Blogs and Social Networks looks at a Social Bookmarking Site, Magnolia. At the free to use social bookmark site, Ma.gnolia.com you can search different topics of sites like Art and Photography.

Ma.gnolia has a featured linker, recent bookmarks, hot groups, and a hot bookmarks tab. Complete with a help page and discover section which allows you to see everyones bookmarks, tags, roots, applications, groups, discussions, newsletters, featured linkers, and also find people.

Ma.gnolia.com

On the roots page, there is a video to show you how to use this area. It is located right next to the “How to Begin” and  has a little blue link called “Roots Screen”.

On the find people page, you can locate your favorite linkers by name, screen name, or email address.

The Chat page has a support index, tutorial, chat, blog, contact us, developer, center, and a wiki! Which I find quite cool

Join by signing in with your Open ID, Yahoo, Facebook, Click Pass, WordPress, AOL, Live Journal, or Type Pad accounts. Just choose one of these, choose a screen name, enter your email address and click

Even hook your Magnolia site straight to Technorati!

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At Yahoo Buzz, one of Yahoo’s Social Bookmarking Sites, stories are ranked by your votes, comments, emails, and searches. You can even see what your friends are “Buzzing” about on the new Yahoo Messenger!

With these updates you can keep up with what your friends and family are “Buzzing”. It shows you the “Top Buzz and the “Up and Coming” as well as the “Just Added”. It also allows you to see the “Top Searches”.

The “Buzz Log” which is what’s hot on Yahoo and why you can submit your own stories. The more stories you submit, the more chances for you to acquire a higher rating and get noticed.

A handy FAQs page loaded with questions and answers for you to find help with navigating the site.

You get a “Buzz Activity” summary with thumbs up and thumbs down voting and a comments area.

Fill up your “My Connections Updates” by voting, sending, and sharing stories on Yahoo Buzz.

Your Yahoo email information gets you a straight connection to this social bookmarking site, so there is not a lengthy sign up. All you need is a Yahoo email address and you are connected.

Some of the latest top stories here at Yahoo Buzz are about Donald Trump, Shelters, Jennifer Hudson, Veterans Day, and Presidential Pooch Watch.

MyBlogLog is another of Yahoo’s Social Bookmark sites. Here you list your sites ( blogs and social networks or web sites ) and other members of MyBlogLog then join your created site group! Submitting any site allows the opportunity for any other member of MyBlogLog to then join the newly formed group that is your site! My Bloglog feed your newest interactions with each of your listed sites to your My Blog Log profile page. The newest inputs like what’s new on Twitter (your shout outs), what new posts you made on all of your blog sites you have listed, or newest photos from the photo sharing sites you have listed on MyBlogLog like PhotoBucket or Flickr.

MyBlogLog has an extensive list to submit your social networks as a feed that also records your newest happenings there.

In my opinion, if MyBlogLog is not currently on your list of social bookmarking sites that you use (weekly is best here), you are certainly missing out.

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Etch - A - Sketch

Throughout history man has created. Created imagery and vision with artistic expression. From God molding the universe, there began creation. Adam and Eve weaving garments of leaves through the Renaissance period, Michaelangelo’s paintings, Picasso’s abstractions, Leonardo’s sketches, The Roman Empire’s aqueducts, Guggenheim’s architecture, to the prose of Shakespeare. We Create.

Yes, creation comes in many forms, manipulating realities, materials, and existences. We admire beauty, structure, form, and depth. Labeling this art is but an addition to this creative process that indeed enhances the form.

Whether our designs come in graphic, language, text, code, utilitarian or visual, monumental or minuscule, as a World we have discovered and introduced creations that have astounded and awed Nations.

With the invention of the Etch – A – Sketch, yes, I begin at my creative introductions; Etch – A – Sketch, Spin – Art, and the Loom Weavers of Mattel and Hasbro, I believe this generation of inventors, artists, and creators of brilliance started with the seemingly simple formations of these wondrous toys. The music, sights, sounds, toys, politics, architecture, and visions of the 70’s and 80’s have emerged and molded the computer generation into an age in the forefront of humanity.

Todays computers wizards came from the inspiration of yesterdays toys. Chemistry sets in a box, Lincoln Logs, Legos, Train Sets, and Red Rider BB Guns with Cowboy Hats and Boot sets all played a role in the expansion of human minds toward the greatness of creating visions and wonder online.

Play – Doh had to have inspired the minds of the creators of the incredibly intense PC game Spore. Spin – Art for the Slide dot com’s photo Slide shows, maybe Lincoln Logs took a role in the ideas for designing a 3D model Log Home program online.

