Searching the Depths of Your Online Self and Quoting Others
Posted on January 23, 2008
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Here are two great little web tools I’ve come across lately:
Lijit is a great little search tool that Sue Waters recommended to me. With Lijit, you can create a customised search engine that searches ALL of your content on the web - you delicious links, you other blogs, your LinkedIn profile, your You Tube channel - the lot! Simply sign up for an account, then enter all your details about the trail you have left all over the web, customise the ‘wijit’ and off you go! You can find my lijit search ‘wijit’ on the Resources page of my other blog, technoLOTE. Lijit is a great way to keep your readers on your blog/s and within your network.
Another great resource I’ve noticed mentioned in a few different places and finally decided just now to try out is Kwout. Kwout allows you to take a screen shot of a webpage to post to your blog or flickr account. That’s how I did the Lijit image above, and how I’ve done the one below as well. As you can see, it lets you decide whether or not to have a border around each quote (sorry: kwout) and it gives you a hyperlink to the site you have quoted. Notice I deleted that from the Lijit one above - just to see if I could! Only problem with that is it takes the hyperlink away as the image itself is not a link. So, if deleting that part make sure you are putting a link in somewhere else in the post!
Ah, I love little discoveries like this. Got any more for me?
kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout
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Great finds, Jess! I’ve been dying to try out Kwout and even have a blog post started about it, but for some reason it’s not working on my computer. Maybe it’s Internet Explorer, not sure. Anyway, just haven’t wanted to rave about it until I could actually USE it! One think I love is http://twitthis.com - it allows you to really easily send a tweet about whatever you’re looking at
Kate