via embeds and widgets.
Allows syndication of map data using KML.
Some potential ways of using it:
If your blog is based on e-commerce or shopping, then you can integrate custom map(s) onto your blog posts, pointing to the retailer’s location, address and other directions.
If your are addressing about an event, public meeting or gathering on your site then you can indicate its details by using custom objects and markers on the map.
UMapper is certainly a stand out plugin to aid your visitors with appropriate directions on the custom map based on your subject of interest, making your blog posts more lively and interactive.
You probably recognize the situation of wanting to embed a YouTube video that is interesting for ten seconds. If only it wouldn’t take five minutes before the video reaches that point. Alex Chitu from Google Operating System writes that YouTube’s embedded player has a parameter that lets you specify the number of seconds that should be skipped before starting to play the video.
Here’s how you should edit the code: append &start=[number of seconds from the start of the video] to both URLs. When you use this, you can, for instance, start the official Web 2.0 bubble burst video when the first girl is about to jump in the smashing pool.
There’s no permalink to a certain part of a video. The only way of getting there is clicking on a video that’s embedded with the right parameters. According to Philipp Lenssen, a generic wrapper site could be created for that purpose.
Written on 20th February 2009
6 COMMENTS 
BBC News have announced that the site is soon to allow embedding of BBC content onto other sites!
Written on 15th February 2009
Written on 11th October 2008
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