Lite Bright could have caused a “light bulb” to glow brighter in the creation of the home computer and numerous kids have “operated” on walkie talkies, radios, and old TV sets later to become expert repairmen, inventors, and creators of technology. The skilled surgeons today who once played with the still nose lighted board game Operation surely had a steady handful of practice with that toy.

With this in mind, What will todays toys inspire in our youth of tomorrow? Will this high technology entertainment shift the gears of the upcoming geniuses into yet another realm of creativity? The World is waiting.

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Tonights Blogs and Social Networks show is about Christmas Blogs That Shine

Here is the list of Blog sites we are talking about and some of what you can find on each:

MyInkBlog: 10 Fantastic Christmas Inspired Tutorials

ChristmasSprite : Christmas History, Traditions, Wallpaper, more.

Christmas4All.blogspot.com : How to Say Merry Christmas in many Languages, Christmas Prayers, much more.

Thoughts-About-God.com: The Christmas Story and Prayers

ClausChronicles.blogspot.com: Periodic Updates from the North Pole

ChristmasYuleBlog: Christmas Music and More

EMail Santa Childrens Hotlines: Teen and Kids Help Lines listed from across the Globe.

EMail Santa, Santa Claus Christmas Blog: Up to the minute news about what Santa is up to

AcadiaWreath.com/blog/blog.html: Blog about Christmas Wreaths and Other Christmas traditions.

Christmas Blog: Lights and Diplay Webcam link

BloggingTips.com: Take Your blog to the Next Level

WidgetBox HappyChristmas Widget

SantasQuarters.com/blog: Printable Santas Elf Card, Coloring Pages, History of the Christmas Tree and much more.

Spanish Teaching Spanish Christmas: Welcome to our blog for teachers and students of Spanish. Spanish Christmas Calendar

2 Awesome Blog Social Networks for Christmas posts, videos, fun, friends, tips, recipes, and much more.

SantaLiveNow.Ning.com

ChristmasEmporium.Ning.com

Listen into Blogs and Social Networks Christmas Blogs That Shine for more

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Photo Persuasion or “Tweak My Photo” lol

Checking into the Blogs and Social Networks Photo sites again, but this time we researched not only the Photo Sharing, Friending type Social Networks, we got into some cool photo creation, adjustment, tweaker, resize, format change, effect adding, sticker sticking fun to dazzle, sparkle, and otherwise turn an ordinary photo into brilliance

Stevie has some incredible shots she took and then reconfigured at one of (or a few of) these sites listed. Sometimes we take a photo to one site, then take that enhanced photo to another for more fixing until we get it right Here is One Photo Stevie Fluffed:

Check out more on Stevies MySpace

Our Blogs and Social Networks Photo Persuasion show has some great info for people needing to “adjust, tweak, fluff, dress up, sparkle out, resize, and/or change the formats” of your photo images. Add descriptions, keywords, even “tag” to add a live hyperlink to sections of your pictures.

Some of sites we discussed included my top 3

Photobucket: One of the very best “all inclusive” photo sites

Slide: Is the bomb! Rocks for sure, more info on show

Flickr: One of the biggest Photo sharing, holding, and friending sites on the Internet.

PiccyFix: Top Photo site for format changes with much more.

Picnik: Tab Folders and Grass Picnik Welcomes You to Sign up for Free

SoSauce: Travel Geeks Global Curiosity Local Expertise

MyThemeAnimator @ blibs.com/editor: A link from MyTheme to the editor pages but MyTheme also has some awesome MySpace Layouts and Graphics.

FlauntR: From FotoDesk Professional Photo Editing Easy and Free

PhixR: The Online Photo Editor Choose to Sign Up for Free (only takes 15 seconds) No email hassles

We cover in depth what you can do where on the show

But for sure PiccyFix.com is the place I go for format changes from PNG, JPEG, GIF, BMP. No registration here at PiccyFix, Instant and Free. You can choose to host your pics here or show them off in the gallery and PiccyFix can adjust your photos much more than just format changes

Resize, Rotate, Flip, Colorize, Crop, Tint, Adjust Brightness, Contrast, and Add Effects and Borders at PiccyFix

My first and major draw to PiccyFix (format changes). PiccyFix is a fairly straight forward with not a lot of “color” because you add the color with your photos Add keywords and descriptions. When you choose hosting, go ahead and click on the link to the hosting info, it may matter to you or not depending on what you use your photo for here. I usually just fix my piccy and download the correction back to my comp.

