Do people think widgets grow on trees? Actually, it’s the other way around with an unusual, but laudable, promotion from ABC and the Arbor Day Foundation whereby for every ten times a video is viewed through the widget is viewed a tree will be planted.
While I’m not a fan of the execution of the widget which I find overly complex, I’m a supporter of the cause, so have embedded the widget below. Click on ‘grab it’ on the bottom of the widget to do so yourself and select ‘videos’ from the option.
You can check out progress by clicking on the yellow leaf icon on the bottom right of the widget.
Update: boo, it’s stopped at 100k trees. Not bad going all the same.
As you may notice, I recently added a Flickr feed to the sidebar of TechnoCloud. In part this was to experiment further with Wordpress plugins on a hosted blog, but it was also to give a wider audience to some of my Flickr photos after the original burst of activity died down.
To get a simple feed of thumbnail images to appear on the blog, I experimented with several of the Flickr plugins available on the Wordpress Plugin Directory, but was frustrated that either my version of Wordpress was not compatible, the plugin resulted in a code error or it wasn’t the functionality that I wanted. I won’t name names of the plugins, but needless to say it was a very frustrating evening messing around with code…
Equally frustrating was not spotting the Flickr badge tool buried in the Flickr site nav. Setting it up through the simple wizard was quick and intuitive and mercifully it worked first time.
If only I’d read a blog post like this, I could have saved myself a considerable amount of time…
Ah, the annual tradition of the April fool practical joke. The Telegraph and Mirror are featuring alleged BBC footage of flying penguins tellingly voiced by Python Terry Jones, TechCruch gets in on the act with a well constructed spoof, but Google has caught the eye with two efforts.
First up is a fake joint venture between Virgin and Google to setup the first colony on Mars, complete with a toe-curlingly awkward video from Google’s founders themselves (embeded below).
Second, is actually a pretty amusing and bold effort from YouTube who are RickRolling all of their featured videos in the UK and Australia to redirect them to Rick Astley’s cheesefest ‘Never Gonna Give You Up‘ complete with his hypnotically strange dancing.
A good day to throw off the corporate shackles and show you have a sense of humour.
