Internet Vices - Patrick Moberg

When I saw this post over on Patrick’s blog, I couldn’t help but pass it on.

It’s titled Internet Vices and it about ways we share socially on the net. Enjoy.

Twitter gives us a new toy today, the List Widget. Shown above is the first widget I’ve put together. If you scroll down on the blog you’ll see it in action.

List widgets let you select the user first, then you can select from the user’s public lists. Customize the list widget appearance by choosing colors, size and even title and caption. The widget size can be auto-adjusting or a set size. Color choices allow you to select the hex code or eyeball it using your mouse.

A National Novel Writing Month widget is my example. I built a list, still growing of course, of Twitter users doing nanowrimo. The list is by no means near 500 yet, but it’s enough that there should be a fair amount of tweets coming in. I chose to have it poll, and display only 30 tweets. Those settings are adjustable as well.

Twitter included the option to copy and paste the HTML as well as a Blogger specific option.  No Facebook or MySpace option was available; you can however use the HTML for MySpace.

I agree with TechCrunch, these will be your chance to curate your lists.

What will you do with the Lists Widget?

So you’ve joined up on some social networking sites and nothing seems to be happening for you. The contacts aren’t flowing in, the customers aren’t finding you, spammers fill your stream.

Ready for some friendly guidance? Want to learn some tips and tricks to be successful using Twitter and Facebook? My ebook is now available:

Sunday Guide to Social Networking

It’s the first in a series of guides I’m writing, bringing you strategies, tips, and tools to make your online networking time fun and profitable.

In this one, I’ve collected articles from the Sunday Social Networking series, along with two additional articles on specific services, Utterli and Twitter.

Some of the topics:

• Search for social networks
• Cultivating relationships
• Sharing what you love

The ebook only costs $6 US because I want many people to have the opportunity to enjoy the it as much as I enjoyed putting it together.

Please see the payment button below to buy it. Thanks!

Quick rundown of some of the more useful Mafia Wars Cuba Zynga Forum posts:

• Vault collections
• Official Bug Thread
• Moguls in Cuba
• Cuban Fights

If you aren’t reading the Zynga Forums for Mafia Wars, or any of their RPG type games, you’re missing out.