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del.icio.us links for 01-09-2006

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The Viral Chart

The Viral Chart is a pretty nice roundup of the latest popular Interweb viral videos, ads, games, etc.:

Viral Marketing is the future of commercial advertising. Virals can be videos, games or just web pages which are strategically “seeded” on websites, blogs and mailing lists around the Internet.

As soon as Internet users start forwarding the link or the clip to their friends, it’s gone viral and it will continue to spread across the Web, potentially reaching audiences of millions.

The Viral Chart is a huge leap towards quantifying these audiences.

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Google Pack

GoogleGoogle has released Google Pack (FAQ and official blog release), a bundling of free software that includes:

  • Google Earth
  • Picasa
  • Google Pack Screensaver (info on a standalone screensaver without Google’s logo here)
  • Google Desktop
  • Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
  • Google Talk
  • Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar
  • Norton Antivirus 2005 Special Edition (with 6-month trial subscription)
  • Ad-Aware SE Personal
  • Adobe Reader 7
  • RealPlayer
  • Trillian
  • GalleryPlayer HD Image

This is actually a solid bundle of software and is pretty much exactly what I use in each class of applications, with the exception of the bloated Adobe Reader, which I have replaced with the Foxit Reader, and the even more bloated RealPlayer, which I have replaced with JetAudio and/or Media Player Classic. I never heard of GalleryPlayer HD Images, but it is not enabled by default (nor was Google Talk, RealPlayer, or Trillian). Apparently Google Video Player was bundled at one time but was removed for some reason.

The download also includes an “updater” that monitors new software version releases and allows for easy upgrades. If I hadn’t already downloaded just about all of these applications for myself, I would really love this. This fact is why it’s hard to disagree with one comment at Hot Links that opines that this is “aimed squarely at the ‘parents-of-geeks’ market.” 😉

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DrikoLand RSS Feeds

new RSS feed iconFor those of you subscribing to my Blogger-created RSS feed (http://www.driko.org/index.xml), please change the feed address to my Feedburner feed (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Drikoland), as I am hoping to consolidate my feeds through them. I believe that if you’re subscribed to Bloglines then you should already be taken care of, as Bloglines has hopefully converted all subscribers over to the new feed at my request. However, there are just too many other aggregation services out there for me to track them all down, so I’m hoping that people will see this post in time to go ahead and switch over manually.

Why am I doing this, you may ask? Well, all this talk of Microsoft and Mozilla making nice and standardizing with Mozilla’s new feed icon design (seen at right, and replacing my feed icons in the sidebar) has made me misty-eyed and ready for change. OK, that’s not the only reason. 😉

The main reason is that I’m taking the advice of Freshblog and “upgrading” my feed with the services offered at Feedburner. As the linked posts explain, Feedburner offers “smart” feeds that will convert the default Atom feed into RSS if necessary (some readers don’t support Atom yet). Feedburner also offers many other services that are too good to pass up, including better methods to track visitors, and a lot more.

Please let me know if you have any problems with the switch, and thanks in advance for your cooperation and patience if things don’t go so smoothly… 😉

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del.icio.us links for 01-06-2006

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Daily del.icio.us Link Posts

del.icio.usI just now discovered a very cool (albeit currently “experimental”) feature of del.icio.us that allows you to automatically make a blog post of all the sites you’ve tagged on a given day. I first came across this idea at Teknokool (a WordPress site), which inspired me to figure out how to do this on my Blogger site. My first hit was theory.isthereason, which posted on how to go about this with WordPress blogs. That post led me to another one on videoblogging.info, which offered help for users of Moveable Type, TypePad, WordPress, and Blogger (woo hoo!).

Although I followed the instructions on videoblogging.info to the letter, my initial attempts didn’t seem to work. All I can figure is that there wasn’t enough lead time for the script to take effect, because over night it worked like a charm. The main thing to keep an eye on is that the time you put in is GMT; I set mine up for 4 GMT, or 11 P.M. EST.

Last night’s link post was a bit redundant, as I had made regular posts for almost all of the tagged items. That fact could become a bit annoying, as I tag all items whether I post separate entries on them or not. However, I still think this could be pretty cool, as I will now be able to automate smaller link posts. And of course it will allow me to “post” more often. 😉 Let me know what you think…

Update: I was able to play with the CSS a little bit, so I think it looks a little better now. I made sure that the fonts conformed to the rest of the site, made the line breaks a little larger, and changed the default bullets to small del.icio.us icons. I do still have several gripes with all of this, though.

No blog title is generated by this method, so I have to go back and manually edit that after the fact to ensure that the permalink title is not based on the entire post of the text. Also, there doesn’t seem to be any way to add the link=“rel” descriptor into the tags to ensure that Technorati etc. pick up the posts, so that too is a little bit annoying. If anyone has any experience or advice with this, I’d appreciate it…

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