What is the 'adopt me' chicklet?
The adopt me/project shining light chicklet is currently rarely seen on the Internet.
This chicklet, is a standard size (80 pixels by 15 pixels) and indicates that the blog or website supports Project
Shining Light.
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Project Shining Light is an Artificial Intelligent child based on Dr Richard Wallace's A.I. Engine and who's primary function is to support Mark Joyner's '
Construct Zero' (Unifying Social Dynamics)
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What is the MyMSN chicklet?
This chicklet is a highly prolific chicklet, size 91 by 17 pixels.
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The '+' symbol on this 'chicklet' indicates a link which when clicked adds the feed to your 'MyMSN' account. If you don't have a newsgator account.
MyMSN is a popular web-based news aggregator.
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What is the newsgator chicklet?
This chicklet is a highly prolific chicklet, size 71 by 14 pixels.
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The '+' symbol on this 'chicklet' indicates a link which when clicked adds the feed to your 'newgator' account. If you don't have a newsgator account.
Newsgator is one of the more popular web-based news aggregators.
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What is a MyYahoo Chicklet
This chicklet is very widely seen in many places on the web. It is 91 by 16 pixels and branded with the a Yahoo's household brand logo.
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The '+' symbol on this 'chicklet' indicates a link which when clicked adds the feed to your 'MyYahoo' account. If you don't have a MyYahoo account, you can quickly and easily create one by clicking the very same link. Once your account is opened and verified you're automatically given the option to add the news feeds to the 'MyYahoo' news page.
MyYahoo is a web-based news aggregator
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What is XML?
This is probably the most common chicklet. The XML chicklet or it's closely related cousins RSS and RDF are currently seen on the majority of blogs and news sites.
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This chicklet indicates a link to a URL that will enable you to subscribe and receive updated information, delivered to your newsfeed, aggregator, or podcast client.
For a definition of XML
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What is a chicklet?
It's a small graphical link you'll no doubt have seen them all over people's blogs. It is usually orange and more often than not bears the letters RSS or XML.
a chicklet is much smaller than a banner or button. usually less than 16 colors, sometimes as little as 4 colors and sized no more than 80 pixles wide by 15 pixels high.
Chicklets have many functions. They can be used to indicate a particular newsfeed format that visitors can subscribe to or add to their news agrigator of choice, or as a means of branding through reciprocal linking, providing a long term strategy to climb google's ranks by increasing '
pagerank'.
click here for a google definition of 'chicklet'
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Why I started this blog.
It dawned on me earlier today that the reason that almost every blogger writes about blogging on their site is that as it's such a new media and evolves as quickly as it this, the average vistor needs a helping hand, while the technology and awareness catches up. I wanted somewhere to post anything that I learn about blogging by clicking on a chicklet
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