MySpace Captchas No More :)
Woooooot!!! To Tom and MySpace 🙂
The Captchas can go if you wish them to and you have a mobile number!!! 🙂
This is the greatest Blogs and Social Networks News EVER!!! MySpace has listened to the people and will not be surpassed by Facebook anymore 🙂
I (for one, I am sure out of millions:) is super excited over the news 🙂
This is the form you fill out: (under your account settings page)
This will eliminate the captchas from your ISP, your personal computer, so if there are multiple users in your home, no worries!!! One cell phone, one number for texting, and no more captchas for all!!! Thank you MySpace! Thank You Tom 🙂 You do rock!!!
Visit Toms MySpace blog for details!
Stephanie and Stevie Haile aka Wavecritter and Teen Girls Radio Google Us 🙂
Blogs and Social Networks Online Radio
Listening to your favorite music while surfing the net can be a real treat. Online Radio! For music lovers it way enhances the time spent at your computer. We recently did a show on this very topic at Blogs and Social Networks online radio called Online Radio 🙂 Listen in for even more online radio ideas.
Live365 and Jango – Find stations that play your favorites, not so much a “design your own” radio station, but a location search first. Live365 has an upgrade option for VIP membership but check it as a free member to see what you think of it. The navigator is very different from Jango and has less “fluff” and “bling” but more tabs. Both sites are easy to get around but each with a much different style. Jango comes complete with an embeddable Jukebox 🙂
BlogNut.net (for the social network) and BlogNutToolbar.com (to get your free toolbar!) – The fastest easiest place to listen into online radio is from your toolbar 🙂 Blog Nut Toolbar is a free to download and use handy Internet tool complete with a radio! This online radio player let’s you listen in to online radio stations and even podcasts like BlogsAndSocialNetworks.info 🙂 Set your own stations, find local stations for radio customization. Request sites that you want listed at Blog Nut Toolbar for an added bonus .. You Create … Blog Nuts Build 🙂
New.Music.Yahoo.com – With Video Playlists, over 150 radio stations, on any browser, and with Mac or PC. Yahoo music has it covered 🙂
Pandora – Type in your favorite artist and get your playlist:)
Accuradio – Build your own channel! Having every type of music you could search for like Canadian Pop, English, French, Folk, Christian Pop, Rock, and many more genres to select from 🙂
Slacker.com – Create a Station, Upgrade to Radio Plus, and option to buy a portable player.
Don’t forget about your local stations 🙂 Most have an online site to listen in, get info on songs, artists, local concerts and much more. We have K92FM and 97 Country WPCV for our local country stations. Visit them by clicking the pics 🙂
Blogs and Social Networks dot com, dot info, dot net, and dot org 🙂
Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka TeenGirlsRadio and Wavecritter Google Us 🙂
“In The News” Blogs and Social Networks
We wanted to venture into the realm of “In The News” Blogs and Social Networks. Actually a difficult subject to search on the net. What you get with searching for Blogs and Social Networks that contain “News” are which Blog platforms or Social Networks Are In The News 🙂
Many Blogs and Social Networks that we came across were mostly “Second Hand News” but, in reality, if you aren’t On The Sceen reporting as it happens, all news is somewhat that 🙂
For the best in “Weather News”, we found Weather.Fox.com for all you land based weather junkies out there (like me :), If you are a boater, maybe not (this is NOAA :), but for land based dwellers who want to meet and greet other weather buffs, this is the place 🙂 Upload photos, videos, create blogs, visit the forum, and make friends. Coolies to Fox for creating a Weather News Social Network where you can get your extended forecast, favorite blog posts, set a featured weather photo, get weather questions answered on Tropical Weather, Storm Chasing, Climate Change, Weather Around the World, Read Weather stories or post your own! Complete with a Meebo Chat! Getting News and views from Meteorologists, seasoned Weather Announcers, Bloggers, and Regular Joes 🙂
A different “take” on a News site is AvatarsUnited.com 🙂 A site for your Gaming Avatar (from the perspective of the Avatar, not your personal perspective 🙂 so, if you want the skinny on what Avatars are doing in game, check it out 🙂
