http://blog.pageglimpse.com Easy Website Thumbnails Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:48:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   As we all know, Amazon Web Services is discontinuing the Alexa Site Thumbnail service. The service has been providing developers with programmatic access to thumbnail images for the pages of web sites that were stored in Alexa’s index. New subscriptions are no longer being accepted, and existing subscribers will only ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2009/03/19/welcome-alexa-users/ TweeTube just released! It is the easiest way to share videos on Twitter. You can share your favorite videos quickly with short URLs. We know how important that is. One of the most coolest features is that it lets you track the visits and comments for the videos you share. You don’t need an account with ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2009/01/15/tweetube-share-videos-on-twitter/ A couple months ago, Rush Frisby, a .NET Developer have come up with a library to make it easier for .NET developers to access the thumbnail service provided by PageGlimpse.  This library makes it very easy for .NET developers to use the PageGlimpse API. The download comes complete with an example ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2009/01/15/pageglimpse-library-11-released/ Wheee!! We've been chosen this week's cloud application. Check it out here: http://www.azurejournal.com/2008/12/weekly-cloud-application-pageglimpse/. Don't forget to VOTE for us!. http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/12/15/were-the-cloud-application-of-the-week-at-azurejournalcom/ One of the most requested feature for PageGlimpse was a way to check whether PageGlimpse already has a thumbnail for a specific URL. This feature is mostly used in applications that want to poll until a thumbnail exists, before displaying it.  The feature was released today. Like all PageGlimpse APIs, this ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/12/15/pageglimpse-new-feature-check-if-a-thumbnail-exists/ AzureJournal is providing "... the RSS feed you need to subscribe to in order to get the latest news about Windows azure: http://feedproxy.google.com/WindowsAzure. It is using many sources including yahoo, google, MS live news search, blog search (using google), technorati, icerokcet and many more, including Twitter. Check it out!" We did check it ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/11/10/the-best-windows-azure-rss-feed/ As you may know, Microsoft released their newest Operating System in the Cloud: Windows Azure. Here at PageGlimpse we're using "the cloud" mainly Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS). We're excited though about the new offerings from Microsoft, so here's a place where you can find everything you need to ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/11/03/azurejournalcom-a-new-blog-for-a-new-os/ One of our beta testers Rush Frisby have created a very nice .NET Library for PageGlimpse Website Thumbnails Platform. This library allows you to quickly integrate PageGlimpse thumbnails into your existing ASP.NET projects with a very easy to use approach. He also have created a demo page here. Check it out: http://pageglimpse.rushfrisby.com/readme.htm Download it ! http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/10/17/rush-frisby-pageglimpse-net-library/ One of the first major public websites to use the PageGlimpse Website Thumbnails Platform is a very modern search engine implementation that displays previews of websites along the search results. uQuery.com integrates nicely with PageGlimpse and has helped us collect and capture millions of new URLs into our website snapshot database. PageGlimpse ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/10/15/pageglimpse-platform-showcase/ We have created a PageGlimpse Bubble plugin for WordPress that any publisher can easily download and install directly from their WordPress management interface. Download here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pageglimpsebubble/  You can see this plugin in action here in this blog by hovering your mouse over the link above. A website preview bubble will appear displaying the ... http://blog.pageglimpse.com/2008/10/15/wordpress-plugin-available/