Find & Share Comments on the Web Easily

Find & Share Comments on the Web Easily

Do you bother about comments made by your friends or others on your products? Are you keen on following and sharing what's being commented on the Web just like the way you follow people on Twitter? This is where BackType comes to your help. The service lets you find, follow or even share comments from across the web.

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Applies To: IT Mangers, webmasters Price: Free USP: Get updates on your blog posts whenever someone comments on them Primary Link: http://www.backtype.com/ Google Keywords: Find and share comments

Whenever you publish a comment on a blog or on a

website, BackType attributes it to you. The service gives authors a profile with all the comments they have made on the Web. BackType gives your comments a home where they can be found, followed and shared. Working with BackType is easy. Simply log onto the site mentioned above and register yourself. You will be taken to the Dashboard straight as shown in the screenshot below. Click on 'Claim Comments', enter the URLs of the websites you use while commenting on blogs, and click on 'Import Comments'. This brings you all comments made on different blogs specified. Now to review you account details, simply click on 'Edit Account' and enter the details. The Twitter updates page allows you to send updates of your comment activity to Twitter. To do this, click on the link 'Twitter' in the right-hand side, enter the login details and you're done.

This shows the dashboard. To create a subscription and get upda tes on a post, click on 'Subscriptions' and enter the blog post URL.	This shows the URLs of websites you use to comment. Enter the URLs of sites and click on 'Import Comments'.

Another feature called BackType Alert enables you to create an alert for search terms. Whenever any such search term is mentioned anywhere in the blogosphere, you get an email update. To do this, click on 'Alerts', enter the search terms in the box and click on 'Create Alert'. This lets you monitor your personal brand, products and services. This also helps you participate in discussions that interest you. Besides, there is one more interesting feature called 'BackType Connect'. It shows you the whole gamut of conversations around an article or blog post. This include tweets and comments from blogs. To do this, click on 'Connect' and enter the article URL and you're through with it.

Create Silverlight Apps in Eclipse

Developer:

Wondering how to create Silver light apps without using Visual Studio? You can do it in Eclipse by using the Open Source Eclipse4SL plug-in.
Microsoft Silver light is a cross browser plugin that enables developers to build applications that deliver rich media experience on the Web. Though Silver light is a Microsoft technology, you're not rectricted to MS Visual Studio to develop apps on it. You can use the Open Source Eclipse IDE for the job. A plugin called Eclipse4SL works with Eclipse to enable both Silverlight development and to provide better interoperability between Silver light and existing Java websites and web services.

Working with Eclipse4SL

Before you install Eclipse4SL, a set of prerequisites have to be met. For integration with Eclipse, it requires Eclipse basic 3.4.1 or above. For Silverlight development, you need to have .NET Framework 3.5 or above and Silverlight 2 SDK along with the Silverlight 2 Runtime. For Java support, JDK 1.5 update 11 or later will suffice. To install the plugin using Eclipse IDE's Update Manager, select Help > Software Updates and then select Available Updates tab and click on Add Site button. Give the URL http://www.eclipse4 sl.org/ update/ and then proceed with the installation. The Eclipse IDE provides almost similar features as Visual Studio for developing Silverlight apps. It provides the same project system and compiler for packaging Silverlight apps. Even the XAML editor has code hinting feature, drag and drop of tool palette, C# code generation and synchronization with the preview. To explore the features of the plugin, we tried importing an existing Silverlight project into Eclipse and run the project from within the IDE. Let's check out the installation process and the features with the following visuals


After you add the Eclipse4SL site URL, choose the components you want ot install. Here, Runtime component is essential . Once the Eclipse4SL plugin is installed successfully, you can see the Soyatec Eclipse4SL icon appearing when you select Help > About Eclipse Platform option.

You can initiate a Silverlight development perspective by selecting Window > Open Perspective > Other option, where you can opt between Visual Studio or Eclipse Style Silverlight perspective.

For a new Silverlight Web project, Eclipse4SL creates necessary base Silverlight app & its corresponding Web app projects having the page.xaml file and its C# code in the main app project.

To import an existing Silverlight project into Eclipse environment, the eclipse4SL plugin distinguishes the main Silverlight appl & its Web appl project and lists that for selection. Like Visual Studio, Eclipse4SL provides you with drag and drop feature to add controls into the page.xaml source code. The control palette is similar to that in Visual Studio.

The XAML editor of the plugin provides a similar auto-completion feature of Visual Studio, and also the corresponding changes made to the code gets reflected in the preview pane.	Building and running Silverlight app with Eclipse4SL becomes easier. By Run > Run Configuration option, you can select the HTML page to launch the Silverlight app through Run button.