Earlier today we released some design teaks to the Shots that are rich with text by increasing line spacing and padding in order to improve text readability and legibility.
These changes can be seen on WikiShot, RSS Shot and ProductShot
Enjoy.

 
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Brendon Mulvihill, a member of the Snap BD team, was interviewed during Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco by Zedomax about the Snap Shots Gold Publishers Program.
Watch the video to see what Brendon had to say.
A Gold Publisher who uses Snap Shots benefits in a many ways. First, Snap Shots enhances the user experience of the […]

We have been running the "Claim your Space" campaign for a few months now, encouraging our publishers to opt-in and setup Snap Shares for their site. Snap Shares is a program where we share part of the advertising impressions that we're placing in Snap Shots with the websites that host them.
So far the program […]

Exactly a year ago, for Earth Day 2007, we released a lightweight application called CO2 Saver that allows PC users to quickly and easily start saving electricity when away from their computers.
CO2 Saver resides on the desktop and immediately adjusts user’s Windows Power Management settings to reduce their computer’s energy use when idle, saving energy […]

Introducing a great new resource for bloggers: HotShots™ from Snap.com.
As you may know, 15 million times a day, to 2 million people worldwide, Snap distributes content between large and small publishers (Snap Shots, see it at TechCrunch) and within large publishing networks (Snap Shots Engage, see it at New York Post Sports Blogs).
Because content distribution […]

With millions of sites in 48 languages using Snap Shots half a billion times a month, we've learned a thing or two about using them. And we've collected a sizable chunk that learning into a PDF called Getting More Out of Snap Shots.

The differences between all 12 Shots
6 simple things you can do […]

…and I was not referring to this wonderful movie…
Yesterday afternoon we released an improvement to the way a Snap Shot is displayed inside a browser window that has limited space.
During runtime, when a user hovers over a link, the Snap Shots java script automatically detects the cases where a Shot would get cut off and […]

Another evidence to Snap Shots' popularity came from Lijit earlier today. They posted the latest widget stats report for the period of 9/26/07-2/12/08.
In their report, Lijit ranks Snap Shots as the 9th most popular widget (!!). Snap also continues to lead the Search category with 44%.
Note Lijit's definition for a "widget": "Any regularly-occurring functionality on […]

Q: What do Anderson Cooper 360, the Cafferty File, In Session, The Marquee Blog and the Second Life I-Reports all have in common?
A: They are all official CNN blogs and they are all using Snap Shots.
Here's what 360° Digital Producer, David Reisner had to say about re-launching the blog on Wordpress and the addition of […]

Starting today, Snap.com is disconnecting a group of sites from the Snap Shots network. We've never had to take such drastic measures before and wanted to make sure that everyone knows what's going on.
These particular sites, which we won't name, have been "hacking" our systems by setting up fake accounts and using our website […]