Beware of the image sharing site Picoodle!

Picoodle has enough to lure the image-hungry web surfers, especially those who want to share their images online and those who are looking for images for their site/blog. But let’s see what it really is.

Imagicians
You don’t even have to be a member to be able to upload images. And you can get your images reized then and there and include image tags. You can also specify your image as private. Furthermore, the reader has the option to choose from ten social bookmarking sites to bookmark your images.

Website/blog owners
You can search for a keyword and see if you like what you get!

A word of caution
If you are like me, you probably skip the TERMS AND CONDITIONS or FAQ of most sites. But it would be a mistake if you do so here! For your convenience, I have copied the entire FAQ for you to judge.

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Is your service truly free?

Yes! We offer completely free image hosting! We intend to offer paid accounts with greater benefits in the future.

How much bandwidth do my images get?

Bandwidth is unlimited for thumbnailed images! Use as much as you want! Hotlinked images are currently allowed 600 MB per day, but you can get more when people click on your image!

What is the maximum size for uploaded images?

Images must be less than 2 MB. Images larger than 2000 pixels in any dimension will be resized.

How long are images kept on your site?

We’ll keep your images as long as people are looking at them! If they are not accessed for more than 100 days they may be deleted.

How much disk space do I get for images?

Upload as many as you want! Your storage space is unlimited.

Should I keep a backup of my images on my hard drive?

Of course! Though we keep backups of all images uploaded to our site, accidents do happen so you should keep a copy.

PicOodle! – FAQ

Second thoughts
I don’t know about you, but I am not gonna depend heavily on this site either as an artist or as a blogger! If I use it at all, it will be as an artist, as an extra bit of exposure that I could live without. As for blogging, hmmm, as these images are free for sharing, I wonder if it would not be OK if I uploaded an image elsewhere? After all, I can’t afford to have it vanish from my blog just because it’s not popular anymore!

What is your verdict?

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How to “automatically” generate text links for social bookmarking services for worpress.com blog posts

Finally, the Genie in the bottle is released. Go to http://www.toprankblog.com/tools/social-bookmarks/ and create the codes for social bookmarking test links under your wordpress.com posts.

Your choices are:

BlinkBits

BlinkList

Blogmarks

Buddymarks

CiteUlike

del.icio.us

Digg it

Diigo

DZone

Earthlink

FeedMarker

Flog this!

feedmelinks

Furl

Google

Give a Link

Gravee

igooi

ISEdb

Lilisto

Linkagogo

Linkroll

Looklater

ma.gnolia

Maple.nu

Marktd

Mr. Wong

My-Tuts

Netscape

Netvouz

NShout

Onlywire

PlugIM

RawSugar

RecommendzIt

reddit

Scuttle

SearchMob

Segnalo

Shadows

Simpy

Sphinn

Spurl

Squidoo

StumbleUpon

Taggly

tagtooga

TalkDigger

Tellfriends

Wink

Yahoo MyWeb

That’s quite a lot, isn’t it! {drool}

If you click any of the links above, you will be able to bookmark this post. Some of the services are defunct though!

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Choose which services you need
2. Choose “Text Links”, instead of drop-down menus, as wordpress.com does not allow javascript, necessary for drop-downs to work.
3. Choose code type – choose “For a static page”, not “Blog specific”. (Static Page - Creates one set of links for one single page.
   Blog Specific – These links tie directly into WordPress, Blogger, MovableType or Textpattern blogs and will re-generate for every post.)
4. Enter url and title of your blog post
5. Choose seperators (this will help you configure whether you want the icons one under the other or in a row and if in a row how much space should be between each link)
6. Copy the whole code
7. Paste under your blog post
8. Save, view and enjoy!

It is perfect if you prefer to have text links instead of images. For example, in my future art blog, I will probably use the text links.

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Further Readings

You can get the same thing done and in the same process by using ifeedreaders also.

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What if you want to have the visual icons?

In case you crave for the icons – gosh, don’t they just look beautiful? – then you will have to work a bit more. You will need to carefully select the appropriate code and link it to the representative icon. Or better still, try this – you can choose from as many as 50 social bookmarking options.

Alternately, if you are satisfied with a select few services (eleven in total and very good ones at that!) try this method . It’s basically a two-click process and very easy!

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Keotag automatically generates tags – for Technorati, other search engines and social bookmarking sites

www.keotag.com is a Godsend for wordpress .com bloggers. This site will automatically generate all the tags you could wish for and even more! And that too in two easy steps!

First of all, you have to enter a word and in the second step choose Technorati or some other seacrh engine and the tag for that site will be automatically generated!

Same for social bookmarking sites also! You can automatically generate codes for blinklist, delicious, furl, yahoo, digg, rojo, shadows and netvous. Hmmm, not bad. But I can’t help wishing there were more options!
All you have to do is copy the HTML and paste it where you want it!

So I am sorry you people had to go thru’ the agony of the slightly more difficult version I did a while ago. What can I say, um, does “sorry” sound good enough? Oops, I guess I said it already, huh!

Updated after Lorelle’s comment on this post
Although inserting Technorati tags under each post might drive traffic away from your post, there is still a very good reason to do it. Simply put, it works both ways! That means, if someone searches for a keyword at Technorati, and if your article is listed there, more visitors can land on your blog from there! And putting those tags enables that! IMO, there’s no minus point in letting readers find something else somewhere else via your post, cos they have done visiting and hitting your post first – ah, stat stat stat! But when a reader does come to your post from somewhere else, that’s lovely!

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giving your website a better chance of being hit.

How to submit your website:

Simple!
Just type the url of your website in the main body of the comment box below in this page.
For example: if the url of your website is www.example.com just write
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Make sure you include a description of your website, so that readers can get an initial idea of what
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WARNING:

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Morever, as the moderator of this blog I have the power and inclination to
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Submit your own blog(s)

This page contains readers’ own blogs, submitted by the readers themselves!

Do YOU have a blog?

Submit it here!
Give the readers of this blog a chance to get acquainted with what YOU have to say!

Submitting a blog here (or anywhere in the web for that matter)
raises the page rank of your blog. A higher page rank enables people to
find your blog more quickly when they search for a relevent keyword –
giving your blog a better chance of being hit.

How to submit your blog:

Simple!
Just type the url of your blog in the main body of the comment box below in this page.
For example: if the url of your blog is http://example.wordpress.com just write
http://example.wordpress.com.

Make sure you include a description of your blog, so that readers can get an initial idea of what
it is all about.

WARNING:

1. If you have multiple blogs please don’t list them all in one comment box. Akismet (the spamcatching machine) will designate your comment as spam if it contains more than one link and your comment (containing the urls of your blogs) will NEVER turn up on this blog.

2.This blog does not endorse pornography or anything of libelous nature.
So if your blog contains inappropriate material it will NEVER turn up
on this blog.

Morever, as the moderator of this blog I have the power and inclination to
report any comment containing inappropriate material as spam.

Do you think your blog(s) will pass the test?

Bring it on!