Writers Write, Inc., the parent company of BloggersBlog.com, has added a new blog to its blog network called FantasySFBlog.com. Fantasy/SF Blog is a daily blog covering what’s new and interesting in the worlds of fantasy, SF, and horror, including books, movies, TV and gaming. Recent posts include: Lost: The Orchid Orientation Video Is Peter Jackson Back on Board for The Hobbit? Finalists Announced For British Fantasy Awards Saw IV Coming in October Will Tom Cruise Join the Star Trek Cast? The Dresden Files Is Cancelled ABC Offers Masters of Science Fiction The Beowulf Trailer is Here Johnny Depp Is Barnabas Collins RSS subscription informaton for Fantasy/SF Blog can be found here. Posted in New Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Signed Costume Jewelry Vol. 1
Signed Costume jewelry Vol. 1 - Sisco MTV7 Solid Hardwood Utility Chest Looking for a tool chest that’s as finely crafted as the tools it houses? Or perhaps a utility chest to house fine jewelry, games, or a favorite collection? The four-drawer (five-compartment) Sisco MTV7 is versatile enough […]

Mental Jewelry
Mental jewelry Customer Review: worst album of the nineties These guys are the biggest joke in rock music. All of these 5 star reviews are an even bigger joke. Ed Kowizsychik(SP) or however you want to spell it sounds as pathetic as he looks. This is garbage, plain & simple. Im glad radio is […]

Web Searchers Know YouTube’s Videos Are Funny
Here’s a great example about how YouTube is becoming the top choice when people search for videos - at least funny ones. A Hitwise entry shows that searches for “funny videos” have been falling while search for “youtube” have become more frequent. Muhammad Saleem notes that while we can’t forget the “correlation doesn’t imply causation” rule from statistics class there does seem to be a correlation in this case. Note: This data is UK specific so it may not correlate with search trends in the U.S. and other countries. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Google Launches Embeddable Maps
Google has announced the launch of its embeddable maps feature that makes it easy to post a map on a blog or website. Today we’re excited to announce a new feature on Google Maps that allows you to add maps to your blog or website just by copying and pasting a snippet of HTML. And once you embed the map, it has all the same functionality of the Google Maps you know and love; it’s clickable, draggable, and zoomable. Adding a map to your website or blog is now as easy as embedding a YouTube video. No programming skills are required, and there’s no need to sign up for a Maps API key. Embedding the code is easy to do. You just look for the “Link to this page” on the top right-hand corner of Google Maps and then cut and paste the code. Here is a map of New York City as an example. The embeddable maps offer many of the the same features found at maps.google.com website. View Larger Map Google Maps Mania says geo searches are also embeddable. As we mentioned before there are a lot of potential uses of this service such as providing a map on a travel-related entry or posting directions to a concert or conference. Posted in Widgets Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Ads Start Appearing on Some YouTube Videos
YouTube blogs that they have started running YouTube InVideo ads on some of the YouTube videos for “select partners.” Over the past few weeks, you may have noticed that we’ve been working with select partners to improve YouTube’s presentation of advertising on their videos in a manner that brings you creative, compelling content and should also increase revenue flow to artists and content owners. So what’s new? Today we’re offering select partners the ability to incorporate YouTube InVideo ads into their content. These are animated overlays that appear on the bottom 20 percent of a video. If you’re interested by what you see there, clicking on the overlay launches a deeper interactive video ad that we think is relevant and entertaining. (The video you were watching is temporarily paused.) If you choose not to click on the overlay, it will simply disappear, so that you’re in full control of your YouTube experience. Google spent a long time trying to come up with this ad concept and it seems like they went for a concept that is fairly unobtrusive. The ads can easily be turned off and appear at the bottom of videos. A last100 post which says the YouTube ads “are not that bad” has screenshots of a few of the ads including an ad for The Simpsons movie that shows Homer chasing after a donut. The Homer donut ad can be seen on Madina Lake’s “House of Cards” music video. The Crime Mob - Rock Yo Hips music video contains an ad from Warner Brothers. The YouTube ads start up 15 seconds into the video and take up the bottom 20% of the screen. The San Francisco Chronicle and New York Times have more details about the YouTube ad concept. The comments on YouTube’s post about the ads range from those grudgingly accepting the ads to outright annoyance. Some people will tolerate the ads: jernov: “i personally don’t like it that much, but it’s better than an advertisement movie playing in front of the video you want to see, making you wait for the whole thing to start. i don’t like it, but it could be worse.” 123woow: “i think its a good idea people will see the advertisements more often and they cant really complain about it annoying them or being intrusive to the video because you can manually click it away easily. Good job YouTube” randiicom: “I’m okay with this, but eventually it would get boring. I wouldn’t subscribe to anyone who does this, but it wouldn’t stop me from watching one of their videos. It’d be great though to get money for the videos you’ve made.” The negative comments indicate some YouTube users may even unsubscribe from videos that contain the ads. johnbrouwer1: “It wrecks your youtube video! Terrible TERRIBLE idea!” sjmaerz: “I knew the team at Google would find a way to screw this up. Goodbye, YouTube, it was fun while it lasted.” splitforces: “gawd advertising is in everything now. first it wuz comerrcials in the middle of my shows and now the middle of my fav online videos. i shall unsubscribe to any1 who would do that.” losereligionrem: “sounds dumb… if i wanted to see advertisement… i’d just watch tv…” Updates: CNET says Matt Harding from the popular “Where the Hell is Matt?” videos doesn’t like the new YouTube ads. And a post on Wired’s Epicenter blog says the Chief Marketing Officer from VideoEgg says Google’s new YouTube video ads are just like theirs. Posted in Videos Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com Advertisement: Keep up with the greeting card industry. Click here to add the greeting cards blog to your favorite news reader.

