The odds are that you would have been bombarded by news about the Yahoo! Shortcuts plugin, well it’s a good plugin that will be of help to some if not all bloggers and at the moment Yahoo! is only catering for the WordPress powered blogs.
What does this plugin do?
The Yahoo! Shortcuts powered Wordpress plugin is an easy way for bloggers to enrich their blog posts with great content (maps, finance quotes, news headlines, Flickr photos, and much more.) A well placed Shortcut:
* Makes it easy for your readers to see interesting related content in the context of your post.
* Makes your blog more engaging and informative.
How does it work?
As you compose your blog post, the Shortcuts plugin looks for content related to what you are writing about. A Shortcut may lead your reader to a finance quote for a public company, a map of a point of interest, a Flickr image, or information about specific companies, products, and people. When it finds relevant content, it lets you know.
Shortcut recommendations appear on the Shortcuts review page. You control which Shortcuts to add and which to remove. There are two presentation options for Shortcuts.
At the moment the Maps and Flickr features excites me the most, i think it would be great to add Creative Commons licensed photos on a blog post if the photo was related to the article/post, likewise with the Maps feature.
The first 500 bloggers who tries out this plugin will receive a FREE T-Shirt, however it’s only limited to residents of USA.
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January 23rd, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I was also impressed by that Yahoo! ShortCuts Plug-In,but now it just ruined two of my posts it deletes them
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