How about some sites for Real Headline News 🙂 USA Todays Community Connecting Readers to Reporting (easy to set up a profile here and free), is a very fast site for both navigation and uploading photos or profile adjustments. Hop right over to the main USA Today page to comment on or recommend an article and one click away to the Blogs area! They make it easy to add favorites Blog Titles to your home page and widgets 🙂 The most popular headline widget is nice! USA Today also offers a “Green News” widget for climate and weather headlines, both of which I put I placed on the front page of my new site for news InTheNews.Wetpaint.com, a place to “See” the Headline News at a glance using the very coolest of widgets, so you know which News is what you want to read 🙂 If you need a dose of or want to scan the headlines, stop by 🙂 Links to all the main In The News sites 🙂
USA Today Community also offers free to use widgets for Finance, Celeb Watch with Will Keck, USA Today Sports Headlines, Politics, Pop Candy with Whitney Matheson for the latest News and Trends in Music, TV, Books, Video, Movies, Celebrity Interviews and finding the best sites. There’s Today in the Sky with Ben Mutzabaugh for airline news and Top Travel Stories, so, an incredible selection of In The News widgets for your Blogs and Social Networks at USA Today Community 🙂 These widgets work with PageFlakes, iGoogle, Facebook, TypePad, NetVibe, Blogger, MySpace, and sites like InTheNews.wetpaint.com 🙂
My main motivation for creating this blog style social network In The News viewing site was because it was so difficult to find social networks that were for people who wanted differing News stories from different broadcasters all in one glance 🙂 I find it nice to have all the Headlines in one spot, then be able to click to view the stories I want to read more of. Spending time actually reading instead of searching 🙂
While Mashable.com is not a social network (well, not yet anyway) the following for this blog is huge because people want to know the Technology News, Internet News, and ideas over at Mashable 🙂
Internet.com is the network for Technology proffessionals with newsletters, products, and special offers is something for techies to see! Applications and Internet Development, Job Functions and Occupations, Information Technology, Linux News, E Commerce Guides, WeboPedia Daily, Database Journal, Server Watch, Hardware Central, Sharky Extreme, BlackBerry Today, and Wifi Planet are just a few of the newsletters and special offers you have a choice of when you sign up with Internet.com.
For an intense listing of Sports Social Networks check out JasonFPeck.com, he has quite the list of Sports Social Networks and seems to know much more about Sports than Stevie and I 🙂 Sports Social Media at Take A Peck! Great site Jason 🙂
Another awesome News for Gamers Based Social Network (especially for Spore lovers) is SporeIllustrated.wetpaint.com 🙂
For Celebrity News check out TwilightMovie.org or JamesBondWiki.com
Having Fun with In The News Social Networks and Blogs is much better than just getting your news any old place, it lets you interact with other friends who are Diggin’ The News too! Talk soon,
Listen into our In The News Blogs and Social Networks show for more on News Social Networks, Forums, and Blogs 🙂
Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter Google Us 🙂
Blogs – Types of Blogs
Having made step by step videos on How To navigate and use different blog platforms and How To use the blogging areas on some of the big social networks like MySpace, Facebook, and My Yearbook, but then … what do you write about?
Types of Blogs You Can Create 🙂
Topic Blogs – Actually this site BlogsAndSocialNetworks.com is a “Topic” blog, so is VideoGamesAndGaming.com, but these two are also a How To blog as well. Any broad, general, global, town related subject whether it’s a “World” blog or just a State, your topic can be Animals in the World (broad topic) or Primates in the Jungle (a bit more narrow) or Chimps in the NY Zoo (very specific 🙂 Americans is a great topic as well, Ben Franklin for example. You could post about him for a whole month, then next month post on George Washington 🙂
Topic blogs have such a diverse inclusion like Fashion, Travel, Dreams, My Trip, Educational Institutions, Cats, etc. Many choices here. Write what you love 🙂
Salesy Web Site Blogs – Sites that look a Christmas Sale at the Mall with Flashy Banners, Sales Fluff around every corner. These do attract attention to some and may work for you.
