Archive for October, 2007

Jeff Little
Worship Arts Pastor
The High Desert Harvest Church
Apple Valley, CA 92308
I am the Worship Arts Pastor for our church in Southern California. We’ve been using Snap Shots on our website for a couple months now. In that time, I’ve gotten many comments on how much the site is improved and how cool it […]

Recently, Snap received a letter in Chinese from Qu "River" Renwei, a student in China. Thanks to Ken Lin, a staff team member, for providing the translation.

Department 7, Team 3,
PLA Mapping School
Longhai Road 66
Zhengzhou City, Henan Province
China
Dear Snap:

Do not know if the salutation is appropriate! I am very glad to have received your […]

World Exclusive News Report
The 2 million websites and blogs that use Snap.com's Snap Shots technology now share something with one of the world's largest Internet companies:

 

digg_url = 'http://blog.snap.com/2007/10/25/breaking-major-news/';

Google, which maintains a website called SearchMash for testing new technologies and interface designs, is using Snap's website preview technology. The new the SearchMash site uses [...]

Recently, Snap asked websites who are using Snap Shots to share their experiences with everyone. The outpouring exceeded our expectations and has come from all over the globe. We're going to try to publish 2-3 per week, so check back regularly or subscribe to the RSS feed.
If you have an article about your […]

Amanda Fazani, who writes Blogger Buster to help other Blogger users make the most of their Blogger blogs, wrote a terrific post entitled "Making your links more interactive with Snap-Shots" and has given us permission to reprint it.
If you have an article about your Snap Shots Experience, please email it to us along with […]

Many of you have asked for a MapShot. Today we are happy to announce the first version of it.
This Shot is activated of links pointing to Google Maps. Once triggered it displays a map of an address, a point of interest or a location specified using latitude and longitude.
The standard controls offered by […]

WikiShot is one of our popular types of Snap Shots. It provides readers with a text summary of a Wikipedia article in an easy to read format.
Today we are announcing an improvement to the WikiShot. A WikiShot for an article that contains an image will include a scaled down version of the image in […]

Back in May we announced that AudioShots and VideoShots could be "pinned" and moved around inside the page for a more persistent viewing experience.
But since music and videos shouldn't have all the fun, we announce today that this functionality is available on all types of Snap Shots:

PreviewShot: http://www.snap.com/
RSS Shot: http://www.techcrunch.com/
WikiShot: http://wikipedia.org/progressive_disclosure
StockShot: http://finance.google.com/…q=AAPL
ProfileShot: http://myspace.com/TilaTequila
MovieShot: http://imdb.com/title/tt0381849/
PhotoShot: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/snapcom/
AudioShot: […]