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Use a Snap Shot on Your Blog Post Instead of a Boring Link

Author: Sven Rafferty
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

The good folks at Snap have informed SvenOnTech of a wonderful new link preview technology called Snap Shots. Snap Shots, is a free website add-on that allows users to hover over a link and receive an instant preview of that link. The preview is generated on the fly and thus what you see in the pop-up balloon is a live snap shot of the link itself. So instead of wasting time on a link that may not contain useful information, or it may peak your interest and curiosity arises, you can now simply put your mouse over the link and wait a few seconds and then presto, there is your answer before you. Now of course, you can read the text and all, but the Snap Shot does give you a very good indication as to if the link is worthy of a click.

Snap Shots gives you a variety of “shots” to choose from such as WikiShot (Wikipedia like balloon), VideoShot (YouTube preview), and PhotoShot (flikr shots) to name a few.

Web site operators and bloggers alike can add this very simple to use add-on to their site with a few clicks for free. In fact, if you’re a blogger, there are many third-party scripts available that will add the proper code to your site for you. We use WordPress and the Snap Shots Plug-in made it a piece of cake to add this great feature our site. It also gives you an administrators interface to customize your Snap Shots.

Nice stuff, we think. :)


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3 Responses to “Use a Snap Shot on Your Blog Post Instead of a Boring Link”

  1. Evers Ding Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 21:23

    My opinion: nice bling, too small to be of use.

  2. Sven Rafferty Says:
    April 17th, 2007 at 21:27

    If you click on the Options link in the top right corner, you can then select the large bubble which makes it more readable. I defaulted it to small in the interest of aesthetics.

  3. Sven Rafferty Says:
    April 19th, 2007 at 12:28

    Also note that when you hover over links for Amazon, Wikipedia, and such, the information lists in the balloon instead of a snap shot of the site. So it’s very readable and very useful. Search SvenOnTech for “amazon.com” and “en.wikipedia.com” and then hover the links for an example. Very cool stuff.