It seems that if you have a website or a blog, and you need a free lightweight javascript MP3 player to play files then Delicious has one that you can use free of charge. It’s called playTagger.

You can get it here and you can see it in action by going to the MP3 page on Delicious. Just click on the small blue arrow to the left of the link to start the file.

It’s easy to install on your own blog.   It’s just one line of script!     It’s so easy even I can do it.

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For the first time I can remember, Delicious is down today. This is a major inconvenience for me as I have pages piling up here that need to be bookmarked. But it also has a flipside as I got to try out Summize which is a real-time Twitter search engine. I wanted to see if Delicious was down for me only or down for everyone. So where better to check than Twitter, right?
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Del.icio.us user Tim Bonnemann puts the bookmarking service to clever use: to save words, slang, and phrases he wants to remember. Whenever he comes across words or an idiom or slang he doesn’t know, Bonnemann looks it up on Urban Dictionary, Wikipedia, or a German-to-English dictionary and tags the look-up page “dictionary” in his bookmark list.

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I try not to be a materialistic person but nevertheless there are some things I really want to have - in the main books and stamps (both of which I collect avidly). I often keep lists on the computer of what I am looking for but these lists tend to be a bit messed up. What I really want is a central point where it can all be collected, organised, deleted, added and looked at.

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If you’ve been a subscriber to this blog for any length of time, you’ll have noticed that sometimes you will get a post with my recent del.icio.us links in it (courtesy of an automated service by Feedburner). In the past couple of days, that post has suddenly got bigger.

This is all due to a brilliant Greasemonkey script that I have found called Delicious Stumbles. It basically adds a button to your standard Del.icio.us submission box which allows you to submit the same link, along with the same description and keywords, to Stumbleupon at the same time.

This is an absolute God-send for me. I love using Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon but at heart I am a bit lazy and I like things to be simple. If I bookmark one site on one bookmarking site, I am normally not inclined to start the process to submit it to the other site.  It’s too much time and too much clicking around. So as a result, I go through a big del.icio.us phase then a big Stumbleupon phase, then back to del.icio.us again…..this makes being a member of these sites rather haphazard as no-one knows when my next contribution will be. This has meant I have never been able to gain any traction or momentum on these sites.

But the Delicious Stumbles script means I can now submit to both sites simultaneously and it works PERFECTLY!

If you use Firefox and Del.icio.us / Stumbleupon, I highly recommend you use this script!

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I have been spending the last hour or so going through my backlog of online reading material and I came across a post on Daily Blog Tips which suggests exchanging social networking usernames. This amazingly simple request has sparked 83 comments and it has made me realise that sometimes you don’t have to write something really sophisticated to draw in the readers - you just have to propose something mutually beneficial.

So, call me a copycat if you want but here are my social networking ID’s. Feel free to leave yours in the comments and I will add you to my lists. However, with Stumbleupon, I have to be extremely selective whom I add because of their absurd rule that you can only have 200 friends. To the best of my knowledge, Digg and Del.icio.us have no such limits.

Stumbleupon :  http://camelot2302.stumbleupon.com/
Digg :  http://www.digg.com/users/camelot2302
Del.icio.us :  http://del.icio.us/camelot2302
Facebook :  http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=505107042
Twitter :  http://twitter.com/camelot2302

I am considering opening an account at Reddit.    If I decide to do that, I’ll add that ID to the list.

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I am currently fighting the flu so I am a little behind with posting to the blog. But I just wanted to quickly fill you in on some of the new things that I have added to the blog. A lot of you may be reading my posts only from the RSS reader so I figured I should mention the new stuff to those people who don’t make a habit of visiting the site that often.

Twitter Updates - despite my initial opposition to Twitter and its “Big Brother” image (what are YOU doing right now?), I’ve decided to overcome my reluctance and give it a go. Part of the reason for the change of heart is that I started leaving status messages in my Facebook account and so I guess I have got used to the idea.

I also found that if I posted regular status messages, I would get less emails from people asking where I was and why I was suddenly silent. So starting from today, the front page of the blog will have a small box with a Twitter status message in it. Feel free to add me to your Twitter ID or subscribe to my Twitter feed.

Go to a random page on the blog - I found this plug-in on Wordpress and I thought it was quite a fun idea.    By clicking on this link, you will taken at random to a blog post on this site.    It may be one of the newer posts or one of the older posts but everytime you click on that link, you’ll be taken at random to another post.    I guess it is the same principle as Stumbleupon.     The only snag right now is that the blog is so new that I don’t have so many posts, so you will probably be taken to the same ones over and over.    But there is a box with the link on the front page for when I have built up some more work.

This is an excellent feature for recycling old work and getting fresh sets of eyes on stuff you may have wrote a year or two ago.

Buy me a beer - some people may find this one a bit cheeky but I have put a Paypal payment button on the front page if anyone wants to send me the money for a beer.     Blogging is thirsty work you know!    

Subscribe to the blog by email -  I initially removed this feature when I moved the blog over to this domain.    However, when I signed into my Feedburner account, I noticed I had quite a lot of email subscribers so I quickly put the feature back on the front page.

Subscribe to my Stumbles, Diggs and Del.icio.us links - I set up Feedburner links for my accounts on Stumbleupon, Digg and Del.icio.us.   I bookmark quite a bit on Del.icio.us, a fair bit on Stumbleupon and as yet not so much on Digg (but I am planning to step this up).   If you would like to keep up to speed with what I am stumbling, digging and linking to, subscibing to these feeds would be a good idea.   RSS subscribers are currently getting my Del.icio.us links anyway through another Feedburner service but I plan to switch that off soon.   So if you like getting those links, please sign up to the new Del.icio.us feed.     All links on the front page.

I think that’s it for the moment.

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Leading on from my post on Stumbleupon the other day, I found this interesting article about claiming your Stumbleupon blog feed in Technorati, allowing other people to subscribe to it. However, when I tried it, it didn’t work. Technorati wanted me to put a code on the Stumbleupon page and it just didn’t work.

However, saying that, I got the idea to claim my various feeds on Feedburner. As well as the official blog feed, I have now set up Feedburner feeds for my accounts in Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us and Digg. This will allow anyone who is interested to subscribe to the feeds and see what I am up to.

In time I will add these feeds to the sidebar but I thought I would point out today that Feedburner does accept these feeds and that you can use the Feedburner service to drive people towards your stumbles, your diggs or whatever RSS service you like. There’s no holds barred really. If there’s an orange RSS button on the page, Feedburner can burn it for you.

Plus the best part is that since you can now monetize your Feedburner feeds with Adsense ads, you can now turn your various feeds into generating income for you.

Has anyone else done something like this? I’d be interested to hear your experiences.

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