Slideshows and Maps
We have added a couple of new ways for you to put content on your blog.
The first is RockYou slideshows. RockYou makes it super easy to upload a bunch of photos and create a slideshow with captions and music. We eagerly await collections of your kids, kittens and favorite celebrities. Instructions for how to embed one of their slideshows are in our FAQ. You can also find a link to RockYou in the slideshow tab below the edit window where you compose your blog posts.
The second is a way for you to add maps to your blog using the Platial service. You create a map, drop it on your blog and then you and your readers can add markers and comments to the map. It’s a great way to collaboratively figure out where to find the cheapest gas or the best beer in town. Their maps can be added to your blog’s sidebar using the Platial Mapkit widget. To try it simply go to the Sidebar Widgets section of your blog, grab their widget and follow the instruction in the widget’s configuration link.
Posted: Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 9:05 pm. Filed in Widgets.
Tags: Maps, Platial, RockYou, Slideshows
Mar 22nd at 9:38 pm
You chaps vanished for a long time! But thanks for the good work. Been looking forward to the maps for a while now.
Mar 22nd at 10:10 pm
GREAT
Mar 22nd at 10:59 pm
NICE!
Mar 22nd at 11:07 pm
Thanks! You’re spoiling us.
Mar 22nd at 11:13 pm
cool!!
Mar 22nd at 11:20 pm
woah. This is space age. Super cool features!
Mar 22nd at 11:39 pm
This is great Toni, will go and try it out…
Mar 22nd at 11:44 pm
ooh! I like the slideshows!
Mar 23rd at 12:00 am
Im usign platial few days a go, its very funny see where are from the readers, thanks guys
Mar 23rd at 12:01 am
Very cool! Platial looks particularly interesting- thanks for exposing us to these great new services.
Mar 23rd at 12:03 am
this really rocz………..
Mar 23rd at 12:18 am
Thanks for the additions! I already use Platial for Volos, Greece since 2-3 weeks now
Mar 23rd at 12:19 am
Done! I have a bebo page (for what i’s worth!) and just transferred it over. I’ll add more pics soon.
Thanks for this.
Mar 23rd at 12:25 am
Super, very easy!!! thanks!!!
Mar 23rd at 12:29 am
Very nice. Now if Platial and RockYou took the WordPress OpenID login, that would be really nice.
Mar 23rd at 12:37 am
Thanks! that’s great!
But there’s a pretty useful widget that you could put available: polls or surveys! That would be awsome!
Keep up the excellent work!
Mar 23rd at 12:38 am
This is so cool!
I can’t wait to use this- it’ll help add to the ‘atmosfear’ on my blog
Your devoted fan
anita
Mar 23rd at 12:43 am
the slideshow thing is really cool and i’m eager to use it… the map widget looks seems a neat idea, but seeing as how i live in the world’s smallest town it may not be so useful…
Mar 23rd at 12:45 am
Awesome! I’ll have to check out both those sites.
Mar 23rd at 12:50 am
grrreeaaat!
Mar 23rd at 1:15 am
Awesome updates!
Mar 23rd at 1:35 am
Another nice addition to the collection of plug-ins.
I am however waiting for the much awaited Tag Cloud Generator feature.
Mar 23rd at 1:36 am
Awesome! Thanks so much for giving us these options. I have a feeling I’m gonna have fun with these two.
Mar 23rd at 1:36 am
Yeah, I’ve seen both of those earlier.
Not too sure on the slideshow, the first look I had didn’t impress me very much. Need to play around with it a bit more.
Mar 23rd at 2:03 am
Thanx! Something else to play with! I love this place.
Mar 23rd at 2:25 am
how about photo/video montages from Onetruemedia.com?
Mar 23rd at 2:26 am
Just to follow -up I got this up on my blog and it’s so cool I’m telling the artists in my writer’s group to hook up to this as well…and yes indeed it added much needed atmosfear to my macabre little blog
Mar 23rd at 2:35 am
Thank you people.
Mar 23rd at 3:11 am
great work, gang. i’ve been using platial on my feeds page ever since you sneaked it into the widget options box. very cool app. thanks!
Mar 23rd at 3:42 am
Wow.. I love those features….. you guys rock!!!
thanks a lot..
Mar 23rd at 4:05 am
:::jump for joy:::
Mar 23rd at 4:34 am
Neat! Hmmm… wonder what I’ll do with this??
Mar 23rd at 4:52 am
Cool
Mar 23rd at 4:58 am
i love the slideshow feature, and platial mapkit sounds like an interesting addition, but they’re both killers for my dial-up!
Mar 23rd at 5:01 am
Slideshow sounds great. Thanks
Mar 23rd at 5:22 am
Hey, I noticed that. I saw and tested the Platial widget a little while back.
The RockYou slideshow is a cool idea too. I see that it is compatible with Photo Bucket. Very cool.
Thanks Toni.
Mar 23rd at 5:59 am
Thanks for the map service. I have already enabled it..
Mar 23rd at 6:00 am
slideshows… i will love that …
Mar 23rd at 6:05 am
wordpress rocks !!!!
Mar 23rd at 6:29 am
I created one sample… check out
Mar 23rd at 6:56 am
Really cool. What about Zooomr and flickr integrating for slideshows!
Thanks guys.
