Wikipedia says it’s:

a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses the term favorites instead of bookmarks, bookmarklets are also less commonly called favelets by users.

What you need to know is that it’s a nifty little tool that puts the serendipity in VodPod.

Put the bookmarklet on your browser, and you can add videos from YouTube and lots of other similar sites in a click. So when you’re on one of these sites, and you see a video you want your friends to see, you just click on “Add to VodPod” — the window shown below will pop-up so you can add a description, change the title if you want, and tell people what you think (“I Watched it” or “I LOL’d” or “I loved it”), you click “add” and voila, it’s in your pod. And if you’ve put a widget for your Pod on your bog, it’ll show up there, too.

Click on the “Get Widgets” link at the top of the page to get your small javascript program stored as a URL within a bookmark. Or by its cuter name, the bookmarklet. And then pod some videos.

Collecting Tools, Tips, Tricks, Hacks

December 4, 2006

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