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Duck My Life: Shoot Ducks on Any Website

Duck My Life is a webapp that allows you to shoot ducks on any site. The idea is simple, a duck appears on your browser and you get to shoot it. The only thing that’s missing is the stupid dog laughing his ass out whenever you miss a shot, which makes me somewhat relieved.

The app is simple enough to use. Users can simply drag the bookmarklet on the bookmarks bar and click it so that ducks will appear on any site. It’s duck carnage where you want it, when you want it. Website owners, on the other hand, can give their visitors the opportunity to massacre some ducks on their own site by placing a javascript code anywhere on the site. Add the line of HTML on any page to give your visitors the quack killing action that they have been asking for.

If you’re asking about the usefulness of this app is, I don’t know. But it can sure take away some boredom for a minute or two. The graphics could sure use some improvement like making it look like that the ducks could actually fly or go in different directions.

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Tags: DuckMyLife, Ducks, Embed, Shoot Ducks, web app

BookBox: Embed a Book Widget

BookBox is a simple service which allows you to create an embeddable widget that contains a list of books that interests you the most. Creating a widget is fast and very simple. There is no registration required and will not ask you for your email address.

You can add and remove books from your widget until your selection satisfies you. Once you have made your selection, you can place a password to protect your list. You’ll also need the password in case you want to add or remove books from your list. All that’s left for you to do now is to copy the embed code and put it on places that allows you to do so.

If you’re looking for something that you can use to showcase your favorite books on your blogs or social networking pages, BookBox is one of the tools that you can use to accomplish the task quickly. Searching for books is a snap through the service. You don’t need to remember the complete title of the book for the partial title will give you a head start in finding the one that you are looking for. This is also great for creating book wish lists and sharing them with your friends.

Tags: Book List, Book Widget, BookBox, Embed, Embed Book Widget, widget

KickLight: Sync Images and Links with Videos

KickLight is a new revolutionary online video service. It allows video makers to add synchronized visual elements, called “kicks,” to online videos. People promoting websites through videos will get a “kick” out of this one. Instead of placing URLs on the video you can place images, text and links that appear along with the video.

A “kick,” as I’ve said, is the element that goes with the video. You can place images and links in your “kicks” and it will follow the video wherever it goes or if it gets embedded somewhere else. Kick Light lets you grab videos from YouTube or KickLight. You can create kicks by using their editor that lets you upload up to 10 images per video. You can place text on each kick and add links to them. You can also edit the transitions of your kicks as they appear when the video is played. After uploading your kicks, all you need to do is grab them to the timeline of your video and save.

KickLight is a great way to add information to your videos without adding them to the actual video. This is great for tutorials and it will probably save you some time embedding texts, URLs and images to your videos. You can place them as “kicks” instead. If your viewers feel that the “kick” distracts them, they can always close it whenever they want.

Check out the sample KickLight video below.

Tags: Embed, images, Kick Light, links, Online Videos, videos, youtube

YouTubeReloaded: Embedabble YouTube Playlist Generator

YouTubeReloaded is a tool that you can use to produce an embeddable playlist for YouTube. This tool is will come in very handy when there is a need for you to publish YouTube videos and don’t want to clutter your page with several players.

There are several options available for you in YouTube Reloaded. There are three playlist types for you to choose from. Just select the playlist type that will match your need. The Search Based playlist allows you to place a search term and a search type that you want. You can choose from the regular search, user’s favorites, related videos and user’s uploads.

The predefined feeds playlist type creates a playlist for Top Rated, Top favorites, Most Viewed, Most Popular, Most Recent and Recently Featured videos. You can further filter the playlist results by placing the time frame.
The custom playlist is probably the best feature of YouTubeReloaded. Simply enter the YouTube URLs or the video IDs on the text box and immediately create a customized YouTube playlist from different uploaders, popular or not, rated or unrated, etc.

Check out the sample playlist below. (created using the search based playlist type)

*I found a similar service called relist.tv. It’s also a YouTube playlist generator but YouTubeReloaded packs more features which makes it the better app. Anyway, the choice is still yours to make.

Tags: Embed, Playlist, Playlist Generator, youtube, YouTubeReloaded

99Chats: A Simple Chat Widget for Websites and Social Networking Profiles

99Chats is simple embeddable chat room for your websites. It’s the latest product of 99Widgets, a widget network that provides webware and social platform services. They provide simple solutions for simple web needs.
The chat widget can easily be created by anybody. I believe that even a child could do it. The customization only goes as far as changing the theme color, background color and the size of the widget. Within the chatroom that you’ve created, you can PM (private message anyone) in another window and chat with everybody on the main page. Being a dead simple chat service, it also has some drawbacks. There are no administrative commands, which would mean that there is no way to control the users that are coming in and out of the chat room. So, be prepared for the Trolls. See the sample chat widget below.

Other 99Widgets Services

99Polls

99polls allows you to create customized surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.

99Counters

With your free account from 99counters you can create customized web counters for your website, blog and social network profiles.

These tools works on most social networking sites and are great for spicing up blog posts.

Tags: 99chats, 99counters, 99polls, 99widgets, Chat, Embed, Live Chat, widgets

TubeGraph: Embedabble Dynamic Rating for YouTube Videos

TubeGraph is a YouTube tool which allows you to place a dynamic rating tool alongside a YouTube video. The dynamic rating comes in the form of a Graph, not unlike the rating feature that we see in YouTube or the post rating plugins that we see on websites.

You can rate a video while watching by moving the slider on the right side of the video. Drag the slider when watching the video and move it up if you like what you’re seeing or down if you don’t like it.

If the video has been rated before, its average graph is displayed. Once you finish rating, your personal graph will also be shown. You can compare your rating against the average rating of the video. This will let you know what others think of the video against your opinion in the form of a graph.

TubeGraph is an interesting YouTube Add-on/Tool. It is still under development.  On the sample below, the graph that you see is the excitement factor of the video. This will let users know which part of the video is the best part according to the people who rated it. It could use some design improvement and high quality support for new YouTube vids, as of now the important thing is that it works.

Sample Video:

Tags: Embed, Graph, rate, TubeGraph, youtube