Giants Jennings: Souped-Up Cars for a Souped-Up Guy
Michael Jennings is trying to make the Giants again, and he is trying to kindle a customized car business, for which his own vehicle is advertising. Collecting: Leaving Well Enough Alone: The Rise of the Unrestored Classic A reverence for original finishes and the patina of time is developing among collectors of classic cars. Design: […]

Boing Boing Launches Gadget Blog
The people behind the popular Boing Boing blog have decided to take on blogs like Engadget, Gizmodo and the other gadget blogs. You can see a longer list of gadget blogs here on HowToWeb.com. Boing Boing’s gadget blog is called Boing Boing Gadgets or bbGadgets for short. Boing Boing co-founder Mark Frauenfelder announced the launch of the new blog and says Joel Johnson, a former Gizmodo editor and Dethroner founder, will be editing Boing Boing’s gadget blog. Our third major change is the launch of a brand new blog: Gadgets.boingboing.net. While Boing Boing has always covered personal technology, the four of us (Cory, David, Xeni, and I) believed a critical, intelligent, optimistic, and selective blog about personal technology and consumer electronics would be a fine addition to Boing Boing. But who could we trust to oversee a tech blog that the four of us would want to read? Actually, it wasn’t hard to find that person. We went straight to Joel Johnson, a former Gizmodo editor and founder of Dethroner. Joel is smart, funny, knowledgeable, and curious about technology. He was our first, and unanimous, choice to run Gadgets.boingboing.net. And we’re grateful he agreed to come on board. Other changes on Boing Boing include a cleaner look and the return of comments. Teresa Nielsen Hayden, who has a blog called Making Light, will be managing Boing Boing’s comments and community. Posted in Gadget Blogs Permalink | Recent Headlines | WWFeeds.com

Uniden Bearcat BC72XLT Handheld Scanner
Uniden Bearcat BC72XLT Handheld Scanner Versatile, compact, and easy to use, the Uniden BC72XLT handheld scanner offers a simple way to monitor the “action” bands, including police and fire channels (including rescue and paramedics), NOAA weather transmissions, business and industrial radio broadcasts, utilities, marine and amateur (ham radio) bands, air bands, and more. In […]

Case data entry, case assignment and tracking, ARs, scanning and customer interaction, etc
Service of Process and Private Detective Agency in Rockville, MD, is seeking a full-time Assistant Office Manager to conduct the following duties: Case data entry, Assign and track cases, invoicing, account receivables, prepare reports and vari…… parts driver/warehouse stocker parts driver/warehouse stocker […]

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