Archive for the 'Snap Shots' Category

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: […]

Some of the biggest players in the Internet descended on the New York Hilton this week for OMMA, the Online Media, Marketing & Advertising show, and Snap was right there with them.
After two grueling days of presenting Snap Shots to hundreds of attendees and meeting quite a few Snap Shot site owners, two things stood […]

My friend is a fairly successful blogger who posts weekly on his all-things-design blog and retains a readership of a couple of hundred loyals. The other day he told me that, two years after putting ads to his site, he just received his first check from his Ad Network.
The problem: Small publishers can either accept […]

The range of websites that use Snap Shots is seemingly endless–and with millions of sites using Snap Shots, it practically is. Here are some of the top sites for each category of Snap Shot. Some sites have been highlighted in the past while others are completely new.
We're so excited about all the different sites […]

We are very excited to announce that we have partnered with Six Apart to offer Snap Shots to all Vox.com bloggers. With just a few clicks Vox bloggers can enhance thier blogs with Snap Shots and create a richer user experience for their readers. Here is the announcement on the Vox blog.
If you have a […]

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On Wednesday (Aug 29th, 2007) at around 11am the Snap Shots Add-On for Firefox was approved and posted to the Mozilla Add-Ons site...
This is a monumental occasion for us here at Snap as we love and support Firefox/Mozilla and are honored to have been reviewed and chosen to be presented [...]