Photo Sites – A great Photo style blog can be found at ParisDailyPhoto.com but it is any chosen photo you select to “be” the blog and add a line or few of explanation or interest, location … etc. to your picture 🙂
Journal Blogs – A great example of a journal style blog is Wavecritter.LiveJournal.com or SurfPiccasso2001.LiveJournal.com Stevies blog is a journal style, write as you sort of story teller or what’s up with my day or life type blog 🙂
VLogs or Video Blogs – Of course the best place to see a VLog is at a Video Social Network at someones profile page like me 🙂 YouTube.com/Wavecritter I have a bunch of friends there that have very different styles of VLogs too which are easy to find at YouTube, like a musician style where they play and take videos of either them on stage or create a story video to go with their songs; “Let’s Talk” sort of videos, How To, Real Life, and more.
Explanation or Definition Blogs – These are quite similar to the How To style blogs but are mostly like a Wikipedia style topic blog that gives a detailed explanation with examples 🙂 They don’t need to be using the Wikipedia platform of course, but this one on Blog is a good example. A really great Explanation blog will have many resource links to other relevant posts or sites.
Review Blogs – These are usually quite helpful blogs in general as you can open up several and see what different views there are out there on any given iten, topic, company, laundry soap lol, or whatever you are looking for opinions on. To write this style blog you will need to have more than an idea of the subject. If you do a review site on restaraunts for example, you would be a person who frequently visits new restaraunts and has a grasp of a great dining out experience with out being hyper critical. Point out the pros and cons so to speak 🙂 If you write a review style blog, you could link to the items that you review for more link backs, information, or to monetize your site if these are your items on Amazon or EBay.
List Blogs – This is a fun way to blog. 7 ways to bake a cake, 11 types of tennis shoes, 8 reasons why you should exercise, 100 favorite songs of the year, the top 5 social networks, etc. With a list style blog, you can start a post with the original list, then take each (#1, #2, etc.) and make an in depth post on each number, it will get you a whole series of posts and help you with your posts 🙂
Group, Team, or Company Style Blogs – A site for any specific organization, group or team. This type of blog is geared toward your members of the company, pack, sports organization, guild, or party to get information out to them. A communication type blog just for a specific sector of people.
Most blogs fall into one or more (or a subset) of these categories, but as categories go, they could be sub divided into many, many more smaller or specific types like with the Topic Blog especially 🙂
Lokking at the list of blog types that WordPress has will help you as well. This list will keep you clear of the No-No Types of Blogs to create 🙂
Have fun with your blog and write what you are passionate about or you may not be blogging long out of boredom 🙂
Checking into MyBlogLog and Zimbio will get you some additonal blog attention!
Listen into Blogs and Social Networks for more 🙂
Stevie and Stephanie Haile aka Blogheiress and Wavecritter
Rearrange Your MySpace Music List
With all of the new and exciting changes and “tweaks” going on over at MySpace, I wanted to touch on the reordering or rearranging of your coolie, the music playlist 🙂 Since the widget at Project Playlist has been basically “shut down” and not allowed at MySpace, the use of the actual MySpace music player has emerged as the front runner for music expression even among listeners. Musicians had been using the MySpace music widget predominately but a large percentage of listeners were using the Project Playlist widget instead. (A brilliant music site by the way 🙂
But, let’s discover how to reorder your music selections on MySpace playlists 🙂
Ok, if I wanted to change up this playlist, I would right click the song (just about where the red arrow is located) hold it for a second while dragging it in the order I wanted it to show up.
I just changed up the order of the last two songs from the Crash Test Dummies (great band 🙂 in my playlist …
Log into MySpace, click on Music, then click on My Music, My Public Playlists, My Profile Playlist. This is how you will get to the screen you see above 🙂 Reorder the music by dragging and dropping, add songs you find by browsing by clicking the plus signs, a drop down for lists choice will come, if you want it on your sites playlist, choose “My Profile Playlist”.
