Tag: EMBED

Google plans to launch a new feature allowing you to embed Google Maps on any website just as easily as you can embed a YouTube video. Along with a permalink for the URL of a map, you'll have the option of copying and pasting an embeddable line of code. But wait, we hear you say isn't there already a way to embed maps on web sites? Isn't that why I see them everywhere I go? Well, yes. But it takes ...

YouTube has been slowly rolling out a new interface for its flash videos, making it easier for viewers to get sucked into hours and hours of watching pointless online videos of cats dancing. The new interface shows related videos when you scroll over the bottom of the screen with your cursor. While selected videos on YouTube have had the new design for a while, it's just starting to pop up on ...

Look out Flickr, Picasa Web Albums just dropped a fancy new feature that makes it all too easy - and sexy - to share photo albums. Google's web-based photo sharing service has introduced an Embed Slideshow feature that offers a snippet of code one can easily use to display an album on their website or blog. It's pretty flexible too: five size options are available, ranging from Small 144px wide ...

Nothing is better than easy access and the ability to find things quickly online. Zoho stepped up this weekend and upgraded your access to information through Show, one of their popular web based applications. The Zoho team added tag clouds, tag search, and the listing of public presentations among others. Zoho Show was once only viewable through an embeddable presentation, not it can be viewed on ...

ThinkFree has launched a few different ways for people to startup their own little applications and mashups. We covered the company last year when it returned from the dead and began offering a web based application suite. ThinkFree now has a plugin available that was released yesterday that gives Wordpress bloggers the ability to drop in MS Office documents, spreadsheets and presentations that ...

Just when you thought there were enough tools and talk about social networks, more tools for those crazy social networkers have been unleashed. YouCams embeds video, voice and text chatting with a flash file format. The full featured video format allows users to embed and watch YouTube videos with friends, share links with other users, create and move through a series of public and private rooms, ...

So it's going to be awhile before the big media companies get a clue and start making it easier for me to promote their stuff on my web site, but in the meantime there are tools out there that can make it less painful. Our pal Russell Heimlich from DV Guru points us to Embedded Media HTML Generator, an easy-to-use web service that will generate the HTML needed to embed QuickTime, Real, Windows ...

For those times when you want an easier way to connect with your blog readers/store customers/friends who can't access chat ports on a public terminal, Meebo has introduced a meebo me chat widget (runs in Flash) that can be embedded in any website. The meebo blog warns that it is currently pretty experimental, and I personally haven't tested it out yet myself, but here's how you set it up: head ...