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I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make sure and click on the second tab of the submission window and ‘mark your tag as public’. This makes the link public and indexable by the search engines.
I’ve seen backlinks from Jumptags appear in both Google and Yahoo, so they both index the bookmarks and rather quickly at that.
As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought I’d check it out. It turns out that Yahoo bookmarks has been around for some time, but in beta for the last year..
I installed the bookmarklet and hopped over to a few quick sites. The bookmarklet was very fast and I was able to bookmark and tag a page in probably under 8 seconds. (like bull-riding but backwards)
The interface as a whole has a lot of Ajax and seems to run a lot faster than del.icio.us
Why does it look like it’s hardly being used?
Is this a stealth Beta of some kind? They just released Yahoo Buzz yesterday, how many more products are up their sleeve ?
Why not remodel your existing Del.icio.us franchise instead of starting over with a new bookmarking platform?
What are your first impressions of Yahoo! Bookmarks?
Does anyone know why the exposure of this site is so small? Or have I been living in a cave or something?
Ok, the new Squidcasts are pretty awesome. Let’s talk about why for a minute.
- You can now communicate directly to your visitors with little thoughts and tidbits. This is awesome.
- You can announce new events or updates across the squidoo universe (well, YOUR squidoo universe)
This is good. Really good.
But how do you promote your squidcasts to others ? Each Lens’ RSS Feed will show the casts you send out for that lens.
This effectively means that you can get the RSS aggregators (Zimbio, Technorati, etc.) to treat your lens as a blog.
Wait a minute.. submitting ALL of my lenses to these sites AND writing casts for each lens? That will take forever and probably piss off all your fans with all those casts.
Wouldn’t it be nice to submit ALL of your squidcasts as ONE RSS feed? Yes, it would.
But wait, there isn’t a way to promote that RSS feed because it doesn’t exist…
That’s what the Captain’s for!
I have written a yahoo Pipe that allows you to create a feed for ALL your squidcasts. When you submit this feed to blog sites, your feed is updated every time you write ANY squidcast.
How to use it:
Go visit the Pipe here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/captainsquid/fan_feed
Enter your lensmaster name. Your SquidCast Feed will be automatically generated.
right-click on the ‘more options’ link and click ‘copy link location’.
Now paste your new uberfeed into whatever RSS submittor you want! Need some Ideas? Check out my posts on Free RSS Submission Sites and Using Zimbio to automatically promote your site.
Ta Da!
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-The Captain
