magnolia - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/feeds/tag/magnolia en Copyright 2009 Richard MacManus readwriteweb@gmail.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:12:49 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.23-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Too Lazy to Click that StumbleUpon Button? Playericious May Be for You PlayericiousSocial bookmarking sites - as many of us know - are a veritable treasure trove of information, especially when it comes to common tags like "howto" or "webdesign." But sometimes, clicking through all of those links can get a bit arduous. That's what makes playericious so great. It's designed to let you be lazy. Just a few keystrokes and you'll soon be perusing the best delicious and ma.gnolia have to offer.

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There's something strangely appealing about watching playericious do what it does. Part of it is the ability to focus the results on what you'd like to see, and part of it likely has to do with that "I wonder what's coming next?" appeal of services like StumbleUpon. Well, and then there's the fact that it's just so easy.

The one drawback is that playericious uses frames. That means that any time a page with a frame-busting script comes by, the service throws an error and stops working. I only encountered this issue a few times. But it does happen.

The developer claims that the service isn't terribly useful. But I'd beg to differ. After a week of saving new bookmarks, I found it incredibly useful to point playericious at my account and let it run - simply to refresh my memory about what I had found.

Take a few minutes to test drive playericious. I'm sure you'll find something interesting to do with it, too.

]]>Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/playericous_playback_social_bookmarks.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/playericous_playback_social_bookmarks.php Social Bookmarking Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:56:34 -0800 Rick Turoczy Greasemonkey Scripts For the Social Media Addict You may have heard of Greasemonkey, the Firefox extension that lets you customize the way a web page displays using small bits of Javascript, but are you using it to its fullest potential? There are hundreds of scripts available for installation from userscripts.org, so it can be difficult to know which ones are must-haves.

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]]> We've rounded up our favorite scripts for fans of social media and have provided them for you below, but we're curious which ones you can't live without. Are your favorites included here? Let us know in the comments.

Twitter Scripts

FriendFeed Scripts

Digg Scripts

Mixx Needs More Scripts

  • Mixx Forums - adds MixxingBowl Forum and Breaking News links to navigation bar at Mixx.com

Del.icio.us/Ma.gnolia Scripts

Flickr Scripts

  • Flickr Cut-n-Paste to Blog - cut-and-paste flickr images to blog posts with CSS and credit links
  • Flickr AllSizes+ - access all sizes for a Flickr photo, copy the code, download the image, etc.
  • Flickr More Home - by default, the Flickr home page shows four images for you, four from your contacts, and four from everyone. This script expands it to 8, 16, and 8, respectively.
  • Flickr - Video Hider - hides videos on Flickr photostreams and replaces them with a link to that video should you still wish to view it
  • Tflickr - Twitter from Flickr. Tweet your favourites flickr images
  • Flickr: Sign In and Return - return to the page you were viewing instead of Flickr home page after signing in

Facebook Scripts

Google Reader Scripts

]]>Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/greasemonkey_scripts_for_the_s.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/greasemonkey_scripts_for_the_s.php Fri, 02 May 2008 16:06:36 -0800 Sarah Perez