First Time on Twitter?

I understand exactly how you may feel if you're first time on twitter. I signed up on twitter with all my curiosity. Here are some widgets apps for Twitter you might like to use:

Do you have great Twitter apps you can recommend? There are lots of apps and it takes time to use all of them at once.



Twitter Widgets at WishAFriend.com





Source: http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps#BadgesandWidgets

Badges and Widgets

• Twitter Name Tag - create and print a unique twitter nametag for your next meeting or social gathering.
• Sprout - Create a rich multimedia widget that pulls in your Twitter feed and photos.
• TwitterSALT- Twitter to Image: Monitoring & Conversion Service. Paste one line of HTML into any web document and your twitters will show up in that document from one to three minutes after you twitter. Works on MySpace, Facebook, Craigslist, BBS Forums, email, and, of course, your own blog or webpage.
• TweetRoll - Add a badge to your website or blog to show avatars from other tweeter you're following and how many followers/friends you have. Now with personalisation options to let you specify colours, size and tagline. Also available as a Wordpress widge
• SayTweet Twitter Badge - Create a Twitter badge using your own picture! Upload a picture, tag users in that picture, and have their tweets appear in speech bubbles. Embed the badge in your blog, website, or MySpace!
• Kent Brewster's Twitterati Badge - Interactive Twitter badge; single-line JavaScript include, highly customizable, lets you start with your followers (or mine, or anybody's) and surf around from follower set to follower set.
• Netvibes Twitter Widget - Official Netvibes Twitter Widget
• Twitter King Widget - UWA for Netvibes and Google by Porno Schorsch
• Twitter Web Badges - The official Twitter web badges (available in Flash or Javascript flavors) for showing your recent tweets or friends list on your web site.
• Chris' Twitter Badge -- a simple javascript badge that matches Twitter.com's color scheme. Code included.
• Jon Aquino's Twitter Badge - a modification of the official Javascript web badge that shows multiple recent tweets and fixes a date parsing issue in IE. Source code included.
• Morgan Aldridge's Twitter Badge - another modification of the official Javascript web badge that shows one or more recent tweets, the twitterer's icon, links to tweet permalinks, and has more CSS hooks for better styling. Source code included.
• Wishafriend.com Twitter Widgets - Display your latest Tweets (Twitter updates) on your blog, website, myspace profile or anywhere else in a cool flash widget. Themes include flowers, smileys, hearts, etc.
• Twitter WordPress Sidebar Widget a WordPress Widget plugin for your blog as an alternative to the badges provided by Twitter.
• Twitter Planet -- a Twittervision-like Windows Live gadget.
• Twitter Flash Clock - flash clock which can be embed on twitter pages.
• WithFriendsHtmlTwitterBadge - an HTML Twitter Badge that shows the "With Friends" feed.
• Tweets -- iGoogle gadget (can be used also for OpenSocial containers).Navigation through the social graph of Twitter users, showing their tweets and persons they are following. See also http://gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http://www.openopensocial.com/apps/tweets.xml for web version (430px wide).
• TwitterCard -- Create a 125x125 Twitter business card widget to put on your blog and display bio and recent status.
• TwitterMySite -- Create custom "follow me" buttons for your blog with any text included in the image!
• Sigpad -- put your Twitter status in your email signature.
• TweetThis -- Add "TweetThis" button to your blogger.com blog and increase the visibility of your blog post. Let your blog readers to tweet about your post with a simple mouse click.
• TwitIMG -- Provides you with an automatically updating image for use on forums and blogs. Just tweet, your image is updated with your latest tweet.

Enjoy tweeting! Follow me and I will follow you back!

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How "Boggle" and "Word Factory" Came About

Word game players are all aware that "Boggle" 4x4 grid lettered dice is the origin of the "Word Factory" 5x5 grid version. Unfortunately, there is no clear record of the patented made in the Philippines as I update this article somehow someone deleted the information through Wikipedia via Boggle history. Instead, Wikidpedia re-written it "no version of Boggle offering a 5×5 grid was marketed outside Europe for an extended period until recently^[when?]". Kabayan speak up!

Wikipedia records "Boggle is a word game designed by Alan Turoff in 1972 and trademarked by Parker Brothers and Hasbro. The game is played using a 4x4 grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters."

