Ever since the explosion of wikipedia, people have sought for their own wikipedia entry. Most however just don’t have the celebrity status wikipedia is looking for. Wikipedia doesn’t find you important, but Wetpaint will. Wetpaint is sort of for the newbies of wiki editing. It gives you a WYSIWYG editor to type and insert your widgets of your choosing into your entries. You can choose different themes to change the look and style of your wiki. It also is one of the few sites to allow adult wiki entries if your into that stuff, but they will display a disclaimer before entering one of them.  One of the major flaws of Wetpaint is its lack of HTML support. Don’t expect to be able to remove the Google Adsense from the sidebars or customize the CSS of the page. Wetpaint is currently deciding whether to charge a fee to remove advertising and allow users to make changes to the site to allow their own advertisements. Wetpaint also currently hosts a few TV shows such as Jericho, Lost, and College Hill, and they might be adding a few more shows to the list.

How to Add Music to your WetPaint

• Click the Easy Edit to Edit the Page
• Click on Widgets
• Click on iMeem
• At Imeem.com copy the embed code
• Paste the embed code into Wetpaint

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Flektor allows anyone to create their own Myspace widget where you pick and choose which applications your viewers will see first. Now you can integrate all your Myspace crap into one flash app.

Flektor offers a Quick Start for users who don’t want to register to quickly start the basics of their widget. Unfortunately, loading the app is pretty heavy, and does a drain on your resources. Registering is the only option if you seriously want more control over your widgets. Here you can add your own photos, music, and videos. I don’t recommend using Flektor as a music player only because the audio quality is terrible and not worth your time. After you upload your media you can drag and drop them into the time line. You can add special effects such as transitions, or one of its coolest features titled ”Zingers”.

Zingers overlays a special effect over the slide. You can select the “Bus Ad” zinger, which places your photo on the back of a moving bus. You can also add the infamous glitter text for all you tacky girls out there. The customizations are well put as you can edit the size, spacing, and effect of each text on the fly. Tired of seeing too much Bling? You can change it back to normal in just one click. After you’ve finished making your slideshow masterpiece, you can publish it for all to see.

Here are some Quick Tips for Myspace

In the Embed options for Myspace, select “Start Playing Flek automatically.” Add some transition time before your “main attraction”. This is so that your audience has enough time to see your flek before the slideshow finishes. Change the length of a slide by clicking the pencil tool and dragging the duration time to the right. Instead of using songs, add your voice to your Flek for a personal touch. Keep in mind the length of the whole presentation or else you may discover the audio will fade out at the end.

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I get so tired of all the lame, crappy, myspace layout sites out there. Most Myspace layout sites are either extremely hard to navigate or provide horribly designed crud only a mother would post on the fridge. So now we send in the experts at LoveMyFlash. LoveMyflash does a complete makeover on how sites are designed. Now instead of static pages full of glittery mess, we get a fluid motion page which focuses on the content. It takes about 2 big lines of code in the About Me section and the Who I’d Like to Meet section to add it to the page. One thing to remember is that you HAVE to add your myspace URL before you create the code, or else your page will have empty graphics and wrong information. MyFlash unfortunately doesn’t provide the code with shrinking picture sizes in the comments area. So instead  here’s a code you can put at the bottom of the Who I’d Like to Meet section so that your friend’s comments won’t mess up your layout.

Paste This Code at the Bottom of Who I’d Like to Meet Section

<style>   body table tr table tr td.text table tr td.text table tr td table tr td img {width:200px;}    body table tr table tr td.text table tr
td.text table tr td table tr td div img {width:80px; height:20px;}     body table tr table tr td.text table tr td.text table tr td table tr td
a img {width:100; height:auto;}       </style>

If you have any more suggestions to other high quality MySpace Layout sites, post a comment.

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MyFabrik is actually a storage site for files, images, and songs. However it also contains a small flash music player that you can play on Myspace It can load only one song at a time, but there’s a special way to get the tiny version of the music player onto your site.

First Log In, then click Music, then click Import. Select the song you want, and click Import. The next step is to click on the song you just uploaded and click embed. Here’s an Example

The Following Code is an example of MyFabrik’s Music Player

<div><embed src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” mce_src=”http://www.myfabrik.com/webapps/xspf_player.swf” flashvars=”autoplay=true&autoload=true&info_button_text=myfabrik.com” width=”400″ height=”170″ quality=”high” scale=”noscale” salign=”b” wmode=”transparent” name=”fabrikaster” align=”middle” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer” ></embed></div><div style=”font-size: 11px;”>Powered by <a class=”bmk_lnk” target=”_fabrik_” href=”http://www.myfabrik.com” mce_href=”http://www.myfabrik.com”>www.myfabrik.com</a></div>

Ok now to get the small flash player, copy and paste your embed code that you recieved from the site into notepad. You will then change these areas that I have listed below.

Find the section below in your notepad:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player.swf

Change it to this:

http://www.myfabrik.com/YOURUSERNAME/xspf_player_slim.swf

Now change the width and the height to:

width=”200″ height=”15″

Change salign to the letter L as below:

salign=”l”

Once you do this you will now have a tiny flash music player you can put on myspace or other services.

Picnik is that image service I’ve been requesting for a long time. I wanted something where I can quickly come in and edit some photos and leave at the end of the day. Now I’ve finally see my dreams come true in Picnik. You can call it an online version of Picasa, or even Photoshop Elements. Basically all the image editing features from the sometimes resource hog Picasa, is placed into this online editor. You can additionally use some special effects to make your photos bevel or stand out in color. This site doesn’t require that you register but you can if you want to, although I believe its pretty pointless since it doesn’t store your previous images you sent. Sometimes the initial loading times can freeze your browser for a few seconds until it finishes. A huge gripe is that its extra “PRO” features will only be available to paying customers. I’m sure this website can gain a household name and can make money off of ad revenue somewhere on the site. Once your finished editing your photos, you can save them onto your PC or email them to an image hosting service. Thats pretty much all it does, and since its in Beta, there’s much more that can be added.

Picnik is a online image editor and currently does not have any embeddable widgets.

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