PiccyFix has an awesome eye opener post on their info page that Stevie and I always try to convey to everyone “How Private R Hosted Pictures?” Just like all public picture hosting sites (that do not have a privacy setting) … Not At All Hosting at a public site is at your own risk

PiccyFix makes it easy to use without registration, but because no registration, no saving pics really (except short term in the gallery) or home page for you. So, fix your photo here and then take it back to Flickr or PhotoBucket (or other photo storage site) for holding.

You are creating memories here guys, with your snapshots but everyone can’t be a great photographer. This is where the “fluff” sites come into play. Crop, cover up, add sparkle to take away that “bad” photo and turn it into a great one (memories kept for years to come

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Tonight’s show was great and we covered the best for Christmas graphics, layouts, and comments that we found on the net! Listen in for many tips on what sites house which type or theme of Christmas graphic, layout, comments, and all the extras like countdowns, dividers, fluff and bling.

MyGirlySpace

My favorite of the sites we covered tonight is MyGirlySpace.com. With the animated graphics, Christmas MySpace animations, Christmas banners, mini banners, funny pics, icon collages, MySpace icons, posters, non animated graphics, dividers, glitter graphics, dolls, falling snowflakes (neato!, WordPress is using this here on the log in news page , and Christmas music.

At My Girly Space, there are codes 1.0 layouts and also for the 2.0 CSS layouts. Great selection, easy to navigate site

WonderChristmas.com is all about Christmas from backgrounds, banners, clipart, countdowns, games, and even coloring pages. Great Christian and Santa based themes here.

ABCFamily.com has the coolest of snowglobes for your sites sponsored by Glade!

LayoutsForChristmas.com

ChristmasMySpaceGraphics.com has funny videos and pics also online now.

XmasJoys.com with contact tables, about Christmas, cursors, ecards, humor, recipes, and stories.

HolidayJoys.com with animated gifs, icons, games, comments, screen captures, and wallpaper for MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5.

CoolHolidayGraphics.com also an awesome site for Christmas graphics, layouts, and comments.

ChristmasProfile.com

WishChristmas.com (find out more about these sites on our show)

Pimp-My-Profile.com has new layouts as well for the 2.0 MySpace with 36 plus pages of Christmas MySpace, Friendster, and Hi5 layouts.

Recadosdaweb.com has some awesome Betty Boop classic graphics and 12 plus pages of Christmas Graphics in English, Potuguese, and Spanish all with a switch up click of the mouse from one language to another.

PhotoCube3D.com for some added Sparkle and bling to “Glow” out your site!

Sparkle Tags

SparkleTags.com with over 46 pages of comment graphics you can actually vote on!

MyHotComments.com R U looking for Christmas Betty Boop? Look no further than My Hot Comments. They are ready for MySpace 2.0 as well.

PopDarts.com selection of snowglobes and Christmas graphics is fairly large but the interaction with Gigya.com (the easy tool for posting on MySpace, Friendster, Bebo, Orkut, Facebook, Tagged, Blogger, Hi5, Live Spaces, Piczo, FreeWebs, Live journal, Black Planet, My Yearbook, WordPress, Vox, Typepad, Xanga, Page Flakes, Muliply, iGoogle, Net Vibes, and MiGente) is a huge draw to this site. Now, Wavecritter (my Mom), tried the embed code directly to a post at Blogger, no good there, so I would post using the Gigya system, but how easy is that?

Find out more about Gigya.com by visiting the site and click on the “About” tab at the top. A great read to find out the “meat” of this site! How it works and what’s going on at Gigya. “Giving people the power to socialize and share across the web.”

My Moms very favorite site  is WishAFriend.com with 47 pages of christmas MySpace Layouts! Which is where she got hers for MySpace.com/Surfcritter, her writer site at MySpace (we all know she will not readily convert or change that sites layout “Remains in the Rain” at Wavecritters MySpace If you haven’t yet seen this creation, go by and visit.

Wish A Friend has ready to go preview layouts here for either 1.0 or 2.0 MySpace Christmas layouts. Wish A Friend is set up with the browser/user in mind, they keep the site clean, easy to navigate with awesome on site search area also. Be sure to add Wish a friend to your friends list over at MySpace, Friendster, Tagged, and Hi5. Easy to do directly from the Wish A friend main site. Great choices and you can’t go wrong at Wish A Friend. If you’re looking for extras like countdowns, Quotes, and surveys, they have these too as well as a click away to Portuguese and Spanish.

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