Tag: del.icio.us

Add a share on Pinboard.in link to your WordPress blog

Drawing pin
Drawing pin | Photo by Christian Guthier

If you’re making the move from del.icio.us to Pinboard.in you may be encouraging your blog readers to do the same (and I definitely encourage you to make the switch if you haven’t already).

And if that’s the case, why not add a “share this” link on your WordPress posts?

Since Pinboard.in is modeled after the first version of del.icio.us API, the share this link is fairly similar to del.icio.us.

To add a link for Pinboard.in, simply add this code to your single.php file in your WordPress theme:

<a href="http://pinboard.in/add?showtags=yes&url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>&description=<?php the_excerpt(); ?>" title="Bookmark this on Pinboard.in" target="_blank">Bookmark this on Pinboard.in</a>

If you want, you can always replace the text “Bookmark this on Pinboard.in” with a graphic or other text, like I’ve done below.

And of course, if you like this post, be sure and Bookmark it on Pinboard 🙂

my bookmarks

Found Wordle today thanks to @Just_Pete.

Wordle takes any text and turns it into a word cloud. For those unfamiliar with a word cloud, you can see an example of one on the upper right hand side of my blog. That’s a word cloud of all the tags I use for various posts on my blog. The more I mention a word (or tag) the larger the font becomes. And thus, you end up with a word cloud showing how important or how many times a particular word is used.

It made a cool word cloud of my del.icio.us tags. I call it Presidential Lifehacks.

and here’s my latest blog post – The marbles are on a roll ::

and here’s all the text (currently) on the front page of my blog ::

Related ::

Wordle
del.icio.us
my del.icio.us
SSL :: The marbles are on a roll

Microsoft wants to take over Flickr

You know, I heard lots of news about Microsoft wanting to buy Yahoo over the weekend.
And while I’m not a huge fan of Microsoft by any means I didn’t think too much of it at the time. After all “I don’t use Yahoo – I usually stick with Google.”
But a post by Lifehacker today made me rethink that.

I use Flickr religiously – a company now owned by Yahoo.
I use del.icio.us now religiously as well – another company now owned by Yahoo.
I also play fantasy football on Yahoo.

Wait a minute – I don’t want Microsoft having ANY say in my online pictures and bookmarks or fantasy football!
Click here for a list of other companies Yahoo now owns that would be owned by Microsoft if the acquisition goes through.

Thoughts?

More changes to SSL

Got around to setting up accounts with del.icio.us and twitter over the last few days. So far I’m liking them both. Don’t know why I’ve been putting it off. They may mean I’ll cut down on some of my usual blog posting, but I don’t know.

You would think that I would have jumped on these bandwagons a long time ago, but I put them off until seeing them really utilized by folks like Thomas and others. Even various organizations and companies are getting on the bandwagon to easily share links within their organizations or to clients.

For example The Sunlight Foundation sent me to their del.icio.us page a week or two ago to show me all the articles and information I might ever want on their new Google Earth layer. Rather than e-mailing me a list of a few articles, I was sent a link and it had loads and loads of links and information.

Also several presidential campaigns are running del.icio.us pages and twitter pages as folks follow the candidates around.

If you’re not familiar with the two services, del.icio.us allows folks to save bookmarks for websites, videos and misc. that are of interest and that they want to share with others. As you’ve probably noticed a lot of my posts are simply links to other sites and articles I want to share with others. Now with del.icio.us that’s done in one easy to follow place. I’m working on trying to set it up so it will automatically post one blog entry with all the links for the day – but I’m still working out the kinks on that one. Until then, you can visit http://del.icio.us/jdblundell to see the various links.

As for twitter, the service allows users to keep others posted throughout the day & night about their going ons. It’s like a simplified report or re-cap of the day – 24/7. Don’t know how often I’ll be using it or updating it. We’ll see. It can be updated form the website, my cellphone or IM and it also updates my Facebook status too. My twitter status will update on the right hand side of SSL, right under the calendar or on my twitter page.

Crazy stuff going on around here – who knows where it will all lead.

UPDATE: With the pending shutdown of Delicious sometime back I jumped ship and moved to Pinboard.in which has far more features and benefits than Delicious ever did. I highly recommend it. You can see my links there at: http://pinboard.in/u:jdblundell.