In the Philippines, a similar game which was first distributed in 1978 and is still in circulation up to the present is the game "Word Factory." The game was first patented in the Philippines, and is currently being manufactured and distributed to selected retailers by the Philippines-based game manufacturer, 13 P.M. Enterprises. Word Factory was a variation on the version of Boggle as it existed in 1978, using a 5x5 grid instead of a 4x4 one, and using plastic dice instead of wooden ones. At present, the game is being marketed to other countries, targeting mostly migrant Filipino families.

In a nutshell, 1978 when "Word Factory" game was first distributed in the Philippines not long after the "Boggle" game relaunched and redesigned their marketing sell in 1976 since its birth in 1972. However, the "Word Factory" as one of the Boggle game variants has no record yet on Wikipedia as we speak.


Which game word do you like to play guys offline?

I first came to know about and play the "Word Factory" when I was in high school 1990's until it really worn out with my family and friends. It was a gift by our parents when we were bored playing scrabble when no internet and no loads of toys unlike kids in the Western world. We played it until worn out by putting tape over it/rewrite the letter on the dices when we get to college. Mind you the three-minute timer still working, enough timer for cooking eggs! It did last long and it's worth a brain exercise!

Word Factory is better for me because it has 5x5 grid dices and it is still flexible to play with 3-4 letter word for kids and adult. At long last, I bought my own new one "Word Factory" from the Philippines for about P349.75 worth (AU$10.00 depending on the rate conversion). Word Factory can have 2-6 players ages 7 to 77 or even older as far as the brain can work. Why not 90 year old?



Can you form any word below starting 4 letter word?
1. hello
2. pies
3. tries
4. cries
you may continue by putting on the comments below for a try.





Source:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle
2. 13 P.M. Enterprises, Quezon City Philippines
3. A Beginners Guide to Boggle (Volume 1) By Rutha Turnquist
4. Me, myself, the Gen X consumer

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Youtube Phenomenon (Origin)

If you browse the web, you'll come across many websites that has one or more video clips embedded in it. News websites such as BBC and CNN fall in this category. But, what about a website that has only video clips and nothing else? This is exactly what the Youtube Phenomenon is all about. To those who have not heard about Youtube, it is a video sharing website where one could upload, share, and watch video clips - Youtube videos - for free. It is owned by Google.

Here is a bit history of what all went behind in the making of Youtube.com. Little had the three former PayPal employees - Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim, and Steve Chen - anticipated about the growth and fame Youtube would achieve in less than one year since its inception, when they first planned such a video sharing website. An out-of-the box idea, Youtube.com was launched as an unknown new website on February 15, 2005 with virtually no promotion. The website with its full features become operational few month later; the first preview of the website was offered in May 2005 and its official debut in November the same year. As it had been with many great path breaking projects in the past, the incubation days of Youtube took place in a modest garage in California, much like its present owner's - Google - beginnings, who started their journey from a leased space in a Menlo Park garage in 1998.

The beginnings of Youtube was pretty modest and its creators more than once at least went through a cash crunch as the visitors to the website grew and the need for better infrastructure and technology became inevitable. Irony it may be that the first helping hand they got which had pulled them out of the financial crisis was that of the venture capital firm Sequoia, the very same firm that had funded Google in its early years. Sequoia invested $3.5 million initially in Youtube, the stake which they upped to $8 million few months later, realizing the vast potential Youtube.com has in the fast growing world of infotainment in the near future.

Another development that had immensely helped catapulting Youtube into the forefront of online entertainment industry came from rather unexpected quarters, in the form of new software tool - the Flash Player 8 by Macromedia - that enabled people to view Youtube videos directly from their web browsers without having to download it into their PCs and view it with the help of third party software programs such as Windows Media Player or RealOne Player. In fact, it not only eliminated the need to view downloaded files in third party tools, but also provided a far improved video quality than its predecessor, Flash Player 7. Had it not been for the new Flash Player, the Flash Player 8, it is unlikely that Youtube.com would have taken off this fast, in such a short span of time.

As of today, Youtube.com, under the umbrella of Google, is the fastest growing video website in the globe and the 10th most popular amongst all websites in the cyberspace, according to the latest Alexa ratings. Nearly 100 million video clips from Youtube are seen by netizens daily and around 65,000 new Youtube videos are added every day into the database. The number of netizens visiting Youtube every month is thought to be anywhere near 20 million. No wonder, Youtube.com is described not as a website, but as a phenomenon by market experts.

By: Andrew Jones

Author Bio
Wirnik - owner of www.TopYouTubeVideos.com : Most amazing YouTube videos on Earth.

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