Mar 23rd at 6:56 am
This new slideshow thing looks pretty good. WordPress just keeps getting better!
Mar 23rd at 7:30 am
Wow bagus banget, coba ah..
Mar 23rd at 7:48 am
good
tnx
Mar 23rd at 8:01 am
Wonderful Widget!!! Thank you!!
Mar 23rd at 8:28 am
great… see the slideshow http://majhiduniya.wordpress.com/2007/03/23/art-of-paper-cutting/
Mar 23rd at 8:38 am
I’ve been trying Platial since a while now! Wondered back then why there wasn’t any announcement
Thanks anyways for these nifty features!
Mar 23rd at 9:09 am
Nice features, especially the slideshow thingy. Thanks Toni.
Mar 23rd at 9:45 am
thank you!!
Mar 23rd at 10:27 am
Hmmm… Would rather have seen Picase integrated into WP…
Mar 23rd at 10:33 am
Both of these are going to be very welcome. Thanks, guys!
Mar 23rd at 10:45 am
Thanks, i wil try this
Mar 23rd at 10:58 am
sounds excting! I’m off to try them out. u
Mar 23rd at 11:14 am
Nice feature… I like it.
Mar 23rd at 11:15 am
Man, you guys are way too good for us. There are so many features now I can’t even keep up!
Mar 23rd at 11:31 am
That’s great. The more features you add, the more we enjoy using WP.
Mar 23rd at 11:49 am
How about adding ability to add powerpoint slides? slideshare.net?? I think that would be really cool
Mar 23rd at 11:53 am
Fantastic stuff. Slideshows are a great addition.
Mar 23rd at 12:18 pm
Cool! This will be a great way to put pictures of my scrapbooks up for my long distance parents to view! Yeah!
I was growing tired of some of the youTube “singles” adverts–just decided to “boycott” them yesterday on that basis. This is awesome timing.
Mar 23rd at 12:23 pm
no more picture overflow! =) tnx wordpress!
toodles.
Mar 23rd at 12:23 pm
thats cool
thanks a lot.
This would get handy, but I think the ma option is there quite a while
Mar 23rd at 12:30 pm
Yeess!
I’ve been waiting for this!
Super, guys.
I’ll be trying it out.
Mar 23rd at 12:53 pm
Very very neat – thank you guys again!
Mar 23rd at 12:58 pm
Super!!!! Fantastic stuff guys. Thanks \m/
Mar 23rd at 1:36 pm
ıt is very nice thanks wordpress
Mar 23rd at 1:51 pm
Where’s SlideShare.net??
Mar 23rd at 1:51 pm
Cool!
Thanks.
Mar 23rd at 1:52 pm
I love the Platial widget, but when will we be able to use a larger map in a post or on a separate page?
Mar 23rd at 2:05 pm
Cool new functionality guys, Thanks!
Mar 23rd at 2:28 pm
You ppl rock…
Mar 23rd at 2:31 pm
you guys are cool,
Mar 23rd at 2:43 pm
sounds decent. thanks…
Mar 23rd at 2:56 pm
Nice, thanks
I always love wordpress, congratulations.
Mar 23rd at 3:19 pm
Slideshows!!! Wow wee!! Finally I don’t have to clutter my blog with loads of pictures!!! Nice move, you guys!!!
The MapKit sounds interesting too. Must try it out one of these days!
Mar 23rd at 4:34 pm
That sounds WONDERFUL!!!! Thank you very much guys!!!!
Mar 23rd at 4:38 pm
Wow. I guess the best thing would be to say, you guys rock.
Mar 23rd at 4:54 pm
Maps seem cool but right now it’s loading Phatty McSlow! Probably because Palatial is suddenly being assaulted by 100,000 WordPress blog requests…
Cool addition though.
Mar 23rd at 5:46 pm
I’ve got the Platial map on my blog already. Very nice. Thanks, WordPress.
Mar 23rd at 6:22 pm
This is very exciting, off to play wid it!
Mar 23rd at 6:27 pm
Awesome…slideshows…wooot!!! er…dammit now i need a camera
Mar 23rd at 6:44 pm
Very cool, looking forward to playing with the new features.
Mar 23rd at 6:44 pm
Slideshows? As if I’m not wasting enough time already.
Thanks very much.
Mar 23rd at 7:16 pm
Used the map thing before, funny it wasn’t mentioned before, but the slideshow thing is way cool, thanks
Mar 23rd at 7:57 pm
Yay love the slide show. You guys are the best!
Mar 23rd at 8:16 pm
I tried the maps and found them too small and too much of a fiddleeee thing. Could you add a giant footer widget to all blogs? It might serve many purposes – maps included.
Mar 23rd at 8:31 pm
Map thingy is good ..
Mar 23rd at 8:42 pm
I have gotta try this, I have three or four maps….
Mar 23rd at 8:44 pm
Super nice! I am on already! Rock!
Mar 23rd at 9:33 pm
wow!! kool!
Mar 23rd at 10:51 pm
I’m looking forward to trying out the slide show.
Thanks
Mar 23rd at 11:05 pm
Flickr slideshows might be good too
Mar 23rd at 11:13 pm
and here i am again in amazement! thanks yall!
Mar 23rd at 11:15 pm
I noticed this earlier today. Nice.